A pitch for Universal Basic Income from the book Bullshit Jobs. Have a read.

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Any word from Houchen and/or his business friends?

Criminal. The regulator needs to be prosecuting execs of the offending companies.

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups. Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat. www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

Sadiq Khan, "At this time of year when Jewish people across the world are commemorating Yom Kippur, it's incredibly worrying, that we've seen this awful attack on a synagogue in Manchester" "People should be allowed to go about and practice their faith knowing they are going to be safe"

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. It's time to hold them to account. You can support the campaign to change the law by signing the petition here👇🙏 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Big pharma war on the UK Cancer drug lenalidomide had profit mark-up of 23,000%. Hydrocortisone tablets prices up by 10,000% Price of phenytoin sodium up by 2,300% - 2,600%. They are holding govt to ransom, want the NHS to pay more, fueling higher taxes, inflation. Must curb corporate power.

As I stand amid a dizzying swirl of destructive distractions, I'm reminded again of this simple fact: Whatever is in the Epstein files must be incomprehensibly bad. All of this - **waves arms wildly in all directions** - it in service to keeping those files hidden.

17 wolves have been killed in MT's hunting season. These wolves are more than just numbers - they each played vital roles in their packs, symbolized resilience, and served as keystone species. This is an important reminder of what could happen in other states if wolves lose federal protections.

Even with a farmer bailout, if there is no market for beans, there is no incentive to plant next year. I’m not a farmer. I didn’t vote for Trump. But the only two businesses we have left in my town revolve around corn and beans. My town will fold. My school will close. It’s over for us.

Richard Tice during an interview "Keir Starmer literally used the words: take up arms and go for the enemy" What a lemon Firstly (& most importantly) he DID NOT say that. Secondly you can’t wang on about language you don’t like AND parade Lucy Connolly like a mascot. Make your mind up.

That adage about a broken, hypocritical clock . . .

Department of Education employees set out-of-office email responses to inform recipients they'd be unable to respond until after the shutdown hours later, many people realised their response message had been changed to blame Senate Democrats for the entire shutdown www.wired.com/story/govern...

Trump's CEA is circulating its estimate of the economic cost of the government shutdown. But, BREAKING: It's wrong. It makes a simple arithmetic error. And it's dishonest. Surprising, I know. 🧵

First, arithmetic. A weeklong shutdown will reduce *annualized* growth in Q4 by 0.2 %-points. So that's 0.05 %-points of actual quarterly growth. And GDP in a quarter is $30 trillion/4 = $7.5T. So the "cost" is 0.05% x $7.5 trillion = $3.75b NOT the $15 billion CEA claim

Put it all together, and the Fed and Goldman estimates suggest that each week of the shutdown will reduce 2025's annual GDP by about one-hundredth of one percentage point, and it will have no effect on next year's GDP. (I'm not endorsing the estimate, just explaining it.)

And none of this is to say I like having a government so dysfunctional that it randomly shuts down. I don't. I think it's a horrible and pointless waste. $3.75 billion in waste is still $3.75 billion too much.

But I also am implacably opposed to pseudo-economists fumbling their arithmetic, misrepresenting serious research, and lying to the public.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Another instance of Reform voters being massive outliers. And the rump Tory vote being much closer to Labour and LDs than the supposed other part of the "right bloc".

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

Thailand has pushed back retiring several coal-fired units at the 2,400-MW Mae Moh power plant, keeping some units running until at least 2031 and refurbishing others to 2048, despite earlier closure plans. Residents are skeptical the plant will be shut as planned by 2050.

Inevitable. @cnbc.com $AMZN www.cnbc.com/2025/10/02/a...

The government says those wishing to be granted permanent settlement status will have to learn English to a high standard, have a clean criminal record, and volunteer in their community. I propose that those criteria should apply to anyone who wants to wave the British or English flag in public.

Tice's quote is fake. Starmer said: "While we must come together to fight Reform with everything this movement has, we must go into that battle armed – not just with words but condemnation – but with action. That means tackling all the problems they pray upon. All the problems.”

Rather extraordinary to publish this. “We wrongly thought the government’s case was going badly, so we increased our offer, which the government rightly rejected and went on to win far more”

Logically, the author of this Times piece is proposing forced deportation of one million migrants.

“I’m pleased to see that, after five years... some people involved in this national scandal are starting to face consequences. But we cannot claim to have moved on from the venal political culture that brought us the VIP lane until the ministers involved face consequences too.” goodlaw.social/f2e9

Once again, her insistence that she *never* makes gaffes makes every gaffe she makes much, much worse than it would otherwise have been… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's good to be on a platform where people express normal human empathy and dismay at the horrific synagogue attack rather than on one where they weaponise it for their grubby, divisive purposes and try to turn a tragedy into an opportunity

💔 This is Omar Hayek. He was a kind man, the sole provider for his family, & one who brought the highest level of professionalism to his work as an occupational therapist for @msf.ca. This morning, Omar became our 14th colleague killed in an #Israeli attack.

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

BREAKING 🚨 Greta Thunberg and 15 Irish citizens were kidnapped by Israel in international waters while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. www.bbc.com/news/article... #BreakTheSiege #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine

This is even more batshit insane than the usual run of insane batshittery from this administration. We may soon need a color-coded index to classify various levels of unbelievable fuckery from Team Trump.

The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9

Amount of money Bill Gates has donated to Ukraine: $0 Amount of money Howard Buffet has donated to Ukraine: Over $1 billion

Here I am in March 2020 wearing the PPE that was available at the time for frontline services about to see an influx of extremely sick people with SARS-CoV-2 now known as COVID-19. I watched many die. Colleagues died. Michelle Mone should be in jail. And she should only be the first on a long list

🔴 Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ Rally Was Sponsored by a Convicted Fraudster Allegedly Behind Cryptocurrency ‘Rug Pulls’ The far-right rally was bankrolled by a convicted fraudster alleged to be behind two cryptocurrency scams, Byline Times can reveal bylinetimes.com/2025/10/01/t...

🚨 Landmark win 🚨 : Govt forced to review Industrial Strategy after Scrap Carbon Capture legal challenge #EnvironmentAct. First time a policy was re-taken for failing the Environmental Principles duty. No more “light-touch” assessments. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social @dalevince.com 👇👇

"Trump is having 'episodes of what would be called outright lunacy, if they occurred in any other setting,' and … if he 'were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him from that role.'"

A government shutdown means Americans won’t get the services they depend on. Federal workers won’t get their paychecks. People’s livelihoods will be upended. This is happening because Republicans wanted to pay for more tax cuts for the super rich by making devastating cuts to the social safety net.

The Tories - remember them? - once led calls for the Climate Change Act, back in 2005. That led to a cross-party, cross-business consensus for sensible legislation to decarbonise in the cheapest way possible. The Tories are no longer a party of government. bsky.app/profile/tony...

“Citizens need to take an active role in political decision making at national, regional and local levels. Only then will it be possible to mitigate the damage done to the environment.” That's one smart Pope. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/w...

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

“Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping. The flotilla did not break any laws." 2/3

The Sora thing is so bleak and shows how far we've come from AI companies pretending they did not train on copyrighted material www.404media.co/openais-sora...

Business has paid a lot to support decarbonisation and sustainability. Invested tens of billions. Most of it under Tory-led governments. And now the party is saying it was all a waste, and pointless? Just not serious people.