Leaving aside Sky being wildly irresponsible platforming fascist bullshit here, it's still amazing that the populist-right victimisation fantasy stretches even to fantasising about being victimised by the most plainly obvious implements of right-wing state power. Basically just public masturbation.

How many of those children or foreign parents have been responsible for wrecking the entire economy and forcing thousands of British businesses into either bankruptcy or foreign ownership? Asking for a friend (who coincidentally is the foreign-born mother of my child fuck off you fash scum).

This all sounds hideously plausible, but let's be honest: would it actually be worse than President Vance? An AI-generated Trump would likely be unpredictable, preening, utterly divorced from reality, easily-manipulated and a huge security risk but the genuine article is also all of those things.

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Email leaks revealed that Johnson lobbied for Harborne. Both Farage and Johnson started lauding crypto around the time they received millions from him. Harborne is suing Ben Habib for suggesting Johnson and Farage colluded in the 2019 election. But they were both in his pocket

so for those keeping count of the heavy launch systems (me, i'm the motherfucker keeping count) that's elon's starship: 12 test flights, 11 damaged, 6 explosions bezos' new glenn: 3 test flights, 2 explosions nasa's space launch system, in development for 12 years, 2 launches, 0 explosions

Theory: Blair is a member of a court of fae that tries to collectively teach us a lesson about colonialism, aristocracy and other bullshit by masquerading as positive public figures then undermining that with mindbending evil, and they're all trying to one-up the unseelie shit who did Jimmy Savile.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Reform are planning ICE-style ethnic cleansing, with no other precedent AFAIK in a peacetime democracy, tearing apart our country & probably causing mass civil unrest. You’d think our national broadcaster might give us a bit more analysis than just “2 fascists have pinsized disagreement”, but

“I solemnly promise to Friend Computer that I am NOT a mutant commie traitor, but some of the other agents here MIGHT be, and I will help Friend Computer root them out for the good of Alpha Complex.”

Continuing my free will streak.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

I'm going to print this out so that after the apocalypse, when the fires have died down, the rain is properly wet again and the sky is back to the normal colour, when we can venture out from the shelters, I can show it to our son so he can know what the Internet was like.

Our son's school is asking us for consent to show him the (PG) BFG movie after their class reading of The BFG recently. I kind of wish they'd asked us for consent to read him Roald Dahl books in the first place!

Kudos to whoever made this.

Not gonna lie, this made me double-take. I thought he'd passed away, I didn't know he was being kept in a cage!

It has become a staple of British politics that "the economy" is more important than anything, often even the NHS. When people in vox pops and focus groups say it, they mean wages vs. inflation and cost of living. But the only measure politicians see is GDP, so they grab on to that and chase it.

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

I think Wes Streeting could genuinely be the person who unites a fractured Britain and helps us heal the country's wounds. Because whether Brexiter or decent human being, Tory, Labour, Green, Lib Dem, or Reform, left, right, or centre, we can *all* agree that Wes Streeting is an odious, toxic, shit.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

The problem with this argument is that conservative politics are generally the politics of short-termism and exceptionalism. Right-wingers don't object to paying for healthcare, they object to paying for healthcare *for other people*, and they assume they'll personally never be ill.

‘We aren’t socialists, we’re just better at accounting’ is a killer line.

If you haven’t got Instagram here’s the whole sorry tale…

"Dear general public. We heard you didn't like our last leader because he had the charisma of a house brick and he kicked you in the shins, so we arranged a new one who has the charisma of a shopping bag full of vomit who'll hit you square in the groin instead. Please vote for us at the next GE."

I mean, it's the same list as I'd like to see any government make: - UBI - Multi-candidate big-constituency STV elections - Properly fund & reform education - Overachieve net-zero - Nationalise utilities - Ban day-trading - Tax the rich - Treat foreigners, trans people etc. like human beings

Being tailgated this morning through a small village made me realise that an underreported benefit of the UK's 20mph limit is that you can legally inconvenience society's worst people for free.

Might have to post this annually until we do something.

If we could work out a way to generate electricity from the scale of Wes Streeting's misplaced opinion of his own ability, it'd be free power for an entire generation.

On one hand, yes. On the other, a significant driver of online shopping is the fact that everybody in the country looks for the cheapest prices because we're poor because of political decisions and we have no time to go to the high street between the six jobs we need because of political decisions.

It seems every successive adaptation of GitS I see tries to be more faithful to the original manga than the previous one. It feels like by 2040 we'll have a GitS anime series that's just a series of mostly-still images with acting and narration over the top like the ancient Marvel cartoons.

This is 100% how percentages work.

If Keir Starmer really wants to revive his flagging leadership, then he can't be cautious or resort to half measures. During this speech he should announce that with all their missiles having been spent in Iran, and their fleets tied up in the Gulf, the UK will be re-colonising the US mainland.

I should be working, and yet...

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Criticise Zack Polanski all you like for misleading statements, not doing enough on antisemitic council candidates, whatever - but Kami Badenoch calling him "in over his head" and "a child playing at politics" feels a bit like Donald Trump complaining that somebody was rude to him.

Dawkins notwithstanding, CS people should know better since this was documented 50 years ago.

Our political and media system has been sitting in a pot of social media water, slowling boiling itself in a targeted foreign far-right propaganda campaign and seems unable to notice it happening. www.thegist.ie/the-gist-sun...

I mean, billionaires are typically people who don't want to do real work and want to take advantage of the system, she's not completely wrong. Just rather ill-informed, probably largely thanks to billionaires.

Anybody with artistic ability who's talked to genAI image-generation addicts will know what's going on already but I like this guy's turn of phrase: "AI is giving people ... the experience of competence" Not actual competence, but what [they think] it feels like. www.instagram.com/reel/DXw3Dgi...

That's the west coast mainline for you

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

this is how I feel pretty much all the time

"People say to me, sir, the owl of minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk. We have the most beautiful owls. High-IQ birds. Dusk is dark. A lot of people don't know that. Sleepy Joe Biden, who I beat — by a lot actually — let it get too dark. We're going to make dusk bright again."

I hadn’t heard about this story until this morning. Just when you think it can’t get worse, the next paragraph is even more harrowing 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI is revolutionising recruitment alright! That's definitely, 100% what the "CD" in "CI/CD" stands for. Spot on, couldn't tell for a second that a human being didn't even glance at this copy before it was sent out.

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