Engagement with art and culture can be free. It’s the desire to seek it out. If you’re broke (like me), get a library card, get something to draw with, write with. If you have a smart phone you can make movies or photography. Don’t let the snobs trick you into thinking art is for the toffs.

"AI is here, so we have to use it, that's just reality" yeah well cancer is also here, that doesn't mean everyone has to start smoking now does it

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David Attenborough is not just a national treasure: he is also the most radical person on TV | Jonathan Liew: The naturalist is venerated as a cuddly Paddington Bear, but he’s more than that. Don’t let the superficial backslaps obscure the political critique he makes The excesses the capi...

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In order to shape the future, you need to own the ability to imagine. I perceive a coordinated effect (not necessarily a conscious effort) to suppress our ability to imagine. News media, entertainment, tech plutocrats and vested interests collude to stop you from imagining alternate futures.

“The revealed preference is their core voters actively enjoy being taken for a ride by the most obvious scam artists you’ve ever seen, as long as they validate their morbid pathologies about race and gender as they do so.” www.liberalcurrents.com/respecting-r...

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

Kara Swisher shaming a room full of Nordic journalists for still using X: "l am bigger than all of you combined"

Counter: none of them are useless and Miliband in particular has run one of the most successful departmental operations we've seen since in years, with profound consequences for the planet itself.

Sorry, Keir, but why should only young people have Freedom of Movement? Why can't British adults also have the freedom to love, live, work, set up business and retire across our continent – just like the half a billion citizens of the EU do? Why do your red lines block that?

WATCH: Two men promised a $1.1 million 3D printer could fix this town’s housing crisis. To this day, the one duplex it printed still isn’t finished. A $590,000 deposit for the printer was forfeited. And the more reporter Molly Parker asked questions, the weirder things got: propub.li/4nlU1VD

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

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This guy nails it. 🎯

This is amazing. Brilliant way for people to comprehend the enormity of the files with these visuals. Glad the survivors were acknowledged with the bright light of the candles 🕯️

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

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LLMs and so-called AI won't make humanity more creative. It aims to relocate and centralise activities that monetise creativity, reducing, not expanding, the exercise of creative imagination. It'll suppress divergent thinking, reducing our collective capacity for innovation. And that's a problem.

Boris Johnson has a helluva lot to answer for. He made politics light entertainment and spawned Beth Rigby, Chris Mason, Peston, Sam Coates and others. They all see their role as adding to the drama not providing information for their viewers. Who's in. Who's out. It's friggin' tedious.

In order to shape the future, you need to own the ability to imagine. I perceive a coordinated effect (not necessarily a conscious effort) to suppress our ability to imagine. News media, entertainment, tech plutocrats and vested interests collude to stop you from imagining alternate futures.

You still think concerns are "utter bullshit" @lizzicollinge.bsky.social

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The kids are alright

How many massive red flags can you make out of an undeclared £5,000,000 donation? Asking for an electorate

When you see clips of people celebrating in Hungary after corrupt Orban is gone, realize that Trump, Vance and Rubio did everything they could to keep those celebrations from happening so Putin’s puppet could remain in power.

Spot the difference.

Dear Keir, Do you imagine that running the country is just about doing a good job? Bad news—it's not! You've done a great job on Ukriane, Iran and many other issues, but if you can't navigate fancy politics, it doesn't matter. Farage is useless—he can't do anything except fancy politics! Get it?

People say there is no goodness in the world any more, but it turns out that crypto-billionaire in Thailand really did care about improving our bin collections.

The only way Reform can be stopped in the local elections if people vote tactically. So whatever you do, don’t go to StopReformUK.vote to check who to vote for in your area and DO NOT share this.

The golden age of corruption.

People who vote for Reform may believe they are giving the establishment a kicking but in fact they are backing the establishment! Farage and his cronies are backed by overseas millionaires and billionaires who wouldn’t dream of paying their taxes in the UK. He’s on their side not yours!

If you thought elaborately faking being good at videogames to impress a bunch of manchildren was embarrassing, consider elaborately faking that your mother loves you.

Blame is their thing. Their modus operandi is to blame people who they and their friends loudly claim not to be—criminal, greedy, and foreign. Closer examination suggests that most of them are at least two of these—and often all three!

If you saw this happening in another country, what would you call it? https://newrepublic.com/post/210013/fbi-investigation-atlantic-reporter-kash-patel-drinking

AI simply does not have the capacity to replace white collar jobs. But it does have the capacity to fxck up the free internet (that you used to have convenient access to) then sell it back to you in predigested chunks.

Anyone voting Reform is knowingly voting for corrupt racists who’ll make all of us poorer and less protected, remove our rights, privatise our NHS, increase fossil fuel dependency, shove children into poverty and threaten our communities… Don’t expect to be forgiven. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Trump trying to get out of the giant mess he created with the Iran war.

She sounds as you would expect from an anti-elite insurgency party. "I really like ambassador’s dinners, Ferrero Rocher, that sort of thing." Course you do mate.

Just imagine the leader of any other political party had failed to declare a personal gift of £5 million.

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

There's no mystery about why Farage, Trump, Boris Johnson and others of their stamp get away with things that would instantly destroy any leftwing politician: they're protected by the oligarchs they serve, who own most of the media and intimidate much of the rest.

This poll is still going the wrong way. It needs some serious assistance. Please vote and re-post. 🙂👍 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

When Donald's stupid, tacky ballroom was estimated to cost $200 million and be privately funded: Donald planned to pocket anything over the actual cost. He then raised the estimate to $400 million to account for this corruption. Now, he wants taxpayers to pay $1 billion so he can pocket even more.

Dear Keir Starmer, We MUST sever links between big money and secretive, unaccountable, antidemocratic political influence. For a start, you could move government social media away from fascist filth-pits, onto more civilised platforms. But because you haven't done this, you won't hear this.

Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found

They are our Food Heroes, not beggars. ‎ ‎There's an uncomfortable truth we need to face: Our arrogance when buying from the poor and our stinginess when buying from the vulnerable is pushing away the very people who feed us.