This is a difficult one. It's only about 5% antisemitic (and 95% pretty much spot on) - but it would be great if someone with as big a reach as this would be more alert to the age-old tropes.

I drew a face on a paper plate. Who could even begin to understand how it perceives the world or what it dreams of?

As someone said, the biggest issue with AI in the workplace is not that it increases your speed. It's that it triples the output of the biggest idiot you work with.

This is a really fucking stupid and irresponsible thing for a widely-read magazine to publish. Claude is a large language model with an unusually large context window. It is not self-aware, nor is it a new entity. It's a set of rules which run really fast and produce a predictable outcome. Software.

Sound drums and trumpets!

When I was canvassing for Labour in 2024 I had a long chat with a Reform-curious lady; back then, she was willing to consider that a Starmer govt might at least manage migration more competently rather than just “talking tough”. I assured her that’s what would happen; I was wrong.

Stupidity plus greed is a very dangerous combination.

Trump is a vile racist bully We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.

Priests & Kings are order muppets, prophets are chaos muppets. Would LOVE to see the Muppet Tanach with casting based on that principle.

So true. Also, many of the Americans doing literally nothing about Epstein’s American ‘associates’ are precisely the ones lying about Europe & particularly the UK being overrun with child-rapists. It’s insane.

“Warfighters”. What a bellend. (Trump, not you James)

In every generation. In EVERY BLOODY GENERATION, we need to be reminded of the same lessons. These are old evils, so old words can be the right ones to rail against them.

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine an empty car driving aimlessly around looking for somewhere to park, forever" is an image both hilarious and utterly terrifying.

If the halls of power are awash with talk of who could possibly replace Starmer, surely the most sensible choice (yes, I'm sure there are internal party faction reasons why not, but anyway) is Yvette Cooper? (Disclaimer: I don't actually want to see Starmer go)

It's entirely possible that both left and right are getting this verse wrong: "the stranger" in this scenario is more like Native Americans in the contemporary US - i.e. the remnant of the (Canaanite) conquered/occupied population once the Israelites had established themselves in the Land.

'They spent the child benefit in the pub' was a 1970s cliche about the very worst sort of parents. Now it's Farage's policy.

Well, that would explain why the French infantry were called Les Pantalons Rouges..

Very strong Downfall/bunker “now is ze perfect time for ze counterattack zat vill vin us ze war!” vibes here.

Genuine question: who, in the Express’s hive mind, is the “you” in this headline? If Farage, Badenoch and the Failed Blond Twat are backing this “campaign”, who are they talking to? It’s almost as if it’s a meaningless, performative howl into the void from a failed worldview….

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

Worth reading. Not sure what else I can add, except…. None of this surprises me at all. It depresses me, but it doesn’t surprise me.

Snowflakes!!!

I was a Swiftie Dad as far back as 2009, when I took my daughter (then 7 years old) to see Hannah Montana: The Movie - with a cameo from 20-year old Ms. Swift. (She was old enough to take herself to the Eras tour - which she didn't do, but her twin brother did!)

Those who agree with her on policy are leaving. Those who don't agree with her on policy, she's telling to fuck off. So who exactly does she think is going to support her?

Paging @originstorypodcast.bsky.social .....

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

#weremember #HMD2026

They have been brought home. Baruch Hashem.

“I feel like I’ve come home” is exactly the sort of thing the extraterrestrial parasite says just before it starts to destroy its host body.

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

Vote Reform, they said. Smash the system, they said. Punish the two-party Westminster elites, they said.

Is it me or is that Hitler just below Braverman’s left elbow?

Quisling

Faced with the deranged threats and wild madness of Trump’s presidency, our Brexit ‘sovereignty’ couldn’t be more costly… and yet worthless. Farage and Badenoch would rather bend the knee to the US monster than admit that our future is with Europe. The deceit is pathological. Sociopathic. Ruinous.

This is a brilliant summation of a brilliant summation of things by Mark Carney. Middle powers getting together to protect themselves against the mad bad great powers? We I. The UK fucked that for ourselves 10 years ago, and are paying the price right now.

Good stuff indeed, however just to note that Carney is describing exactly what the European Union is and why it is.

Trump’s approach to geopolitics is based on colouring in. He wants as much map as possible coloured “his” colour, and can’t understand why any country would choose less of their own colour. And in terms of Greenland, I seriously wonder if the Mercator projection has a lot to answer for here.

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

My guess here is that Truss is not an antisemite but just a fucking idiot.

Having been overlooked for the Nobel Prize in Literature, I need to burn books.

The best thing about this is that it’s taking @eddavey.libdems.org.uk closer to becoming Leader of His Majesty’s Opposition…

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

bitch there is LITERALLY a Star Trek episode all about how easy it is for opportunistic shitheads in a crumbling society to bring back full-on Nazis when they start to panic about losing power, and William Shatner (WHO IS JEWISH) would definitely remember being in it

The people who complain the loudest about the 'elite self-obsessed Westminster Bubble' are, of course, the elite self-obsessed Westminster Bubble.

To quote @iandunt.bsky.social: