this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

Nigel Farage said that the 'Raise the Colours' campaign was a "grassroots movement driven by ordinary people”. Kemi Badenoch said they should be "welcomed" as a symbol of "unity" Now the campaign has pivoted to racially abusing migrants and intimidating charity workers on the beaches of France

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

Shocked by the awful death of Rob Reiner. I spoke with him for over an hour last night. We talked about his work and his plans for the future. I always enjoyed his company. We met at his Dad's in 1975. Last thing he said to me was "See you next year.." Such a terrible end. Such a sweet man.

There has been a strong reaction to the antisemitism allegations levelled at Nigel Farage - except from those you might have expected to condemn it most loudly. My piece for @jewishnews.bsky.social on a strange silence www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...

Perchta from Germanic folklore visits houses during the 12 Days of Christmas. She leaves silver coins for those who have been good, and slits the bellies of those who have not, stuffing them with straw. #FolkloreThursday

This one's easy I love a bit of Bauhaus, especially Kandinsky 1916

I quit a large multinational as my manager was terrible. He gave me a rush project in my last fortnight, so I decided to write in in FORTRAN 77 (an approved language at the time). No-one else in our team knew it, so it had to be rewritten delaying the project. Boss got no bonus.

There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out. But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... #ai #chatgpt #inbetweeners #friend

In memoriam...

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Ruin a book with a Car: The Remains of the Dacia

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Opinions are like arseholes, everyone's got one and no one wants to wake up and see Nigel Farage's.

RIP Terence Stamp. Goodbye General Zod, Chancellor Valorum, Jor-El in Smallville, and Prophet of Truth in Halo 3. Terence Stamp was also in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Red Planet, Last Night in Soho, Miss Peregrine, Big Eyes, Alien Nation, Wall Street, and many more movies. He was 87.

Stop making me like Gary Neville 😡 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Subtext of this story is that the villagers made a mistake because the Scouts were Scots. Similar to the narrative of Rupert Lowe and his misidentified charity rowers. Maybe we need to be asking why they these vile opinions have been normalised in the first place. news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

Village idiots verbally abusing an influx of "illegal immigrants" at a campsite in Newbridge, Wales They were a group of Scouts from Scotland Anti-immigrant rhetoric has consequences Statement from Scouts Cymru "We are aware of a racially aggravated incident targeting under-18s"

Breaking: Autistic community preemptively rejects David Walliams

Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

It is the Hackney Half Marathon today and this catsitting flat is right on the route, so I will be on the balcony cheering everyone on 🏃‍♀️🏃 👏🏻

1804. Oceans are now Battlefields. In the South China Sea a British convoy worth almost £1bn today is spotted by the French. It should be a massacre. Instead, Commodore Nathanial Dance is about to defeat a French battle squadron using some paint and the most overplayed hand in #navalHistory. /1 🧵

I'm just watching the first episode of Season 2 and I'm getting real Conspiracy vibes #Andor en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspir...

Honestly, such grim news from UK Supreme Court. We're going the way of US & everyone should be concerned. Just let people live their quiet lives - just like they did before Wicked Witch & her flying goblins got all exercised about things that don't concern them. Thoughts & big hugs to all xx 🏳️‍⚧️

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

tech bro is short for technically broken

If Trump can disappear green card holders for protesting war, he can disappear you. If he can disappear visa holders for criticizing him, he can disappear you. If he can disappear asylum seekers for tattoos, he can disappear you. We must speak out now — before there is no one left to speak out.

Putting extra coins on a corpse's eyes just in case they run into somebody who was buried wrong and doesn't have the fare

deleted my last post that said putin was worth $200,000,000 because it turns out he’s worth $200,000,000,000. which i’m sure he earned fair and square and didn’t steal from the russian people he pretends elected him.

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

www.theguardian.com/football/202... That's quite a headline, probably the most zeitgeisty thing I've seen today

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

Well that's another account I'll be deleting soon www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Quite bracing to hear Starmer go in hard on Musk. It had to happen.

NEW: Starmer comes out strongly in defence of Jess Philipps and against Elon Musk who he suggests is "far right". . He says those who are spreading "misinformation" and "lies" about Phillips and child sexual abuse "are not interested in victims, they are interested in themselves."

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

Debrett's..............welcome to the resistance

Feels like the algorithm is taking the piss

Can anyone guess who I saw in concert this year (I did my homework first)

Sometimes it pays to have googly eyes in your wallet.

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Beyoncé dancing to the original Grange Hill theme tune.