EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Sure, the left is all about solidarity, but that big tent can't include the ineffectual centre. The change-adverse don't-rock-the-boat libs allowed the fascists in, and laid the it's-shit-but-can't-be-changed soil for it to grow in. The resistance needs to agree that drastic change is necessary.

This is why I'm here... I didn't see a single one of these chuds. I didn't even know they'd arrived here. Block lists work.

"Prince Andrew has lost his dukedom.." nah fuck off, I ain't calling anyone "prince", never mind that sweaty nonce. He's not prince, he's not Windsor, he's not even Mountbatten, he's Andy Battenberg, dodgy old fucker that never worked a day in his shitty life.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

"Don't call us fascists!" they cry, while having a bloody obvious swastika in the background of their Zoom call. Because they're fascists.

Lit is joining @openjsf.org! 🎉 Today at JSConf, The OpenJS Foundation announced Lit is officially joining as an Impact Project! We're beyond excited for this move and look forward to continuing our work to build the open web with OpenJS! Read more on our blog: lit.dev/blog/2025-10...

Share a cartoon from the past that kids today have probably never heard of

You think you're in your own universe, but then you realise it's all fucked up: a crooked game show host is president, all adverts are for gambling/casinos, Nazis are everywhere, and Dominos is Pizza Hut.

I ❤️ Viz

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Another complaint about any AI-generated code: what is it with all the try-catch? It's everywhere, and it never knows what to do with the caught exception. Best practice is to almost never use try-catch and have top level error logging baked into your app.

🔴NEW🔴 Thread 🧵 @bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

SIX cops. Fucking 6 to arrest one old disabled man who definitely wasn't a threat to anyone. This video should be shown back to the feckless thugs every time they say they don't have enough money/powers to tackle gang violence, zombie knives, guns or anything the lazy cowardly fucks SHOULD be doing

Got a bit lucky Unzoomed #621 2/6 🔴🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

That was quite a bit tougher... Unzoomed #617 5/6 🔴🔴🔴🟡🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com

Good to see so many people clearly agree on how egregiously idiotic this Digital ID bollocks is.

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Okay so Harmon Northrop Morse, who first synthesized Paracetamol (which is also marketed now as Tylenol, etc), was described as “quiet and uneffusive” and had a “single-minded devotion” to his work. No proof, but this may mean there is a NONZERO chance that it is actually AUTISM that caused TYLENOL

Unzoomed #616 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com Too easy today, everyone should get this one.

10yo me had a major fixation on cetaceans and would have reacted in the same way!

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

Looks like ABC already has a replacement for Kimmel sorted...

Both my grandfathers went to war against fascists. The entire culture I grew up in was staunchly anti-fascist. Indiana Jones and Captain America punch Nazis, they could not be more antifa-coded. Trump wants to label anti-fascists as terrorists because he is a fascist.

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel

How do we fix this mess?

He's not, but let's suppose for a second that he's right. There's no lead/USP in this space. Google will resurrect Glass, Microsoft Hololens, Apple & Samsung will have competing products fast. It's not a good bet, by odds or return.

Stop ragging on Starmer for appointing Mandelson as ambassador - he's perfect for the job, which is to keep King Trump feeling warm and fuzzy about the UK. Nothing does that quite like a shared terrible guilty secret. We're going to have to send Andrew instead.

wow

Surprisingly effective.

some thoughts about the bloat introduced by edge-case first libraries

The Flyer. 1/4

Green Party (4 MPs) elect a new leader BBC: A mouse farts BBC: we interview Farage from Reform (also 4MPs) to ask him how he feels about the mouse, the fart, and how the small boats have made this so much worse.

I'm not a fan of Angela Rayner, I think all of Starmer's cabinet have been fucking pathetic, but the press wailing in on her over stamp duty (like Reform/Tories aren't far worse) feels like a witch hunt. No doubt they'll have Farage on next to ask him how he feels about it.

It's so weird how Greenwald and Nate Silver and the like—who aren't even here—keep insisting that Bluesky is pro-DNC, when I've yet to see anyone here ever say anything nice about the DNC at all. Also, evaporating? Lol. Bluesky now sends WAY more traffic to @techdirt.com than Twitter *ever* did.

Green leadership is decided, congratulations @zackpolanski.bsky.social This should get interesting!

After this hype bubble has popped, people are going to ask "why did we pay fat bonuses to FOMO-chasing incompetents to invest all our money on this?" Just like last time (and the time before) Then we'll bail them out with public money so they can chase some new get-rich-quick bullshit.

Anti-vax morons dying of rabies (which is an awful, painful and prolonged way to go) because they were worried their dog might get autism is a whole new tier of Darwin award.

#diy Bluesky, any advice on how to demolish this brick wall/kitchen island? Brick chisel, masonry drill, sledgehammer, basically got nowhere. The floor it's resting on is wooden floorboards.

Do these become like a #40k pile of shame to these folks? Only instead of here are the minis I bought that I'll definitely get round to painting one day, it's here are the guns I keep on my floor next to my kids that haven't killed anyone yet?

the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now

Virgin Media are utter garbage, and have left me without Internet for 4 weeks. Both me and my wife work remotely, so this has cost us money and hurt our jobs. All because Virgin cannot handle moving house.

This is how they make sure that something like the Arab Spring can never rise up against Trump.

I've been driving a hire car round Portugal for a couple of weeks, and it has the worst speedometer I've ever seen. Speed limits here tend to be 30, 50, 70 or 90km/h. Motorways are 120km/h Find any of those at a glance. What is going on with that scale?