Literally ticking off the bullet points, in exchange for money and G-d know what else. When a Britsh person works in a foreign government's pay and interests, they qualify to be called "Traitor"

Sarah is an excellent writer and speaker of truth to power. Getting lost in the Trump obsessed trees does nothing to confront the woods, the hierarchical money based power structure for which he fronts. He could be gone tomorrow: the threat to us, as an empathic species, would remain the same.

If you're sceptical of the future integrity of the Internet, because AI and history-altering bad people, then these two organisations deserve your support and patronage.

All psychopaths should have their very own AI weapons systems. Hogsbreath won't be satisfied with murdering the occasional fisherman/maybe petty smuggler. As Trump disintegrates, he's more and more likely to do something monstrous. Because he can.

This is all so achingly tasteful that my teeth spontaneously fell out as I was reading it www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/chri...

Great passive tense framing, Beeb. Try "forced into redundancy". Private Equity strikes again. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Apparently not.

Knock me down with a feather

More in "a major root cause of tech fascism is concentration and monopoly in the venture capital space", here from a16z who has been beating the drum of mega VC firms for years now: a16z.com/the-case-for...

The strange things that crooks do *wakes up one morning* "Eureka! Counterfeit airplane parts, that's the way to go!" He should be jailed for that tie/hanky combo, if nothing else. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just got a letter from British Gas summarising my last year's electricity consumption and telling me it's going to be 35% higher this year. Great stuff.

Chief Constable Snuggs of Thames Valley Police said; "What's ten years in the Great Scheme of Things? Unfortunately, due to unprecedented demand for our services, involving a large proportion of my officers' time now being spent in Norfolk, more slippage may occur." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That tricky old interface between socialism (UK version) and hypocritical über capitalist shitbags. @london.gov.uk

"The EV makes fake V8 noises coming out of the Dodge 'Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust', which uses 600-watt transducers and passive radiators to produce a 126 dB sound that reacts to vehicle speed, torque, and acceleration." Men, you are so sad sometimes. www.autoevolution.com/news/stellan...

HEY AMERICA some of your Christians have braved the hell that is London, to exercise their right to FreezePeach. Could you come and collect them pls, our police officers have all those mass murders, rapes etc. to deal with, and your people are boring. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

ZeroHedge still muttering out loud. I went in their live chat a dozen years ago, was like I imagine a Trump Cabinet meeting to be. "Drink Our Google* Certified Kool-aid!" *Not the Illuminati owned one of many ZH's passim, the other one.

The guaranteed price that Ed Davey "negotiated" in 2013 to make the sums add up, and which British consumers will pay, has inflation linked its way up to £133 now, and to ~£150 per MWh by 2030. Today's wholesale price is £82 per MWh. A big hand for Ed's savvy. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Bringing my grandson up right

BREAKING Prince Andrew leaves Britain without passport - iol.co.za/news/world/2...

As we crawl out of winter into spring, three things in the last two days: A massive, storm driven, high tide "spume snow" shower on the prom A new chain of small, seaweed topped islands appear in the bay Miniature Narcissi smile and say "Hold my beer" #EnglandSouthCoast

Evidence that Peter Thiel is an unhinged madman, whose companies should not, under any circumstances, be allowed anywhere near critical UK Government infrastructure. example #ⁿ⁰⁰

Being blasted by yet another high wind and rain storm, here on the English South coast. The spume is like a cheap sci fi alien life form.

This man... The would-be Emperor Has No Clothes*. * sorry for any vomit inducing mental images that may conjure up.

Easy target here, an economically illiterate accountant Tory MP, who I welcome to this woke infested pit. A bit of Tuesday irony, Brexit is the reason he's an MP. The previous MP for this bizarre Tory stronghold didn't stand again because of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Google's AI "assistant" is suffering from punctuation indigestion, after having hit a motherlode of English Grammar, pillaged wholesale by its Large Larceny Machine.

