A quiet message for anyone struggling today.

Palantir is using medical records to help ICE target its victims in the US. And Wes Streeting is pitch-rolling for Farage to do the same in the UK.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

That would be since... 2016? I wonder what happened then?

Ahahaha! It's like a letter I would write to my younger sister to keep her out of my bedroom...when I was 12 😂

Nigel Farage's pitch to lead the UK into a bright new tomorrow includes his claim that he doesn't know how to use a computer.

Someone sent this to me earlier. It's a genuine Farage quote from 2015 and boy does that not say it all about the defender of British culture.

Off and on it

The main thing Elon Musk took from us when he bought Twitter was destroying the only customer service platform that corporations will actually answer you on

The best political ad I think I've ever seen. Bar none.

Anyone who saw the Belgian PM in Davos knew the US announcement was nonsense.

Where we are now in Europe. open.spotify.com/episode/66bI...

The UK is taking political prisoners to evade accountability for genocide The use of anti-terror law against Palestine Action is designed to block legal and political scrutiny of the UK’s role in Gaza. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

As a corporate structure the Board of Peace probably owes less to the UN than Miss Universe, which he also used to run. Fees from participating national participants to the parent entity, which he controls www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

in his mission to buy some eggs, Jack Bernhardt deployed his trademark bargaining strategy: Take the maximalist position - in this case stripping down to his underpants, covering himself in goosefat and threatening to set the Tesco Express on fire - then dial back

Exactly. It’s meaningless to talk of a “strategy”. He’s clearly unwell, delusional and dangerous.

The uncomfortable truth is that we no longer know the answer. U.S. security guarantees are conditional, transactional, and potentially unreliable. A far stronger European defence is no longer a matter of ambition or prestige—it is a necessity. 3/4

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

Having made it to Orkney Tuesday night, yesterday I had an excellent tour with @JP_Orkney. Though I could have picked a day with better weather! Below: Scapa Flow. 70-odd warships of the WW1 German high seas fleet lie underwater in this part of the anchorage, scuttled in 1919…

"I don't do computers", says leader of party whose prominent members and former members personally earn thousands of pounds for posting on X - some of which is part of the £380,000 in question.

Your next prime minister

Here's the screenshot with proper alt text. Took me less than 30 seconds.

I saw the font so small and faint and thought, hey, no problem, it's got alt text! And then I clicked on the alt text and 😒 Please, include the *actual text* when you're doing alt text, otherwise it's worse than useless. Run it through Google Lens and copy if you don't have time to type it out.

🐤 🐤 "quack" 🐤 🐤

Donald Trump's grandparents were German speaking Bavarians.

Another proud day for America.

buying shares in a company that sells little canadian flag patches for americans to stitch onto their backpacks

Here’s a cheery* piece from @lewisgoodall.com open.substack.com/pub/goodalla... (*fucking terrifying)

Beautifully done. 👌

To break up the doom and chaos, here's an interview with the woman who designed London's newest public space about how it came together, the difficulties of reclaiming three acres from the Thames, and what to look out for on the Bazalgette Embankment. www.londoncentric.media/i/185186036/...

This is the future of pricing. Many grocery stores have been doing this, @ddayen.bsky.social has good reporting on this phenomenon/crime.

The EU has delayed its vote on ratifying the trade agreement with the US.

Trump realises he’s gone too far on Greenland. The EU pushback worked. Now they need to double down.

Trump says that China does not have wind farms. 🙄

This is the issue in a picture

Let's not blow this out of proportion. It was just an admin error. Two admin errors. A few admin errors. Seventeen admin errors worth £380,000.

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

Out-take from "Doctor Who: The Awakening" part 2 (1984). #DoctorWho

"More than half of CEOs report seeing neither increased revenue nor decreased costs from AI, despite massive investments in the technology, according to a PwC survey of 4,454 business leaders."

Don't know if this sort of rhetoric has caught up with the fact that Reform's base are the most dependent on welfare of any party's

There is ONE REASON I pay for an upgrade, Eurostar, and that is so that I can sit on my own, so when you send me a message at last minute telling me you have reassigned my seat and now I’m being sat next to someone, yeah I’m pissed off 🤬

Breaches include his GB News fees and fees for advertising gold, as well as personal donations

The Standards Commissioner has found Farage failed to declare £380,000 in outside interests within the required 28 days, including GB News work and promoting gold. He blamed administrative errors by his team.

I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.

Not a projection. 450 Torches. Carried up the mountain and place correctly by 10 residents.

Ryanair Chief Executive Michael O'Leary has called Elon Musk a 'Twitshit' while announcing a press conference to make it clear the Space X boss can’t buy Ryanair. jrnl.ie/6932810

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox