Vic Grout

This little ‘detail’ is quite a way down the Cyprus drone attack story, isn’t it?

I’m sure that’s not how it works

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

This is, of course, stupid. Technology was supposed to have us work less - not more. But, as I've said over and over, it's not AI and what it can do we should fear, but who owns it and what they'll do with it.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

if you think that winning an argument is the same as being right then you'll never understand why no-one likes you

Screenshot of an X post from FactPost (@factpostnews) with the headline “US citizens detained by ICE speak out,” followed by a quoted account describing being dragged outside, put in a headlock, repeatedly saying “I’m a citizen. I have an ID,” and an agent responding “That don’t matter,” plus hearing wailing and crying from detainees and banter and laughter from federal agents. Below the text is a split-screen TV news image: on the left, a heavily armored officer in a helmet and gas mask with the caption “MINNEAPOLIS ON EDGE,” and on the right, a blonde female news anchor in a white blazer in a studio. A lower banner reads “CHRIS JANSING REPORTS,” with an MSNBC-style logo and a “LIVE” timestamp.

Americans are realizing that unfettered federal power to detain and arrest is a very dangerous thing. I learned that lesson as a child when they put us into internment camps just for looking like the enemy. Don’t go further down this road.

No joke so funny that AI not getting it can’t make it better!

Those speech marks doing some work there.

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

America breaking international law: Good
Russia breaking international law: Bad
Israel breaking international law: Good
Keep up!

The same people who said, ‘The law is the law, and you don’t break the law,’ when a few climate protesters shinned up a bridge, seem remarkably unconcerned when a country illegally invades a sovereign state and abducts its leader.

they will burn the world to ash before they blame capitalism even when they literally mention “profits over people”

Passive voice doing some AI heavy lifting here?

I assume I’m entitled to back pay?

Not planned, and didn’t see the link until afterwards!

Well ...

I bet they proof read that a few times!

He’s there on the list
A lot more than twice.
It’s clear to us all
He hasn’t been nice
Orange Man is going to go down

Tutor sought for £180k job to teach baby to become a 'gentleman' The advert seeks

A London family wants £180k a year tutor for one-year old child to help him become an English gentleman.

Tutor must have gone to "the right kinds of schools", knowledge of horse riding, skiing, the arts and music.

This is the real island of strangers where class wars are inculcated at young age.

Is there published rota for Southampton managers? I’ll need a few months’ notice when it’s my turn.

Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car finance compensation scheme Lender’s chief executive says redress proposals could affect jobs, supply chains and broader UK economy

Santander urges ministers to intervene in UK car loan compensation scheme.

Resents compensating victims.

No one forced banks to sell another dud product to boost profits and exec pay, not tell customers of secret commissions.

Directors should personally bear some of the cost.

‘Breakfast’ is such a great word. Only the English could present the concept of going to bed and sleeping as abstinence!

The inability of domestic animals to deal with such a simple concept as the clocks changing never fails to astonish me.

There is nothing whatsoever left to the UK government except optics - and they don't even do that well.

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

Wow! It turns out there’s a yoga position I can do! (Although I call it something different.)

Most Norwegians I know want to be a fly on the wall when he's told 😜

I’m no historian but wouldn’t outlawing opposition to fascism have had some effect on the outcome of WW2?