“I do feel like xAi is playing by a different set of rules.” Rules, like taxes, are for the little people. Concensus means nothing, empathy is for losers, might is right. Welcome back to the Bad, Old World. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

ICE as authoritarian: it's the cruelty of power that turns these people on. These are children.

An uplifting weekend read from the estimable Peter Jukes.

Zahawi, one of the few men on the planet who wishes he was in the Epstein Files.

Well, it stopped raining and the sun came out, just in time for Graduation Day at Brighton University. And what a great day it was! Best part of 200 happy, hardworking young graduates from all over the world, interesting guests and an immensely positive vibe! Stick it in my veins. 1/2

Hick From the Sticks comes to Town. (Not exactly a gold miner coming down from the mountains for a year's supplies, more going 100 miles east in the South of England, from a <10k town to >50k). People walk faster, avoid eye contact. A Peugeot E3008 is the most ridiculously ugly car I've ever seen.

"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."

75% of Monaco's residents are immigrants, but that's all white.

Rich, thrustingly successful entrepreneurs live in a world of numbers and themselves; "community ties" are strange things to them, but apparently worth having, for PR's sake. Yes, Ratcliffe, you say, wrong link. Yes, Ratcliffe I say, but also Harris Aslam. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know that Solzhenitsyn's reputation has been "revised", but that's a zero sum discussion; this book is superbly written and translated, and a must read imo. #books

"Absolutely nothing to do with us", says Private Equity firm who bought the company which is their landlord and owns many Brean labelled holiday companies. www.somersetlive.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

Critiquing Nordhaus' fossil fuel friendly, classic climate "optimism". “Something like 10 percent of the planet’s population — around half a billion people — will survive if global temperatures rise by 4 C.” theintercept.com/2023/10/29/w...

Yet another Grauniad typo from the Beeb, should obviously read "psycho". Imo if the UK Green Party really want a chance at power, they must remorselessly attack Reform and Farage by emphasising his slavish devotion to the Mad wannabe King. BBC News - 'Trump's psyche' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

By Lettucia standards, she was building an amusing parallel between the two legacy parties, then ruined it with the *chef's kiss* "NB there is no Labour Liz Truss!"

Great review of the competing entertainment for N.Americans at "Superbowl" half time which, as far as I can make out, is a mix of 'Christmas', everyone else's birthday too, and a unique national je ne sait quoi like The Royal Variety Show if everyone was a pensioner.

Every time I see "AI" being crammed into another consumer product I think of how in the 50s we put radium in suppositories because "the atom" was the snakeoil hype of the moment

British Nerds are Fighting Back against our American Tech Colonial Oppressors, one app at a time. Mrs. Misérable of Derby wrote in: "A disgusting waste of my hard earned Prosecco money, another reason why I'm voting for Tren de Aragua in whenever it is". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This lethal AI fantasy is confirmed as correct and safe by Google's AI search. What are we doing here? If the use of poorly trained LLM's with make-them-up-as-you-go-along algorithms can present this simple item so badly, WTF is happening inside £££££ Police, Health and Defence systems?

From the Files from Hell. Dated the 9th. Epstein died on the 10th.

Haha

"One Labour figure tells the Telegraph..." Oh, fuck off (That's me speaking to the journalist, the 'unnamed sources' bullshit in general, and the Labour figure [if they exist]. It should also be every Labour 'figure's' reaction to any approach from the Telegraph)

This is like some surreal, Solzhenitsynesque, Soviet, Stalin scenario, where guards have to clap his dog taking a crap.

You try it. "Once an asylum seeker is given refugee status they have 28 days to move out - of..usually a house in multiple occupation (HMO) or a hotel - and find their own housing. At the same time, they must find work or, if necessary, apply for universal credit." www.bbc.com/news/article...

lol "A bottle of Johnny Walker Black Label whisky cost me $124 (£90). But I don't mind paying the premium," adds a British company executive. "Even Saudis that consume alcohol, do it outside the country, or privately in their homes," said a Saudi intellectual. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...