in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

Or any other small nation for that matter. You've just got to take a step back & ask the reasons as to why Westminster continually denies us the democracy & holds on to us like they're last shite. #AreYouYesYet #DissolveTheUnion #EnglishDemocracyDeniers

Alan Moore’s latest novel has an acknowledgements section in which he thanks the universe, a moon goddess, and a python god. it also includes this line: “Existence is a stupefying stroke of luck and we should all feel grateful to be part of it, even when much of it's on fire and overrun by Nazis.”

"I, a Musl man of Sri Lankan descent, am so profoundy brainwashed by living in a society that's loaded in favour of white people, I believe they are still victims somehow... because I exist." Yussuf is the biggest pick-me loser in Britain [worse than dipshit Badenoch], Reek levels of self-respect.

Very cool work here by Matt Dallek at @thebulwark.com

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

Andy, [I say this as someone who has had genuine admiration for your job as mayor when I lived in town] Go fuck yourself you tone deaf prick.

Absolutely insane for the media to say "Farage, who has avoided scrutiny by the media". THEN FUCKING DO IT! IT'S YOU! YOU'RE THE MEDIA!

The most blatantly obvious cynical self-serving crook who in any functioning society would be told to fuck off and hawk his snake oils on his own dime, but because he remains the political system’s one living paragon of their dream political leader, he gets a permanent seat to peddle dog shit.

The Tony Blair Institute has already been heavily scrutinised for arguing against Net Zero while taking cash from oil-producing gulf states. He’s also one of the most detested people in the public sphere. There’s no reason to continue writing about his exploits and opinions other than as a choice.

10 years on. No mandate. No manifesto. We must revisit brexit. This is democracy. Almost 12 years on. Mandate. Manifesto commitment. Largest pro independence majority in history. The clearly expressed will of parliament. No revisit. No referendum. Not you Scotland. You've had your democracy.

Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Might be worth reading this if you instantly dismiss people as cranks whenever they question whether certain events in the news are everything they appear to be. We no longer live in a world where the news can be taken at face value as there are bad actors involved both in making and reporting it.

Wow. Read this. No wonder he's building a bunker.

If you dont wanna feel the guilt dissociate yourself from the fascist machine dont just tell me how sad working at the fascism factory makes you but youre trying to make it better anyway vote labour next election please and donate to the guardian fuk you

"I'm really angry that this scifi writer whose work was stolen to train a probability machine that depletes water tables and raises electricity prices and is accelerating the transfer of wealth and capital toward men who actively hate other humans doesn't like 'AI," what a lack of vision they have"

other people have said this, but you aren't an "ally" if you are chummy with transphobes or are friendly with other journalists who work at the racism factories. expressing mild displeasure in a tweet does not absolve you.

what has happened instead, with immigrant rights here and trans rights in the UK, is centrists who have personally bigoted views are seizing on the opportunity of incipient fascism to advance their own agenda

Trans rights are human rights. Fuck the US and UK governments for their opposition to trans equality.

Gaslight by Fanny.

Labour's inability to condemn last years far right riots, and the Home Secretary endorsing the ludicrous flag campaign are probably two of the most shocking moments from a sitting government in my lifetime.

My favourite Bsky account doing favourite account things.

In attacking Greens over antisemitism, Labour drones have take to describing Polanski as a "self-hating Jew".

James Ball and the other Labour drones on this site are quite fucking something. Just awful people talking awful shite and pretending they're still somehow pRoGrEsSiVe.

The cost to me of Farage is unacceptable, the cost to UK of reformist agenda is unthinkable. The price of Brexit and of artificially conjured mistrust is too high. I believe it is shortening lives, it is certainly confiscating peace of mind universally. This is not the path to take.

Amnesty International's analysis of how the 'gender critical' hate movement spent millions promoting their prejudices - and furthering the goals of the Christian Right. media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Li...

Starmer or Starmer light - not much of a choice for Labour members. Not much hope from the self styled “king in the North”, just a rinse and repeat of everything that has gone, and failed, before. Really, what is the point? Oh yeah, the markets (aka billionaires and press barons) will be appeased

Labour is lost. Mahmood is an extremist, and their new sensible centrist wannabe leader is totes fine with it.

[Inept middle-managers running around the office blaming each other]

"Democracies are now threatened by what might be called fossil fuel fascism – an extremist political movement that breaks laws, spreads lies and threatens violence in an increasingly desperate attempt to maintain markets for oil, gas and coal that would otherwise be replaced by cheaper renewables."

Massive strategic error by the UK government in loosening sanctions on Russian oil, resulting in massive finger-pointing internally about who was responsible for the decision. The EU isn’t going to waive sanctions which has now caused a policy split.

If the popular Mayor of Greater Manchester can't fairly win a by-election in [checks notes], Greater Manchester...he may not be the Messiah after all. "Progessive alliance" means "keep voting for us while we call you antisemites who give heroine to children". Hard pass.

"The doctrine functions as a replacement for the Constitution rather than an interpretation of it, offered by a political movement that could not amend the document through Article V and decided to install its preferred version through judicial appointments instead."

This feels like a scene from a prequel to Alex Garland's Civil War.

this is a masterpiece

one thing that went wrong in our political media culture is that journalists so deeply internalized a backwards version of 'the cover-up is the crime' they assume that anything that's being done out in the open is just 'a thing that happened' that needs to be subjected to the 'objectivity' standard

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

This needs to become the standard societal reaction to these toxic viewpoints about deporting immigrants.

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

Normalise political questions that start with: "you were chiefly responsible for [insert generational disaster here], why do you think you deserve a platform now?"

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oh gr8 more months of politicians humming & hawing over whether Brexit has been disastrous for the UK rather than treating the public like adults and saying it’s been a disaster inflicted by Farage

Genocide is the new 'the dog ate my homework'.

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

Dan helping Farage out here by conflating corruption with tax evasion. The tax angle isn't the story.