Alistair Heath: ‘Why this woke left generation’s refusal to be murdered is ruining Britain’s economy’

Something I've been thinking about since the AI hype started is that the inevitable end game here is that human interaction will only be for people who can afford to pay for it. This isn't accessibility, it's automated inequity

I wrote about Minneapolis and why that Orwell quote everyone's been sharing makes me nervous about what comes next

Utterly damning evidence of what happens to junior people in any field if they use AI. You cannot learn or build expertise if you use this tool. It’s just not possible and you will do nothing but make yourself expendable if you become reliant on it.

Pity. United are very well stocked for full-backs now but seeing Ona playing for them will be very annoying

The Boss is singing about ICE on the Streets of Minneapolis. You won't hear this played at the Kennedy Center or on Fox News. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Great/depressing thread

This confirms my feeling…that Find Out Now are not a good actor. Why would you release a poll with a sample size of 143? What’s the point of it? (A boost for Labour, tho, in that I assume they will plaster this all over their ads in the home it “becomes” true.

Kobbie Mainoo is no defensive midfielder or playmaker. He’s the player in between. That’s something that Ruben Amorim never seemed to understand, but it’s clear that Michael Carrick sees the midfielder as a crucial cog in his Man Utd machine.

This is essentially blackmail and could endanger vaccine supply for many countries that need thiomersal in vaccines to keep them stable when they lack infrastructure to keep vaccines cool in transport and storage 🧵

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Matt Goodwin makes a living out of railing against university educated elites & his whole schtick is "he was the first person in his family to go to university", which is a bit weird given that his Dad, now being heavily invoked for his Manchester connection, appears to have a string of degrees.

The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

No one writes like @adamserwer.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We just don’t get nice things so my money is on fucking terrifying

I dont often post about personal stuff. But, my son was jumped by a group of lads while walking home the other night. His face took quite a bit of damage. He has lost 2 teeth, and fractured 3 others. The dental bill will is significant. gofund.me/e89ebe7b5

“Why am I so sad today?” I ask myself after staring at my little handheld sadness machine and clicking all the sad little things that will definitely make me sad

Measles "re established" in the UK. The shameful consequence of so-called vaccine skeptics and antivaxxers.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Not to be crass about it, but this is the electoral equivalent of letting off a stink bomb in public and running around with your pants down. Can't defeat these guys, can't defeat anybody.

The simplicity of Carrick's changes to this team might be the most refreshing thing about those two performances. Nothing complicated, just players in roles they are suited to, and a gameplan that brings the best out of them.

This is the real quiz

He wouldn’t be Bruno if he hadn’t gone for that, but

7 minutes, for all of those stoppages we’ve had obviously

We’re getting 36 minutes of stoppage time here

Oh wow

Oh get fucked VAR, don’t you dare

What a fucking goal

First 15-20 wasn’t pretty but thought we’d got our act together for the spell before their goal, really didn’t agree with the comments that it had been coming. Very good response after it, albeit helped by Arsenal seemingly switching off a bit

Fair dos, excellent response

Martinez should just have flopped like Kyle Walker the other week

I have said for more than a year now that we are going backwards And here's the latest evidence We are digging our own grave

BBC News is no longer fit for purpose. Which is terrifying.

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?

Hope Burnham’s had some sort of assurances he won’t get blocked because based off all the stories so far, getting rebuffed, Reform winning the by-election and then someone awful getting the GM mayoralty seems depressingly plausible

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list. They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

We are off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

It’s one of the great cons of history that this man, who services billionaires, science-denying fossil fuel lobbyists and the very Tories who, he says, “broke Britain”, still gets away with presenting himself as the great outsider and disruptor. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Glad the traitors won that. Arguably more down to faithfuls being terrible, but terrible faithfuls won last year so a nice change.

Doomscrolling won’t bring order to the chaos. It’s OK to put the phone down and take a break | Gaby Hinsliff

NEW: You think disinformation is bad now? Wait until you hear about "AI swarms" and how they have the potential to upend democracy across the globe www.wired.com/story/ai-pow...

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The actual signing of Casemiro wasn’t one a smart club make - the finances were terrible, the late window pivot to him after unrequited flirting with De Jong all summer was dumb and illogical. The player though - I think he is and will continue to be thought of very highly

posted without comment, but the BBC needs to get a grip