Jen M

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

‘American Horror Story’ Plots 2026 Return With Ariana Grande Joining Franchise Regulars Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Angela Bassett and Jessica Lange are also part of season 13’s cast.

Jessica Lange and the witches are back for American Horror Story Season 13.

Might start watching it again.

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The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt

Brutalist Christmas cards featuring Forton, Trellick Tower, Barbican and Birmingham Central Library

My Brutalist Christmas cards are back by popular demand!
Get yours here www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/christmas-ca...

Rebecca Front

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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Adding that to my reading list.

This makes me very happy. Something to look forward to.

Renters Rights Act now law www.gov.uk/government/n...

The moment that a consensus builds in England that the Greens and LibDems are more likely to block Reform gains the Labour Party is dead in the water.

Scotland and Wales already look lost to the SNP and Plaid Cymru.

Agree with this obviously.

But don't forget *the government* has also proposed vindictive, unpopular and economically damaging restrictions on ILR which could affect 100,000s of people here now, legally, mostly working. This is now the more immediate issue..

A woman reading the Telegraph

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks...
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New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law The Bus Services Act will make it easier for local leaders to take control of their buses and put passengers first.

Bus services bill now law www.gov.uk/government/n...

‘ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING’ Season 6 will reportedly be set in London.

(Source: https://deadline.com/2025/10/only-murders-in-the-building-season-6-location-london-1236590812/)

YouTube video by mtminardi The Thick of It - Chair

The Times newspapers using storylines from 'The Thick of It' as ideas for articles.

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She's amazing.

Quote of the week from Colbert on the White House’s attempt to hide the destruction of the East Wing:
“If none of it’s on camera, they can just claim the East Wing hanged itself in prison.”

It's sad that basic stuff like this still needs explaining.

Going home in Gaza, after the war How do you start again when there’s nothing left to start from?

When Fatima returned to her home in Gaza, she “came back to nothing: no walls, no door... This isn’t justice. This is another war, just without planes.”

Remembering Dave Ball, by Patrick Clarke In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that the two were “chalk and cheese”. When I interviewed several dozen of the mu...

"Ball wasn’t just a bloke from Blackpool – he, too, was a radical, as bold and as forward-thinking as any of his contemporaries." Thanks to @paddyclarke.bsky.social for this lovely tribute to Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid

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Regimechange leicht gemacht Zur Zeit des „Empire“ veranstaltete die britische Kolonialregierung in Indien regelmäßig prachtvolle Zeremonien, bei denen die Thronbesteigung eines britischen Monarchen mit großem Prunk und aufwändig...

How Maga is interfering in the UK and why Britain is much less well equipped to deal with this kind of ‘foreign interference’ than other countries in Europe.
My latest analysis for
@blaetter

(#German, but there always is Deepl)

If Labour are so scared to say anything about anything in a timely manner because it will be deliberately spun and misconstrued by the media, maybe they should get on with some media reform.

Slow Horses needs 8-episode Seasons, not 6. It's always too condensed.

That seems fair enough.

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Before I read this, I would have thought that putting liquid in a bin was the *wrong* thing to do.