The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

Oh bless. Your horse didn't come in, either. Any soul searching to be done there as well?

And the winner of “Least Self Aware Person on the Planet” goes to:

He did promise to boost exports 😬😢

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‘We should say that there are fans are at Old Trafford who 💯 applaud what Radcliffe is saying’, BBC 5 Live presenter says after a semi critical comment from a guest. Why ‘should we say’ that some bigoted people agree with the bigoted rich man?

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

"Journalism largely consists in saying 'Tim Allan has resigned' to people who never knew Tim Allan was employed" - GK Chesterton

BBC News presenter asking Chris Mason whether McSweeney going means the heat is off Keir Starmer and Mason gave a waffling answer which ended with ‘I think the key question now is whether or not McSweeney’s departure means the heat is now off Starmer’

Clownfish might be my favorite LMP2 livery ever

Epstein survivor rejects Starmer’s apology. Pls share.

Nigel Farage wants all police officers to routinely carry guns. The shooting of innocent civilians by masked government agents in Minneapolis is the worst of Trump’s America. We cannot let it become Farage’s Britain.

"I think the people of this country have had enough of experts"

I make that 354 that haven't signed. Guess which group the BBC are promoting?

This mendacious drivel should be a resigning issue, for both the author and anyone who thought it was right to publish it

This perfectly demonstrates the pernicious nature of BBC two-sidism. It almost always benefits the side with the most power. In this case that's the side which is murdering peaceful protesters in the street, on camera, and then lying about it

”Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame...” I think he’s saying what’s needed is less wanking, more screwing.

Found via @detig.bsky.social Bugs that everyone with a Mac suffers from, and Apple seemingly won’t fix I‘d add the hell that‘s the Contacts app www.bugsappleloves.com

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

What is the point of this piece? Nothing approaching insight, just yet more over-dramatic tosh.

This should be the end of Farage but the media will protect him.

In the space of two minutes he confused Greenland and Iceland four times by my count. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Utterly mad. Just when you thought Trump couldn't get any more delusional. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/19/europe/putin-board-of-peace-gaza-trump-intl

The UK cannot build our security on unpredictability - our safest and most stable path forward lies with our European neighbours. Full statement is linked below.

AMEN.

First, Trump doesn't control the world. He barely controls the U.S. and he damn sure doesn't control Russia or China. Second, The Telegraph is pretty much a traitor to British sovereignty at this point, right?

Worth every second

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

Hmmm.

Chris Mason inserting himself into the story as always. And while Mason rattles on about U turns, it's worth pointing out that Starmer never confirmed to him in that interview that the card would be mandatory.

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

A ten-part thread on misreading Trump: A number of thoughtful observers argued Trump would not pursue regime change in Venezuela. From the outset I argued that he would on the podcast and in private conversation.

A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... In a nutshell - blame AI. A technology nobody asked for, a fast-growing environmental problem, a wrecking ball to the creative industries and, in less than a couple of years, a planetary-sized fiscal disaster.

5 things that will fix the corruption in our politics: 1. Ban hedge funds from buying single-family homes. 2. Prohibit Congress and families from stock trading. 3. Remove big money from politics: Ban unions, corporations, super PACs; limit individual donations to $100 per election.

Naming a class of battleships after a draft dodger is an insult to all men and women who have ever worn the uniform.

This is an absolute disgrace of an article. 7% of the electorate in this council ward voted for Reform and yet the BBC News report it as this.

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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

there once was a girl called phyllis who married a guy called willis they liked to drink fanta

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

It's their money. Every penny of it.

Scrap the 'BBC Politics' department. It's slop. Gossipy, pointless, useless, one-sided slop. Nobody is more informed by the Kuenssbergs and Masons of this world or the 'neutral' vox-pops. And it harms their other largely excellent news departments by association. #BBCPolitics

That Ferrari better be amazing next year for how much stopping development has cost them this year