Wait till he hears about the Electoral College..

The thing about the moment we are in is we have been here before. During the Brexit Referendum campaign, the Johnson years, and now with Farage's ascent. Our established press has played a role in why we have got to this point in British politics. What's happening at the BBC now was an inevitability

Am a little confused about the shutdown as I’m not a citizen of the U.S. but… don’t the GOP have majorities everywhere? How is this not their fault? (Rhetorical) how the hell have democrats not managed to communicate that?

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."

I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.

To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.

Very useful. The auto moderation is pretty useless as it stands. Completely reasonable content with zero rudeness, intolerance or threats is hidden whilst (usually conservative leaning) threatening, intolerant or rude content is let through.

Likely just poorly implemented rather than malicious.

its right behind you dumbass

What happens now is that every dropped piece of trash, every inch of graffiti, every broken down subway train, every disappointing sandwich, every rat in Central Park, and every single crime gets blamed on Zohran Mamdani... by racists who never go near NYC.

My tip as a Londoner. Shrug and carry on.

From what I’ve gleaned online, it’s very similar to what I already advise for clients. Having a great book (with decent references) I can refer people to will make persuading people of the benefits much easier.

Ooh, thanks for the recommendation! This looks like a great read for me, and also several of my clients.

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The corner of a small modernist office block with blue sky behind.

Morning walk through The Zone. 📷

1. Satellite of Love.

Oh, Dick Cheney died? Well-- *sees Bluesky mod around corner* What's really important is championing the open protocol.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

If parties want credit for telling hard truths, they need to tell them when they're genuinely hard.

If Labour had told the truth about taxes & the costs of Brexit before the election, its majority would be smaller.

But it would have more real power & the public would put more faith in its judgment

Yep. Also relentless focus on issues that concern a majority of voters, looking like you actually enjoy being around said voters, questioning the worth of old taboos, seeing 'strategic consultants' for what they are, not being scared of old men running old newspapers, and being *funny*.

"Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right" by Elizabeth Sandifer goes into the whole NRx Dark Enlightenment Philosophy that these people are saturated in. I recommend it, but I warn you all; they believe some really dumb shit.

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the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes

it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!

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happy halloween to what many people believed was the greatest tweet of all time

Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
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star trek: the next generation, but Computer has an obsequious attitude like ChatGPT

picard: computer, locate commander data

computer: that's a great idea, captain! it really shows initiative that you're seeking to locate a possible explanation for the behavior of the force fields. i can certainl-

So much terrible political decision-making in the UK stems from a British political and media class marinated in MAGA Right online myths that still hasn't grasped that Trump won a pretty narrow majority and then quickly went on to become a deeply unpopular President.

As inane and ill-informed on the issue as her colleague Corbyn. The arrogance of thinking you can tell working-class Ukrainians what is in their interest. The idiocy of equating aggressor and victim. Putrid.

Saw a TikTok today of a woman who went to the doctor for a biopsy, and when the results came back, confidently announced that she didn't believe the results, because she had described her condition to ChatGPT, and it had a different opinion.

Yeeeah.

The hallucination machine is gonna kill people.

There was no real remain choice in 2017. But there were compelling policy options on other topics.

In a two party system there is far too much need to support the lesser of two bad options. I remember speaking to friends and colleagues about the 2019 election and there wasn’t a enthusiasm for either choice (to put it mildly).

Didn’t it used to be more similar across countries until Bush decided to change the US date?

We’re witnessing the end of American capitalism as we knew it worldwide (somewhat regulated, tax paying etc). I don’t think we can predict what will follow, nor that we’ll like it.