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Holy shit. Just realised it's Valentine's Day and the post has already been. Unless I've been sent a card in a plain brown envelope and marked with the seal of the government, I'm about to become distraught.

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Didn't have time for the double bill last night. Already wish this had a black and chrome edition.

My hero and I also sincerely hope she's okay.

This brave woman speaks for millions of British people. Meanwhile these thugs behave in an entirely menacing manner and nothing is done.

Farage's lies about people not speaking English factchecked here. NB Farage also claimed that "four million speak barely passable English" - this too is a lie. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

I have a new kettle. I bought the Amazon Basics model and it's identical to the more expensive branded kettle I had. In fact, the bases are compatible and I now realise that the old kettle hadn't broke but the base had. Putting the old kettle on the new base, it lights up. Quality is an illusion.

I see a high profile person on here posting a link to his new Substack post and it's quite obviously covered in AI slop. What the hell do you do? Writers need graphics but can't pay for agency pics and slop is free. But it's still slop, essentially stolen by scraping data, and an energy hog...

Government deals with Palantir stink, and stank long before the Peter Mandelson scandal. The government must pivot away from companies like Palantir.

The Today programme this morning interviewed Diana Furchgott-Roth, a senior staff member at the Heritage Foundation, about Trump's climate policies, during which she came out with the zinger: “a lot of people like it a bit warmer.” How is it in the public interest to platform anti-science tripe?

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Very good from @verybrexitproblems.bsky.social

Tonight's film. Never seen this.

Fresh croissant delivery inbound. I'm extremely excited.

No one, apart from you, wants to see that thing you made with AI.

All the political analysis we really need...

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

We're so deep in Strangelove territory, it's beyond satire. "Lookee here, boys! We got ourselves one of those mil-i-tar-y lazers. How about we fire this sucker up and sees what she can do? Yee haw!"

They weren’t effing around- does this curse count for the tech bros who scraped folks work?

Ash Sarkar, "Jim Ratcliffe is a stinking hypocrite" "He became a tax resident of Monaco to save £4 billion that could have gone towards British schools, the British NHS, towards British defence, instead he decided he wanted that money for his own pocket"

It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.

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Oh do fuck off. All these big business owners are pushing the right wing narrative, as they continue to avoid taxes and mistreat staff. I'm sick of them all.

Some people. 🙄

Farage gets more transparent with every day. Without exception, the term “Judeo-Christian principles” has been used as coded language by every fascist who has attacked me in all the years using social media. Never by true followers of any faith. Always by self-professed "culture warriors"/bigots.

Enough with the outrage theatre. If Reform stands for ordinary working people, why did all their MPs vote against the Workers’ Rights Bill? You can’t wedge immigration into that one. It’s just the record. #VoteGreen

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

A get well card for @frmo.bsky.social. Too soon? In bad taste? If so, then it's very on brand for everybody's favourite Uncle Knuckles.

Okay. Who is the clever bugger who sent me a box of Lemsip? Is it you @matthewcreeves.bsky.social? I know it's not @frmo.bsky.social (preoccupied with leg) or @sfawcs.bsky.social (preoccupied with testicles). A sincere thank you. You're quicker than Boots but making me fear the postman! 😜

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How dumb do you have to be to get 2 million followers on X? Well, it appears it's this dumb...

Tonight's film.

I've gone hours without a Mo leg update. Can somebody check in on him? I don't want to look like I'm fussing.

Is there proof that people and equipment were involved in the Melania film? Felt totally AI generated to me: the people, places, music, imagery and especially the script.

My screening of Melania right now

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I know I say this every six months, but if you can’t imagine how working from home might make some people more productive, you have basically never progressed from being a schoolboy, and do not understand that a lot of workers derive motivation from something other than the fear of punishment.

Tonight's film.

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I have a lot of time for @mrjamesob.bsky.social but I'm not convinced by this tripartite cult idea. Watching the Starmer hoo-ha, it's a succession of hacks and columnists talking to hacks and columnists desperate for Starmer to resign, like some tedious game we have to suffer, for their amusement

Vol. 41 No. 16 · 15 August 2019 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

My day has now become a case of me sitting here and worrying about @frmo.bsky.social. I think there's a name for this. It's the Stockholm Syndrome. I need help.

This is a fascinating project by @theo.io (h/t @sfawcs.bsky.social for spotting it). bluesky-map.theo.io

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Tonight's film. 'Tell No One'.

Perhaps we just have to accept that dimwits have taken over politics and even more dimwits will always vote for them.