Enacting deliberation within language, rather than through language: another cracker from @eryk.bsky.social

Green landslide victory in Castle Ward Lancaster City Council

📣Election Day! Polling stations are open! Your chance to vote for amazing Green councillors who have just 2 vested interests - your local community and your environment. Make hope normal again & Vote Green💚 (& remember to take photo ID to the polling station!)

Labour faces “historic losses” across its London heartland as the Green Party eats into its vote, a major poll shows just a fortnight before voters head to the polls www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Hope not hate! I'm delighted to be standing for @greenparty.org.uk in Hounslow West on 7 May. Official notice relating to any political posts: Published and promoted by Anthony Agius for Hounslow Green Party, both at PO Box 78066 London SE16 9GQ

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

SHARE! In Starmer’s speech last night he apologised to Epstein victims for the denial of justice they suffered. He said his govt would always seek truth against the powerful. But HIS OWN GOVT blocked justice for 400+ Al Fayed victims & refused to investigate trafficking. Starmer is fully aware.

Remember when we all said Russia has to be defeated in Ukraine or Putin will keep going? Well, he's going. Reviving military bases near Finland while still fighting in Ukraine. Side note: NATO poses a threat to Russian imperialism, not Russian security. Putin wants more.

The Government staying on X is pathetic: Ministers need to show some moral backbone inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown. You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.

British.

I did wonder at the time - why did Musk say what he said about Vernon Unsworth? It just seemed so odd.

Spotted on a bridge in Pontllanfraith in South Wales: 'Flags is it?'

"Reading as a human means looking for the person that emerges from their selection of words"

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

British football lads would be really good at this. Come on England.

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Wondering whether Keir Starmer realises how hilarious 95% of the world will find it, him complaining foreigners don’t make enough effort to learn English

In case you missed it ... Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

America in 1776:"No taxation without representation". Well, with the State Department telling Ofcom how to manage free speech and Tony Blair saying US data thieves should be left alone, America has lots of representation here. So, let's start taxing them. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Is Greenland to the US as Ukraine is to Russia? Is this the pre-invasion phase? Is Putin advising Trump?

If you’re outraged by Trump & Vance and want to *do* something… Join European Movement UK. The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

Morning Bluesky. Apparently “long-term shareholder value” is important. More important than the planet, our children, our children’s children and the human race in its entirety. Who knew?

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

Trump's executive order is the direct equivalent of the Nazis' Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of 1933, though that was a law passed by the Nazi-dominated parliament rather than a presidential decree. If US lawmakers accept this, they are accepting fascist tyranny & everything that follows.

You think evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots. It doesn’t come like that. Look at the language. It begins in the language. —Joseph Brodsky

Europe urgently needs its own plan of action concerning Ukraine and our security, or else other global players will decide about our future. Not necessarily in line with our own interest. This plan must be prepared now. There’s no time to lose.

Would obviously be terrible if any of these vulnerabilities were exploited

New band name: The Exploding Paper Straws

For a UK person, however horrific the Trump regime in the US may be, the behaviour of the Labour government is surely even more disappointing, depressing and disgusting

This is brilliant - bookshop.org are selling e-books, now, too. Every purchase financially supports local, independent bookstores. Buy on the site, and read in their app... bookshop.org/info/ebooks

The big question for me is - how do you say Kurt Lewin's surname? I prefer LEVin because I'm sure that's how he'd have said it originally. But some US ppl say levEEN. And most UK ppl seem to say LOOwin as if it was an English name.

Tfw you update iOS and the Mail app starts behaving like a moron again

"the study concluded that reCAPTCHA has cost society an estimated 819 million hours of human time valued at $6.1 billion in wages while generating massive profits for Google through its tracking capabilities and data collection"

On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join me and @GoodLawProject to file a complaint to Ofcom :point_down: action.goodlawproject.org/ofcom-stop-g...

"ChatGPT and other Large Language Models are not a decision-making technology, they are decision-removing technologies. They generate text, but most powerfully, they generate pretext." Wonderful insight by @eryk.bsky.social, as usual. mail.cyberneticforests.com/a-fork-in-th...

Bruges/Brugge (the name means „bridge” I believe)

If true, this is unbelievably reprehensible - an early test of Labour Government’s green commitment and they’ve comprehensively failed. @zero-hour.bsky.social

Happy to be among 20+ national organisations calling for bold and hopeful change in how public services work with people and communities – shifting from current ‘do to’ mindsets and practices towards a ‘do with’ approach. Learn more about the #DoWith movement 🔗

Would anyone be able to help @alvaromontoro.bsky.social‬ and I out and give this Spanish translation a second opinion? github.com/Heydon/princ...

1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵

finally saw a cybertruck in person

I just had a very lovely chat with @pixlz.com who said something that I can't stop thinking about. It's so true. "We're all only temporarily not disabled" You should really start caring about accessibility if you don't already. Future you will need it.

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social, author of the fantastic "Invisible Rulers" about the politics of disinformation, is doing a webinar on Tuesday - don't miss it! www.tickettailor.com/events/westc...