Nick de Voil

SHARE! In Starmer’s speech last night he apologised to Epstein victims for the denial of justice they suffered.

He said his govt would always seek truth against the powerful.

But HIS OWN GOVT blocked justice for 400+ Al Fayed victims & refused to investigate trafficking. Starmer is fully aware.

Satellite Images Reveal Russia Reviving Military Base Near Finnish Border Russia is revitalizing a military garrison in Petrozavodsk to support the new 44th Army Corps, enhancing its presence near Finland.

Remember when we all said Russia has to be defeated in Ukraine or Putin will keep going? Well, he's going. Reviving military bases near Finland while still fighting in Ukraine.

Side note: NATO poses a threat to Russian imperialism, not Russian security. Putin wants more.

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Call for Speakers: Shape the Future of Service Design at the Service Design Conference Europe 2026 Service Design Conference Europe 2026 Call for Speakers is now open. Share your service design insights in London. Speak. Inspire. Lead.

Are you aware of irmuk.co.uk/2025/12/ service-design-2026-call-for-speakers-article/ ? The (extended) deadline is tomorrow

Happy World Linguistics Day from London, UK!

1/ Michael Prescott of Hanover Communications, whose leaked memo alleging left-wing bias led to the BBC meltdown.

You could be forgiven for thinking that a corporate lobbyist & former Murdoch press hack may not have the best interests of public-service broadcasting at heart.

British.

I did wonder at the time - why did Musk say what he said about Vernon Unsworth? It just seemed so odd.

A bridge with a load of flags hung on it, from many nations, but no England or Great Britain flag 😅

Spotted on a bridge in Pontllanfraith in
South Wales: 'Flags is it?'

"Reading as a human means looking for the person that emerges from their selection of words"

A photograph I took of a particularly handsome bumblebee who is interested in neither the latest AR trends, crypto currency nor owning an SUV

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

It's true, tbf. If you sign up, you *will* never miss a new book by Marcus Tullius Cicero

When it says, "You are now chatting with Mark Sewards", that isn't true, is it? The bot is not you. Therefore this is a false statement. So you're openly stating to your constituents that you're happy to lie to them, and implying that's the behaviour they should expect from you. Good luck.

How on earth did you manage "garden centres" and "cream of tomato soup" with a straight face? Kudos!

Needed that, thank you. Slim pickings though tbh.

Stood next to John Peel in the gents.

(Not completely unexpected at the time - he was judging a talent contest I was taking part in)

The whole process seems to have regressed 20 years.

British football lads would be really good at this. Come on England.

Google search for “bees in my computer”, yielding the “AI Overview” of “Bees can be present in desktop computers built after the mid-2000s, but only at a microscopic level. These bees are a special breed of Apis Arithmeticam that perform basic computations in the CPU.” (This was a few months ago, I think they fixed it.)

I always think of this when someone says they do everything with AI now

Isn’t it in the nature of shared realities that they fracture? - Gregory Bateson and schismogenesis

Magic solutions like portals and one stop shops puts me in mind of some of @spavel.bsky.social’s things about dashboards

Wondering whether Keir Starmer realises how hilarious 95% of the world will find it, him complaining foreigners don’t make enough effort to learn English

An owl flapping through the twilight (not sure if owls do flap tbh)

That certainly fits in with abolishing universities

In case you missed it ...
Here's a damning verdict from the Intelligence & Security Committee regarding Boris Johnson's half-baked report into Russian interference in the Brexit ref. Basically, they didn't even bother looking for any! Surely now it's time for a public enquiry into Putin's Brexit!

Isn’t X great?

/ditto

Someone made a lot of money with that story

He was one of the drummers I tried to emulate as a 15-yr-old, starting off with polythene boxes & a pair of chopsticks

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax

Them: What band are you in

Me: Erm, The Charlatans

Them: Your council tax band?

😬

UK needs to relax AI laws or risk transatlantic ties, thinktank warns Tony Blair Institute says enforcing stricter licensing rules for copyright-protected material will threaten national security interests

America in 1776:"No taxation without representation".

Well, with the State Department telling Ofcom how to manage free speech and Tony Blair saying US data thieves should be left alone, America has lots of representation here.

So, let's start taxing them.

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