Dr. Jenny Alexander

I appreciate this so much! The manelsphere is still a real bummer.

"War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing..." (The Temptations, 1970)
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Useful collection of MAGA commentators' responses to the Iran strikes (both positive and negative). You may say this is a wretched hive of scum and villainy, but it's an internecine hive

Interesting from journalist Jacob Ward on the quite terrifying levels of surveillance (e.g. identification by heart-beat signature, and through walls using just wifi) which AI surveillance technology is already capable of. www.theripcurrent.com

I don't think they'd merge before the GE. There will be a coaltion if the maths is right in a hung parliament, which the Tories will deny they'd get into beforehand. "Vote Reform, get the Tories... again" will be a good attack line, probably used by Restore Britain as much as by Labour, Greens etc.

Polanski's bluesky profile (a sample of Green Party messaging) has him reciting lines from Benjamin Zephania's "The Britiish" celebating multicultural Britain. Labour should have come to power making a positive case for our proud cultural melting pot and its assets for the economy - not this...

A very significant proportion of the drop will be due to the continuing decimation of higher education wrought by the changes to overseas student visa regulations

Source for this clip (from 2023) is here (in an era of AI please source your clips people!) + graph visuals a bit dodgy (Reform and Labour closer than image suggests) but this also showcases the joylessness of the Starmer project. Hannah Spencer campaigned with joy: www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-p...

"Alternative facts" name for adult-toddler temper tantrum

Using boilerplate messaging that would use for George Galloway about Hannah Spencer personally & how she will approach being an MP is tin eared, graceless, implausible to the immediate audience (Labour MPs) and esp the broader one (Labour waverers/switchers) underpinned by the wrong strategy

You can just say things.

Reform (and supporters) rolling out the revolting and anti-democratic Trumpist playbook - "only elections where we win have legitimacy; in any election we didn't win, the other side cheated"...

YouTube video by Parastoo Ahmadi "از خون جوانان" با صدای پرستو احمدی در کاروانسرا | "Az Khoon-e Javanan" Song by Parastoo Ahmadi

My heart is w the women/ girls of Iran today, who've been struggling to overthrow the patriarchal repression of the regime (like Parastoo Ahmadi singing w'out hijab in protest). Now US bombs, sent by another (wannabe) theocratic patriarchal authoritarian assail them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B98Q...

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

What does the Greens’ victory in Gorton and Denton mean for the future of British politics? Our panel responds Greens first, Reform second, Labour trailing – and the Tories losing their deposit. This felt like a rejection of the status quo

Instructive that McTernan (no friend of Labour left) is now critical of No10's recent (insider name) strategy of "punch a hippy". The "brains" behind a strategy which actively despises their own base is something... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It was a great evening and a fabulous prelude to the byelection win today

Introduce them to Buffy the Vampire Slayer!

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Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Defeatist in tone perhaps, but clear-eyed about the challenge now facing the country to hold free and fair elections in the new authoritarian US

We are failing the next generation by allowing GenAI to steal their development of critical thinking skills. I don't blame students for being tempted by a quick shortcut (free for now to get everyone hooked). I blame AI corps for insinuating this tech into our education system like a crack pusher.

Listen to Zoe...

Starmer 2.0: could a more authentic PM revive Labour’s appeal? After surviving a coup, and with his critics chastened, No 10 insiders say a more combative PM is up for taking the fight to Reform UK

“'The one thing we must absolutely change is gratuitously pissing off our own voters,' said one senior minister." Ya think?! Political geniuses... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hope you'll read this great reporting on some parts of the Minneapolis story we haven't been seeing as much.

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Unfortunately your Bluesky marketing blurb, lack of historical internet footprint and similarity in name to Lemonaid AI make me think otherwise www.lemonaide.ai

I hate that I'm not sure if this is AI or not - I suspect it is

YouTube video by Marsh Family "Minnesota" - Marsh Family adaptation of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)"

@marshfamilysongs.bsky.social

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Beautiful song.

Rape and pillage in the retirement village (lyrics courtesty of Nick Cave)

An element of the party (Blue Labour) which despises much of the party's own base, gained control, and having performatively aped hard Tory/Reform "toughness", are now despised by their base in return as a moral vacuum. New leader, mea culpa about what they got wrong required