Labour’s plan for compulsory digital ID risks creating a more authoritarian state. Under constant surveillance, we would have to pass through digital checkpoints just to live our daily lives — with even more barriers for minorities, migrants and the digitally excluded.

Every leftist knows fellow leftists are some of the most annoying people on the planet but there's a gigantic difference between being annoying and having institutional power. If you spend most of your energy punching left instead of right you simply do not have your priorities straight

So important to always be asking this question! When we know what we're striving for, then decisions can be weighed based on whether they take us closer-to or further-from our utopic visions!

The people of the country do have moral red lines & this “real politik” approach to Trump will come back to bite you 🔥🔥🔥

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Labour could have made the case for a humane immigration system that treats refugees with dignity and respect. Instead, they have fanned the flames of racism and emboldened the far-right. My piece for @tribunemagazine www.tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/labour-is-paving-the-path-to-fascism

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

reminder that in february The Guardian entered into a partnership with OpenAI in a brazen effort to burn their journalistic integrity to a fine crisp

Did you know that the geo blocks and filters on Bluesky for web are client-side? Now you do!

Build council homes and control private rents. That is how we would fix the housing crisis. Join us at yourparty.uk.

Well, as someone who's already had to move my socmed away from Twitter, my music away from Spotify, and my email away from Google...I suppose it was only a matter of time before I had to move my OS away from Windows - thank the gods that Valve has made gaming on Linux easy now!

This looks dope as hell, and Ink is crazy intuitive to use - hop on, folks!

has anyone noticed that labour came to power but they have kept doing the same kinds of awful things as the tories. i noticed that

my former colleague wrote up a great summary of refutations to the common reasons to use GenAI / LLMs, and I have to say I agree with all of them. even if certain aspects get addressed, like environmental impact by running local models, it still doesn't address any of the other issues.

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed. The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

This Labour party is, for anyone who hadn't spotted it yet, exactly the same as the damn Tories were.

IT'S HAPPENING! EVERYONE! HEY! IT'S HAPPENING!! 🥳🎉

I have all these games and can thoroughly recommend each and every one! Such an incredibly consistent studio! 🫶💪

With all the Gemini stuff getting shoved down our throats (among the degradation of all their other services over the years) I've begun the process of moving all my stuff away from Google - starting with gmail; it's weirdly satisfying to migrate my accounts over to the new address!

Finally, some good news for a change!

Awww yerr, joining the Deezer crew 🤘

After watching the difference between Israel bombing EVERY HOSPITAL in Gaza INTENTIONALLY for TWO YEARS STRAIGHT, and what seems like a Iranian stray missile hitting an Israeli hospital (which is bad, too!) - I'm done with Western media. This isn't journalism. It is complicity in genocide.

GOOD MORNING! Now that you’ve had the chance to sleep on it, we’d like to remind you that today is your LAST CHANCE to back the Crescent County kickstarter campaign. We don’t like being unnecessarily urgent but THIS IS NECESSARILY URGENT. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann...

I caused Jeremy Clarkson to throw a tantrum by pretending I didn't know who he was while I was working service at a furniture store as a teenager.

Reminder for anyone who's still using Adobe to switch to an alternative or lose control of your work!

Lol oh THATS why Whatsapp has been doing so many ' we cant read your messages its totally private' ads lately

Looks like my MP @rushanaraalibgs.bsky.social is consistently voting to let huge tech companies steal the work of UK creatives for AI training and is not interested in responding to emails about this with more than a stock response! We're taking notes! Time for a new MP for Bethnal Green? 📝👀

Nothing makes me miss JS more than when I'm writing C# 🙃

Let's expand on our rewards a bit more! First up: The Digital OST We love music and we hope you do too! If you’ve enjoyed any of our music so far, you’ll definitely enjoy the OST and its sweet sweet 320kbps MP3 files (and a lifetime of compliments about your music tastes).

I'd like to apologise to the east coast of England, which I have, apparently, shamefully neglected! smstone0.github.io#/uk-map

“You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.” – The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

Remember when the NHS was free? That was nice.

Good morning✌️🍀

You know what to do, folks - let's back this GORGEOUS work of art and get it over the line 💪

Nick Clegg has a bloody cheek piping up at all. It was the austerity he enabled that is most responsible for Brexit & the continued unravelling of our social fabric. Then he swanned off to piss around at meta. Twat.

I don't do these kinda things very often, but this was funnn (and surprisingly accurate, come to think of it) openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac...

100% this - I used to live next door to Victoria Park, and couldn't afford to go to All Points East despite it literally making it too noisy to watch films / listen to music etc while it was on. Ridik.

let me say this clearly: ONLINE ACTIVISM IS NOT ACTIVISM WITHOUT LOCAL ACTION. being mad on the internet will not save you. talking with your friends about how horrible this all is will not save you research strategies for safeguarding communities from fascism. use VPNs yes, this is that serious

I'm IN.

Send up the owl signal! Hawthorn needs your help!  5 hours until the 72 hour mark. Let's hit that funding goal by 4pm ET. Spread the word about Hawthorn's Kickstarter goal!  #gaming #gamer #cozygame #cozy #WhatToPlay #gamergirl #cozygamer #multiplayer #recommendations #friends

Police are incapable of shame and self-reflection. Police will NEVER be swayed by protests, slogans, chants, signs. Effectice tactics involve adding complexity, time, and resources to their planning & operational rhythm. Classic insurgency tactics against a superior force. Classic for a reason.

Just backed Hawthorn on Kickstarter! It basically just looks like my dream game, sooooo www.kickstarter.com/projects/nea...

It's Beltane and International Workers' Day - in both instances that means it's time to set fire to things 😎🔥

Tomorrow is International Workers' Day and for this I want to remind you that generative ai in the arts is a fascist tool and when you care about workers rights and human rights you also have to stand against generative ai!

I didn't think it was possible, but they're making Duolingo worse aftermath.site/duolingo-ai

Oh hells, it happened again 🫣

Anyone still using Duolingo should seriously reconsider that position: www.theverge.com/news/657594/...

‘There is something particularly British about the unspoken agreement to pretend this isn’t happening. To settle for a kind of reality that’s neat and tidy as a window box. To trim the unruly hedges of humanity.’ My essay on the anti-trans moral panic: lauriepenny.substack.com/p/terf-islan...

I’m begging the libs to stop using ai generative images to make their point because it completely undermines it😭 like I also want to make fun of the bad people but that ain’t it