I've noticed VPNs failing on some mobile networks. Could see them becoming blocked on cafe, hotel WiFi if this nonsense takes hold. VPNs are relied upon extensively for business, so blocking VPN traffic won't be acceptable. It's like banning the use of roads because some people drive dangerously.

I wonder what "suspended" means, if there's no set timeout, and you're not told why so have no way to rectify or challenge.

Note on Sarah's substack: "I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explanation." substack.com/@sarahkendzi...

NOT AGAIN @support.bsky.team IF YOU ARE GOING TO SANCTION PEOPLE YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM WHY

Anybody who had a vision to bring American levels of political, cultural and social polarisation to Britain - whether their motive was clicks or cash, ideology, boredom or anything else - would make it their top strategic priority to abolish the BBC, or to damage and diminish it at the very least

20,000 views, which is 19,998 more than anyone has seen of the actual TCNs heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...

Ohhhh that's why the BBC attack is now, charter review coming up.

Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref Arron Banks thanked him for it "Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down." - @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset. This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI. Except... it's bollocks.

The niche moment I'm waiting for is Kemi Badenoch denouncing whichever government was in charge when Davie was appointed.

I'm old enough to remember Tim Davie being installed as Director General, *because* he would pull the BBC to the right, which he duly did. Much good it did him, in the end.

Folk apparently found helpful my exposition of what I have been calling the ‘Hansard Gap’ in the For Women Scotland judgment. At the suggestion of a correspondent, I am going to set out the myriad other difficulties with this judgment one by one over coming weeks.

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

What happened when I dug into some of the key studies and ideas quoted in The Tipping Point and its sequel… kucharski.substack.com/p/the-real-r...

It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole “Christmas is being cancelled by Muslims” BS 🙄 Let’s have a quick look at what’s happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncle’s mind at ease!😆 1/15 🧵

On this day of remembrance, it seems the US administration have forgotten.

Turns out, it seems, that a transphobic ex-advisor to a BBC board committee, unhappy that BBC reporting was not sufficiently transphobic, went bleating to the transphobic Trump administration to get some validation. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Do read the Nature piece, for a proper recognition of Franklin and her own agency.

Look out for this later #histSTM (And on Franklin, about whom lots of myths are circulating today, read this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...)

LRT: for real, do not let people ignore the context of that. It's Lynch as the character of Agent Cole giving his response to transphobia among agents with regards to the trans woman who is now the FBI chief of staff. It's a great quote! But it's deliberately about not being a transphobic POS.

Joyce is utterly devoid of empathy, compassion or comprehension. It makes me weep that her GC (trans-hating) beliefs are protected and ‘worthy of respect in a democratic society’ when part of this belief is that trans people and those that love them are not worthy of respect at the undertakers.

🏊‍♀️The women who swim at Kenwood Ladies Pond have already made their decision. In 2024, almost 900 members voted to keep their trans-inclusive policy - a policy that has worked peacefully since 2019. Now, a small campaign group is seeking to overturn that democratic decision through the courts. 1/5

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

The societal breakdown that pressing this button has the capacity to cause, is not some collateral damage to the political objectives of those pressing it. It IS their political objective. The only way a gov't with a majority of 150 seats can be dislodged, is via violent means. Wise up to this. 6/7

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Tesla is more a cult than a company these days, so this pie in the sky nonsense was inevitable. They're all reality-agnostic woo infested weirdos terminally rotting from their own insularity, so it's a big mistake to keep pretending only Musk is the lone bonkers element. He's just their John Frum.

If the fair voting system (Supplementary Vote) originally conceived and agreed for it won't be in place, deferring the election for a year is the sensible thing to do. Sussex is a huge population where one FPTP-elected post would yield a much too weak mandate. There's no real urgency.

Current plans for the Sussex Mayoral elections are deeply undemocratic and there are increasing demands for a delay. James Joughin explores the isssues:

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

Holy cow. They "discovered" that facial features are weakly correlated with the financial success of MBA graduates. Obvious reason is nepotism. How can they not realise that?

This: "Now if you are a novice in cognitive science, you may be puzzled and not know what is so wrong about that ‘definition’ in the screenshot above. This is the crux. For experts it is obvious!" Unless you're already competent in a topic, you cannot assess LLM-generated text.

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Instead of greasing the fossil fuel lobby, they could change the weighted game that charges all supply by the cost of gas. Then we'd accelerate the replacement of gas with the (massively cheaper) renewables, and energy cost across the nations would drop significantly.

you don't have to put on blackface to get social media attention. you can simply develop mild depression, join a menswear forum, spend the next 15 years arguing about pants, and then weaponize the knowledge against your enemies on social media.

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history,” Newsome said. “Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow.” www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

“I think oftentimes when people talk about this history, they usually focus on cis gay men . . . But there is a really exciting new, newish field of study, of scholars who are uncovering stories of people who were lesbians, bisexual, transgender and those really untold stories.”

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

As has rightly been pointed out to me it is, in fact, not yet 2026* Sooo... Gulliver's Travels is 300 *next* year. What do we have planned?! *I blame overwork plus the fact that I first mentally noted this anniversary 12 years ago, which is ages to wait! www.theguardian.com/science/the-...

If playing this game, surely just drop the hardly-worn clothing at a charity shop, shelter or whatever on the day of return. Then it's not wasted.

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Huh. Lethal vehicles - even before they put weaponry on them. Simply not permitted on UK roads due to Musk's utter disregard for safety regulations.

It's such a weird tax; the result of compromise following the Poll Tax furore, but retaining the essential un-progressive nature. I don't understand why it's not just a %age of property value, assessed against the market e.g. every 5 years.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.

Newsletter: Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom www.citationneeded.news/issue-95/

Lab monkeys from Tulane University have escaped an overturned truck north of the town of Heidelberg, Mississippi. Despite initial claims by local law enforcement, the monkeys are not carrying COVID-19, herpes or hepatitis C. buff.ly/16gTRJa