Dan

a helicopter is flying over a body of water and the time is 28 : 47 ALT: a helicopter is flying over a body of water and the time is 28 : 47

When people talk about class war on here all I can think of is a Scottish man hunting down yuppies for sport.

Hello Katie Curtis MP I am reminding you that lots of people don’t even have a fucking front room because landlords turn them into an additional bedroom from which to extract rental ‘income’. Labour had had two years to even make a start fixing how fucked housing is in the UK & has done NOTHING

Labour going after middle class people is wild, a shrinking minority of them are literally the only shooters they have left

The other thing that's going on here, is that this person is using the idea that if a middle class person is leftwing, they're out of touch/a hypocrite/lying. "Champagne socialism".

You spend a decade trying to understand the UK’s baffling relationship to class, you think you’ve finally started to get it, then you see something like this and realise you’re right back to square one.

“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”

Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.

The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

new rule: if a political party starts saying shit like this then all of their elected representatives should submit to drug testing

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

[TW Suicide, sex work, drug use, addiction, tabloid hacks]

That last response, Jesus fucking *Christ*

Silly I know but one likes to imagine her majesty up in hea’n looking a little cross because she spent 12m to settle a charge against her paedo son only to see him arrested for misconduct in public office. Im sure Paddington will cheer her up with a yummy marmalade sandwich 💞🇬🇧

3000-word “X” post breathlessly explaining how everyone’s lives are about to change forever now that all of Silicon Valley can play chess against a Turkish automaton

SUCH a banger

Cabinet Office looking into Starmer-linked thinktank after it investigated journalists

I'm old enough to remember when Labour frontbenchers were sacked for likes on tweets—now they are allowed to investigate themselves over issues of misconduct in public office.

RIGHTO

“Hi there, Britain’s most prominent media outlets appear to have secretly conspired with our most Epsteined-up crooked politicians to drastically subvert the course of democracy, not once but twice, via insultingly bogus scandals and relentless lying, can I interest you in voting Labour in May?”

Opinion The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 - Starmer has nowhere to hide

The core of “the Labour Together scandal” is Peter Mandelson’s party insiders secretly collaborating with the national press to a) terrorise a twitchy minority group, b) shitehouse the Tories to election victory, then c) bullshit Sir Keir to power. I’d say a few others have questions to answer.

after all, what better way to force people to use your bullshit wrong answer machines than making it extremely costly for anyone to do computation locally and thus establish said machines as the sole method of interface ?

i think lots of people underestimate how badly these “AI” companies want people to be unable to afford computers. they view personal computing as a roadblock to their desire for complete end-to-end centralization. the fact that their tech is putting hardware out of reach is not just a happy accident

Fuck. This guy is gonna have to get his new tattoo covered up AGAIN in about 8-10 years.

YES!

Aw no I wish I knew about this!

Cor!

One last time.... LET'S HEAR IT FOR BREWDOG #RIP

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Think my favourite new feature would be eschewing the time honoured search function in terms of e.g. 'result 1 of 12' in favour of an overlay in which I'm invited to ask what the main themes of a PDF I myself made are

"The left are in denial about AI!!" motherfucker, have you seen what it's done to Adobe Acrobat?

Also, I’ve already fallen for St Leonards. It’s very me.

Have Love Will Travel - French Special DJs John The Revelator plus guest Dan Orton Tonight 9pm - 2am The Piper, St Leonard’s On Sea, Hastings Poster features Annie Philippe

Have Love Will Travel - French Special DJs John The Revelator plus guest Dan Orton Tonight 9pm - 2am The Piper, St Leonard’s On Sea, Hastings Poster features Dorothy McGowan in Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

Have Love Will Travel - French Special DJs John The Revelator plus guest Dan Orton Tonight 9pm - 2am The Piper, St Leonard’s On Sea, Hastings Poster features Francoise Hardy

Bricking it a bit but I’ll be spinning some Francophone and adjacent records at The Piper in St Leonard’s On Sea tonight from 9pm (I’ll be doing a few half hour sets throughout the night, first at 9:30pm). Designed the posters too. Melanie Pain from Nouvelle Vague will be performing upstairs too.

Same. Have unsubscribed after 25 years over it. I thought they were better than this. I stopped reading Private Eye years ago for similar reasons (a friend of a friend fell out with one of Hislop’s mates so they ran a hit piece on him in response). Awful behaviour.

My kind of man. 😍

My actual favourite class test is one that David Reed gave me:

“Did the roof of your school come to a point?”

Watching the Winter Olympics and remembering something Ahir Shah told me once. Posh people do dangerous sports, like skiing, because if they break a leg and have to spend weeks in bed off work, they don’t stop earning.

Think it might be as good a class test as what you call your settee.