One continous multi million Tatcher disaster finally bought to an end... All railways back in public ownership by 2027 www.bbc.com/news/article...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

Just stripping away anything that works well, presumably to make consumers so desperate for structure that AI tools will seem appealing.

Yoweri Museveni, 81, has been sworn in for a seventh term as Uganda’s president after a January vote held amid an internet shutdown and a harsh crackdown on the opposition that forced main challenger Bobi Wine into hiding.

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L.A. quietly fires its first chief heat officer

I'm not completely unsympathetic to this view but I don't think it holds up when you consider that any truly effective means of confronting the right on X would have been made either impossible or bannable by its owner

If you enjoyed Beat the Lottery Jerry and Marge Go Large (its a bit maudlin but Ok) tells a story that went on may longer and eventually was 'hacked' by other groups too ..they made over 25 million and mostly put it back into the local town. highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/...

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

Ukraine’s 475th Code 9.2 Regiment pushed Russian forces back by up to 15 km on parts of the Zaporizhzhia front. The unit says combined drone and artillery strikes, plus armor adapted to UAV threats, enabled the ongoing counteroffensive operation. #Ukraine

Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ihnat said Russian forces have been arming strategic bombers in recent days, while monitors warn a mass attack may come within 24-72 hours. The strike could be stretched over 2-3 days, as Russia has done before. #Ukraine

"We heard from many of you that you're unsure how to start engaging with Copilot," the company says, though it did not elaborate on where it had heard this.. .... Awkwardly, the fifth-most-voted request at the time of writing is "Disable the M365 Copilot Floating Button in Office Apps,"

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Of course giving them months to get their affairs moved www.bbc.com/news/article...

smut is getting too niche imo

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Great read this Long but great www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

A tale of how moderation works around here, in two parts

NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

LANDLORDS!!!!! Promising new scam just dropped.

I think they were Maoists at one stage?

#FreePalestine à #Paris : occupation de la Sorbonne afin que cessent les partenariats avec les universités & entreprises israéliennes. #BoycottIsrael !

The UK just approved another $11.85m arms licence to Israel despite the ban ....and other horrors. NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE 🇵🇸 #BoycottIsrael

#Lebanon, 10 May 2026 The Lebanese Health Ministry says Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours have killed 51 people, including two medical workers. #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Boycottisrael #TrumpWarCriminal #BoycottUSA

Israel Kills 51 In 24 Hours As It Continues To Violate The Lebanon Ceasefire

Trump threatens an "Election Integrity Army" for midterms in November after demanding red states to ram through heavily gerrymandered maps that give him more seats in Congress

I… It defies fucking parody.

It went on for *months*, this nonsense. Anyway it's still less embarrassing than the time Bluesky's head of trust and safety's pants fell down and everyone pointed and laughed and he started banning anyone who mentions the fact that it happened

OpenAI employees cashed out $6.6B in stock sales last fall, earning up to $30M each: report

My home town yet again, delivering a strong lamp post sticker game ✊🏼

One of those stones that slowly glides on across desert is at the door and probably I should learn whatever it's selling but it's too late, I hesitated and now it'll be going to the next house for years

'Hanatsheh’s wife didn’t at first recognize him...after he had went through three periods of interrogation and torture, the first one alone lasting 12 days with up to 23 hours of interrogation each day.'

Paywall lifted on the tortoise shack chat with troublemaker, malcontent and anti-Coddle activist @elainecrory.bsky.social - pls don’t listen or share podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

🚨 JUST IN: The French woman who tested positive for hantavirus after evacuation from the MV Hondius cruise ship is now reportedly in serious condition in Paris.

One important note: unlike most ICE detention funding, this account is not funded through ordinary taxpayer appropriations. The money comes from the breached bond fund itself.

OMB updated one of ICE’s detention-related funding accounts on April 30. The overall amount of money did not change. Instead, OMB shifted more than $26 million into 3rd quarter availability while reducing both expected carryover balances and 4th quarter authority.

Fritz Lang's M was released in Germany 95 years ago today. Listen to our recent episode on Lang, which covers his flight from the Nazis, career in the US, and finally his return to Germany to complete his last films: www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/fri...

Definitely one thing LLMs are very good at ..maybe be some help in fixing but very good at spotting flaws

We made the 6 o'clock news! I don't have a link to that but here's the accompanying news piece, complete with photo of me looking like a drifter called in for questioning: www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

Israel should definitely declare war on China

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic intervention – building a 130-kilometre-wide dam between the US and Russia 😲 www.newscientist.com/article/2525...

AAAAAAAAAAAHHH

European Broadcasting Union (EBU, @ebu.ch) and Eurovision Song Contest (@eurovision.tv) are tools to whitewash and normalize crimes against humanity and war crimes by Israel, including genocide. To participate is to support this: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/...

The Israeli dispossession of Palestinian property in 1948 did not only include homes and lands. Many also lost access to bank accounts and other wealth. Today that stolen property is estimated to be worth over one hundred billion dollars.

Manchester’s anti-fascists inflicted a hugely embarrassing defeat on neo-nazis today when National Rebirth Party leader Alek Yerbury and veteran neo-nazi activist and Holocaust denier Peter Rushton, there to hold a meeting, were chased out of the city centre. Read more here: