Dr David R Brake

this is a masterclass response to Mahmood's latest hate mongering from Zack.

He marketed himself and the party as the "competency party" but clearly failed on that promise too (hard to be competent if you keep changing your objectives!)

I am a patriot. I don't remember @zackpolanski.bsky.social saying patriotism is a dirty word. I am proud of a Britain that professes to believe in human rights and dignity for all. It is the attacks on that tradition by Farage and @shabanamahmood.bsky.social that undermine my pride in being 🇬🇧

"The data centre has completely revitalized my community. It has become the third space we so desperately needed, with children playing jump rope and running down the aisles, the elderly enjoying each others company, and people leave floral wreaths inside every day. We crawl around in the total darkness on our hands and knees and our vagus nerves are stimulated by the humming of the machines. Some people have even started to disappear, growing into the walls, and once they are in that state we pay them no mind; they cease to be individuals." - Salesforce Child

www.instagram.com/p/DVbha-_Epsy/

a pile of these

The worst and most terrifying "every accusation is a confession" yet.

Perversely wish that Wikipedia page had been created from whole cloth just now...

Every time I meet someone and they learn that I am in transportation, they say “you need to fix congestion on so and so road”.

Every time my response is the same: “I have the solution, you just won’t like it.”

Crickets following the exchange (also every time).

This is my new favourite meme

Wicked! Could also caption it "a tool... holding a wrench".

Post See new posts Conversation beekirby (on the other place now) @Bee_Kirby · Mar 10, 2021 "Oh you complain about how much energy bitcoin consumes, do you know how much energy YOU use???" Yeah dipshit the difference is I use energy for shit like hygiene and food preparation and communicating with people and many other things your shitty puzzle machine can't do beekirby (on the other place now) @Bee_Kirby bitcoin people are spreading around their own bullshit videos about how the people against it are "hypocrites" as if their puzzle-solving machines that generate fake money are as important as food, light, heating, and transportation all put together

Thank you @beekirby.bsky.social for this gift in 2021

An expat in Dubai has a startling revelation: the Stephen Collins cartoon Reality check …

*snort*
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Zack Polanski gets under the skin of exactly the right people The Green leader has yet to advance workable, deeply thought through solutions to Britain’s biggest problems—but nor has Reform

Zack Polanski supporters are not deranged or stupid, they are relieved at a leader who is finally upbeat and hopeful, writes Alan Rusbridger

Labours attitudes towards water companies is one of the starkest examples of how they'll do anything to protect the status quo.

The case for water nationalisation is so bloody obvious to everyone - yet they'll do anything they can to keep the failed privatisation experiment.

Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers.

They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?

This is the sleeper train route I’ve been waiting for. I can leave home in the morning, get to Brussels by mid afternoon, zip through Europe, go to sleep, and wake up in Milan. The Brussels to Milan part for as little as €49 each way! And with minimal carbon guilt…

This is amazing 👏🏽 🤩 @zackpolanski.bsky.social

The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI After being sold to Clickout Media, sites like GamesHub, The Escapist, Videogamer, and others have added gambling and casino stories and AI content

Or should I be thanking @jacksonryan1.bsky.social at @aftermath.site for exposing this issue? Or both? aftermath.site/gameshub-cli...

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

For everyone feeling depressed at the state of the world today.

There is hope. Never give up 💚☮️🇵🇸✊

And after thousands of inconclusive words he ringingly concludes that Democrats should simply "do no harm" and wait for votes to come their way because Trump is doing fine making himself unpopular. As if inaction in the face of what Trump is up to would be harmless?

I thought I'd check out what @markleibovich.bsky.social thinks is keeping Democrats unelectable. His first two examples were DNC staff not wanting to be forced into the office every day and having a land acknowledgement at a party meeting. Hardly crazy communism?! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine was a huge shout in the face, through a megaphone, that we need to replace gas boilers with heat pumps and gas-fired power stations with solar, wind, interconnection and batteries.

Perhaps two "shocks" in four years might get the message through?

*Some* US consumers.

"I moved to one of the most unstable regions in the world, within missile range of an internationally recognized rogue state, to a city built by 'Israelites in Egypt'-esque slave labor. The place where I live depends on every faction in unstable region mutually agreeing to not let shit pop off"

Videogamer has been in business more than 20 years. At the top of every story is the following statement: “You can trust VideoGamer. Our team of gaming experts spend hours testing and reviewing the latest games, to ensure you’re reading the most comprehensive guide possible. Rest assured, all imagery and advice is unique and original.” New writer on the site Brian Merrygold has a byline picture which is AI generated (according to checking service IdentifAI). His biog is also entirely AI generated (per text checking service Pangram), as are his articles.

AI enshittification takes over three once-respected computer game review sites... Thank you @robwaugh.bsky.social at @pressgazette.co.uk for highlighting this increasingly familiar tale. pressgazette.co.uk/news/staff-j...

The Enshittificator Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved…

It's funny (which we need right now), *and* it's designed to publicise a detailed tech policy report (www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree), written by a Norwegian non-profit based on Cory Doctorow's brilliant insights. The content we all need! vimeo.com/1168468796?f...

The NYT style guide

Attention @avilewis.ca !

I saw a German post yesterday, wishing they had a "Zack Polanski" in their country. EVERY country can have one. Be a Mamdani or Polanski. Encourage everyone else to believe in hope. The only invasion we need is by the Green Menace. 💚💚💚

Classic Starmer triangulation - manages to irritate Trump by not helping the initial attack, then does a U turn to let him use our bases anyway to attack.. er... defensively (destroying Iranian missiles) while trying to give the public the impression we aren't involved.