Michael Batey

a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious

turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration

Side note to the Old Firm: what a time to be a Motherwell fan

This is fucking nuts. What are Labour doing

Jim Bowen – Walk The Dinosaur physical release CD single

OMG it was available physically!

interesting that new Green MP Hannah Spencer talks almost entirely about public services, cost of living, NHS, the grind of making ends meet....

and hardly ever mentions ecological/environmental issues....

this is the pivot that scares Labour the most

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.

JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area.

She's basically advocating for a Native American president

What a prick 🤷🏻‍♂️

She's truly awful. I have a horrible feeling she's jockeying for a political comeback via Reform

Actually insulting

YouTube video by VHS Video vault Dave Nice Video Certification Advisory

Memories unlocked
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8X...

I think that was kind of what did happen. Although the reactions of the award presenters suggest that maybe not enough context was provided in the room before events unfolded.

Great to get some thoughtful and informed contributions. Thank you

sometimes something bad happens where there are no malicious actors, no one is happy, and everyone gets the worst possible outcome they don't deserve. social media exists to strip such events of context so we can have clear winners and losers

On balance and given the circumstances, and as someone who deals with these issues regularly, do you think it was right for John to be in the room?

Yep – insidious and dishonest

It's really complex. 'Kick the shit out of the disabled guy cos he's racist' is not it, at all.

YouTube video by Minnie Riperton - Topic Stick Together

Ooh, I like this niche. How about this, for the *very* housey piano in the second half:
youtu.be/zadgp108bhs?...

Some absolutely terrible and stringently unsympathetic takes

Or from any number of films that were made in the 70s

So I guess the main reason driving lessons are two hours long these days is the proportion of that time that you're going to be stuck in traffic?

It's My Life and Let Me Blow Ya Mind are OFF the playlist

BBC News repeatedly referring to Hull KR as ‘Hull’. Whoever scripted it obviously unaware there’s another team called Hull FC #RugbyLeague

Dirty French liars! It only got to #2 in the UK charts

a group of people are sitting next to each other in a row . ALT: a group of people are sitting next to each other in a row .

Fackin' splitters

One aspect that I'm not sure it's been discussed enough is how membership of the EU was a partial corrective to the extreme centralisation of the UK system of government

Ridiculous framing, reinforcing the defence's – failed – suggestion that the teeth saga somehow mitigates the offence

YouTube video by Prefab Sprout - Topic He'll Have To Go

Covered by Prefab Sprout
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpKw...