Amazing to watch the most powerful country in the world (atm) just let this raging, fading old grifter destroy it for personal financial gain. Like having a rabid dog in the house which has already torn the cat apart, shredded the parrot, and has now jumped into the baby's cot...and just watching.

I could just walk into my local GP surgery when I was ill, talk to the receptionist, take a seat, wait a bit, and then see a doctor.

Our government’s gutlessness in dealing with X, one of its biggest enemies, is one of its defining features, which speak to its inability to use its power. Use it or lose it.

Good time to follow Bellingcat, which has done crucial, dependable evidentiary work for many years

The best time for the government to quit X was August 2024, when its owner fuelled far right riots, the second best time is now.

This brilliant Chris Morris sketch was funny because of course a politician wouldn't start a war just because of media goading. But you can imagine Trump doing just that. youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?...

Yes. Trump is a spoiled three year old.

Also. Isn’t the US with its obvious support for Putin, and now starting its own war against a smaller country, giving a nod and a wink to China about Taiwan?

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Part of the problem we have. Proven arsonists masqueraded about constantly, after they’ve burnt the house down, as if they’re the go to for fire safety. Once you’re made, you’re made, no matter how bad you fuck up people’s lives. Nice.

One of the two parties Trump is negotiating with is brazenly lying to his face about something as serious and easily disprovable as a large scale assassination attempt... and he not only couldn't give less of a shit but credulously repeats the lie to the world's press. Should be a bigger deal.

It’s their blatant hypocrisy that is also so outraging. Russia, constantly trying to kill as many Ukrainians as possible for years now, especially their President. Also Russia, how dare you target one of our President’s many mansions! Horror!

For the record. All my Aussie relatives are really pissed off about the Ashes.

About 25 years ago I believe I saw Nigel Planner standing at a bus stop in the rain. At night. 🤣🙌

Must be bloody confusing for alien tourists visiting Earth. They’re trying to plan a five capital city stopover, whistle stop tour, they look at social media by prominent city figures and every city is the greatest city in the world. We’re not doing them any favours here.

Those of us that for all the Brexit years said Russia is all through our political system, and other countries, and were looked at like we had Russia Derangement Syndrome, welcome this. Oh can we start by going X…that’s a very obvious contemporary example, and ban it? …lives in hope 🤣

Amazing that the US demand in the peace talks isn’t “Hey Russia! Stop invading your neighbour and go home.” instead it’s “Putin deserves a bonus for being prepared to grind 1,000 men a day to capture a few metres. Give him the land he can’t take.” Talk about a changed world order…

Maybe the UK “productivity crisis” could be solved by no longer allowing contractors to dig holes in junctions, set up barriers and temp traffic lights and walk away for weeks. Maybe if they had to actually be able to do the work when they made the hole…crazy talk.

I guess if MAGA doctrine of major players dominating just their regions takes hold…then it leaves the world’s billionaires to run the world itself?

...and then forgotten it was on!

It does seem like we're increasingly living in an age of mad kings and that allowing individuals to amass that much personal wealth is (not in all cases, there are notable exceptions of billionaires trying to give away money as they aren't taxed enough) akin to an attempt to drive them insane.

"Now. We've long since cut off our nose to spite our face. So I propose we essentially drill in the same place until the bit explodes out of the back of our skull. All agreed? Good. Make it so."

We despair that the rightwing keep shifting the Overton Window further right. They never suggest that leaving the ECHR is impossible or not the right time. They just demand it. And we end up discussing it. It’s time the left pushed back. Not put up ‘can’t do’ barriers to our own hopes and aims. 👏

Old Man just wants to see "mushroom cloud" before he dies

It’s a disc race!

Man insists Pope is not Catholic.

Flagshagging?

🚨🚨 Politically significant decision by @ec.europa.eu to impose a €120 million fine on Elon #Musk’s #X, the first-ever penalty issued under the EU’s flagship content moderation law, the Digital Services Act. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK. UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS. The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?

OTD in 1994 Russia signed the Budapest memo, guaranteeing Ukraine's territorial integrity in exchange for their nukes, 44 Ukrainian Tu-22 heavy bombers and 1,068 Kh-55 cruise missiles. Which have been fired at Ukraine in this war.

I think we’ve seen over and over that the question of whether a story “goes away” is basically: is there will to keep asking the same questions over and over, and to keep running headlines like Victims Say Politician Is Bastard. There was no will to do it before. It seems that there is now.

Curious getting coding agents to do differing tasks. Sometimes they build a very complex analytical app from scratch when provided with premise and expected structure, etc. Built, done. Now. Give me another CSV report function for X...OMG it's impossible! Aargh. What goes on in those chips? lol.

It's such a weird age. As if there's a bunch of insanely wealthy people who just desperately want to recreate the golden age of...

Our beleaguered corner store owner, battered by Lambeth councils unceasing war against cars, and now the latest budget increasing his costs and diminishing his returns, was asking me yesterday why Lab are as bad as the Tories for him. -.- “They only have entitlement to govern. No idea what to do.” 🤷‍♂️

As a valued customer of Thames Water I can only scream while wondering how much this continues to influence my voting decisions.

Well I know this is a deep fake, because although highly accurate, there should be an increasing mountain of fresh skulls behind him.

My exhaustive review of coding agents... GPT-5 : too prone to daydreaming and occasional random acts of vandalism. Sonnet-4.5 : fantastic for the most, but can get stuck in terrible fail loops and is out of date on Xcode. Opus 4.5 : Great. But. I don't know who reverted the build to 2 wks ago? :)

Why is Labour currently fcuk’d? I think of headlines to write about them constantly and realise I already wrote them under the Tories years ago now…

Reminded me of this from 2019.

Just got the dog to howl with me. My last dog who was the best dog anyone ever had, would never howl with me. I’m pleased now. Reminds me of when I was a wee lad and I’ll howl with the dog and my mum would shout at me to stop 🤣😇. Except today we only howled three times because I live in a terrace…

There are flags all over the poles in the streets surrounding St Helier hospital in south London. A hospital which is overwhelmingly staffed by people born overseas who have looked after me with care and empathy for some years now. Like to see whoever put those flags up pay to remove them too…

52/48 almost 🤷‍♂️🤣

Yes, Jared Diamond was wrong. Rapa Nui's people did not suffer ecological and social collapse. They adapted to changed circumstances and thrived. And they were nothing like "primitive" phys.org/news/2025-11...

Back in the heat of the Brexit years whenever you said the Russians are all thru this and our politics, people often thought you had Kremlin Derangement Syndrome…and earnest podcasters dismissed it all as conspiracy theory…and slowly, the light is dawning, that Russia was/is all thru our politics…

I watched this and enjoyed it. Altho it has ruined Hamlet a bit for me. Why doesn’t Hamlet’s dad’s ghost just haunt Claudius into madness and death? He seems to pop up as he likes. What obscure bit of medieval Danish afterworld legality prevented that?