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Cyndi Lauper will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 during tomorrow evening's ceremony!

Please join us in congratulating her on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/CyndiLauper

AI: It’s The Sam Old Story

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Polling: too much of a bad thing

Great no-nonsense write up shared here. Keep our NHS public and Human-centered.

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

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I'd love to have a efficient, user-friendly digital ID card like Sweden but it would need to be similarly decentralized and we need robust restrictions on the usage of our data. How do they expect us to trust a state cosying up to the likes of Palantir and repeatedly misusing private data?

Dancefloor filler

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Every new labour policy sounds like the first thing they wrote on the whiteboard in the ideas workshop.

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It's party conference season. We thought it was time to see where each party stands on public ownership. 🔎

Some of the results might surprise you!

Check out our full Public Ownership Party Scorecard via link in comments below👇

A photo of a young Rick Davis in a T-shirt and jeans, sat at an ornate piano looking over his right shoulder off camera.

A photo of young Rick Davis wearing a shirt and jeans, singing with his eyes closed while playing a keyboard with keyboards all around him.

A picture of a middle aged Rick Davis wearing a black suit and white shirt, sitting in a velvet armchair and looking into the camera while holding his hands up in front of his shoulders as if he is playing the piano.

"Hope you find your paradise..."

I just got back from a camping trip to find that Rick Davis has passed away. It was his voice, piano playing and funk and blues influences that made Supertramp one of my favorite 70s rock groups.

Hack the planet!

We see politicians weaponising fear about trans+ people to avoid addressing the systemic issue that actually endanger women. Not in our name. NION icon

The statement in the image is one line taken from our letter - 'Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community'.

If you agree, read and sign our letter and stand alongside 42K+ other likeminded women in the UK who refuse to be used as cover for discrimination:

👉 change.org/nion_women

What a lucky feline he was ❤️ sending love ❤️

"Rupert Lowe, Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick & their cast of other reckless, self-serving bigots are helping to stir up the very sort of thuggish men who now march and loiter on Britain’s streets, claiming they are there to ‘protect our women’"
via Coral Fineman
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A great track that has pride of place in my Halloween crate

I once excitedly lent The Cyberiad to a friend who had studied philosophy and they returned it to me unread saying it wasn't for them. I think that was an early lesson in "everyone doesn't think like you".

The Cyberiad and Solaris were my favorite books as a teen. I think Lem was one of the reasons I went on to study human behavior. I learnt about the fallibility of humans and our poor systems thinking, societal constructs and destructive colonialism. He showed us protest through art. Proud weirdo!

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Love it! We call First Class the crumple zone.

"The worlds of pop and rock owe a much greater debt to the classical canon than we realise.... from the experimentalism of Pierre Henry to The Beatles' 'Tomorrow Never Knows', from Stockhausen to Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love' and from Bruckner to Sonic Youth via Glenn Branca."

A photo taken through a window of a black and white cat lying down with a rainbow tutu on.

Everybody is enjoying Brighton Pride 🌈❤️

I played this to death!

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WhoFundsThem: Literature Review Summary of existing research and polling on MPs interests

Britain has a corruption problem.

"MPs [with 2nd jobs] ask significantly more parliamentary questions. The avg Tory MP asks a median of 2 Qs a year, but this rises to 19 when holding a second job. The largest increase was with those working in the for-profit 'knowledge sector' (avg. 26 questions)"

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?

Ah, I see. Remember Marc Cuban talking about using AI to “speed up” Medicaid claims? It’s from a cultural group’s talking point memo:

www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

A square banner with the Trans Pride Brighton and Hove logo and the text "putting the T first since 2013"

A photo of Stein Gardens, Brighton full of people sitting and standing listening to music with the Georgian houses behind and the sea in the distance. In the foreground are blue and white flowers.

A poster in a window that reads: "Trans people are magic" with cute illustrations.

A sticker on the ground that has the trans flag as the background with the text "let my trans friends piss in peace".

The sun is shining and lots of beautiful people are out celebrating Trans Pride Brighton 💙🩷🤍🩷💙 @transpridebrighton.bsky.social

A photo of Kate Nash pointing both first fingers at the camera with the logo of Trans Pride Brighton &Hove on the top left and white text on pink at the bottom that reads: "We are excited to announce our secret special guest is the amazing Kate Nash!"

Trans Pride Brighton is today, Saturday 18th July!