Harrowing statement by the judge here. An extreme case of road violence took place in Liverpool in May. 130 injured, with an immense amount of trauma that followed (described in detail). That's about 2 days worth of serious injuries on UK roads 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8...

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Aristotle on Democracy existentialcomics.com/comic/633

This entire weekend

Marx, Rent, and Neofeudalism Recently I read both Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism and Jodi Dean's Capital's Grave, both of which are examples of a tendency to analyse changes in modern capitalism as trending towards some sort of modern version of feudalism. In simple terms the proposition seems…

If a holiday tradition makes your autistic child (or self) miserable or unsettled, try to opt out. Please. I know change can be hard. And it can be especially difficult to let go of how things "should" be. But if taking a picture with Santa or lighting a menorah isn't realistic, that's OK. #autism

A mildly disappointing five and two halves 👇 Dorothy Parker ‘fwowed up’ in a 1928 review of which children’s classic? The Saturday quiz www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Artist: Sow Ay

‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism

Al menos 386 palestinos, entre ellos, 70 niños, han muerto en ataques esporádicos israelíes en los dos meses de alto el fuego en Gaza. Solo en octubre, más de 9.000 niños fueron hospitalizados por malnutrición aguda

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds

Enormously enjoying the episode of Say Nothing where they rob a bank dressed as nuns.

The Conservative *and Unionist* Party putting forward more policy that would set Northern Ireland on fire, again.

#Trainposting: the new GBR livery is awful corporate nationalist slop. Just do British Rail liveries again, they were handsome, clean and welcoming.

Would you entrust a child’s life to a chatbot? That’s what happens every day that we fail to regulate AI | Gaby Hinsliff

Why should young people participate in an economy that offers them no hope for the future? The inter-generational bargain that kept British capitalism afloat has collapsed - and Labour is too busy listening to corporate lobbyists to do anything about it. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation...

Stunning five pointer on #OnlyConnect there.

Philosophy in a Foxhole - existentialcomics.com/comic/632

Austerity is in the air again – from ‘overdiagnosis’ to the benefits bill. Here is what's at stake | Zoe Williams

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent goats I have met during walks in the British countryside. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ to Volume 3 of Capital by Karl Marx. Unfinished and unpolished but still fascinating and relevant #BookSky 📚 💙 app.thestorygraph.com/books/492b4a...

Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!

Starmer's Labour is worse than the Tories because there isn't a Labour party waiting in the wings, unless we see some astonishing magic from the Greens. People rejected the Tories and Labour came in to tell them, no, that's not allowed, this is the only policy there is. Fuck you.

It's not the only reason to oppose the language of takers and shirkers and all that, but people have been warning with good reason: when you establish the existence of a subclass of despised, worthless people it's acceptable to hate and abuse, everyone ends up in there eventually.

Me too bro, me too 👇 A reindeer called Buddy sparked a huge search operation after he went on the run from a Christmas celebration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The panel: here's a hundred reasons why young people might be depressed (unemployment, outflow of the pandemic etc etc) Laura Kuenssberg: so it's all about it being too easy to claim benefits then? #BBCLauraK

What sort of reporting is this? 'Good news'?

Lee Bisset as Sieglinde in Opera North's production of Die Walkure is just magnificent. Her joy at the end of Act One is just wonderful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vxm...

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A magnificent ten 👇 What links Amy Adams, Teri Hatcher and Margot Kidder? The Saturday quiz www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

Always enjoy making it to page 1000 in a book.

I don't agree with everything here, and BlueSky has flaws, but the point about being able to curate your own feed and not have to see what a capitalist owner wants you to see is key.

'Oooh a politician using biscuits to tell a story on social media' - the clapping seals at the Guardian applaud. Except it's government-as-household-budget Thatcherist propaganda that misrepresents central bank accounting as 'debt'. Right-wing Labour MPs are a careerist cancer.

If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)

Most car "safety" is just an arms race between car users with pedestrians, cyclists, scooter riders, etc., as collateral damage. Real safety would be smaller cars moving slower, and there being far, far fewer of them.

Or maybe diagnosis is at last catching up with the crises so many have been enduring, which have for so long been minimised, dismissed or ignored. share.google/1aKjHRJ596x6...

Cass Report 2.0. They'll find a pet doctor (of engineering) to misrepresent the academic literature, come to conclusions that aren't supported by the cited papers, and which makes limited, largely irrelevant recommendations - and which Wes will use to justify dismantling all disability benefits.

new construction data ominous for Labour: "Separate data from S&P Global UK showed the construction purchasing managers’ index fell from 44.1 in October to 39.4 in November, the lowest since May 2020, when Covid-19 curbs meant the sector was largely shut" www.ft.com/content/4530...

I'm just spitballing here, but maybe if we had a functioning NHS mental health service that could support people with their mental health challenges, we wouldn't have so many people struggling and needing financial support. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

According to @rethinkcharity.bsky.social "eight times as many people are still waiting for mental health treatment after 18 months compared to physical health care" But yeah, let's pretend the problem is *over*diagnosis ... www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

once again

This weeks post: The Budget suggests the Chancellor is thinking too much about short term management and too little about long term legacy mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... The leaking deluge before the budget reveals an obsession with spin rather than evaluating long term policy impacts.

It's interesting how this article uses an image of wind turbines and a cyclist (blame them!) yet the second paragraph (which most people won't read) says: "Most of the money will go towards maintaining gas networks..." 🤔🫠 #NetZero

Refugee homelessness in UK has more than doubled in two years, charity says

ha yeah

Drunk raccoon found passed out in Virginia liquor store