"Both [Conservative and Reform] parties are led by people who position themselves as guardians of free speech. It’s pretty revealing of the vacuity of such claims…"

Charles Amos is the legalise incest guy. Insane they didn't do due diligence. www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...

Why does he speak about AI like it’s some kind of altruistic effort to save humanity, and not a way of billionaires getting richer off the backs of people who have worked hard?

Keep the pressure! #TrumpsteinFiles www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

Reading Monte Cooke's "Cypher System"—possibly the most consciously designed game I've ever read—not necessarily a good thing! Anyway, it occurs to me that the biggest single force now shaping #TTRPG design isn't gameplay, or ingenuity, or mythic or cinematic tropes, it's intellectual property law.

The opposite of fascism isn't antifa The opposite of fascism is education

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

This guy is in charge of US health care.

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead. This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

"Trump's tariff policy is not working as the president says it is." www.rawstory.com/wall-street-...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror." ( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized. We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon. She issued that order

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality. Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook. Our duty is to stand up to brutality. Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

She was arrested for holding a sign reading: “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action” How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files. But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Kemi Badenoch doesn't seem to understand that the ECHR was set up to protect everyone from people like her.

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

"Resistance" requires something more than simply keeping your head down and hoping for the best. That something may be small. It may be anonymous. But it must be something. 🫵

Want to see what Reform UK's politics would look like in government? 🇦🇷 Look to Argentina. Massive spike in poverty and a crashed economy. 📉 A template for disorder and chaos. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/02/javier-milei-argentina-nigel-farage-donald-trump-elon-musk

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Who looks at what is happening in the United States and says: "You know what? This would be a better country if people who had been for decades were ripped from their families and elected politicians arrested by masked goons."

What proportion of AI boosterism is written by AI?

Are you a human? Do you like having rights? The ECHR protects you.

The impression I'm getting is that the USA is genuinely in real trouble. Really. Far more trouble than I expected—and I expected trouble.

Lucky for Nigel Farage that he never met that bloke who took bribes from the Russians, otherwise the media would be all over it.

Because its so windy there is excess power in the system Green-energy supplier Octopus is giving customers free electricity between 12 and 2 today and between 11 and 12 tomorrow. Deform UK don't want you to know that. Their fossil fuel paymasters don't like it.

Wordle 1,568 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 This is the third time I've done that. My only "secret" is to change my word right afterwards!

Is your campaign about cool aesthetics or cool ideas? #TTRPG

Meet up in real life.

Trump is a con artist & he’s representing a legion of oligarchs & criminals. They’ll maintain power long after he’s gone. It’s a sleight of hand strategy; Trump rambles or passes some EO that is going to be shut down by the courts. In the background massive embezzlement & fleecing is taking place.

"Evidence abounds that AI systems sustain the illusion of being automated by depending heavily on human labor. Workers who are impersonating AI are at the same time generating data that is used to train and perfect the system they are impersonating." cwa-union.org/ghost-worker...

This is great. It naturally follows that Musk can only get out of our politics if politicians and political journalists stop using the social media site he controls.

Very succinct explanation of the effects of the loss of unauthorized immigrants in the workforce to the US economy. youtube.com/shorts/-_kPM...

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

If you want a definition of fascism this book is awesome. And they’ve got a free podcast too (click link). A powerful definition of fascism and its history here. @iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Nigel Farage's attendance record as an MEP was 748 out of 751, yet he turned up to vote AGAINST plans to tackle Russian disinformation. Now one of his MEPs has admitted taking bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Why is this not all over the media?

"…targeting high-visibility figures within Trump World is a more effective way of getting attention, or causing chaos, or because they think it’s funny, or because Trump back in power hasn’t been the glorious revolution they were promised." www.garbageday.email/p/the-rise-o...

Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Strictly Come Pouncing.

"Does your character have a cloak?" "I imagine everyone in the future has cloaks."

I've been thinking about role-playing games. Essentially, I'm of the view that the games industry incentivises designers to produce something quite different from what's needed: the simplest possible rules and procedures to facilitate imaginative, coherent, immersive, accessible gameplay. #TTRPG

"You might recall the feeling of confusion after opening such a document, followed by frustration—Wait, what is this exactly?—before you begin to wonder if the sender simply used AI to generate large blocks of text instead of thinking it through." hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Progressive people who don't bother with ALT texts: Just cut and paste "Fuck You Visually Impaired People!" into the box. It's really quick, and it says what you mean.

Bloody hell this is seriously seriously bad!

What's it like to live with a serial killer? Well he's very charming—thank goodness we are too big for him to eat.

ALT TEXT? It isn't just about disabled people. It's about visibility. Let me put it another way. No ALT TEXT, no Reskeet. Sorry!

If AI is so good, why is Alexa so stupid? Every day I get up, go downstairs, and go into the kitchen. What do you think I want to do with the lights? After several years, Alexa hasn't worked it out yet.

As soon as the governor signs this illegal bill, Missouri will be sued. I don't bluff and I usually win.

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.