Dave Andress

What does it feel like, as PM, to backpedal frantically away from an initial position of not being a panting lapdog, only to find that your master is rubbing your nose in his shit anyway?

probably more accurate to say "this is not Tony Blair that we're dealing with"

This idea that trans people and gender nonconforming cis people are in some sense in conflict is just such an obvious contrived excuse for anti-trans sentiment that no-one remotely familiar with LGBTQ community culture could ever take seriously.

Wikipedia is 25 years old...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...

And Wikipedia is a survivor of that old public-spirited internet, poking up like a volcanic island through an ocean of commercialised detritus...

Observer effect in action.

In the Venn diagram of "People who are against trans women" and "People who are genuinely OK with femme-presenting and -acting men", the overlap requires a microscope to see.

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Good lord, she is bad at this.

I remember a friend emailing me about this new thing called google search...

I can see where this is coming from, but there was in fact once an internet that wasn't just six monopoly companies herding you to shout at each other for clout. There was a time when google search took you to pages built by real people pursuing their real, personal interests. That happened.

Literally true, of course. And likewise of the UK. What are we going to do, send in the SAS to kidnap some USAF generals?

UK growth this year to be 1% if we're lucky, as unemployment projected to rise 10% higher than the previous forecast.

"Nothing to see here, everything's fine", says Chancellor...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

10/10 No notes.

i’ll just keep posting variations on elementary human decency, not that it matters

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86 organisations call on the Prime Minister to increase – not cut – UK climate finance - Climate Action Network UK 86 UK organisations have written an open letter to the Prime Minister calling on the government to increase – not cut – UK international climate finance and

🚨 86 organisations are calling for Prime Minister Keir Starmer to increase, not cut, UK climate finance 💷

Cutting climate finance would be a massive betrayal of countries and communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis and of this government’s manifesto commitments to be a climate leader.

do students really want spend between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition just to be taught by professors who have outsourced their work to AI?

Setting aside the creepy (and not original, other companies do this) use of AI here to manufacture words from the dead, this framing also reinforces the Western belief that grief is something is to be cured, moved past, ended, with a terminal point of 'going back to how things were before.'

Hegseth knows that playing a tough guy on TV and gratuitously abusing reporters will make the Audience of One happy, but what he actually said in substantive terms was just word vomit. Trump himself was buffoonishly incoherent in interviews with reporters. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2072...

Maybe the perfect name for something that regurgitates content?

"A mass funeral has been held in the southern Iranian city of Minab for 165 people killed in what's described as an attack on a girls school on Saturday"

People, not children. And 'what's described as'

Scenes from a personalist regime

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

3000 public libraries in England.

One hardback book each...

I’M SORRY!?! DID YOU MISS A FUCKING ZERO OR TWO OFF THE END OF THAT FIGURE?? @ukparliament.parliament.uk

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

DURBIN: Is DHS required to follow federal court orders?

NOEM: Yes sir, and we do

DURBIN: How do you explain that your agency has repeatedly violated them, as your own administration has admitted?

NOEM: We follow them when they apply


DURBIN: I'm sorry

Chromebooks are going to close the achievement gap! Learn-to-code programs are going to close the achievement gap! AI is going to close the achievement gap! [This shiny new tech thing that is funded by VC] is going to close the achievement gap!

Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER

According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.