People just get online and write the most startlingly classist thing you have ever seen despite the fact that our ruling class is foaming at the mouth racist, very wealthy, and having a nice time at the Spectator garden party.

Turns out the objection isn’t that asylum seekers get to live in the community, to everyone’s shock

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

Almost like Alan Milburn is a gobshite.

As so often in modern politics, people with no concept of what it’s like to be anything other than a privileged, straight, white person simply cannot understand that not everybody is like them.

they gotta be trolling me

We’re in the off duty police officers being victimised by ICE stage

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

A genuine phenomenon in modern UK TV. There hasn’t been a show that has captured the public’s attention on a regular basis like this in about 20 years. Most top rated UK tv shows these days currently get 5m viewers. This is getting 11m+ viewers for each episode. Insane.

sorry, but every person has their limit. i'm very tolerant, but i draw the line at LGBT people in broadway musicals.

Related to this: it’s so easy to know when fiction writing is AI-generated or edited: * All the characters talk exactly the same, in surface-level quips that all feel like they need a pause after them * whole chunks of dialogue get repeated in other scenes * everything feels flat and unconnected

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

One of the most astounding things about this government is their failure to grasp the primary lesson from the last one was so obviously "Don't mess about with Comms all the time, just do stuff that will probably work".

Quite fun that government still reliant on communication technique honed three decades ago, like Tony Blair aping Alec Douglas Home

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

this, from West Ham's Freddie Potts, is the single worst "five famous people you'd invite to dinner" I've ever seen

Reform should buy the whole album in one go because its cheaper than buying individual tracks.

I have to say that Robert Jenrick being unable to even defect properly is very on brand

When I stop laughing I'll provide some insightful analysis.

Going on a hike in mountain lion country but don’t worry I’m being responsible and smearing myself with beef fat first

literally just had a chat with a commentator/former spad who insists that "all platform have their problems" and "Twitter still has the best jokes", *enraging*

Somehow ICE has ended up cosplaying those bits of GWOT where badly prepared and confused American troops end up surrounded by the angry populace of occupied cities

Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

French Foreign Ministry responds to Elon Musk's claim that the UK government is fascist

'Your Mum is so woke' Never have I been prouder of a 14 year old's review of me.

Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.

Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran has become the first Oxfordshire MP to quit X (formerly Twitter). She said “I can’t sleep knowing that I’m leading traffic to a site that actively enables sexual exploitation of women and children.” Her Bluesky profile is @laylamoran.bsky.social .

Lynn Jones Turnpin responded to the critics in an interview today: “Support the Black Press. You can call me fake all you want to, honey. I’ve been doing this a long time.”

Parents and children who went through a pioneering court process designed to better protect families affected by domestic abuse share their experiences in a new Ministry of Justice report led by Dr Charlotte Barlow. Read more about this comprehensive review 👇 tinyurl.com/5c2h68mp

Was the policy announced on the CSAM site? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

As I've said before the lack of focus on A&E in govt plans is bewildering even just from a political perspective. For many people it's their most viseral and memorable interaction with the state.

And whilst yer at it.... Ask (nicely), that if they won't remove their presence from a cesspit once known and loved as twitter, could they at least consider paying a minion to operate their account on here, and cater for the many thousands of Blues no longer viewing twitter. It ain't rocket science!

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.

I am extremely confused as to why the UK government and police are saying Grok’s mass-scale CSAM generation is an issue for Ofcom. This isn’t about X failing to moderate CSAM, which is an Online Safety Act issue. It is about the company and its technology being actively involved in its generation.

Does anyone have any institutional policies around AI 'assistants' joining events/meetings, especially when added by externals (IE people I can't tell off for using non-approved tools)? Failing that, any personal techniques or rules of thumb?

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Truth is until football clubs come off Xhitter this problem will persist. It might sound odd but football is a consistent reason people continue to use it. Therefore it's seen as a valued platform when the reality is about 80% of traffic is bad actors, bots and trolls.

“why are you still on twitter” -> whiny, makes you sound like a scold “oh you post on the pedophile app” -> makes them sound like a pedophile

One example of how Grok is being used to target women. Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Ebba Busch being sexualised, degraded, and humiliated step-by-step by Grok. All the images accurately reflect the prompts provided.

So we now appear to be up to at least 80 Venezuelans killed. For an operation that anonymous admin officials said yesterday was"virtually flawless." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

I'm not a diplomat, but one thing I have to do regularly is to draft or help to draft public statements that parties to litigation agree as part of a settlement. There is an art to drafting something that reasonable readers can agree is clear but from which they draw irreconcilable meanings. /1

the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams