Michael Shaw

YouTube video by Jo Miran's Silk and Dookies Vertical Video Syndrome A PSA (Glove and Boots)

I like this theory as it connects two things I hate.

Can I add "vertical video" to this conspiracy? It looks like shite and ushered in all sorts of poor quality video "content".

So yes, I'd say it's another harbinger of the AI slop age.

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Even Epstein is here acknowledging that a third of those names are just wishes and not people that have been even lightly approached (32 names, yet only 23 have “agreed in principle” and those aren’t highlighted).

Ah - thanks for doing an update on this. Relieved it’s not just me and will be arriving digitally at some point.

The whole “not available for purchase in your country” meant it felt like the UK had been abandoned…

My obvious plan for the next three Bond films James Bond is dead. So what happens now?

Don’t worry - I’ve got the very obvious answer…

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My obvious plan for the next three Bond films James Bond is dead. So what happens now?

@annodracula.bsky.social Am I just imagining that the first idea here was something you were suggesting maybe 20 years ago?

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My obvious plan for the next three Bond films James Bond is dead. So what happens now?

If writers really are struggling with what to do about the next James Bond film, after blowing him up in the last one, they're welcome to my plan...

(Part of it lifts an idea that @annodracula.bsky.social had many years ago)

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I find it astonishing the BBC will tear itself up over a moment in a montage - not a scene critical to the documentary's (balanced) argument.

Meanwhile another channel can broadcast a fabricated claim that stirs up hatred against a vulnerable group with zero censure.

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In case anyone thinks I'm imagining this.

the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open . ALT: the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .

After years of being told that Microsoft software works better on PCs than a Mac I'm finding baffling how many things are actually much worse on PCs.

Like if you're a working parent with a family calendar in Google, Outlook on PC insists on blocking out your whole working day for no reason.

Indeed. You have to be really down the far-right rabbit hole of blaming asylum-seekers for everything to be unable to pause and say “Wait - that makes no logical sense given what a tiny proportion of Dorset’s population are asylum-seekers.”

If you report on things that are true your organisation gets decapitated, but if you let people invent racist drivel on air you're fine. Every single aspect of our information ecosystem is so, so broken.

Yeah - and Grok continues to double down on it.

I wondered if the correction notes had sunk in, so just checked again.

No, the AI for X continues to promote a hate-mongering falsehood as fact.

I’ve done that but am, sadly, not holding my breath.

I’ve reported it.

But whether @ofcom.bsky.social will respond or take action is another matter.

Nothing specific in this FOI - the only Dorset police one referencing asylum-seekers specifically looks at Bibby Stockholm and highlighted just ONE person.

(Weirdly, Grok is still pretending that FOI supports the 44% claim)

Yeah - I also remember having positive feelings about her writing for some stuff she did back then. Allison’s swing to the hard right is even more extreme than the transformation of Melanie Phillips. On a par with Matt Goodwin’s, in fact.

A fabulous debunking, as always.

This was the false story on GB News / X that made me furious this week, by the way.

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Also: everyone should stand AT LEAST ONE METRE back from luggage carousels until they are getting their own suitcases as this obviously improves everyone’s lines of sight you selfish, spatially-unaware wankers.

I think the most appalling thing GB News did this week was to broadcast this false and hatemongering claim about asylum-seekers committing sex attacks in Dorset.

Ofcom needs to act.

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If you’re going to attack other news channels for accuracy is @gbnewsonline.bsky.social going to apologise for broadcasting patently false and hatemongering claims about asylum-seekers this week?

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Anyway if we lived in a rational world the Telegraph would sack Allison Pearson for persistently promoting hatemongering claims like this and Ofcom would be clamping down on GB News.

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If someone was stupid enough to read the 51 asylum-seekers as the cases *by* asylum seekers and the 116 as the total sexual offences in Dorset they'd get a % that was...

44%.

So I'd bet that's what happened.

They had a relevant finding for Dorset.

In Bournemouth 51 asylum seekers (or people who gave hotels where they stayed as addresses) were responsible for *116* offences.

Remember that these offences were not just sexual assaults.

The Mail got figures for

- a 3 year period

- of all crimes (so not just sex offences but also theft & drug offences)

- by people who gave their addresses as hotels used for accommodating asylum-seekers

So where did the "116 cases" and the "44%" come from?

My theory is a different FOI done several months before by The Daily Mail - which doesn't support the claim but looks like the source of some embarrassingly bad maths.

Even in this smaller 8.2% figure only a fraction of that could possibly have been by asylum-seekers.

It was a figure for all foreign nationals and the nationalities included many who do not apply to be refugees (including people from Poland and New Zealand).

Sexual offences by nationality FOI Sexual offences by nationality Request Number 25/3692 Date of release 02/10/2025

One of the reasons why this claim is clearly untrue is that Dorset police HAD actually replied to an FOI only last month on the nationalities of those convicted of sex offences.

This showed only 8.2% of the cases (186 out of 2261) were by foreign nationals.

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This claim went viral on right-wing Twitter being shared by prominent accounts including Tommy Robinson's to millions of followers.

Grok treated it as a news story (and true) while it was repeated by multiple accounts

The person who made the claim was The Telegraph's Alison Pearson, appearing on Patrick Christys GB News show on Thursday night.

Here's a transcript of what they said.