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“From Russian bribes to Musk beaming onto big screens advocating violence, we can’t go on pretending that this isn’t happening. That there are not powerful interests, state and private, East and West, pouring billions into destabilising our democratic processes and institutions.”

Babe, new political compass just dropped.

Praising carers, hospice staff and NHS workers, Zack Polanski says "showing compassion is the most patriotic thing I can think of"

Jacobsen said. “I think it’s time for Americans to realize that these kind of bureaucratic methods of going after journalists and civil society actors are being used here.” #DefundICE #Gestapo #NoKings #resist #fightfascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is there a return policy though???

"...several mainstream right-wing commentators are claiming that black people cannot be English. I would like to see a Labour communication strategy which punches that bruise... Force everyone on the right to either disassociate themselves from it or be branded a racist for holding it"

"I am sick and tired of watching people with decent, compassionate values constantly be told to accommodate the views of people who lack decency or compassion...."

Just in case any international followers don't understand this reference, it is from a spoof '1930s public information film' created by comedian Harry Enfield, lampooning old attitudes to women. youtu.be/LS37SNYjg8w?...

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

After living and working in Silicon Valley for 20 years during the rise of all this stuff? There's a reason I don't have microphone devices in my home and never will.

Danish defense Intel assessment of hybrid threat against Denmark concludes “Russia is currently conducting hybrid warfare against NATO and the West” but that “The threat of conventional military attacks against Denmark is NONE.” www.fe-ddis.dk/da/nyheder/2...

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

Invitations going out over the weekend for several supporter sessions to discuss Podyssey: Season 2 topics (also, answer any questions and shoot the breeze). Make sure the right email is attached to your ko-fi contribution - or sign up now if you want to get involved. www.ko-fi.com/podyssey

Do you see how anyone can play this stupid game, and the line of whether it’s taken seriously and reported as a deadly crisis or not is whether reporters want to make a big noise about it.

Robbing your children of you, so you don't have to use any brainpower to interact with them, is the saddest thing I've ever fucking heard as a parent.

Check out Wired.

How long will bluesky stay up when Trump demands that Apple and Google remove it from the app store? Elon has already demanded that they do so. They'll ensure you can only access the apps that they want you to.

oh I see they're treating this the way meta treats trying to delete your threads account good model, no desperation involved

These World Cup ticket prices may look high, but don't forget the US ones include a month-long stay in an ICE facility.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

#AdoorableDoors #MoretonInMarsh

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

This is a good example of something that *could* be a line drawn between Con & Ref, where Con voters are, broadly pro-environmental measures and they are popular with the broader public. And yet...

It's not new, but I do think we shrug it off a little more than we should

Some lovely fungi from a Pacific Northwest hike today. 🍄📷

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

A whopping 38% of Russia’s refining capacity is now offline, according to The Economist. Gasoline output fell by 1 million tons in September which has created a 20% domestic shortfall. Repairs may take months because of sanctions limiting access to parts and tech.

there’s only like two sentences between “excel is incredibly important to worldwide business” and “we have a 57% accuracy rate”! What are we doing!

A happy October wish for us all. 🖼️ Grasset

Hotels housing migrants are now YouTube content farms. Outrage = clicks. Clicks = cash: £10k–£20k a month, just for filming cruelty. Division is the business model. Details here ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Reminder that LLMs are literally trained on human writing. Humans write like LLMs. Those stylistic quirks you think are tells? Are not. The tells are fluent and deceptively plausible language combined with superficial, wrong, and sometimes outright made-up content. We can no longer mark for style.

To add to this: Sadiq Khan took a big political risk by doing this, and it appears to have paid off - or rather, the policy has worked as intended. London Labour will be (quite reasonably) hoping voters notice...

Economically, it’s a circuit that overlaps a lot with the ‘thought leaders’ sector: earning a five figure fee for filling a one hour slot at a big corporate away day

Right-wing media fluffs Farage for years, to the point where he now leads the polls, and then start whining about Starmer being 'obsessed' when he starts telling some long overdue home truths. It's actually hilarious.

He’s gonna shit the bed when he finds out about Shakespeare.

People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.

Comedian goes to Saudi Arabia - and beyond!

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Listen to Martin. You know it makes sense !

“anyone of color with half a brain knows this is what’s coming our way if these clowns continue with this. They’re opening a door they won’t be able to close again.”

North East Bylines have just published their 5000th article!! 🎉🎉🎉 Congratulations NEB! A very apt way to celebrate too: Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument "We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for" northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Had I been Agatha Christie's copy editor, I would have had to have learned the rules of bridge. Ye gods.

The fact the governor of Illinois is beging for citizen coverage because media as a whole is intentionally not covering the governments terror campaign should be absolutely a five alarm fire if you are not already figuring out the federal government is at war against us.

it’s a bird! no, it’s a plane!! no, wait—it’s

Farage’s main sponsors, tobacco companies Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, are recognized international sponsors of the war against Ukraine center-life.org/en/news/pmi-...

Thank you Bob!! NoireSTEMinist.com

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.