I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

37% in favour of releasing mooses into the UK wild. Fuck it. Why not? Let's go!

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.” After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.

I think Keir Starmer should have more to say about the President of the United States threatening to kill an entire civilisation than a musical festival cancelling itself coz of a fucking dogshit booking.

Starmer posting about Kanye whilst Trump is threatening to wipe away a civilisation is so utterly pathetic and weak

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

A poem by Thomas Hood 1799 - 1845

2/7 ….put in 31 objections to new applications for these. Sheffield already has 926 digital advertising sites (billboards, bus shelter ads, free-standing screens). They look awful, but worse, they clutter up pavement space, getting in the way of pedestrians, mobility scooters, pushchairs…

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

"These poems (and prose, and typographical experiments) are airy miles from the default mode of naturalism that normally tries to convey mountains, rocks, ice, the climbing experience." – Andrew Greig £3 off Mark Goodwin's 'Rock as Gloss' until Thursday markgoodwinrockasgloss.wordpress.com

Today in Tel Aviv and all across Israel: thousands came out to demonstrate against the war and got violently dispersed by the police. We will not back down. We will continue to fight to end the war in Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank. Well will fight for life. - Alon Lee-Green

A long read about the AI targeting software and kill chain failings that caused the Minab atrocity where Iranian primary school kids were blown to bits www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Iraq turning into 'expanding battleground' in war, which began on February 28 with US-Israeli strikes on Iran https://aje.news/yq0xdr

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

"The signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question." Really important exploration of the dangerous fallacy behind Palantir (as well as dangerous people) www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

Cow 🐄 enjoying music 💕

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

If Labour MPs know what's good for them they'll look at the Danish result and get rid of any ministers who very publicly supported Mette Frederiksen's immigration policy

A recent books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

Jesus, they weren’t bloody joking.

It really gets my goat when people tell me I may not like AI but it’s here to stay & there’s nothing we can do about it. Yes there is! We don’t have to bow down to every corporate demand! We can fight, regulate, use the law. We can & must ensure this tech benefits humanity & doesn’t dismantle it.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

1. You hold his arms while I stab him. 2. Hmmm... sure, holding his arms is purely defensive. I wouldn't want to take part in actual attacking...

Trump was slating people who joined his wars too late literally yesterday, today he is asking for help. How about no thanks? He can keep his murder club.

The opera world is aiming to dispel stereo types by behaving like brittle prima donnas at the slightest criticism.

Their hostile environment is deliberate, performative self harming for the benefit of people who live for cruelty.

It was a bad day for the cobbler, In the night he'd had a robbler, And now all his clogs were popped.

🚨DISASTER BRITAIN! 🚨 TODAY is the last day to get 40% off select books on privatisation, securitisation, neoliberalism and decay. www.plutobooks.com/disaster-bri...

Small update to the UK and Ireland zine events calendar: penfightdistro.com/zine-events/ #diyzines

Big news from Unite union which has voted to cut its Labour affiliation by 40% (£580k a year) Sharon Graham not mincing her words "Unite members are coming to the end of the line as far Labour is concerned… whose side are Labour on, who do they really represent, because it certainly isn’t workers"

today they killed children but this is not the headline they turned their school to rubble their families into ghosts but this is not the news today it rained missiles vaporised both innocent and guilty turned a maths lesson into chemistry their families into ghouls but this is not so important

It was a privilege to be in the chamber earlier to witness this incredibly powerful and effective speech from Charlotte Nichols.

A plaque has been unveiled at the Town Hall commemorating the Sheffield Tree Campaign. “In recognition of the courageous campaigners who saved thousands of street trees from wrongful felling by Sheffeld City Council, and as a reminder to all that such failures in leadership must never happen again”

A little reported fact is that the Iranian frigate destroyed 2000 miles from the combat zone was carrying ZERO AMMUNITION (a condition of the exercise it was invited to participate in). The ship was, by any definition, defenceless. Much like the 80+ sailors left to drown. Infamy.

I have personally seen the applications of many Afghani students to our gender studies programme: people who have started grassroots LGBT orgs; who have fought for women's education; who want to come to the UK to study to make their country & the world better... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Legalising and regulating drugs is about reducing the harm and deaths caused by drug use, and treating addicts rather than criminalsing them. It is appalling that Labour and Reform are playing politics with people's lives.

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

If ever you needed a front page to capture the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of right wing nationalism which has done so much harm through a history from which some seem so unable to learn

I decided to vote Green as soon as Andy B was blocked as there was no redeeming quality left. The Greens largely ran on a cost-of-living, NHS, public services ticket, the ground Labour have vacated. The sh*t posted through my door daily by Labour and Reform was disgusting. So glad it's all over.

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social, I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all. Thanks, Zack Polanski

So, any other news yesterday? Anything important?

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

We are not an island of strangers.

Remember Yachtgate - the original Mandelson scandal? In 2008, he was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

The case for haunted trams nowthenmagazine.com/articles/luk...

NEW Six concerns about public procurement What is wrong about public procurement - and why it can be hard to do anything about it Detailed post by me: emptycity.substack.com/p/six-concer...

Telling me the Greens are like Reform won’t make me think that the Greens are like Reform, it’ll make me think you’re desperate. And morons.