The more I think about the two child limit the crosser I get, and the more pleased that they ditched it. No one decides their family size this way.* Making ordinary people think that this is how other people act is incredibly divisive. *Otherwise we could easily solve the fertility crisis, right?

A big part of this, I think, and Labour's general failing is caring about the first 15% of people who were going Reform, not the second 15%. Should have boxed them into being a crank party.

god tier cameo casting

This thread collating the Sheffield Tribune’s brilliant investigation into the spivvy lawyer threatening Yorkshire leaseholders into handing over cash is worth reading before the story goes national.

I remain very sceptical about the long-awaited AI productivity boom. AI makes it much quicker and easier to produce a lot of corporate crap.

Hobbes must’ve felt like a fucking god telling the illustrator about this insane cover concept

Clear as day now. Not a single UK government department, local authority or institution should be still on X by the end of the week

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The BBC has consistently platformed Matt Goodwin because of his racist views and the veneer of respectability brought by his past life as an academic.

Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions. To manually turn off go to: Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under “How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

Let’s stop buying from Amazon

This isn't just stupid because Polanski is criticising nuclear. He's criticising a nuclear project that is *overwhelmingly commercially funded*! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Today is the 610th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt. Don't forget.

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

A reminder there could always be a hidden Saxon church inside your house

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

However it is dressed up, a project to remove thousands of people who came to this country according to rules set by our government should be repudiated for what it is; faintly disguised racism; a poor attempt to apply a genteel face to it, but it is racism and ingratitude all the same.

The Opposition and the party that’s leading in the polls literally have policies more extreme than the BNP 20 years ago

Who are these people?

Famous words of many Nobel Peace Prize winners.

91 years. All of them Good.

What a pathetic bunch of spineless nobwits.

september 30 // october 1

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

this exact dynamic - where trump says or does something awful, everyone spends days downplaying it, and then he loudly doubles down - has played out roughly 7000 times and it’s why I have exactly zero patience for anyone who tries to sanitize his nonsense

packing kids lunches is always like, hey food—see most of you later today

A Labour government that does not fight back against the far right, racism and extremism fundamentally misunderstands the nature of its electoral support.

I mean, call me a Loony Lefty if you want, but it *is* starting to look a bit weird arresting disabled pensioners protesting peacefully one day and telling coked up bellends attacking you to “calm down” another day the same month. Obviously, just my opinion. I might have got it wrong.

All I saw was cheesecake boat and ocean for at least 5 minutes

The UK doesn't burn coal anymore to create electricity. Like none at all... BBQs are the only coal burning source now 😋 🥩 Source: buff.ly/flW8CWH

Sport that great removes any "pain" of a loss. Test cricket has had a massive boost from two equally matched teams going at it full on for 25 days. Mohammed Siraj the difference maker and would walk into England's team. Fabulous entertainment #EngvInd

Was thunderbolts not so subtly about mental health? Pugh did her best to carry it, no doubt we will get more

How does someone at the BBC read the judges remarks and then produce this bullshit headline? Awful.

Do not ever buy this trash or wear it in my presence.

Do vaccines protect against dementia? A new EHR-based study of >430,000 older adults found that AS01-adjuvanted vaccines (Shingrix for shingles & Arexvy for RSV) were associated with a lower 18-month risk of developing dementia whether given alone or together. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And yet when 1,000 jobs are lost (or risked) in heavy industry or manufacturing it gets wall to wall media coverage. And when HE is in the news it is attacked on ‘value for money for students’ and not about the strategic value of a part of UK economy, society, and industry with global significance.

we produce tonnes of marketable, valuable, productive stuff that we could sell to the world — like university education, and television programmes, for example — but the government has no interest in improving the conditions for making and selling these things

honestly i found it pretty easy to assume that James Gunn's Superman just takes place in an alternate universe where print/news media is WAY more respected and profitable than it is IRL.

Brian Clough and Geoff Boycott, relaxing at a Coldplay gig in 1975.

Watched ‘Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World’ last night in order to renew my ‘dad in his 40s’ annual membership card and at one point even muttered “they don’t make ‘em like this anymore”

A good way to think about the housing crisis is landlords pocketing essentially all the consumer surplus the last 40 years

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

It's been exactly two months since Andor ended, and I still think about it every day. 👌 (I see people complaining that there won't be any new live-action Star Wars in a year, but I've had enough great Star Wars to keep me happy for a decade 😁)

@mikemuncer.bsky.social hi Mike, any more episodes of peak tv coming?

This is some serious bullshit TFL @london.gov.uk . Stockwell station closed due to lack of staff with zero notice in c.london?

Venn diagram

English People Encounter Pizza for the First Time 🧵

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.