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The influencers leaping to Dubai’s defence [FREE TO READ] As missiles streak across the region, unfazed residents insist they ‘know who protects us’

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’

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yeah the damage a single bad billionaire can do wildly outstrips any positive impact even a theoretically ideal billionaire can have

more, I think that the kind of person you need to be to become a billionaire tends to select for the worst outcomes in all but the rarest of cases

Churchill has retrospectively been turned into a cartoon like superhero who could do no wrong and who we all owe a debt of gratitude forever.

The gold standard of leadership.

A man of supreme wit and gifted with statesmanship unrivalled by any other

It's far more complicated and interesting 1/3

Every AI-booster thing is just a combination of “LISTEN UP LUDDITES GET WITH IT OR GET LEFT BEHIND!!!” and “is it accurate? No. But…”

Bonus points for “well actually humans aren’t perfect either 😏”

I need to make a bingo card…

AI BOOSTER BINGO The squares read: I might get attacked for saying this Imagine what it'll do in 5 years Al critics are just afraid Al is better than you Everyone is doing it "Levels the playing Field" Your time will be spent on work that MATTERS Your time will be spent correcting the Al's errors MORE VOLUME!! Shit outputs? Switch to [alternate LLM] Yes jobs will be cut... Humans aren't perfect either It's FUN!!! No practical advice "Sorry bluesky" Solution to chronic underfunding What if it could cure cancer??? I made something that appears passable No need for pesky underlings Is it accurate? No. But... Framing human work as "bespoke, hand-crafted" Get with it or get left behind!!! Al critics are luddites This was actually written by AI For more free printables please visit www.timvandevall.com, created by Tim van de Vall, copyright 2013 Dutch Renaissance Press LLC

I made a bingo card

Not watched it in a while, but my "to be watched list", like my "to read pile", is quite long.

I hope to reduce both now that I've retired.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

YouTube video by Theos Theory Model Collapse Ends AI Hype

Halliucinations seem to be a feature, not a bug (ignore the clickbait presentation this is actually a really useful explainer) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shus...

May 2026

I don’t understand how anyone with even a cursory understanding of Trump’s history doesn’t understand that you can’t ever make a deal with him.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey:

"Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

As the world's monsters - Putin, Netanyahu, Trump… - continue to show, there is no limit to the number of lives they are willing to sacrifice for their own survival.

In many ways, having this "picture" of a "baby" gave the general public a completely new framework for what pregnancy was. Whereas before it was something that was understood as Happening To the pregnant person, now there was cause to think of it as about (n) people. Anti-abortion views skyrocketed

World War III World War III was the last of Earth's three world wars, lasting from approximately 2026 to 2053. The conflict involved nuclear cataclysm as well as genocide and eco-terrorism. The post-atomic horror i...

i guess the good news is that it's 2026, so we may actually be headed for the star trek future

Wasn't the #StarTrek TNG episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" a warning against arms races and basing your entire economy on arms dealing?

Now that the by-election is over, perhaps we can get back to ignoring my racist bullying at school, Russian infiltration into my party, me lying about who paid for my house in Frinton and Reform run councils putting up council tax.

Delayers keep saying that decarbonisation will hamper economic growth

Yet the data keep showing that the net zero economy is the engine of UK economc growth

That's depressing. Doom Bar in bottles was ok. Don't think I ever had it in a can.

That's giving me ideas!

Reform UK by-election campaign boss suspended over tweets Reform UK's Gorton and Denton by-election interim campaign boss Adam Mitula made the posts on X.

What first attracted a man accused of using a highly offensive racial slur aimed at black people & making a derogatory remark about Jewish women to a party led by Nigel Farage?
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Reform wants to put public unions ‘under review’, by-election candidate has said Comments late last year indicate challenges Farage faces in courting working-class voters

Unions enforce your employment rights.
Unions can help if you’re discriminated against or mistreated by your employer.
Reform doesn’t want you to have that help.
They don’t care how badly you’re treated at work.
They’re taking the piss out of you.
You should mind.
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Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Video footage shows former peer being driven away shortly after being escorted from his London home by officers

Good.

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● Typical cost of a Business Class flight to Maldives is £3,100 - £3,200+ return

● 2 of those minimum so £6,400+

● Accommodation minimum of £250-£350 per night. Farage demands finer things in life though so can exceed £1,000

● Gross household average salary Gorton & Denton £653 per week

These people are poison. They will unleash racist thugs on the streets of this country and call it security. They will subjugate us to the US and call it patriotism. They must be stopped. There is no more important task in politics.

Stop the Tories and Reform in House of Commons Vote tactically in House of Commons to stop the Tories and Reform

If you don’t want to see Reform UK Ltd gain any more power

If you wanna see Matt Goodwin sob in a sports centre at 1am

Spread the word about the tactical voting choice at this week’s by-election

Note: @mvtfwd.bsky.social is a campaign for proportional representation

@zackpolanski.bsky.social

Says it all really...

When you find paperwork for the first house you bought, that's when you know you might have a hoarding problem!

Someone told me it's worth moving fairly frequently to help keep the hoarding in check. I have failed at this. I have moved infrequently and still moved too much stuff each time.

Absolutely insane story about a middle-aged woman from Hertfordshire who got arrested, shackled, and detained by ICE and held in a prison for eight weeks.... while on holiday... with a valid tourist visa... as she tried to leave the country.

Great job, Internet!: Hollywood uncooked as viral Cruise vs. Pitt video looks like another AI con-job Great job, Internet!: Hollywood uncooked as viral Cruise vs. Pitt video looks like another AI con-job

The lesson from the "Tom Cruise/Brad Pitt AI Video" reveal is twofold, old, and evergreen:

1) Slow Down
and 2) always start from the ground position that any claims made by an "AI" corporation— any for-profit corporation, really— is them lying to you to hype their product.

The Young Ones (TV series) - Wikipedia

1982 to 1984

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