You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...

NEW The letter the BBC could send back to Trump A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim By me. Enjoy. emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...

I've just seen the spliced Trump footage on the BBC and I'm not surprised he's annoyed. That's clearly been edited.

"Trump has sent a letter to the BBC..."

If you don’t like the BBC, I suggest that you go to America and watch their TV for a day. It gives you a migraine. The BBC also keeps the standards of the other outlets relatively high. If you think we watch shit now, imagine it with no BBC. And they actually care about drama, children’s, factual.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

I still love pointing this out every so often.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

New awareness campaign

elon musk: people in the uk live like hobbits. um let’s look at you for a second bro

Truth

the former prince will now go by his new name, Andrew Saxe-Offender

Picking up on the day's news via Bluesky. "Jamaica?" "Ozymandias?" "Nonce?"

My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my Works, ye mighty, and Despar

It is way past time for the UK government & the BBC to get off X & for Musk to be treated as a threat to national security. The world's richest man is using his site to promote civil war, ethnic violence & the overthrow of an elected government. You won't win him over with another conference on AI

Our friends at Spymania are doing some t-shirts and hoodies to celebrate 30 years since their first record release everpress.com/spymania-30-... . They were the first people to release anything of ours, and without them we probably would have stopped when we broke our first tape deck

Let me tell you a story (before the ship explodes):

This is great

One for @quantick.bsky.social

I'm going to make this my pinned post. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mmc...

If people are reading hateful stories concocted by the media on their phones - then committing violence based on those stories - and your response is to ban access to phones, then your response to the message of Mein Kampf would be to ban access to books.

In one episode of the second series of Stuff, the first five minutes consisted of what appeared to be an episode of Juliet Bravo, and really the only initial clue is that Juliet Bravo was never on BBC2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmX...

The weekend is here!

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

Ludwig is genius. The original creator used to have a website where you could buy and download the entire run for something like a fiver; my kids grew up with it, as I did.

We're ruining (or improving) Bond posters on @b3ta.com this week

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.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Experiment successful.

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

It's a reasonable Tuesday morning so it's time to push the b3ta starter pack again! A mishmash of amusing, creative and mostly affable people to follow.

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Coming up at 3. Includes @cassetteboy.bsky.social and any many more...

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Wake up babes, new Cassetteboy has dropped

This amazing article from @vic-parsons.bsky.social via @wearequeeraf.com shows the absolute criminal state of trans healthcare in the UK. Scotland has a 224 year wait for a first appointment. Yes, you read that right. www.wearequeeraf.com/gender-clini...

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.