The battle to end no-pet policies in temporary accommodation took Big Issue vendors and their dogs to parliament.

It is! Among the old, Reform are doing best with pensioners who solely or largely rely on the state pension. Best way to understand public opinion is to see it as: 1) Do I feel under economic pressure? 2) Do I like Nigel Farage? If “Yes and Yes”, you vote Reform. “yes and no”, you vote Green.

No, you don't need AI to make your an avatar. No, you don't need AI to write. No, you don't need AI. If you use AI, you're a lazy good-for-nothing who has no skills, and will create nothing of interest or worth, because you didn't make it. Actually learn how to do things, or do something else.

It's NFTs again. It's crypto again. It's the exact same fucking spectacle, unaltered, all over again, except this time the magic future product can write incredibly shitty emails.

The Killers appear to have come straight from a bar mitzvah

This is very good on the logical preposterousness of the trans bathroom ban. It simply cannot have been the intention of the Equality Act or the governments which administered it. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Genuinely think the composition of the BBC Question Time panel for its AI special is the most unbalanced in the history of the programme. Every single panellist is a pro-AI. If there was an attempt at balance, it was a *spectacular* failure. (Also there's a weird stunt)

"It would be funny, if it weren't so troubling." - terrific column on the rise of Nigel Farage's own Eric Zemmour by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social:

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Britain’s 16-24-year-olds face too many barriers and not enough opportunities. This is how we can help them ✏️ Peter Hyman & Shuab Gamote

"In Britain, when dealing with a heatwave, there are 2 basic approaches"

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

In light of the recent UK news, I'm reminded of this excellent sign in the Rockefeller Center, New York City.

no to PC seems a bit daft. Was looking forward to Intergalactic but I'll just not play it rather than getting a PS. I'm sticking to PC despite GTA6 fgs, a few sony exclusives isn't going to tilt the scales.

Left my laptop running to do a task last night. Woke up and it had updated itself, rebooted, and had a full screen multi-step process where I had to untick small checkboxes and repeatedly refuse Microsoft 365. Windows is like a virus.

Get Polanski to run in Makerfield for the bantz, we could all do with a laff

Catherine West now on Radio 4 saying Keir Starmer could win a leadership election and not ruling out voting for him Mental!

Catherine west MP on radio 4 just now saying starmer might stand in leadership contest and he has good qualities.... 🤷

I really hope the Labour Party does not commit political suicide again. He has failed to counter negative media, that's it. He has not don't badly, just not done spectacularly. Had he forced through EU changes the economy would have bumped.

I still think this would have been the master stroke.

As an aside, if Wes Streeting is the answer I’m not sure what the question is.

i do not see how whoever replaces Starmer will be a noticeable improvement, nor lead to improved polls. This is maneouvring for maneouvring's sake.

On scale of 0-10, where 0 is Starmer's worst performance and 10 is his best speech ever, I'd say that was somewhere around an 8 or 9. He hasn't set the world alight, but nobody thought he would - he was at the upper end of modest expectations. Now over to Labour MPs for their verdict...

writing may be on the wall but strong speech by Starmer. I don't share the dislike towards him, on the world stage he's been excellent, it seems the biggest complaints are that he's tried to please everyone and managed to please no one, and not done enough, rather than major missteps.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

i hate all of this shit

I've been using the original Steam Controller for nearly 10 years. It was my first ever controller after many more years being strictly keyboard and mouse (or just keyboard. WASD? I remember z x / ' ). 1/3

Step one: DON'T FUCKING GIVE "AI" YOUR CREDIT CARDS JESUS FUCK WHAT ARE YOU THINKING www.wired.com/story/the-ra...

EXCL: Rachel Reeves is considering imposing one-year rent freeze on private sector homes amid growing alarm in government about impact of Iran war on voters’ budgets. Big story from @kiranstacey www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I'm pretty sure Kezia comes from a well-intentioned place. And I'm all for good faith engagement with people whose minds have been poisoned against trans people. But this is madness: JK Rowling is a toxic sewer of hate, aligned with fascists, and it's unforgivable for Stonewall to praise her.

Oh yea im sure it was totally a ddos and not the shitty ai you decided to use instead of real people

AI is only sustainable as B2B tech imo. The desperation of a few demented men to shove it down all our throats will hopefully be rewarded with catastrophic and very public failure

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

How #Starfield improved the POI placement, and why you (might) still want to use my POI Cooldown mod www.reddit.com/r/NoSodiumSt...

Definitely don't want nuclear weapons in the hands of volatile, difficult, unpredictable people

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

this is neat. gotta say I'm tempted to get my kerbonauts flying, if I wasn't so grabbed by Starfield right now

The beauty that is Starfield #starfield 1/3

Happy #starfield update day!

regular modded #starfield playthrough parked up, new un-modded playthrough ready and waiting for the Free Lanes update tomorrow!

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.

This might be the MOST STUNNING photo from Artemis II yet Crescent Earth illuminated by light above 🤩

I have been reflecting a lot on life the universe and everything recently. Nothing bad, but a combination of different things landing in quick succession has got me thinking.... just as well its a long weekend eh!

This is so, so well-articulated.

One of my team at work, in her 20s, didn't know what TLDR meant. I'm amazed that internet jargon like this isn't universal. Damn I'm old! (TLDR = Too long didn't read, prefacing a summary of a long post or document)

A typical Bethesda moment. #starfield #gaming

love this; originally these were only collectibles *in-game* for your character to find (and display). Now you can get the real thing as well, complete with retro video advert! #starfield www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yro6...