The jobapocalypse is another case of the lump of labour fallacy. This is what people do, AI can do some/all of it, therefore people will have less or nothing to do.

Then of course there is @stephenkb.bsky.social s point that racism acts as cognitive shortcut for people which makes them first intellectually lazy and then actively stupid

Oh well.

UK politics stopped operating in the real world quite some time ago - and no, I don’t think it was Brexit, the move towards fantasy politics preceded Brexit. Osbourne’s fantasy austerity economics was part of it, though arguably Brown’s PFI shenanigans was too.

*narrows eyes* That’s just Firefly and I don’t think it is better than the Mandalorian. I really enjoyed Serenity - and if you had a bunch of series that was less like Firefly and more like Serenity that would’ve been good, but that never happened.

I have about 12,000 unread emails. It’s not gonna start talking to me, at best it might start screaming.

It took me by surprise I must say, when I found out yesterday*, don’t you know arrested by the grapvine, not much longer will it** be mine. *that my cybertruck is not a cyberboat. **my not-cyberboat.

Every Eurovision I end up thinking they should combine the EU and EBU membership, because it would confuse and anger all the right people.

Well, there was that one time when the future Prime Minister said he would do an interview if the Labour leader did, then they dodged the interview and everyone pretended that was totally fine and not an obvious set up or anything. Don’t remember how that premiership ended, was everyone happy?

Personally I don’t care if it’s positional, I care that it’s being said. I don’t care if something ’virtue signalling’ - signalling virtues is a good thing! It encourages virtuous behaviour in others! More virtue signalling please, more loud condemnation of racism!

A lot of people don’t seem to understand that “the cordon sanitaire against racism is rebuilt” means, e.g. “once again this stuff is said by the *Conservative leader*” let alone “a politician on the Labour right they dislike”.

They got both kinds of music there: country _and_ western.

Robinson complained on stage that without the support of wealthy Americans, it wouldn’t have happened. “This event would not be happening if I didn’t go to America,” Robinson told a crowd of people who otherwise complain about foreign influences on UK politics.

Andy Burnham: Boris in the North.

I would be good if we could return to having a zero-tolerance attitude towards racism of all kinds.

British Palestinians feel ‘gaslit’ and unable to speak out, says leading activist

I genuinely think it’s a boiled frog problem. When I returned to the UK after 7 years living in the EU I was genuinely shocked st how terrible the roads were in the UK, but everyone just seemed to accept it.

my firm take is that any man loudly worried about fertility rates is a fucking creep

Everyone has to stop worrying about what other people are doing with their genitals. I don’t even want to know when my friends are “trying” for a kid. Like ew. lol.

Auditioning for Bond villain already?

E, EF, RF, L, PL, LPL

Rats in sack: latest.

Sure, why not? You can store a lot in there. I carry change for parking machines in mine.

While chatting with some friends, it occurred to me that other people could benefit from a summary understanding of what's going on in the oil and gas markets. Here are some little pictures to give you the big picture. 🧵

Careless whisper it, but Andy might be the saying “I’m your man” for Labour at the next election.

tbt to when I photoshopped Andy Burnham as a doe-eyed Princess Diana and it came out as Wham era George Michael

Ask for its fair share?

It is a lot of money. I’m assuming Farage let him fuck him for that, or at least let him play with his balls, suck him off a wee bit.

The Burnhammers will strike. (My god Mr Difford, what have you done to me?!)

Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority.

*Waiting for Andy - Act 1* AL CARN We can still part, if you think it would be better. WES STREETING It's not worthwhile now. *Silence* AL CARNS No, it's not worthwhile now. *Silence* WES STREETING Well, shall we go? AL CARNS Yes, let's go. *They do not move* *Curtain*

Interesting threadlet here:

Quit stealing my look United States of America, being poor is *my* superpower.

An entire generation of guys who seem themselves like this, but the wider world sees Sergeant Clawhauser from Zootropolis.

Things are moving at a lightning pace, but also everyone is just hanging around waiting for something to happen. He’s such a confused little bean, I love him so much.

And given the arctic bird nature of the witches’ daemons, it even has tern-based combat

I’m somewhat surprised more people in the US aren’t alarmed that the coercive parts of their state have become so brazenly evil.

This is such a weird thread. I’ve been going on for yonks about how 2010-2019 showed the Tories were quite good unpopular and they never reflected on it but acted like they had an unshakable mandate for change. But I thought I was alone in this!

This’d be good. She’s got no-fucking-about vibes.

Was this why Farage wasn’t in Parliament for the King’s Speech yesterday? Seems weird that the leader of a party doesn’t turn up for that.

Some positive news for a change.

I am among 6 new commissioners appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I look forward to contributing to the board's strategic role overseeing the EHRC's work to enforce equality laws + protect human rights, and to helping to renew its relationships www.gov.uk/government/n...

In terms of the original brief: policy that “would actually start to make the country feel better for people” - this feels exactly right to me, it’s the big one. I think immigration reform, but this time fair and directed to deliver what the country needs and not what people feel, is the other.

At some point BBC news, among others, seemed to decide that their job was not to try to describe how things were in this country, but instead provide a platform for other people to describe how they felt things were in the country.

Well, I would like to be able to view newspaper articles without the text jumping about because the page continually loads intrusive ads. But I don’t need AI for that, I just need to stop being lazy and get a Pi-hole.

For the briefest of moments, someone sensible was in No.10

Amazing that the UK Government had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time.

Curse you economics!

That’s basically how it is under French law.

Renting Julius Caesar from National Theatre live and watching it at home was too on the nose I take it.