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Oh god, this sounds like the time I went to an outdoor Proms concert and it was all florid men with union jack waistcoats and *butlers* and they whistled to all the classical music.

I'm in for 40% of equity but only if you do it with sausages instead

These advisors are essentially narcissistic at core, and somehow cast a spell over people who are usually older and experienced enough to know better. I can't remember the last time a government was so out of step with the wishes of the public. Look at Palestine Action for an example.

Juvenile robin

The threat to our society is not from asylum seekers in small boats. It’s from politicians and media cynically whipping up fear and prejudice, labelling them all as criminals, inciting hatred against people for where and what they’ve fled from.
It must stop. For all our sakes. It’s deeply sinister.

I hope TV police dramas will start to catch up with real life and feature detectives reasoning that catching a murderer is far too much effort, when there’s an old lady sitting down with a sign they don’t like that they could arrest instead. 6 part series. ‘Narrowchurch’.

A PR company working for Colossal Biosciences is sending AI generated pieces to respected science journalists & asking them to publish the articles under their own names. This is so dodgy & just goes to show our critical expert scientific commentary is working. Sci comm failure 101 for Colossal.

When I briefly worked for the beeb in the Greg Dyke years, there was a lot of toing and froing of how everything could align with obligations/restrictions of the charter vs the commercial arm. Is that what's happening here?

Starmer, Reeves and Lammy need to GTFO and take McSweeney with them. They aren't Labour.

The unlikely bond between JD Vance and David Lammy The US vice president is beginning his UK holiday with a visit to the foreign secretary. Since when were they so close?

Just absolutely fuck off as far as you can, Lammy. This government is utterly shit at optics.

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During a live broadcast of Big Brother in Israel, members of Standing Together rush the stage wearing “Leave Gaza” shirts and calling for an end to the genocide and against Netanyahu’s plan for permanent occupation.

Screenshot of BBC news saying police arrest 474 people at Palestine Action ban protest.

What an utter absurdity our Home Secretary has created -

Destroying British free speech, right to protest and with it undermining democracy.

It is not for the government to terrorise the public for political opinions they don’t want to hear.

Under a Labour government, everyone. Let's not forget this.

Hey, political parties, I'm a decent human being who cares about other human beings. How about pandering to me for a bit?

At a recent closed door meeting of A Labour's ruling National Executive Council, Angela Rayner was asked to give an update on the state of the party in government, As is typical for Sir Keir Starmer's deputy, she did not mince her words. Labour, she told the meeting, had simply not been good enough at selling its achievements to voters and those voters would only return to the party if it gave them reasons to do so. She ended with an explicit warning: the next 12 months would decide whether Labour wins a second term.

This is actually worth a read. S*nday T*mes piece on the current Labour shitshow.

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I would point them to what happened to the Lib Dems after their coalition.

They have forgotten who they are supposed to be as Labour. You don't defeat the hard right by being more like them. You defeat them by showing people that Reform is wrong. Their focus is remaining in power, abandoning whatever principle they want to and it's disgusting.

Ha ha ha

Morgan McSweeney, brow furrowed, teeth, nostrils and knuckles clenched, appalling ill-fitted blue suit (it was never nice) that looks as if he's slept in it for a month without ever undoing its fully buttoned jacket, but a clean white shirt that one imagines 5 interns had to hold him down while the 6th one put it on him, gleams out from under it. This is a man who gives a strong impression of aroma, ill-temper, and contained violence. A cornered polecat. This is the guy who sits very deliberately directly opposite you on an almost empty tube carriage, and then stares while rhythmically grinding his teeth until you get up and move.

Incidentally THIS is what McSweeney looks like? I didn't know. Things all make so much more sense, now.

I enjoyed writing this alt text.

Police arrest 466 people over Palestine Action support at protest Defend Our Juries, which organised the demonstration, said between 600 and 700 people were in Parliament Square on Saturday afternoon

I see the Stasi have been busy….

I love gardening.

I think I have a job now and they asked me what my Ideal job would be and I said "gardening", but nobody will pay me £90k to garden 😂

I'm watching TOTP 1985, I feel modern

I predicted Money For Nothing and was very glad to hear it

...Rupert Lowe

some of the worst sentences I’ve ever read in my life, from this morning’s Axios Philadelphia newsletter “A disciple of Dr. Dre, the 53-year-old tells Axios that despite his hiatus, he's still kickin' the high-minded, pop culture-infused bars he'd mollywop emcees with during his Philly come-up — and later, on The Lyricist Lounge, a New York incubator for the industry's illest rhyme-spitters, from Mos Def to Eminem.”

It should be illegal for Axios to write about rap

That's not entirely true. I and my colleagues use it for software dev daily and I can assure you we criticise the merry fuck out of it.

A screenshot from a game where a butler is saying, "Welcome, guest from afar, what can I do for you?" and the options are Yes and No

Er, what?

Carl Sagan: "WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

Carl Sagan:

It's actually quite useful, that's the shame about LLM because as a tech tool with the right (ethical) training it's just another piece of software. All this bullshit over-promising is fucking everything up.