I love how the FBI guy has almost got that classic Guy Goma (bless him,) expression in nearly every picture.

National Trust council elections saw a defeat for the Restore Trust campaign. 35k members voted to re-elect a slate of council candidates endorsed by the nominations committee 12k - 13.5k voted for candidates on Restore Trust slate Non-slate candidated www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

I woke up with this in my head this morning, so I think I should share it about www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4my...

As we move toward the "They're cancelling Christmas" rage bait season, it's always worth considering the reality.

Putin is a child murderer

Fuck russian terrorists.

Agrivoltaics & sheep a good combination www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/a...

Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens all life, human and animal alike. Because of the Russian relentless missile and drone strikes, wild animals, pets, and livestock face the same risks as people: fear, injury, and death.  - Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

The sick irony of pasting their logo over a symbol of remembrance for people who fought and died to prevent the very kind of divisive, hate-driven intolerance they promote.

John Lewis missed the target with the choice of track in their advert, now if they'd gone with e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALsH... (same year as the one they did use,) they'd have nailed it.

In my Electronic Music Republic the scatter/granular effects will be banished.

NOTHING can destroy a Cyber Truck….😎😏 #WorldBollardAssociation

35 tonne truck? WE EAT THEM FOR BREAKFAST!! #WorldBollardAssociation

🇫🇷🇺🇦🎣 Fishermen from the French region of Brittany (Bretagne) are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to build anti-drone tunnels. ❗️They have reportedly sent a total of 280 km of nets.

A criminal court in Brussels on Wednesday convicted two Polish nationals – including a current European Parliament assistant – of misusing EU funds tied to political entities associated with Brexit-backer Nigel Farage. https://bit.ly/4oSrA0R

When I was first elected, evidence showed it would take 193 years to bring London's air pollution within legal limits. Due to our policies, we've done it in 9. In Brazil this week, we showed that cities are giving the world reason to hope when it comes to tackling the climate emergency.

So have the usual suspects kicked off about the "Lady Mayor's Show" yet?

Ukrainian helicopter pilot surprises the young fan who greeted him from the ground.

A question about Joey Barton's case How much does X pay him? Were the specific posts for which he was convicted monetised? If so, what happens to his income for criminal posts? Are there any sanctions for a platform which rewards (and so v likely incentivises) aggressive criminal posts?

LET'S GET SOME POWM ON A FRIDAY EVENING! soundcloud.com/discover/set...

Another business deal ruined by the sudden appearance of Toby Fox.

Jenrick IS the hot dog guy meme.

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights. Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs. Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights. archive.ph/eMg3O

But what is the BBC news going to go on about now then?

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Flag removal costs the taxpayer over £11,000 - The people who put them up should be billed. www.bbc.com/news/article...

If we are willing to pay lots of money to have a super capable machine in our homes controlled by Elon Musk we actually don’t deserve to survive as a species.

With the US administration raising fees for the H1-B visa, the UK has an opportunity to roll out the red carpet for world-class talent.... 👉 [read]

russians staged a video where they’re speaking in painfully broken Ukrainian but holy hell this frame

Which one is more English?

Ha. Some just said these tweet was a lot of words to say 'arsehole'. So I fixed that

It's Kathleen Stock all over again, isn't it? Someone with immense privilege behaves hatefully, gets pushback from victims, embarks on an 'I've been cancelled' tour, supported by the whole British media establishment, and the victims get shat on all over again.

"But then that's the AI industry in a nutshell: avoiding liability for training on data without permission, avoiding liability for AI models that hallucinate and amplify security risks, and avoiding negotiation when AI models interact with third-party services."

🚨🚨 Belgian court convicts two for EU funds misuse linked to #NigelFarage's Brexit group. Great report by @elisabraun.bsky.social on a decade-long probe into alleged misuse of EU funds by associates of top #Brexit campaigner. www.euractiv.com/news/belgian...

Nigel Farage, whose ancestors came over in small boats in the 1570s, doesn’t meet the ‘English test’ set by his parties mayoral candidate. Scenes.

X is designed to radicalise people. The algorithm promotes Elon Musk's agenda to promote racists and people who want violence bought - specifically - to the streets of Britain. Members of Parliament, major institutions and the media should not be there. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

lol

Court convicts two donors for illegally diverting £100k to Eurosceptic think tank run by Nigel Farage's girlfriend. She definitely doesn't sound like the sort of person who would get involved with tax fraud on a house purchase.

If this is what happens when Reform runs a council, just imagine Farage running the country. Care homes closed and vulnerable people abandoned. We cannot let Trump’s America become Farage’s Britain.

Conservative Councillor says "young black males" are "flooding" the UK Contacted by Byline, she defended her comments, saying “we cannot sustain the volume of.. black males” that “jeopardises [our] security" Asked why their skin colour matters, she replied “because they are [black], aren’t they?"

Two donors to think tank of Nigel Farage’s partner convicted of fraud 😮 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

When someone pretends that something that happened four or five years ago is “ancient history,” they’re usually desperate to minimise or hide something.

School pupils are to be taught how to tackle conspiracy theories, spot 'fake news' & root out misinformation. The Daily Mail, ajudged by Wikipedia to be an unreliable new source, is furious. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to work out why.

A District Judge has cleared Tommy Robinson on a terror charge because he found Robinson had a protected belief. How does that pass the 5th limb of the Grainger test? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

⚠️ "I'm told that calling the left the party of murder, and saying violence is coming, and you better fight back or you die, is not enough to prosecute this odious man. But we don't have to do business with him, do we?"

It’s a weird thing that in the Anglosphere the very idea of solidarity has been allowed to become a corny, solely left-wing, cliche rather than a living societal value. In mainland Europe ordinary people and even centre-right politicians speak unironically of solidarity across & between societies.

“when “terrible cock-ups” could be written off because “decimal points and all those zeros can be tricky after a three-hour lunch”. “He’s backing himself to be prime minister and it isn’t going to happen if voters see him as the kind of gambler who might blow the nation’s budget on a boozy bet.”

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC. My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.