Not a bubble

Institutionally transphobic party, every bit as hideous as the Tories were towards gay people in the 80s.

He wants to block the strait to stop Iran blocking the strait. Have I got that right?

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Just a reminder on this Easter Sunday: 1) Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. 2) The head of state threatening to commit a war crime is itself a war crime.

🚨NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 The Hormuz crisis has a real chance of causing energy shortages in the UK. The government is insisting it's business as usual, and opposition parties are arguing for fiscal measures that will stoke shortages. Neither is serious. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

I know some good people who put in hard honest work for the Oversight Board, but it was always more about forestalling the threat of government regulation through the promise of self regulation. That Meta feels it may not even need to keep up the pretense anymore is telling.

Why has the EU broken the Curia website? The new layout is dreadful and compresses the content you want into a narrow column, but also it's impossible to find things. The old one was rubbish but at least it basically worked

Once again we come back to 'George Osbourne was the worst chancellor in modern history and so many of our major issues stem from him'

Big fan of big rocket

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Needlessly cruel, enabled by a Labour Party that should never be forgiven

“This isn’t just about my livelihood – it’s about justice for the lough before there’s nothing left for the next generation.” The slow murder of Lough Neagh—the largest lake on the island of Ireland & across the British Isles—is a tragedy and a travesty. Go go Declan Conlon.

This is standard in NI when someone removes flags/terrorist insignia and the politicians here are happy enough for it to happen because they never do a fucking thing about any of it.

Who is selling out the United Kingdom to Palantir? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why not just figure out where you want the town to be, find out what that place is called, and call the new town that

How many times have privacy campaigners said this is the case, only to be ignored? The UK is desperate to push a surveillance state by any means necessary

The current "automatic" process involves succeeding in the Life in the UK and English language tests and paying 3000 pounds.

Maybe Labour's plan of hitting people with more economic pain in 2024-25 in the hope things would improve by 2028-29 was something of a strategic error

Maybe the British government could simply be less afraid of transparency (impossible)

Fresh from being the Westminster case study of the month, the Danish Social Democrats are on course for their worst result in more than a century, having bled votes to the Green Left. Meanwhile, the Danish People's Party they had allegedly vanquished are resurgent.

Can this be a solution?

Do I really need to support England in the rugby this evening. England

High Court: Witness coached via smart glasses while giving evidence www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/... (England) Judgment caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2026... The witness agreed to allow his phone to be checked but unfortunately it was stolen the next day #smartglasses #legaltech

After its CEO announced its pivot to AI, BuzzFeed's stock price "jumped aggressively, from around $3 per share to north of $15 ... three years after its AI pivot, the writing is on the wall. The company reported a net loss of $57.3 million in 2025" Perfect story of AI hubris

Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied. But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.

These are the people we're letting into the NHS

🚨 Wide ranging powers have been voted through to restrict Internet access 🚨 Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny. This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.

Rob Mullins: “Biological Sex”, Social Segregation, and the Freedom to Reassign Sex ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/09/r...

Cool healthcare system we have where my GP has no appointments available before April 3rd, when the online booking form simply runs out of dates

Important story: "The chair of the competition watchdog’s cloud inquiry has quit, saying he is frustrated at the slow pace of action against Microsoft and Amazon, while also citing concerns about its wider independence." The Govt recently confirmed Amazon's former UK chief as head of the CMA.

There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on. 2/4

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them

Really important intervention from @daniellalock.bsky.social into why both grounds for the High Court finding the Palestine Action ban unlawful matter, and that notwithstanding some of the criticism of the Court, why it matters that the court is asserting a high bar for such a ban to be justified:

This loss of talent will have long term consequences for our national research base. Government and funders should do something about it.

Asserting international law only when it is in your own/allies interest means not being committed to international law at all. Being dragged into a war by more powerful allies against direct interest and better judgement means having no strategic autonomy. The UK Govt is in a mess.

“We cannot say that the United States’ actions are against international law, but we condemn Iran’s retaliatory actions as against international law,” is neither a coherent nor a compelling position.

Nobody believes this is defensive, surely

As well as the obvious, there's a certain kind of British (English) right winger who views Ireland as a sort of wayward child who'll see the error of their ways and return to the family fold eventually These people are wrong, obviously, but that's never stopped them

If I was a head of state, I would simply be less enthusiastic about legitimising executing heads of state

“At the DfT’s request, O2 trawled people’s web browsing habits, including those of children, to identify “EV users”. … It then tracked those people’s physical movements around the country and sent “anonymised and aggregated” data to the government.” www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/25c4107...

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics. But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

Between this and Starmer's letter yesterday, Labour's leadership seems resolute in learning nothing at all from recent events

the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy

“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”

cant.stop.laughing

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*