Somewhere in a meeting room at Labour HQ a bunch of strategists are sitting around going “well that obviously proves we’re not racist enough. What can we do to move the dial here?” while literally everyone else in the building bangs their head on the table.

God speed, Rob Grant.

If Bluesky users are so anti-AI because it’s lazy and uncreative, how come so many of them fawn over Cold War Steve every time he tosses out a five minute photoshop job based on an idea that a mediocre sixth former would reject as too obvious?

Am I the only person who finds Cold War Steve as funny as a dose of pneumonia? As money for old rope art goes, he’s up there with Matt from the Telegraph.

The only time I can remember this happening was when there were a lot of people off school with a cold that was going round and the teachers said "fuck it" and got the whole year in a lecture theatre and put something on that was shit and nobody watched.

This is a great thread until he uses the words “Independent SAGE” and “excellent” in the same sentence.

Does the right have the same argument with itself about respecting all voters in the same way the left does? Has Farage ever his followers “No, we can’t be mean to Marxists/Greens/Democratic Socialists, they have legitimate concerns, we need to engage with them.”

Radio 1 to be replaced with a station exclusively playing 1970s school hymns (”Autumn Days”, “Who Put The Tree Inside The Acorn” that sort of thing), to be played in all public spaces.

All of a sudden Facebook reels (yes I watch those, what of it) are showing a lot of Labour attacks on reform for being racists and liars. There’s a special place in hell for the people who spent the last year and a half going “don’t do that it’ll put people off”.

calls to return to “traditional indigenous agriculture” are calls for billions to die, it literally did lead to famine in Sri Lanka when it was tried, I’m firm believer that we should be bigger assholes to people hawking woo shit.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Every time some injustice happens in the UK, some knobhead always says “if this were in France, they’d be rioting”. Yet they allow their health minister to talk to them like this?

Obama is infected with the “they go low, we go high” brainworm, and will no doubt say something statesmanlike about that video, when the fact is he should just chin him.

I felt this a lot during Covid, where all of a sudden people who I considered to be roughly politically aligned with me (the liberal centre-left*) went full hard lockdown, let's-be-like-China, lock up the kids, and I'm sat looking round going "what the fuck?"

Too much to ask, clearly.

It’s time for journalists with any self respect whatsoever to look out of the window and tell us it’s raining. Or get another job.

Imagine if all music inventions were treated the way AI is. “The bassoon is an inevitable part of music now. We have to learn to live with it. You must find ways of incorporating bassoon into all music you create because the line between human and bassoon will soon become erased.”

We could also address this with technology if the people controlling the resources for technological development weren’t using them to make nonce machines.

Dilbert was very much a right wing "Bullshit Jobs" guy - basically, office based jobs which you can't easily explain to a 7 year old are emasculating and gay. Graeber and Scott Adams would have found a lot of common ground.

One of those works of art that I absolutely love but can’t begin to explain why.

“This is where it starts to get serious”, says Bill Leslie. Whereas for the last 19 games Mikel Arteta has been a model of easy going frivolity.

Thinking about the link between awful politics and militant (or at least, very forcefully expressed) animal rights activism after Brigitte Bardot’s death - see also Gervais, Morrissey. Probably because I’m at London Bridge and there are fucking dogs everywhere.

Disintegration is objectively a better album but this is my favourite for personal reasons. RIP Perry.

🫡🫡🫡🫡

Getting truer by the week. But it’s still not made the Owen Jones/Zara Sultana “but what about Kiosks?” video any less funny

Might just need to hack into the England Band’s account and start posting anti-Trump stuff.

Recently switched jobs from a private company to a public institution and everything’s more complicated. Because you’re doing varied things for a body with varying aims and far more interested parties. You’re not just doing a specific thing to make money for the people that own it.

“You can sort the bill out then.”

When Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me came out, I was a snotty teenage indie clot who would roll his eyes at almost anything vaguely “mainstream”. Except this song, because it was fucking superb.

I wonder whether this lot are going to fulfil the same function as West Street in Brighton - keep all the tiresome nutters in one area and away from the rest of the city - for the Green Party.

Doing the "making everything about my personal hobby horse" thing, but this was particularly the case during Covid where the government reduced all its comms to three word slogans, and the opposition continually complained that The Rules were too complex and confusing.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Is there anything that prevents one from telling these people to fuck off and walking away? Presumably they don't have the power to physically detain people. It presumably just incentivises going after people who are too timid or baffled to just leave.

Live action Race For Your Life Charlie Brown. Maybe with Christopher Nolan as director.

On #worldchildrensday a report is issued in the UK on the government’s appalling treatment of children during the pandemic. Condemned by large numbers of people who, at the time, were arguing it wasn’t harsh enough.

Made a wardrobe mistake this morning, the heating at work was slightly off and so I never got warm all day. But at least these fuckers have got another seven months of the weather they want.

The Stone Roses were brilliant and Primal Scream were far better with Mani in the band than without him.

Amazing, given how underwhelmed the country was when he won the election, that Starmer hasn’t even managed to live up to those low expectations.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Who was the last British politician to talk to the public like they were grown ups? Gordon Brown? I can’t think of many.

London is a city that I’ve never liked and always does my head in whenever I go there but now I feel obliged to defend the place and well…yeah. I’ve never felt particularly unsafe there. Irritated, confused and overwhelmed yes, but not unsafe.

Not if you have to go there it isn’t.

SHAFT!

Carry yourself with the confidence of a Bluesky user opining on whether Maccabi Tel Aviv should be allowed to take their fans to Aston Villa.

Evergreen, this one. Did we get any Charlie Kirk gags from Gervais or Carr?

Read this three times before I realised they meant Zac rather than Roman. I like the bloke, I hope that a) this is just me or b) he gets enough media attention to get past the association.

At the World Cup this year someone needs to tell ICE that the England Band are Mexican nationals and their visas aren’t in order.

Golf.

I don’t get ashamed by things I have no control over but I have a real sense of unease and vague guilt about how the civilised part of the south of England didn’t get its shit together and let Tommy Robinson take over London in the way that it did.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... This seems a very rare case of a sporting body making a quick decision not to be dicks and then get on with their day.

I’m going to pay tribute to the man by not giving a shit.