Monk debunks. Worth sharing with folk who uncritically believe headlines

Mr Bee wouldn't throw Coco's toy earlier and now she's blanking him

Resurrected another old bot: Get This Party Started, which posts every time someone attempts to register a new UK political party. @parties-started.bsky.social

The Baron, Stoke Newington.

Happy Bare Minimum Friday to all who celebrate

The UK not being involved in the war again...

I once worked with a married couple called Patricia and Philip Myring.

This is the text message journalist David Maddox sent to No.10 Director of Communications Tim Allan. They knew Mandelson was a security risk, had failed vetting, but appointed him anyway. Then they orchestrated a cover up; now firing the Foreign Office Perm Sec who wasn’t even in post at the time.

Personally I find it staggering and unacceptable that this chump is still in power

Not only a phone call, but a visit. Not only a visit l, but a “we can start work the week after next”. Red flashing lights for the economy.

I think it's a great summary of why people don't believe anything can ever get better that you can be made redundant for decisions you have no part in, but the Prime Minister can clearly and blatantly lie about the things he did, or was so incompetent that he was unaware of and still be in place.

So glad the biggest minds are ensuring military opsec. Reminds me of these:

Callosum, the company that we just invested an unknown sum in, was founded in fucking February!!!

Tag yourself I'm the first

Excuse me - couldn't help but notice you were eating some cheese! I too, like cheese!

if they're already upset may as well tax them more

They're so broken by being wealthy they cannot conceive of having *slightly* less money. It terrifies them. Good.

"What we've got here Is failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it." - Luke 45:50

Watching this (needs sound) just makes me insanely angry that the constant focus at the time was everyone telling Geri how fat she was

London vibes

Imagine if he died now while Bluesky is fucked

Okay, we are being asked to believe that the statement from Starmer below is not actually a brazen, conscious lie, but the product of a man who, despite once being one of the UK's foremost legal officers, is as dumb as a coat stand, or a drawer full of spoons.

Oh well that's all right then HOLY SHIT THEY ALL NEED TO GO

This has aged well

Fella at the place Mr Bee used to work once made changes to the prod FX trading platform instead of test and caused newspaper headline level losses.

Titus has come for his once-a-year lap session

All this talk that vibe coding caused today's Bluesky problems - during my time at WeTransfer I was perfectly capable of causing days of downtime without any AI, thank you very much

I wonder if this will get the same coverage as the ambulance attack in London recently. Will Keir Starmer make a statement about it being Islamophobic? Will it be all over the media? Will it be lead story on Radio 4 ahead of Trump promising to destroy an entire nation? 🤣🤣🤣

things are going well at bluesky dot com I see

So this is genuinely the extent of the BBC’s front-page “investigation”: they spoke to one alleged crook and recorded him boasting, one victim of apparently unrelated abuse, one non-immigration lawyer who “thinks” there’s a problem, and Jess Phillips. It’d be laughable if it weren’t so serious 7/

The BBC says the asylum system is being “systematically exploited” But the detail in the same article tells a much smaller story And the gap between the two is concerning during a live election campaign Stephen McNair puts the story under the microscope. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

Bravo BBC; Bravo

In light of the BBC claiming that asylum seekers are falsely claiming to be gay in order to gain asylum, here is an article about the difficulties and humiliations LGBT asylum seekers have experienced trying to prove their identities. www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

My regular recommendation for positive.news

Yeah ok mate

Force the government to rip up the EHRC’s transphobic guidance. We have less than a month. Join us goodlaw.social/de78a7

thank fuck I was worried I might need to do some work

The BBC could be putting THIS on the front page of their website, instead of blaming "migrants" for the assholes who exploit them.

imagine you died and your corpse being dug up and put to work to provide labor to assembly lines after your death, kept "fresh" by way of electrical stimulus and chemical preservatives so the industry could cut costs and avoid paying living people while making an inferior product, thats ai.

The first part of this consists of one (1) alleged crook apparently boasting about his abilities to scam the Home Office, and then there's an awful lot of dark & generalised “some people fear that X” and no (0) examples of people successfully staying here on a false basis 2/

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

I keep thinking about the genAI rejection email I got earlier this week. It was from someone I know professionally, with whom I've met a couple of times. But the relentless push for us to use Copilot means that instead of a human saying no, I'm relegated to hearing from a machine.

Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.

Project 25 delivers yet again.

Brb pivoting to AI. Please send that sweet investment capital asap.

A year ago, I cried when govt agreed to consult on Council Tax debt collection. I’m reposting it today as IT'S DONE. It WILL change the rules Currently miss a monthly payment & within 3wks, you can be told pay the whole year. From Apr 27, they must wait 63 days plus the max admin cost will be £100

Keir Starmer plans exciting re-launch after May Local Elections defeat. Glittering new initiatives will include not joining the single market and not nationalising water

This looks legit

I'm old enough to remember U2 being shoe-horned onto everyone's iPhone