Another patriotic front page from the British Daily Mail who continue to back a deranged foreign despot who is desperate to drag the UK into a disastrous war launched for his own self serving reasons that is bringing an horrific economic crisis our way

Imagine a city where pedestrians and cyclists getting injured and killed by car drivers all the time was an issue in an upcoming election.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Liverpool.. brand new road redevelopment.. painted murder strip bike lanes... We will never learn.

Strikes me as an absurd threat, either we need the 4000 new training places or we don’t

Saving lives? Or removing danger? We don’t run 'electricity safety' campaigns. We fix the system. #SeeYourStreetDifferently #LiveStreetSmart #RoadSafety

“I was expecting an attack on climate science,” @drkatemarvel.bsky.social said. “But actually, who they went after 1st was pediatric cancer & Parkinson’s research, and childhood vaccines. I was completely unprepared for an attack on science, because it’s a means of finding out & telling the truth.”

Does Spotify use AI to generate its public playlists? The playlist 'This Is Dennis Bovell' includes the tracks 'Rowing 12" Version' and 'Rowing Down The River' - which are in fact exactly the same. Feels like an error a human wouldn't make

From 2021

Word on the street is Scott Mills bragged to the wrong person that he never needed to buy teabags or toilet rolls

"Police Excited To Transfer The Responsibility Of Road Safety From Themselves Directly To School Children."

Trying to wrap my head around the fact that there are TWO tracks out there called 'If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don’t Want To Be Wrong'. I knew the one by Brighton's Lockah, but there's a more recent effort by 'power trio' Space Horse that makes the same joke. soundcloud.com/donky-pitch/...

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Google: 'YouTube is not a social media site' Gemini:

👍 Lisa Nandy did something! 👍 👎 It's pointless performative unworkable nonsense 👎

Incredible when you look back and think “media studies” was the canonical derided degree. I am no conspiracy theorist, but it does make you think

Bear in mind when reading this 'good news' thread that EVs were developed to save the car industry, not to save the planet

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

When I’m in charge, Ibiza Classical, Britpop Classical and Hacienda Classical will all become criminal offences

‘Who needs cup final victory *more’ #LiteracyCrisis #AlwaysEditing

Rhian Brewster scores 😲 with a header 🤯 #bskyblades

If you want to get really angry: During our lifetime this is what CEO pay has done:

FIFA just rejected banning Israel from competition, saying that "the final legal status of the West Bank remains an unresolved and highly complex matter under public international law." …But in 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel's occupation of the West Bank is illegal.

1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️

Time to repurpose 'metaverse' as a term for poetry that refers to itself or to the conventions of its genre

This @the-independent.com story is such an obvious lift of mine that they didn’t even bother deleting my site’s referral URL. And no, they do not credit me for reporting it first or (intentionally) link to my story. In j-school, rewording someone else’s reporting was called plagiarism. 1/

The latest installment of the never ending saga of the Leeds tram has government asking why it has to be a tram when it could just be more buses and also being further delayed to 'the late 2030's'.

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

'Cockhole' *shuts laptop, goes for long walk*

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

Okay, that’s the season *definitely* over now #bskyblades

Absolute wrong 'un on every level #Mandelson

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

When you don't know what a restrictive appositive is, so you just scatter commas at random

I wonder if Claude would be “anxious” because the military is using it to bomb schoolgirls or because it’s poisoning the air around data centers or because it’s going to crash the economy or because it’s encouraged thousands of psychotic delusions or all of the above

STATEMENT 1/ Last night, the Metropolitan Police raided the Westminster Quaker Meeting house – again. This time, they targeted Take Back Power's direct action training. There were 15 arrests.

Over 160 schoolgirls are dead. Anthropic and Palantir executives must immediately testify and tell the public whether their AI is responsible.

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Happy Threads day to all that celebrate!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Builder in beanie behind me at the lights – on his phone. Woman in Fiesta behind me at the next lights – on his phone. It's an addiction, and an epidemic.

This event isn't till October, but I'm posting it because I absolutely love both the name and the design (AI could never)

At 9.3 kilometres (5.8 miles) my cycle trip to work this morning was longer than most UK car trips. It took me 26 minutes. (It would have been 23 minutes if I hadn't spent so long waiting at a crossing because people driving within the city are given priority over people who aren't driving)

"Today’s OBR projections reveal two competing realities in government right now. The OBR and Treasury forecast an upturn in net migration, which makes their fiscal numbers add up – while the Home Office says it is determined to drive net migration down still further. They can’t have it both ways".

It was never about the technology. It was always about who owns it. Renewables for the grid = socialism. Renewables for Musk's data centers = innovation. Same panels. Different owners. That's the whole story.

I know it’s only Tuesday and there’s a new World War on, but this is still the stupidest thing I’ve read all week "The feedback from residents was overwhelming and they made it clear these proposals would not reduce congestion in the area which was a key issue for the community."

A conversation earlier today reminded me of this slide I put into a recent talk. How did we decide the tiny human-sized machine is the special case, and the massive overpowered machine full of empty furniture is the norm?