No doubt the US leaders will try to link e.g. paracetamol to autism. Can I recommend www.tylervigen.com/spurious-cor... for anyone who can't work out what's causing what? Hilarious site that compares things that 'seem' to cause each other. But they don't.

@bbclaurak.bsky.social - I seem to remember one of these clowns being your pal?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

He's a journalist like I'm a part-time lettuce farmer from Utrecht called Volslagen Onzin

@bbclaurak.bsky.social - I seem to remember one of these clowns being your pal?

One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney

‘Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week...’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, carries a U.S. flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. Evans said he was a Marine during Ronald Reagan’s term.

Antifa terrorist

#BosniaHerzegovina: Alarming surge in attacks targeting media workers. Almost 50% of the press freedom violations are carried out by government and public officials, including discrediting, obstruction, and stigmatisation of critical voices through legislative efforts. 1/2

Free speech news

London's iconic Wembley Arena hosted one of the UK's largest cultural fundraisers for Gaza on Wednesday night, with more than 12,000 people attending Together for Palestine, a five-hour concert that raised over £1.5 million (US$2 million) for Palestinian-led charities 👇

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This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

An advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was taken away from the scene by police after travelling around Windsor as President Trump stayed with King Charles at Windsor Castle Latest story for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/09/17/t...

The US Vice President claimed that the UK was suppressing 'free speech' by criminalising calls to burn asylum-seekers to death

'don't kick Israel out of Eurovision, the arts aren't political' variety.com/2025/film/gl...

"[R]esisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER: A Fearless Eye – Women Honoured for Courage in Photojournalism amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo... #photojournalism #journalism #photography

(corrected) Radio 4 is indeed simply stating facts - the multiple criminal convictions of "Tommy Robinson" include several convictions for assault and fraud

Small modular nuclear reactors sound great, but they won't be ready any time soon. ”This is very rich men giving a few crumbs off the table to this technology they’ve always loved the idea of, without really looking too carefully,” says one expert. www.newscientist.com/article/2496...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The most amazing part of this is that the far right didn't target her because she celebrated Kirk's death or even threw his own words back at them. She merely expressed a well-founded worry that his murder might inspire the far right to greater violence and they apparently took that as a challenge.

It is crazy that I just had to put this PSA on LinkedIn. LINKEDIN!

Trump is coming to the UK to AVOID the EPSTEIN story. Unfortunately the British public just crowdfunded the WORLD’S BIGGEST PHOTO of Donald with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. And here is right outside Windsor Castle, where Trump is staying with the King this week.

MI5 has admitted it illegally obtained data from the phone of ex-BBC Northern Ireland home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney in 2006 and 2009. The BBC said this "raises serious and important questions that we will continue to pursue" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This epitomises Starmerism for me. Scrapping an investment that's proven to reduce reoffending to generating short-term cash while ballooning long-term *cost* (and harm). Prioritising their own individual power and careers over the actual wellbeing of the country they're supposed to be governing.

"Not all homeless people deserve involuntary lethal injection" is one hell of an apology.

Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation

Once again, we learn that McSweeney has seriously fucked something up. How does he survive? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

Look, it's quite simple, they just really want to Unite that bit of Kingdom behind the police. If only they'd let them past then the police can go and get on with their real work of arresting peaceful anti-genocide pensioners.

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

Meanwhile AI is still a great advancement, congrats techbrahs

Well that's a nice glance at the headlines before bed. Political assassination in an American university, Nato on verge of war in Poland, Mandelson best mates with Epstein. Good night everyone and good luck!

🇮🇱The UK government changed the law in 2011 to help Israelis visit Britain without fear of arrest. Since then, it has granted special immunity to at least nine Israeli officials who have been accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity👇 www.declassifieduk.org/how-britain-...

#SOTEU25: We welcome @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu strong stance in support of media freedom. She announced the launch of a new "media resilience programme" which will support journalism and media literacy. "A free press is a backbone of any democracy and we will support Europe’s press to remain free.”

Put these two stamps on the same envelope

The NUJ decries substantial job cuts announced by Reach plc today. The proposed restructure of editorial puts 600 journalists at risk and threatens 321 jobs, with the expectation that 135 new positions will be created. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Well, well, well. @bma.org.uk

"Saxon forefathers"? Those'll be the ones that invaded us in boats...

The detail: Watchdog kept in dark as PSNI spied on journalists www.thedetail.tv/articles/wat...

Today, the Israeli supreme court ordered the prison service to stop the starvation of Palestinian prisoners. Two out of three judges ruled that there's evidence that the food provided is inadequate. The third judge - who didn't see a problem - is the British-Israeli West Bank settler David Mintz.

The ECHR has been under threat from some in the UK for years; for more light than heat in this debate, these three links are excellent: explainer from @ukandeu.bsky.social; the Good Friday Agreement and the ECHR from @anuragdeb.bsky.social ; the Brexit deal and the ECHR by @stevepeers.bsky.social

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

/3 ….among the leadership, the elite. It requires someone to push back against populist scorn for civilization. When we lose the critical mass of leaders who support civilization, and when other leaders are too weak to fight, we get barbarism.