It is now openly irresponsible for UK politicians and Government institutions to continue using Twitter/X as their primary communication platform. There should instead be serious conversations about banning it.

i feel like i haven't fully processed it yet but i am legit disappointed in the conservative party! i cant believe britain doesn't functionality have a centre right anymore, that is mad. I appreciate I'm an idiot for saying that but i am

This is just describing a pogrom.

Elon Musk is paying fascists to riot and attack minorities in our cities. Some he is paying, others he doesn't need to, the X algorithm and revenue program do the rest. The UK's leading nazi thug is posting from a Moscow hotel room right now. We need to wake up to foreign money and the far right.

X and Elon Musk has been a threat to public order for nearly two years. The government has taken no action.

audience behaviour at kraftwerk tonight was *abysmal* - boomers have worse concert etiquette than gen z and not even close

im at kraftwerk

This image is obviously wrong (highest drag should be right in front, not across the top) And obviously AI Which I found disappointing Because instead of just asking ChatGPT or Gemini to make a (wrong) fake picture You can just ask Codex or CC to rig you up an actual aerodynamics sim

can strongly, strongly recommend a game of 'sit in the pub with your friends and try to guess the price of an item on Peter Murrell's Embezzlement List' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For years now, public discourse regarding online radicalisation and hate has focused on Twitter, anonymous accounts and young people. Meanwhile, your uncle is out there sharing memes about great replacement theory on Facebook using his legal name.

im watching the RSC's henry vi trilogy! Pt 1 was really interesting as it was produced during covid and is essentially a filmed rehearsal - minimal props and costume and staged in the practice space

bought a ticket for a show on a seat filler mailing list for £6 and looked up what the face value is for seats in that row. £230?? mad anyone pays that

I maintain that the correct way to think about these guys is as creatures of the algorithm. This means they’re going to be a lot less ideologically constrained, and a lot less coherent when viewed holistically. Very hard to argue against that. bsky.app/profile/jord...

100%, this is why they’re particularly dangerous. In a siloed information ecosystem it’s very effective. Certain parents will only see their SEND stuff for example.

One of the obvious problems with a under-16 social media ban is that it won't work. (60%+ of Australian under-16s are still using these platforms). But it will make people feel like something has been done so they won't tackle the content, which is the real issue.

The Beeb did do some good work on small fascist groups distributing papers full of Nazi conspiracy theories and so on, but the problem here is the same one as the lads vowing to crush “fake news” in 2016: eventually, you have to admit the key problem is the Sun, the Mail, the Times and the Telegraph

the midnite gambling app - PROMOTING COMPULSIVE SMARTPHONE GAMBLING AS A STRESS RELIEF MECHANISM when you encounter minor inconveniences - is absolutely FUCKING INSANE

alan cumming in tip toe is giving, honestly, one of the best performances I have seen in anything, ever. And i say that having just watched rodney bewes in Resurrection of the Daleks

Really worrying that the two dominant reactions to public tragedy seem to be far-right provocation and shitposting.

the costumes in Resurrection of the Daleks go so hard

dont buy the premise of the new film where you can only have premarital sex one night a year as the trailer shows a thriving downtown and hospitality economy - this policy would decimate those industries

there's a long tradition of films for children that use innuendo that goes over the heads of the audience - but i do think the He-Man movie pushes it over the line by having about a dozen references to fisting. eg 'I cannot wait to fist these guys, one after the other, with my big strong fist'

the new He Man tragically one of those films produced under the misapprehension that saying almost every line with the intonation of a joke has the same effect as actually writing jokes

in the trailer for the odyssey, matt damon doesn't say 'no one can stand between me and home', he's saying 'no one can stand between me and HOMER' - likely referring to a pet name for his son, telemachus played by tom holland, who will be revealed as the narrator of the story

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

frontios is mad

Absolute legend. Rest in peace, mate.

A stunning exposé in FT on how Russia and Iran use nearly identical techniques to recruit teenagers to do espionage and sabotage for them. Russia and Iran have long enlisted proxies to perform hostile acts on European soil, but targeting minors represents a new twist on their subversive gig economy.

niche post perhaps but the arden fourth series that has just started has cut every corner on print quality. They're sub-wordsworth classics. Still gonna buy them for the scholarship but will need plastic wrap

This sounds excellent. If ever I’m critical of the BBC it will never imply criticism of adorable knitted frogs, nor of the people who have made this part of our reality.

ive booked to go to Bath next spring! im gonna see the Freddie Fox/Roger Allam Lear/Richard IIs on the same day 💪

As with a lot of the coverage this week, the media just have a markedly worse attitude towards race than the British public and that disconnect has only gotten worse.

one of the things that absolutely baffles wrt to platner is the quality of endorsements - literally bernie sanders, naomi klein and so on

if you simply act like a small number of supporters of a political project having harmful views is equivalent to a political project having explicitly harmful aims you can get a surprisingly large proportion of people to just disengage entirely

the reckless ben/lego/LDS youtube saga is fascinating to me because i think it lays out a dynamic wrt to police corruption i have never seen before

This is what happens when the journalist class stays on X.

Not just off that website - but actually regulating and fining it. Government needs to lead the way.

This is a truly exceptional piece of writing.

the ukpol subreddits are baffling because they're in many respects as far right as twitter is, but generally appear to love kier starmer

Red Wall discourse has so clouded Labour’s mind that they’re sleepwalking into doing to university towns what Thatcher did to mining towns

huh that's weird

I don't like reading sentences anymore

whoa the top toe opening ep is RTD in instant classic mode

not sure there's a better example of an overton window shift in my lifetime than Restore's breakthrough on Reform

Appreciating it's a buzzword currently but this is just elite radicalisation. There is no significant constituency in the UK for this sort of open racial animus, and yet it has totally permeated the right's "intellectual" spaces.

I have written a lot of critical things about various things the British state did in 2020 and thereafter, but I just struggle with the idea that until 2020, the police would have not been tricked by being told lies by two people (one deliberately, one TBC).

This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw

Maybe we should have gone for an economy built on crypto and oil instead. Remember the key thing about anti net zero - or "I believe in it just not now" - people, they don't believe in growth. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

incredible conversation here - peter o'toole and welles chatting/ arguing about Hamlet - love the moderator casually dropping in that he saw johnston forbes robertson reprising the role in his 60s youtu.be/smMa38CZCSU?...

love how Henry V is the culmination of an epic spanning three monarchs and not far off 15 hours of stage time, and it pretty much ends with a guy chasing another guy around the stage beating him on the head with a leek