"Return hubs" risk being found to be unlawful for starters, but they are also totally inhumane, and massively expensive. We could be investing in our own country, our own infrastructure, to ensure we support everyone better. Instead Labour wants to dump people and leave them in limbo elsewhere.

10/10 to Keir Starmer for diplomatically managing Trump 10/10 to Anneliese Dodds for having integrity 0/10 to Labour for choosing to cut development aid to the poorest people in the world instead choosing to fund a rise in defence by applying a wealth tax on those with more than £10m+

NEW: Before coming to power, Labour were insistent that they would cut people’s energy bills – so why are they going up?

What she said.

For shame.

BBC’s Steve Rosenberg reports from Russia that JD Vance’s speech at the Munich conference “has gone down well in Moscow.” That alone should tell you everything you need to know about the speech and what the Trump administration really stands for.

I don’t recognize this country. I pledge allegiance to nothing until Trump is gone! My fellow Americans voted this POS in office. We must all pay now. I’m furious. 🦋💙🦋

Normalize being nice.

The stock market is tanking so badly it almost feels like we are being governed by someone who went bankrupt six tim— Oh wait.

America! The exact same Think Tanks and money behind Trump were behind Brexit. Literally the same people. Simply put, everything in the UK now costs 3 or 4 times as much, billions were stolen and everything not nailed down was given to the 1%. Buckle up. It's an intentional economic crash.

Who knew Biden could have just stormed into the White House, handed a friendly billionaire the keys to all the federal buildings, fired anyone who might have voted for Trump and imposed the Green New Deal, police, gun and voting reform and Roe v. Wade by force, without barely a peep from Congress.

I ❤️Acid celebrates its 18th birthday with a slew of UK dates around the country with a big one at Corsica Studios on March 1st!

DonOLD Turnip (thinks?)… Thanks, @jojofromjerz.bsky.social

Exactly Grace, and this is why billionaires like Dyson support authoritarian governments like Singapore. They benefit from the inequality enhancing policies in place. Singapore famously has few rights for workers. EG poor or non-existent working time rules and strikes/unionisation are illegal.

If there is truly a major shortage of skilled tech workers in the US, why did Tesla lay-off over 7,500 American workers last year — including many software developers and engineers at its factory in Austin, Texas—while applying to hire thousands of H-1B guest workers? www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

This is the shit that makes me hyperventilate into a paper bag

I Love Acid turns 18 this year! 1st March, at our London home Corsica Studios, will be one special night with a residents only party with the added bonus of the "McSecret Guest"! Tickets Skiddle and Resident Advisor

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

Right! On with 2025! It's I Love Acid's 18th Birthday this year! We can finally have a drink at the bar! In the lead up to the big one in London on March 1st we are back to the Hare & Hounds Kings Heath Birmingham with a residents only show with the big man Posthuman et moi! Saturday February 22nd.

the hollowing-out of one of the nation’s greatest newspapers outrivals the slow-motion destruction of an important social media platform, thanks to small-minded, two-dimensional billionaires eager to pay even less in taxes on a fortune they’ll never live long enough to spend

Musk is attacking UK democracy, and we need a proper response. So let’s get this petition going viral, and force a grownup course of action at the highest level. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Want to do even more? Join MVTFWD.com - because coordinating our votes is true leverage.

Me! I thought that! 👇🏻

LAST FEW TICKETS REMAINING! @davehaslam.bsky.social joins me on the 31st to bring in the New Year in Whaley Bridge in the High Peak! www.skiddle.com/.../Rubys-Ne... or use the QR code #whaleybridge #highpeak #newmillshighpeak #chapelenlefrith

Over in the other place, the billionaire owner is threatening to fund ‘moderate’ (rightwing) candidates in heavily Democratic districts too. This is what oligarchy looks like. It’s the biggest threat to democracy today. Not ‘cancel culture.’ Not trans kids. Not college protesters. Oligarchy.

I can’t recommend the weird, almost body-horror gruesomeness of this episode on mincemeat enough, but my biggest takeaway is that Fanny Craddock appears to have perfected an aesthetic that can only be described as “Samurai Thatcher”. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The devastation on its way is unimaginable - like nothing humanity has ever witnessed before - and everyone will wish they had been climate activists and ‘hysterics’ when they had the chance. We are in a moment of unprecedented stupidity

I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…

Who made this?

Having bought our government, Musk is now promoting Germany’s neo-Nazi AfD party, which is allied with Russian attempts to destroy European unity. Musk is a megalomaniac and as much an enemy of world stability as Putin. #DemCast #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...

Elon Musk actually does this stuff. With his money, he could CURE childhood cancer. Instead, he’s harder on Tiny Tim than Scrooge was - BEFORE the 3 ghosts helped him to his ultimate emphatic epiphany.

WOW. Can live on OGWT in 1974. Uploaded 3 days ago, allegedly found on an old Philips video tape bought off eBay. youtu.be/eu2wSpL6xoQ

I've knocked up a quick Mighty Force Christmas Sampler for free/name your price with 10 tracks from the back catalogue that feature the TB303. Happy Christmas and thanks to everyone who has supported the label in 2024! mightyforce.bandcamp.com/album/mf303-free-sampler

What are the flying objects spotted in New Jersey?

Profiteering from an energy-price driven cost of living crisis Thinking of all the stories at @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social day a few weeks ago when venues talked about how energy bills are a key reason they can’t stay open Hot air from @edmiliband.bsky.social needs to turn into some rain asap

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

Pro Tip From John Pavlovitz

Stunning work of imagination and mythologising and that’s just the index. I’m just glad I fare better than poor ole JG Ballard at the hands of the monstrous Jonah Plantagenet Spoiler alert: there’s no index

The cloning of Mike Pickering! The possession of Jon Dasilva! The mugging of Kandinsky! Romans! The Magna Carta! The resurrection of the Beatles! Hells Angels! God! Satan! Tea shops in the Home Counties! It’s all here! published 21.2.25. Pre orders get a signed copy and signed art print 🌞

For context - when the same thing happened in the USA 139 Republican Congressmen and 8 Senators voted in favour of Trump's violent coup. ZERO is the answer when voting for fascism America ...ZERO. Be more Korean.

Is there anything more 'now' than Spotify end of year stats thank-you posts? People who think music is all about numbers entering a contest that can't be won, thanking people who won't pay them, via a system that fucks them over.

Vomit

'People may think I like what I do, but that’s not necessarily the case. I do what I do. It’s just a hobby that’s got out of control.' A brilliant Billy Childish interview, with @tedkessler.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

This New Year’s Eve I’ve booked the man Dave Haslam, stalwart of the Haçienda (he’s played there more times than you’ve had hot dinners) and his own hugely successful night Yellow for my local - Ruby's Whaley Bridge! Absolute result. Viva Whaley! skiddle.com/e/40398182 @davehaslam.bsky.social

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

CAPTCHA = Completely Automatic Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart It's a little weird the burden of proof is on humans to prove they're not robots and not the other way around, right?

Now you know why they pay artist nothing as the exit plan kicks in.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AG... so much easier to watch how he does it here than being on a balcony above him when he's mixing live, trying to take notes

Hey, remember that really stupid idea I had a few weeks back? A six-and-a-half-hour supercut of live "Marquee Moon" solos? I finished it and wrote about it here.