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If you pay for Harry Potter merch, items, you pay JK Rowling, and you are paying her advocacy against trans people.

And fuck you for it. Fuck. You.

AI data centre plans equivalent to building five new Edinburgh-sized cities TWO new artificial intelligence data centres proposed for Edinburgh would demand the equivalent amount of energy as building five cities the same…

AI data centre plans equivalent to building five new Edinburgh-sized cities

the Labour-run local authority will not require the firms behind the plans to set out their environmental impact

Fuck. Off.

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The current generation of home consoles has been, by far, the most disappointing one I’ve lived through. And literally *nothing* about it will be fixed by newer, more expensive consoles.

Both Microsoft and Sony are kidding themselves if they think “new consoles in 2027” are a good idea.

This clip is really horrible just fyi the minister just dead eyed refusing to answer pointing at the supreme court and the ehrc claiming they were very clear with the obvious implication

The best time to boycott Xbox and Microsoft was when BDS called for it, the next best time is now. Focused, targeted boycotts work, this one is working, and all you got to do to support it is go play other games. Literally the least you could do in this moment in history

The idea that our friends, relatives, neighbours and colleagues should be summarily flung out of the country by some future Tory government because they don't fit some right wing extremist's definition of "cultural coherence" should set alarm bells ringing everywhere.

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

i've asked an llm one question, about something i know about, and it made up a bunch of incorrect bullshit that i knew to be false. what am i supposed to do with that

Women don't like the vehicle

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them October 14 2025, The Times The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

Let’s make different political choices.

For decades now British people have been told to simply swallow austerity. They’ve been told that the NHS needs cuts, that libraries need closing and that child poverty can’t be tackled.

Greens say: Bullshit!
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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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

Hundreds of children’s shoes commemorating the children who’ve been murdered by the Israeli military in Gaza. They’re displayed in a public square outside a library in Brighton, UK.

Pushing my kid in his stroller as we head to a swimming lesson and just been hit in the gut by this memorial to the children of Palestine.

Just a bus ride away from here, there’s a factory pumping out parts for the same F-35 jets used to kill these same kids. I am so full of rage.

This is grim & dangerous over reach.

This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent.

Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

a massive far right demonstration in our capital city smearing brown ppl as rapists is fine and dandy.

ppl protesting peacefully against a foreign government engaged in a genocide is making the jewish community fearful and therefore protest must be banned by law.

this government is disgusting.

My jaw hit the floor upon seeing Keir Starmer’s Cabinet in the front row at the party’s conference waving their little plastic Union Jacks, writes Mhairi Black ✍️

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This is spot on from @zackpolanski.bsky.social, who is himself Jewish and comes from Manchester.

Shabana Mahmoud is being deeply dishonest, disingenuous and dangerous by conflating protests against genocide with this antisemitic attack. It is not antisemitic to protest against the horror in Gaza.

Extremely simple - the fact nobody in the public sphere (apart from Polanski) is prepared to say this is extremely worrying

You can protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and unequivocally condemn the antisemitic terror attack in Manchester.

Don’t let politicians or the media tell you that you can’t do both.

Sometimes it seems we're really building a future that nobody wants, but we're doing it anyway because a few people want to be richer.

Another day, another act of piracy by Israel in international waters

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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We should all ask the question: Where is Keir Starmer?