Ironic perhaps that developers of AI data centres didn’t use AI to calculate their carbon footprint - and so underestimated it by a factor of five (recent application for Google). www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

This whole thread.

Smashed it, Keir. Well done lad.

Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.

Ethiopian photographer and artist Aida Muluneh, Sai Mado / The distant gaze, 2016 #womensart

House, 1993 by Rachel Whiteread #womensart

Tomorrow might be the most absurd King's Speech we've ever seen, and this is coming from people who lived through that fake Brexit-era Boris Johnson one.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Louis Armstrong performing for his wife at the Great Sphinx of Giza (1961). 📷 Bettmann/Corbis

Molas, textile art traditionally made by women of the Kuna people of Colombia and Panama #womensart

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

A reminder of how Johnson's govt secured unprecedented right wing influence within the BBC: accusations of elitism & left wing bias as a Trojan Horse for extreme right wing direction of editorial policy. We need a corrective before it's too late for liberal democracy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/enterta...

Trap doors underneath cinema seats for people who talk or use their phones during the film

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.

Well this aged terribly

The fourth Reform councillor suspended, expelled or forced to resign since being elected on...Thursday

Turned on the Today programme for perhaps the first time this year. Instantly presented with three minutes of Chris Mason: glib, inane, uninformative, utterly banal. Turned it off again.

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

When Marjorie Taylor Greene occasionally does something right, I chalk it up to a broken clock being useful twice a day. That doesn't mean ignoring that it's wrong the rest of the day. Those on the far-left attempting to prop her up as a hero have lost their goddamn minds.

Any by now I mean by Wednesday. Kings Speech, recess, NATO summit, EU summit, summer recess, party conference - that's the drumbeat of excuses from Weds onwards. So while there's 50 odd MPs on record calling for a scalp, it isn't looking likely they'll switch him out before autumn now.

Top tip for Starmer; Sort out ONE thing that is f***ing annoying everyone: Water. Stop the water companies paying their shareholders ever more and charging the rest of us ever more while filling our rivers and sea with shit. And do it quickly.

Last week’s election results showed just how fragmented the country is. Tonight I’ll be sitting down with my childhood friend Darren, now drawn to the populist right, for a live and honest discussion with @bylinetimes.bsky.social. Tickets can be bought here www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/the_lur...

Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres

Farage's Britain #LocalElections

The one thing that would reset the whole political debate would be if Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he wanted to rejoin the EU. Reform would have a field day, but he would unite the left and make politics a binary choice between the two.

British cartoonist Philip Zec was one of 11 children, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant. After he joined the Mirror in 1937 aged 28, he relentlessly criticised fascism, and his VE Day Mirror front page cartoon was incredibly powerful 1/2 web.archive.org/web/20200508...

I actually can't believe that Farage and his party of xenophobic shitbags are running and polling so high and that the media are just treating it like it's normal. It's nightmarish to watch.

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face

My hand to God, I often wonder how many of our problems would be alleviated if the entire internet somehow went down for a few months.

First issue out now www.12f.eu

More than anything else, Farage is a creature of 24-hour news. He wouldn't have got anywhere in, say, 1971 or 1984. TV news orgs have far too many minutes to fill than is democratically healthy.

It doesn't feel great today admittedly, but nothing is inevitable. Reform is beatable. inews.co.uk/opinion/dont...

So every devolved nation will have a nationalist First Minister by the morning. And the English nationalists doing well (tho less well than anticipated?) too. We left the EU and tore up own Union too.

From the 'Shared Sky' exhibition, 'Jupiter and Ten Moons' by Indigenous Australian artist Barbara Merritt #WomensArt

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

Today's GB News TV advertisers include *LeShuttle *FabFourMemorabilia *AllClearTravel *QuingoScooters *Boxt *Moneyfactscompare *SagaUK *SelectSpecs *Haltonlifts *Belgicaweb *PSPIT *CopperhouseFilms *FasterPropertySolutions *Chlopure *GoldReserves *Homestoreinteriors *JoesDoors *Madisonandmayfair

Orange cat shenanigans happening in North London

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

Every GB News advertiser is aligning with a channel whose presenter posts statements like this: 👇👇👇

“You could level the same accusation at most UK watchdogs, which seem to be mostly ‘watch’ and not very ‘dog’. They just quietly observe everything happening, but rarely bark and never bite." @pimlicat.bsky.social

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz355bs

Listening to Andrew O’Hagan’s book Mayflies, which is utterly lovely, funny, moving and beautiful. But honestly, it’s an effort to not cry while on a packed train.

she's one of the biggest let downs i swear www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish @kierstarmerpm.bsky.social would take a lead from @mayor.nyc.gov rather than the neo nazi reform party. Positive, supportive, putting the people first. Why is it so difficult for Labour?

I owe my position as Mayor of New York City to the power of working people and I will always govern with them in mind. 

We’ve delivered millions of dollars in corporate settlements to workers — nearly $100K each day we’ve been in office. 

We’re just getting started. Happy May Day, New York.