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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doing what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen not to do, criticise the US and Israel for their attack on Iran which breached international law

Farage: Immigrants don’t integrate!

Also Farage: I will not let immigrants integrate.

Please read this thread as a 'micro-example' of what is going so wrong with the English court system - and note the 'butterfly' effect point.

Our court system is so rackety and improvised, one slip and so many other things will go wrong.

"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all | Taylor Lorenz Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist ...

The case against age verification for social media

Your kid gets killed fighting for this asshole and he responds with, "that's just the way it is"

Express Headline: Nigel Farage pledges postal voting ban and end to Commonwealth voting rights The Reform UK leader claims postal voting has turned elections into a 'laughing stock'

Screenshot from news reporting about leader's voting in 2024: Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer voted in the west of England. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage voted by post.

🚨Postal Votes

Farage is also blaming Postal votes...

Side note - Farage voted by Postal Vote in the 2024 election.

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And let's be clear what's being suggested...

That Muslim wives and daughters are going into the polling booth wanting to vote REFORM but their dominant controlling Islamic husbands demanded they voted for the unmarried, white woman plumber, in a party led by a gay Jewish man.

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Screenshot from news reporting: The official responsible for running the by-election rejected the claims, saying no reports of family voting had been made by polling station staff. A spokesperson for the acting returning officer said polling station staff are trained to "look out for any evidence of undue influence on voters" and said "no such issues" were reported on Thursday. They said: "If Democracy Volunteers were so concerned about alleged issues they could and should have raised them with us during polling hours so that immediate action could be taken. "We have operated a central by-election hub which has been rapidly responding to reported issues during the day, in liaison with the police - who had a presence at every polling station - where necessary. "It is extremely disappointing that Democracy Volunteers have waited until after polls have closed to make such claims."

Screenshot from news reporting: Democracy Volunteers responded by saying it followed the "international best practice of not interfering with the electoral process" and issued its findings after voting closed to "ensure we did not disrupt the administration of the election" The group signalled it was not planning to report incidents to the police, telling the BBC "it is not our job to administer the elections, purely to observe". They added: "We saw police present in many polling stations yesterday to check whether staff were having any issues."

And polling station staff reported "no such issues"

The Returning Officer also rejected the claims

Police were present in many polling stations and they also didn't raise this as an issue - despite it being against the law...

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Multiple images of Matt Goodwin campaigning in the Gorton and Denton by-election with a series of men wearing turquoise turbans next to the reform campaign bus.

🚨 But the Greens put out two 'foreign' campaign videos!

Yes they did. They put out many, many English ones too...

🚨But they shouldn't 'target' specific nationalities or ethnicities!

Oh really? So what was this all about then?👇

The argument appears to be that everyone can vote for who they like and who best represents their interests.

Unless you're Muslim.

In which case, if you don't vote for the party that calls you dangerous and wants to send you 'back home' on any given day, this must be sectarian voting🤷‍♀️

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Screenshot from GB News Twitter account. 'The most toxic by-election in British history: a masterclass in how diversity and multiculturalism have failed.' @PatrickChristys gives a breakdown of the controversial campaigns in the Gorton and Denton by-election, accusing the Greens of 'shamelessly pandering' to Muslims. A picture of Patrick Christys in a GB News studio.

GB News ran a piece about the Greens "shamelessly pandering to Muslims"

Imagine any other broadcasting channel running a piece suggesting "shamelessly pandering to Jews"

That person would be kicked off the air quite rightly, within hours, but say it about Muslims and that's okay...

Apparently🤷‍♀️

I suppose it's impressive that Starmer managed to maintain the correct moral and political position for all of ten minutes. Some kind of record.

Kind of incredible. I was just sitting down to write about how Starmer should be given credit for keeping us out of this mess when he does this. Unutterably foolish and obsequious. Why in God's name should we have anything to do with this shortsighted madness.

Somewhere I worked or heard about ensured the backup site was on a different tectonic plate

Listening to a podcast and one of the hosts (American) said "The US is a beacon for other countries" and I nearly spat out my drink. Only Americans think America is a beacon for anyone else.

I found myself startled at the certainty with which commentators were saying he wouldn’t be leading the party into the next election. Now I’ll be disappointed if he leads it into the local elections. Or indeed the end of the Wednesday.

Here’s CBS “news” casually referring to Iran’s nuclear weapons as if Iran has nuclear weapons. They couldn’t possibly sink lower.

Feds asked New Mexico to halt Jeffrey Epstein Zorro Ranch sex trafficking probe, records show Former AG says feds halted New Mexico’s Epstein inquiry without sharing promised evidence as state reopens Zorro Ranch investigation.

In 2019, federal prosecutors asked NM officials to stop investigating the Epstein ranch, claiming they would share info with local authorities. Local investigators handed all their evidence to the feds, who shared...nothing. www.abqjournal.com/news/feds-as...

"What's the legal justification under international law for this action by America & Israel?"

Wong: "The legal basis for this is for the US & Israel to explain"

"We're not party to the intelligence the US & Israelis are referencing"

Aus foreign policy in a nutshell

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Is AI Killing Software Engineering Jobs? One claim I see repeated widely on social media is that LLM-based coding tools are taking software engineering jobs. These are often accompanied by extrapolations that soon – any time now &#8…

Did you know the global software developer population's much *larger* than it was in 2022?

Did you know tech layoffs were in full swing when ChatGPT launched?

Did you know AI companies are hiring engineers in large numbers?

A quick fact-check:

codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/i...

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

Who does our government really represent?

Some Sunday Solo Sleuthing with Detective: City of Angels from @vanrydergames.bsky.social!

As the person who is usually the one in the "1 vs Many" of games I really appreciate that I can play through a case solo to experience the story before being the GM (or Chisel) for others.

#boardgame

A bonobo’s pretend tea party is rewriting what we know about imagination A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the…

A bonobo’s pretend tea party suggests that imagination predates humans. A study in Science shows that Kanzi, a 43-year-old bonobo, could track imaginary juice and grapes in during a tea party, reliably distinguishing pretend from real objects. buff.ly/7ysy0fq
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Favourite Stations - Maida Vale

Meet Jago Hazzard, a YouTuber known for exploring trains, railways and London history. His favourite station is Maida Vale..

Do you have a favourite Tube station?

When is an international station not an international station? The great Stratford mystery.

It is not quite true that Stratford International has never seen an international train: it sees them rather a lot. What is true, however, is that they don’t stop. Not once; not ever. What, you might wonder, the hell?

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Look how Laura Kuenssberg refuses to examine Farage’s own specific history of hatred, despite it being at the core of his offering. In 2026, that’s not only a choice, it’s wilful normalisation.