McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

My theory that AI maximalists don’t know how to use a computer remains undefeated so far

GenAI is fascism. It’s good, old, American brand capitalist, racist, misogynist fascism, served up on its new favorite silver platter: Hustle Culture

From 'The Black and the Green' (1983), documentary about the visit of five civil rights activists to Belfast to learn about British state repression and Republican resistance.

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

Really well said by @juliusgoat.bsky.social:

James Dean à Times Square, New York 1955 © Dennis Stock

Woody Guthrie at McSorley's Old Ale House — Eric Schall, 1943

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents. Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract

Current vibes in the Celtic boardroom😂

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch asks if Keir Starmer will investigate what David Lammy and Pat McFadden knew about the Mandelson scandal Both men served as Junior Ministers in Mandelson’s department during the time of his emails to Epstein

McFadden says Mandelson should give any money from being sacked to charity A reminder McFadden once claimed £40,000 on expenses for renting a home in his constituency despite owning the home next door (which he rented out & pocketed the cash). What did you do with that £, Pat?

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

British values

A short thread...

Fixing the country's court backlog, latest. If they don't agree with the verdict, ignore it and persist until they get the one they want.

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix Bobby Womack: 🎵 Across 110th Street #BobbyWomack ▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify #NowPlaying▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Pat Bonner on the radio performing the most sickening arse licking for the Celtic board. Guy doesn't have a single shred of shame.

Total lack of any quality here. Funereal atmosphere. 🤦

"Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted paedophile, referred to Lord Mandelson as “family”, a court in London was told." [Times]

X awards $1 million to creator with a history of racist, Hitler-supporting posts www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

It is super weird whenever someone sets up a new Substack and I can't say I have regrets about ditching the platform at all

The hypocrisy is off the scale. Does a puff piece in The Times. Then sends a notice via the press regulator telling journalists, those worthy of the name, not to harass him.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

VALS LES BAINS Rétro truck 🚚 camion vintage à identifier, années 60

So, watched that knives out film. Didn't realise "wake up dead man" meant the viewer. Fucking hell 😴

Morning blues

Israel spraying pesticide (that are banned in the EU) over south Lebanon as part of its ongoing campaign of ecocide. The goal is simple: to make sure that life itself is rendered impossible. This remains rarely reported in the news despite them doing so for years. www.instagram.com/reel/DUV2aoB...

François Truffaut by Jeanloup Sieff (1959)

This is probably my favourite pic of Welles, taken by Nicolas Tikhomiroff in 1964, during the shoot of CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT and used on the cover of the third volume of Simon Callow's biography of this artistic giant, 'One Man Band'.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

This should not be a police decision. Given evidenced secretive and unethical use of tech by PSNI already, this is amounts to an assault on ECHR rights, an undermining of civil rights in a ‘post-conflict’ region and an abandonment of any notion of ‘police reform’ post Good Friday Agreement. [1/n]

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Revealed: Wealthy use loophole to conceal value of more than £300m in Scottish land sales #landreform #greenlairds👇🏾🌲🏔️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Just in case anyone has any starry-eyed notions on how Ireland supports Palestine let me disabuse you: The *people* of Ireland know a genocide when they see one & will stand against it. The *government* of Ireland bow to the US. It’s so shameful. www.thejournal.ie/shannon-airp...

"Collective action and spirit is working. The Celtic support is far stronger, and our mutual interests better protected, when we are together."

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

US Marshals, acting on behalf of the DOJ in Memphis, TN, kicked a dog during an arrest, leaving it with a broken rib.

Even the dog doesn't want to be in this pic

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

Top UK advertiser is UK Gov. That's your tax money going to Meta.

Labour thinktank close to Morgan McSweeney ‘paid firm to investigate journalists’

On Feb 27, 2013, Elon Musk literally went straight from playing world savior on the TED stage to meeting with a convicted pedophile human trafficker youtu.be/IgKWPdJWuBQ?...

Other work of the Ladybird artists. A February Day Artist: Rowland Hilder

Love this picture. Just a couple of very close friends hanging out.

Jeffrey Epstein’s brother Mark sent a tip to the FBI accusing Trump of authorizing his murder: “I have reason to believe he was killed because he was about to name names. I believe Present Trump authorized is murder.“

Seems bad.