The Sky report on X is interesting but not surprising. It starts to put data behind the obvious bias on Twitter post Elon. One telling thing is what they class as “extreme”. On the left? Right? Jokes Hate fueled racist conspiracy

Posting again just to underline the fact that the X algorithm is VERY CLEARLY DESIGNED to feed far right material to new users… It is straight up a propaganda tool and decent people need to LEAVE it.

It's ugly and it has to stop. NOW. 🇬🇧

I lost the framed original of this while I was going through St Pancras on Sunday Nov 2nd around 3pm. Would love if it had been found by anyone?

Yeah, Labour and the media keep doing this with Zack Polanski too - assuming it's the style of his social media that attracts people rather than the content

A neat little quiz game: Is a headline homophobia from the 80s-90s or transphobia from the 2010s-2020s? Because it's all the same bullshit, repackaged for the hate du jour haveigotphobiaforyou.com

"He wasn’t even wearing a poppy!” <sprays tea everywhere>

I interviewed the exceptional James Graham for Waitrose Weekend and I would just like to scream this bit from the rooftops. www.weekend-online.com/issue768/#10

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People will mock this. But something to note: When Remembrance Day was introduced, this is EXACTLY what many British WW1 veterans did on it. They would meet up with old friends and colleagues from their units. Talk. Laugh. Cry. Toast those not there and get joyously, and utterly shitfaced. /1

I’m abandoning my heist script, what’s the point anymore

You’d need a heart of gammon not to laugh…

This could be an Irish woman

This is so powerful. Private healthcare has already contaminated our NHS too much. Don't let it go any further. vist.ly/4cmrj #NHS #publicownership

Via Gary Marcus. Wow.

This quote is set to be on the intro slide of an undergraduate lecture, soon.

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal." Which is true for trans kids too.

As for the last six years, I won’t be wearing a red poppy this year, but a white poppy. You can get them either from Quaker meeting houses, places that sell them, or online www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance-...

Because it’s cis kids. The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇 No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

Memory of the Second World War and genocidal Nazi crimes is now as distant to Zoomers as memory of trenches at the Somme and Verdun was to my Xennial generation born in the late 1970s and 1980s. The battle against myths of Nazism can no longer rely on lived experience of its catastrophic realities

Halloween 🎶 (Scary 👻) Track 13 🐾 Zombies 👮 Buy the song. Download the whole album. Or just listen for free. (Very scary 👻👻👻) boothbygraffoe.bandcamp.com/album/bang-i...

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

A long-ago tyrant named Mandy thought a likeness in stone would be dandy, but the statue fell down, leaving only a frown, and the rest has become rather sandy.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Interesting. It's almost as if focused outrage and the conscious maintenance of social norms works.

Virginia Giuffre was unable to comment, as she had ended her own life earlier this year. #EpsteinList

Andrew Windsor to be renamed Andrew Slough

I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either: a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out

The wind It destroyed my legs Ow OW My kneecaps are out

Private Eye hits it every time @chadbourn.bsky.social

How d'you do I See you've met the Ozymandy-man He's just a little let down by these Trunkless legs They've left him just a Sandy man Don't get strung out By these fallen rocks Look on my works and despair-oh There's not much of the man In these desert sands But in life I was one hell of a Pharaoh

Call them cunts and tell them they get nothing. Spit in their stupid faces. Put extra Asians in the Christmas adverts and explicitly say you're doing it to fuck them off. Tell them *no* for once Jesus actual Christ lads. Not "this is unworkable" or "this is expensive". Just no.

It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.

Dodecahedron (noun): a decahedron, a female decahedron.

"Listen, in some ways, I get it. When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president."

W. T. FFFFFFFFFF.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

You know when Terry Pratchett said 'It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works'? Yeah, he meant this.

I think I should quote this post every week

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

I want to think that this clip along with the Katie Lam madness represents the end of the Faragist cul-de-sac the Tories have gone down.