Lewis Carroll presaging MAGA cultists: I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

London is, and always will be, a place for everyone. A city where people of all backgrounds live side-by-side, and where our differences are not just tolerated, but celebrated.

I humbly offer that this is the kind of thing that rather than constantly torquing outrage, THIS is what social media is for: linking up different things that have been in orbit in your life without connection, finding more meaning as a result, and sharing them for other people to find and enjoy.

Nick Lowles is one of those (I suspect purposefully) unsung heroes who does undercover/investigatory work that would be beyond the vast majority of us (me included). I wish the bravery of Hope Not Hate could be more celebrated.

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This afternoon!

It’s worth asking the question why British politics is trying so hard to copy American politics when the same policies aren’t even popular there, let alone here.

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I’m autistic. Not because of Tylenol. Not because of vaccines. Not because of some headline. I’m autistic because that’s how my brain works. Stop treating us like a problem. Start listening to us.

Somebody go and get Grandpa - I don't know how he got up there

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BBC News - Lib Dems have moral duty to defeat Nigel Farage, says Ed Davey - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You could start by stopping framing it as "an argument" as if you're trying to establish who left the fridge door open and describe our responsibility to implement actions help our fellow man as a non-negotiable basic feature of a civilised society.

With respect to this - a short description of the complete volte face we're seeing: (Josie Naughton - CEO of Choose Love - talks us through it) youtube.com/shorts/Sr8SB...

Trying to copy someone else’s authorial voice (or worse, using generative AI) is not only pointless; it’s also a betrayal of all the things your authentic, human, unique voice represents.

UK citizens, look at what you could have won #blueskybullseye

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Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Labour must finally stand up firmly against a Reform policy. Call it out for the obscenity it is. Starmer has recently finally spoken out against populism and division. What could be more populist and divisive than this? Nor for heaven's sake, don't dodge it, or excuse it. Challenge it.

Exactly this - all the govts and departments lending their credibility (and de facto support) to Xitter are making far bigger errors than individuals choosing not to wage through slurry on a daily basis

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Apropos of nothing...

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"...how big would that group have to be before you found someone that said their choice of going to university, and that choice of going to that specific university, was because they wanted to become a founder?" If Elon Musk could even possibly be the answer, you're asking the wrong question...

Gary Kaspatov isn't on Bluesky yet, and I know there are issues with Substack, but this is an instant 'subscribe' from me

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Mind-blowing post detailing how xAI is not only building a massive new fossil fuelled power station for the second data centre to power X's Grok, it is doing it across state lines to avoid regulation Remind me again how it's all fine bc a single query is small... semianalysis.com/2025/09/16/x...

UK Labour Party on Line 1, asking if they can copy that as a headline for their next internal strategy briefing?

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Quite something when the pensioner wearing the ostrich on his head looks the least ridiculous one. #threemenandalittletawdry

Quick splainer for Europeans who are wondering how the whole "stop the boats" & "more brexit please" thing is going in the UK. Here's Labour & the new Reform Party Limited (on the right in this clip, coincidentally) battling it out. The tories are watching from pool side and not really involved.

NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going. Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations. Plus almost all of social media. The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

A wonderful thread, showing that there is always hope (as long as there is humour, poetry, and a shared vision)

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Ummm, is there something you want to tell me about my posting style?

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Completely true, but it's worth starting at the top of the thread because it's well thought out (and written), and it expresses what I wish more people with the remit and reach would say.

Why bother when AI or an algorithm can (almost literally) conjure up the answer in milliseconds? This applies also to academic research of course, but generally too. Do the work...