Dave Andress

"We don't want them to escape. We want them to die."

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

A round of community funding from the council just went out in Belfast and every single group got their funding cut, causing job losses and jobs being downgraded.

Every single organisation.

Every one an unrepentant child-murderer....

We are so fucked.

Striking that Reform have now overtaken Labour as the party people would most like to vote against - very much matches what we heard in Gorton with many voters primary concern less merits of Lab/Green but who could best stop Reform.

That's quite the bucket (vat?)

Just when I thought I couldn't despair of UKRI any more. This is no way to run a call, let alone one with funding of this magnitude.

The problem is a number of UK politicians are bypassing the tabloids and going direct to source to also aim for a US audience for social media engagement

www.pcworld.com/article/3068...

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Swing, pendulum, swing

I sometimes wonder about how Catholic nationalists work alongside rapture heretics on things like this and then remember a bunch of them are wealthy recent converts that really don't take it seriously other than trying to look pious on TV before telling the pope to shut up about feeding the poor.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Ten people sell apples: nine charge £1, one charges £5 (gas).

If you need all ten apples, the £5 price sets the market, everyone gets paid £5.

That’s why electricity bills jump during gas shocks: gas sets the price, even though solar didn’t get costlier.

#r4today

This shit should be illegal. No one needs this. Remember it was famously reported that Zuck kept a cover over his laptop camera.

"Your computer will not work, at all, unless you pay us regular protection-money; and while you're paying that, we're ripping off your data to run a lie-machine."

"...after they were installed without planning permission or listed building consent."

Once again, the law does not apply to me, because I am a nice middle-aged, middle-class white woman...

US strikes on Iran ‘outside international law,’ says Macron Macron joins Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez in calling the legality of the strikes into question.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law.

But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Every incoming US President has to be briefed about the British believing in the "special relationship", because no one in the US has ever heard of it.

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

Müller Heavy.

A German court has ruled that it is legal to state that the man who runs the Müller (Rice) empire is a supporter of the far-right AfD. Müller repeatedly denied it, which says everything about how bad he knew that association could be for his business. I hope the boycotts intensify.

Certifiably brain dead commentary from Reform’s chief treasurer here.

And of course what makes it all the more stupid is the opulent luxury/safety he, a property billionaire, lives in - *IN LONDON*

That's 48% for the two extreme-right parties, 46% for the centre-left [if Lab comes to its senses in time]. 49% if and only if the SNP are on board.

This is a bad, bad picture of a country in a bad, bad way.

The Abolish the Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party Party

Bonus points: he doesn't even want you to stop using GenAI, just one company's version.

"Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription. Using the free version? Delete the app... Then try an alternative, and tell at least one person why."

Maundering twat.

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

Who fucking cares what Rutger Bregman thinks?

Plenty of women of colour could tell you why to boycott GenAI, what makes him deserve a newspaper column to recycle a bunch of hyperlinks?

Everyone except the EU, who would say "Fuck off, mate. The Euro & Schengen rules, and no rebate, or you can do one."

But then, he gets his enemy back...

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

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