turned up at the polling station without my voter ego and the electoral commissioner set me free from samsara

👉NEW -- Michael Mansfield ‘extremely concerned’ by case against Palestine Action lawyer by Dania Akkad Leading lawyers say the proceedings against Rajiv Menon KC put the right to a fair trial at risk www.declassifieduk.org/contempt-cas...

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

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At a No 10 briefing today we heard about the government's commitment to "a whole-of-society response to antisemitism”. Asked if this might involve the government leaving X, where antisemitism is not only rife but monetlised, were were told it is "something we always keep under review." So: no.

How long does it take to shoot an apple off someone’s head with a crossbow? Time will tell.

Forcing AI into elementary schools is a great way for us to make sure that today's kids are the first generation to be less suited for the future than their parents are.

“Help me unblock toilet” says man who blocked toilet “or I will cut off your supply of toilet paper”.

See Kemi Badenoch went on tv today to say that the Tommy Yaxley Whatever marches have no specific target, aren’t designed to intimidate anyone and don’t result in any real world hatred or violence so are absolutely fine (in sharp contrast to the Palestine protests).

Today’s Opening Statement tackles the debate over what to call federal immigration detention centers. Some experts say they can rightfully be called concentration camps. Plus we cover the latest reporting on important court rulings that came late Friday. mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

Something a little sickening about the idea of children who might not know how to tell stories or doodle because a machine does it for them

What's really going on in Cuba: life without fuel, power, not enough food mixed with a glimmer of hope www.equator.org/articles/aft...

Top 15 TV shows, only slightly biased towards previous lists: The Leftovers Seinfeld The Shield Father Ted Lost Taskmaster The Day Today 30 Rock Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Homicide Black Mirror Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights The Americans Oz Inside Number 9

My question: If the protest marches are stopped (which seems likely), under what circumstances would they ever be allowed again? Protests may need to be stopped in some cases, PM suggests www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

For an editorial statement for a new magazine this is pretty fine: www.equator.org/articles/gho...

Yesterday in Hastings, in the wake of antisemitic attacks in Golders Green, I faced Nazi salutes. Today the Prime Minister uses his office to attack the only Jewish party leader to score political points.

He’s quite literally insane (in-the-Seine)!! 45.9k Reposts 588k Likes

Section 21 is no more! From today, in England, landlords will need a legal reason to evict you - making it easier for you to complain about unsafe conditions and challenge excessive rent increases. And no more fixed terms mean it's easier to move when your circumstances change.

Imagine the headlines if – in somewhere like Russia or China – a senior lawyer faced a secret trial and potentially imprisonment for expertly representing a client and, against the odds, aiding in their acquittal for serious criminal charges. This secret trial is happening at 10.30 today in London.

I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is

Royal Mail building, Huddersfield #photography #architecture #yorkshire

I miss the old times of Bluesky when people would share and uplift starter packs and try to help out people gain followers for small businesses and stuff. So lemme share mine again 💙 Let's help each other out go.bsky.app/6DkNbH7

The subtext to those is always “nothing bad should happen to me specifically, which is why I’m calling for all of you to be actively surveiled at your expense and assumed guilty until proven otherwise” The annoying part is how many non elites are willing to go along with that

One of the greatest headlines ever made

Drug dealer tried to hide crack between his buttocks. according to Lauren Butts www.hucknalldispatch.co.uk/news/crime/b...

Joppa Caves of Qud 2024

Cis women get to use T to satisfy their sexual urges and it's celebrated. Trans people take T to eliminate their gender dysphoria and they're villainized and called perverts.

It's a beautiful day to take pictures of cars! Big car show on at the Piece Hall, lots of classics and customs, big crowds and bright sunshine #photography #cars #wheels

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Horrible. RTE should do a similar investigation and publish the names and addresses of these shops. Preferably before 7pm this evening. #FridayFeeling

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

Note the assumption, from Farage, that "ethnic minorities" are not "working people". "The working class" is almost always imagined on the right as old, white & male - never as young, black or female. It's a fantasy version of class politics, that's totally out of kilter with the working population

Would you like to have to present your ID every time you want to go to the gym, or the swimming pool, or try on clothes at M&S? That's what Sex Matters are suggesting for *everyone*, in our new gender-policed world.

I'm brave enough to admit that I would, in fact, buy this the day it goes on sale or see it opening night. Yes, I would.

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

Has Richard Tice resigned from his front bench & deputy leader positions in Reform yet? It's a week since controversy over his unpaid tax came to light. It is way more serious than anything related to Angela Rayner. He called for her to go. But he remains in place. Why won't Reform take action?

The government needs to come clean about the UK's dependency on foreign tech companies for our critical infrastructure. Cross-party MPs have called for the publication of secret documents that detail the risks to UK national security and for the National Risk Register to be updated. Read more ⬇️

LIFT THE BAN - APPEAL RALLY Tuesday 28th April, 11am-2pm, Royal Courts of Justice Join supporting orgs for a rally on the first day of the Home Office appeal against the High Court ruling that the ban on Palestine Action is unlawful. 🖼️ Art 🎶 Music 💕 Poetry 🎤 Speeches

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

4/ Many GMP officers had no shoulder numbers. The GMP's own Uniform Policy and Dress Standards states that: "All officers and staff in uniform are required to wear epaulettes clearly showing their collar number on both shoulders at all times." This is a police force with a culture of impunity.

1/ Saturday saw Greater Manchester Police deliberately target anti-fascist protesters. Whilst facilitating racists Britain First. We have reports of multiple incidents of unprovoked violence, deliberately not wearing ID, snatching masks without warning.

More furious discussion at my anti-natal class last week about the spelling and whether I should even be there, given my views.

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Happy 80th Tim

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.