Looks like JD Vance is going to need to change religions again.

*bangs table* CHAOS WITH ED MILIBAND

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This one seems to have got a lot of people who don't like cars very het up. They're arguing "well fine, fit them with trackers, why should drivers get away with speeding etc". This is a COLLOSAL mistake, and a perfect example of how you really need to think about unintended consequences first. 🧵

you know a series is going to rock when this is the parental advisory

Ban X in the UK. It's a misinformation factory.

Yong people are broke bc they buy Starbucks daily ($42) Became bc they buy avocado toast in a sitdown restaurant weekly ($20) Became bc of a weekly to-go pastry ($6) Will soon be You're broke bc you buy one non-gruel item EVERY month Even the inequality-absolving caricature is shrinkflating

I'm not really sure what happened here. Twitter was declared dead because it was bought by a billionaire tech bro dickhead and ruined, so everyone decided the next social network to use was... another one owned by a billionaire tech bro dickhead? Did I miss something along the way here?

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

today we landed a @svelte.dev feature i'm pretty stoked about — we call it 'forking', and it lets you run state changes offscreen and later choose whether to commit them (e.g. user hovers on a link, preload data in case they click) - docs svelte.dev/docs/svelte/... - demo svelte.dev/playground/a...

Not now, opening scenes for a horror movie

Come on Cardiff, get out and support this!

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

A lesson for the Labour Party - even if you deported a hundred thousand migrants, or five hundred thousand, Nigel Farage would just tell people you hadn't, and they'd believe him.

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She should offer to remove her titles. In fact this is how I'm going to respond to any fine from now on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

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This is it. I didn’t find it at all difficult to leave Twitter in the end: it stopped being fun and became boring and depressing. Whenever I opened it I’d see things that were obnoxious or upsetting. It was a relief not to do that.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online 2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

*gasp*

Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President https://theonion.com/trump-asks-jd-vance-to-research-whether-president-allowed-to-kill-vice-president/

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

And why call it 'golden ticket'? Disgraceful language. These people have lost everything. Should they also lose their spouses and children? A reminder that last year 4,671 family reunion visas were granted. 4,671. Does anyone think this number is a major problem for the UK economy and society?

Just received an email: Read your book. 1/10 Nice of them to let me know, but why put the date on it?

"i just use it to generate ideas"

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

This time, an incredibly rude lady from Churchill insurance talked over me when I tried to explain why I wouldn't give my personal info out to people who phone me, then hung up. Really, this is how real hacks and security incidents have happened.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Stop amputee benefit claimants having to be assessed every two years, if their limb grows back, they will tell us, believe me!

In 2008, West Yorkshire authorities renamed Tickle Cock Bridge, Tittle Cott. The original name was reinstated after a group of elderly residents protested. One said ‘I feel we should never alter names and Tickle Cock has a very clear message behind it’.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Arrested/not arrested:

I don't really have that much of an objection to ID cards tbh. We already have enough different ways to identify us already in this country... government gateways, NI numbers, NHS numbers, etc etc... wouldn't be terrible tying everything together.

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Hello companies - if YOU ring ME, you should NOT be asking me for personal details to "go through security". This is an awful practice just training people to give away their details to anyone who asks and needs to stop.

Honest reporting at last

This is tomorrow morning! Hope to see you all there, bright eyed and bushy tailed :) 7:30am in the CGI Nottingham offices