Age gating VPNs is a truly horrible idea. Teenagers deserve some kind of private access to the internet – which might mean LGB resources, or access to contraception or abortion advice, or resources to help with parental abuse. Shutting them off puts them in greater danger. This is just bad policy.

Reform, the Bin Juice Tories

Suella Braverman says that she believes that if an MP changes party there should be a by election But then explains why after she's changed party there shouldn't be a by election in her constituency

a proper, grown-up media would have taken Farage apart some time ago for all that surrounds him, not swoon over his latest regression project

Well done everybody, great work etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pitch for new Reform logo

peggy's artwork #TheArchers

who is this person being interviewed on #bbcwato who's describing the shooting of Alex Pretti as "a terrible accident"? 10 shots? accident?

Suella Braverman MP has joined the Reform party, despite briefings from the party last summer to the Daily Mail, GB News and others that it would refuse her if she wanted to join.

Michael Manning is Reform UK’s candidate in the Zetland, Redcar and Cleveland by-election. At this point we would normally point you to his Twitter account, but he deleted it just before his nomination was confirmed. We gathered a good picture of his views, before he did.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Petition to rejoin the EU For economic growth petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.

made this for everyone saying “but he had a gun!”

Four-time Grammy Award nominee Jesse Welles performs his song "Join Ice." Bob Dylan once said a single folk singer could defeat an entire army. Ladies and gentlemen, I think we have our man.

"law enforcement doesn't assault anyone" sure thing

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Sheffield Reform UK branch 'in tatters' after 'amped' role play interview 'crossed a line'

Remember that literally every single one of the billionaire freaks behind generative AI has very publicly aligned themselves with trump and his policies Their CEO's are in and out of the oval office for photo ops, they're donating mountains of money to him, they're literally getting military titles

Nearly instantly after Alex Pretti was killed by a Border Patrol officer, the Trump administration and what would in other contexts probably be called state-aligned media began smearing him. From @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

I'm seeing people mistakenly claim the gun photo was posted before today, but its just how Google sometimes dates images based on the original date of the thread its posted in, not when it was posted. The photo was posted an hour ago in this 5 day old thread www.reddit.com/r/fivethirty...

The mendacity of Kristi Noem is of world historical level - just a thoroughly vile and worthless henchwoman of evil.

This is profoundly chilling: ICE agent who claims he’s an EMT *rolls the body* — been a longtime since my EMT training, but pretty sure I remember you don’t do that—and shouts “where’s the gun?” He’s not treating a fallen man, he’s setting up a lie. The gun isn’t there.

Kyle Rittenhouse was on Infowars the day after the Renee Good shooting saying he had heard on X that Renee was putting cigarettes out on her kids. This wasn't true. This is a government by and for school shooters and their apologists.

Compare this thread analyzing the video footage with DHS’s statement stating that the man approached officers with a gun and “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Under what circumstances, if not those created by the last few days, would a Royal visit to the USA be cancelled? A visit will gratify a President who has delivered a gross insult to this country, and who presides over the murder of his own citizens. I mean, come on.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

'Odd' how the right wing extremists constantly scream that 'Britain is full', yet also want people to have more babies...

Reform UK has included a baffling section in its manifesto calling for the creation of a St David's Day Bank Holiday to protect English national identity.

1/ Others have pointed this out, but there are massive hidden costs in terms of effort and contingency planning to all the Trump threats that never materialize because he never meant them, TACO'd, got talked out of it, or got distracted. I wanted to talk about why by explaining risk mitigation.

"in most cases, these videos appear to have been filmed secretly - using Meta smart glasses." Argh for the love of god BAN. THE. PERVERT GLASSES.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Nigel Farage attended Davos on a pass sponsored by the family office of Iranian billionaire Sasan Ghandehari, which told the World Economic Forum that the Reform UK leader had advised the company since 2018. ft.trib.al/V138xDu

My org @immcouncil.org represents those two gay men. They had been arrested on charges of sodomy by Iranian moral police, and fled the country seeking asylum. They face the death penalty if returned, yet the Trump admin denied their asylum claims in a kangaroo court process. They are terrified.

“Take back control” and give it all to a deeply narcissistic, malignant, unreliable and corrupt American President who is dementedly destabilising the West and siding with Putin to do so. Brexiters made utterly mad by their own abject failure.

Another day, another outrage; ICE under Trump is going to deport dozens of people to Iran, including two gay men previously arrested by the regime who face the death penalty for their orientation, and despite the ongoing crackdowns which have killed thousands. An administration of total inhumanity.

I'm not a huge fan of Nigel Farage. He's a very very corrupt man.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY: batten down the hatches, tie down any loose valuables, Paul Shane is singing on Pebble Mill, with Mike Holoway from Flintlock - promoting a musical!

🚨🚨Re #leavingX, a recent study on the artificial intelligence chatbot #Grok embedded on X estimates it created the astonishing number of 3 MILLION sexualized images in 11 DAYS in January, including 23,000 of children. Unforgivable with this evidence to stay on #X. www.politico.eu/article/grok...

Tory MP Simon Hoare has given a very vivid quote about Donald Trump's comments on Nato allies, which could actually be used in many contexts about the US president: "Frankly Trump makes my flesh creep and my stomach turn. Where are his advisors? Where is his nurse? Where is his sense of shame?"

I mean, most consumer VPNs are shit, and most people don't need to use a VPN* but banning them (I assume this means consumer VPNs, not corporate ones) would be stupid and bad *obvs some valid use cases, esp if travelling to, say, China, but I refer you the above: most consumer VPNs are shit.

Instead of two or four fingers, Kit Kats should be sold with three or five. That way people could give their boss the middle finger.

Off and on it

We will remember

If you put the words "LOCAL FOOL" in place of Elon Musk, the headlines make more sense. People who cover him should try it to see if it helps clear up their reporting. Local Fool Says He'll Build A Colony on Mars Local Fool Says AI Will Cure Cancer

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