Shopping online has become awful. You can’t look at what you want to buy without something popping up to offer a voucher, mailing list, loyalty club, free gifts, etc. It’s like having a sales assistant continually stand between you and the shelves you’re trying to buy from.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social there is nothing about this on your website. Normally we can’t keep you away from stories about Farage. Why the silence?

They’re not even hiding it…

Goddammit @bryce.lol got the delicious suckling pig. This is top tier reviewing from @jayrayner1.bsky.social on.ft.com/4q7qhfW

Just heard @wanderinggaia.bsky.social talking on Radical with Amol Rajan and what a refreshing inspiring listen! Great to hear the case for Immigration and a vision of a utopian future for Britain, along with the dispelling of some of the myths and disinformation around climate-induced migration.

My ghast is flabbered…

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

My view is that the only way to do this is for everyone who isn’t MAGA to be Antifa. Everyone. Old people, children, teachers, doctors, cleaners, baristas… Tee shirts, posters, flags, comics, podcasts, profile pages. Put it everywhere. We should all be Anti-Fascist. Make it loud and ubiquitous.

If you have always voted Tory, then flirted with UKIP, was taken in by the Brexit Party, voted Brexit, then listened to Boris Johnson and voted Tory (Again) to"Get Brexit Done" and now you support/voted Reform, the state the country is in is because of you! *copied* #Farage #ReformUK #Tory #Badenoch

It’s not corruption if Reform are doing it. It’s Sparkling Rebellion.

Just in case you are curious - and my God you should be - about the dude Wes Streeting and others are handing loads of public data contracts to. 👇

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

This is literally profiting from people’s misery, and at the taxpayer’s expense. Perfect for the Tory Conference.

This is literally profiting from people’s misery.

Tonight’s halo moon:

NB This article is taken from Cory Doctorow's writing, so is worth reading, in case you were thinking it'd be pointless Sunday opinion piece handwringing.

Surely Michelle is guilty of Mone laundering? I’ll see myself out.

RFM voters aren’t concerned whether Mr and Mrs Sing are making a contribution to society or claiming benefits. They’ve been told that London is a hellscape, Luton is a no-go area, and the town down the road is next for “Muslimification”. All courtesy of GBN and Yaxley-Lennon.

The irony of campaigning for a Russian sponsored operation to destabilise the EU and neutralise the UK by making it a rule-taker puppet state of an increasingly fascistic USA… and then hanging flags at half mast and calling yourselves patriots.

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

Is it scrap the NHS and have American style health insurance so we can all go bankrupt in our old age?

I suspect the Epstein Files have been destroyed, but that’s okay because Putin has a copy. That’s what the meeting in Alaska was about.

BBC: “President Trump has been leading efforts to end the conflict - most recently by inviting his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to Alaska for a summit.” No he hasn’t. Trump has relieved financial pressure on Russia by buying Russian oil, allowing Putin to extend the invasion.

It’s not a war on cars, it’s making spaces safe for people, it’s not getting rid of foreign rapists it’s being an open friendly society, it’s not a fight against Net Zero it’s look out of the *£&@&£*# window!

Okay, jokes over. The Dementia Patient has gone back home. Let the LED By Donkeys For go. Enough pandering to fascist bullies.

The US constitutional right to free speech is meaningless if US citizens are unable to exercise it. If one part is meaningless, all the other parts are too. The Constitution of the USA is now a historical document.

Fuck yes to this

It turns out that LLMs are designed to give wrong answers rather than admit they don’t know: www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

The Northern Lights were amazing last night, and I’d have seen them if it hadn’t been absolutely pi$$ing it down.

“…risks turning inwards.” LOL.

fascism maintains power by making everyone too scared to fight back but the truth is there's only a few of them and most of the stuff they're threatening is logistically impossibly at scale. they'll make examples and count on that to cow the rest. Not fighting back is the only way to lose though.

Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.

And the UK Government wants us all to use AI from the USA…

Today’s question. Is a terrorist: (a) Someone who puts red paint on a military aircraft as a protest? Or (b) someone of wealth and influence who tries to incite a foreign country into civil war?

The thing is, the people who are sanitising Kirk’s reputation are well aware that he was racist, misogynist, and vile. They are cynically using his death to further their fascist agenda in the knowledge that he was killed by one of their own.

This is what Musk is trying to do here:

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

SoA Peeps, there are three, maybe four candidates in the election for the Management Committee who are involved with Fossil Free Books - an organisation that wants to re-purpose the SoA's funds and resources to support campaigns on Climate Change and Palestinian Freedom. Careful who you vote for.

No policies, no shadow ministers, no experience, no staff, no plan, no budget, but they have the catering and the venue sorted. Marvellous. Nothing to criticise here.

"Nigel Farage has admitted he misspoke when he claimed to have bought a house in his constituency of Clacton, saying the property is in fact solely owned by his long-term partner." What he meant to say is that he lied.

Tonight, my 77-year-old mother ripped this flag off a dual carriageway bridge near Birmingham. Note the swastika. My dad's dad died fighting the Nazis.

“Farage claimed last year to have “bought a house” in his constituency but the property is actually owned in the name of his partner, meaning he legally avoided higher-rate stamp duty on the purchase of an additional home – given he already owns other properties” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tbf to the BBC they are the only outlet to make it very clear that Rayner actually sold her own share of the constituency house to the trust - which is the source of the confusion and initial poor advice.

Oh my. This is SO TOUCHING. Beautiful, poignant and wonderful. This is Britain’s at its best and I want more of it. Not the incessant Faragist cruelty and stupidity. More of this.

If you go online inciting people to assault other people by punching them in the genitalia because you don’t like them, then I think the police should have a word with you about your behaviour. Just saying.

So the question he didn’t answer is, where are the Epstein files?

Reports of his death are greatly exaggerated.

There is no longer a single gram of doubt that text, image and video generation is only truly "useful" when it's being used to serve authoritarian, fascist, white supremacist end goals Systems that already rely on deception and theft are the natural beneficiaries of this stuff!!!