Daisy Bata

Let nothing be called natural in an age of bloody confusion, ordered disorder, planned caprice, and dehumanised humanity, lest all things be held unalterable!

- Brecht

[after looking at the news] well, it's time to go and do something relaxing like watch horror movies for the rest of my life

You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.

We don’t yet know who killed Kirk or why. Not that you’d know it from the endless numbers of accounts on X with huge follower numbers, including British politicians, making as yet unknowable claims about the motivations behind the murder.

Exhibit A. Extraordinary stuff.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy, and a sign of the utter desperation and cowardice of those who could not defeat him in argument. Charlie Kirk has been killed not for espousing extremist views - because he didn't. He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain. The world has a shining new martyr to free speech. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.

Charlie Kirk: “Martin Luther King was awful. He’s not a good person. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

Boris Johnson:

I'm sorry but in the UK the Chipocalypse is only bad news for seagulls.

After Afghan Quake, Many Male Rescuers Helped Men but Not Women

After the earthquake in Afghanistan, "many male rescuers helped men but not women." The Taliban's "prohibition on contact between unrelated women and men meant many women’s wounds went untended and some were left trapped under rubble."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/w...

Football’s ‘Post Office’ scandal: The players who lost £100m Special report: Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand among those snared in alleged investment fraud scheme, with some even losing their homes

www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

Premier League footballers lose millions through financial advisers Affected footballers joined the V11 campaign group comprising individuals who invested with Kingsbridge Asset Management in the 1990s and 2000s.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

V11 group: MPs want investigation into case of ex-Premier League players who lost money Three parliamentarians want an investigation into the case of a group of former Premier League players who say they were victims of

Glad to see our documentary making some waves in politics!

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

4 stars for our film in the Guardian!

Premier League players lost millions in investments Danny Murphy, Brian Deane and Craig Short are part of a group of footballers who say they are victims of

One of my first investigative documentary jobs was on a film that is airing tonight! Took a while to get it out there but I'm sure it'll be worth it. It was a huge job, and I worked closely with two private investigators.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

#documentary #football #storyville #bbc

A family outside their home. Their deck is loaded with guns.

A man in his living room. His living room is full of guns. There's also a big safe labeled "Liberty."

A man outside his home. The walkway into his home is full of guns.

A woman outside her garage. The front of her home is full of guns, some laid out in a star formation.

IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction

Zoe Gardner: asylum seekers should be able to work while their claims are processed. Yes!

It was the last Lab govt that removed their right to work, talked about bogus asylum seekers swamping our schools, introduced vouchers & opened Yarls Wood. And here we are #GMB

Opinion | What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life The medical profession has clear rules and responsibilities. What about the chatbots?

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Sophie Rottenberg took her own life this year. Before doing so, she turned to ChatGPT for help. “A.I. catered to Sophie’s impulse to hide the worst,” writes her mother, Laura Reiley, "to pretend she was doing better than she was, to shield everyone from her full agony.”

Kids today are learning that the fastest and easiest way to make money—the key value that has been modeled to them in America society—is to scam others, cheat your way through, and attract negative attention online that can be monetized. My endless sympathy to parents

Hot take but maybe that's what a healthy social media site, not built on growth at any cost, looks like?

What is required for someone to be an American? 30% of Republicans say being White is very or somewhat important. www.pbump.net/o/what-makes...

TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses.

Millions of TikTok users are watching videos promoting a “ghost dot” sticker that conceals the recording indicator light on Meta’s smart glasses. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Oral Argument Transcripts are Now on CourtListener! With our new Transcripts feature for Oral Arguments, you can search and monitor anything said in a circuit court case.

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The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Emblematic of a political establishment completely out of touch with young people. What did they think would happen? 🤦

South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon The country’s newly formed space agency wants to establish a lunar base by 2045.

The country’s newly formed space agency wants to establish a lunar base by 2045. www.wired.com/story/south-...

Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time Firm says technology used in El Eternauta is chance ‘to help creators make films and series better, not just cheaper’

Netflix uses generative AI in one of its shows for first time www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment Precursor to a lawsuit also claims the Palestinian activist was maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite

Mahmoud Khalil files $20m claim against Trump administration for false imprisonment www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Damn this is good. "Permissiveness [...] is the one tangible political reward the right can deliver to young Americans [...] In place of concrete policy that could benefit this cohort"

So he's basically built a machine for spreading automated Nazi propaganda

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Trump Officials Want to Prosecute Over the ICEBlock App. Lawyers Say That’s Unconstitutional The platform, which allows users to anonymously share the locations of ICE agents, is currently the third-most-downloaded iPhone app.

Trump officials are incensed about the popularity of the ICEBlock app, which shares the locations of ICE agents, and are threatening to prosecute its developer and CNN for covering it. Lawyers tell @thiccreese.bsky.social that would be blatantly unconstitutional: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com