I think surveillance is actually way way worse than our most pessimist expectations

Legal commentator and author, @barristersecret.bsky.social told Byline Times that David Lammy's plans were “badly thought through, expensive and likely to backfire.” bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

"Keir Starmer did not create this problem — the damage done by the Conservatives cannot be overstated — but it is making matters worse." Fantastic column by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the malaise in our politics and the road that we're on without a major change in approach:

One thing I find really interesting about clips like this is they indicate a fundamental unwillingness to accept that people can simply disagree with each other. The framing is always that there’s some reason why The Kids (tm) don’t reallyyyyyy believe that

‘His morose estimate of humankind was confirmed by his not receiving a prestigious essay prize even though he had been the only entrant.’ Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s pessimism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

There’s a weirdly fine line between New Atheism and a religious fundamentalism.

#EmmanuelMacron has reportedly warned #VolodymyrZelenskyy that “there is a chance that the US will betray Ukraine on territory, without clarity on security guarantees”, Spiegel quoting a leaked note from a recent call with several European leaders www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d... #DonaldTrump

This is where attacks on individuals rather than politics and discourse lead us Our priority should not be to prove whether Farage is racist or not but to look at the nature and impact of his politics and discourse This is all very well evidenced and not subject to plausible deniability

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

liberals are the only people in this country who both care about the law and don't get that its just politics, and this is a constant source of anger and confusion to them

In some ways, I think MAGA understands law and order best because they rightly see that the law is just politics, nothing else.

The people saying that nobody heard of Kate Bush in the mid-eighties are really getting on my last nerve. Most of the world knew her for years and in 1985 she finally broke the USA. Either you were a baby you just had your head in the sand and were exposed to no music. She wasn't niche (anymore)

A lot of people do not want to hear that there is an intense pro-police and pro-prison turn among the left. E.g. the drive to limit the pardon power, which is the only way some people get any relief from excessive sentencing on the state and federal level. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...

This insistence that we can separate people who "pose a threat" or "did something wrong" simply plays into the anti-immigrant movement's hands and puts everyone in danger.

We shouldn't have armed and masked men stalking the streets for victims to kidnap even if they did "do something wrong."

Which is why at a moment when immigrants are being kidnapped, killed, disappeared en masse, people say "we are a nation of immigrants" as if that means something.

Society feels disordered and lawless. But this is because liberalism and lots of liberal movements had fatal flaws that are now very obvious. I think many people are grasping for what they know to fix it.

Americans' views of the job market are the most negative Gallup has recorded since the closing days of Trump’s first term, in January 2021 during the pandemic.

#Daily90s, #MusicChallenge Thursday - 90's Ladies 1994 youtu.be/tM60GAPIXTY?...

BREAKING: Our fake Chinese AI investor bought access into heart of Labour government open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Epstein was small potatoes compared to Meta. Disgusting! “You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly testified. SHUT DOWN YOUR META ACCOUNTS!

Singles reviewed by Jon Savage in Sounds 3rd, December 1977 including Talking Heads, Alternative TV and Slade. @jonsavage.bsky.social

Wes doesn’t think it’s a problem that the 2 practices highlighted as examples of GP Online access would likely breach of the new GP contract. They are also examples of the very safety requested by the BMA in terms of using online forms.

I spent two days in America’s most notorious open drug scene, hearing how the new tranq, medetomidine, has the most fast-acting and dangerous withdrawal symptoms of all drugs. And why its prevalence is the result of the drug war. For @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/the-real-peo...

Couldn’t really be more starkly apparent that the choice is now Billionaires or Democracy, IMO. We can have one or the other but not both, as this system is currently constituted.

This guy says that women want men with money. He thinks this an eternal evolutionary impulse encoded in biology. It’s not. The thing is, I’m sorry but some women do this. However, it’s the economy stupid. Our economic situation is starting to have some quite backward, archaic effects..

Scott Galloway is better than Jordan Peterson in the same way that Influenza B is better than Influenza A

Streeting doesn’t understand the context to this. There are some doggy things about Hans Seyle, but there was something to his general adaption theory of stress. He conducted these (admittedly cruel) experiments with mice in a maze trying to find some cheese..

Flagrantly counter-factual thing to say. Significant opposition to Israeli policies is cross-generational and pre-dates social media by decades.

ID cards, limiting trial by jury, and now "plans for a huge rollout for facial recognition cameras in cities, towns and villages across the country" Labour laying the foundations for a far right government to build on #GMB

Pretty scathing take down of Hillary Clinton's obsession with the idea that TikTok is the only reason for pro Palestinian sentiment— by an Israeli Jew in Haaretz

fuck

“Boys at 17 are required to join Russian army and kill their countrymen. If they do not, they are labeled terrorists. They are then sent to mental hospitals for reprogramming”, Legal and international law expert at the Regional Center for Human Rights at the U.S. Senate Hearing

“We must strengthen our military and our alliance with Ukraine” “Against Russia, right?”

Yes where else could men possibly receive this scorching insight

"We don't support the fascist junta's war. But you fighting back after they invaded is a war crime."

Remains wild to me that some people genuinely want to create hell on earth

I think there were probs, but not in the rw backlash sense. To take MeToo, it’s not that it isn’t wrong for men assault or pester women. In fact, I even totally rejected the backlash shit of “a wandering hand on a knee isn’t a big deal like full on rape”. Not it is! It’s fucking wrong!…

Sublime. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mFTx...

honestly makes a lot of sense why evangelical fundamentalists are so into AI slop

Byron would have had so many sock puppet accounts that he would repeatedly try to hookup with himself (and succeed)

Guys like this are not interested in alleviating male plight. They want men as wage slaves and women dehumanised into the compensatory trophies of those who ‘succeed’. This is vile. They are not defending men but capitalism. Fuck you. Fuck your ‘data’.

foucault was cooking & unfortunately every annoying person in college who refused to ascribe to “labels” had a point. know less! my individuality cannot be encapsulated by your cursory examination!!!!

"You know the difference between a real science and a pseudoscience? A real science recognizes and accepts its own history without feeling attacked." - Foucault

I unapologetically like this song. No one would write a song claiming love will set you free now. They’re too conflicted and self-involved. 90s trance was the twilight of the hippies. m.youtube.com/watch?v=z69S...

gonna be a real catastrophic collapse of human knowledge as a result of bullshit like the Google notebook LM ai tool if we don't crush it immediately. Cannot overemphasize how poisonous tools like it are to actual expertise. Gonna produce a generation of technical "experts" who cannot think.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.