Siegfried Bassoon

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Don’t all these problems go away if universities stop being businesses?

BBC managing to find the one shot of Gaza that still has buildings for its footage this morning. 5% spent on that, 95% spent on Israeli’s waving victory flags

This is just it. They’re privileged enough to know that if it doesn’t work out they won’t be disadvantaged by the consequences of their right wing political turn, but they will have made themselves desirable to a string of corporates who will offer rather lovely consulting positions.

(not your friendly neighbourhood Neville writing scripts and doing voice overs is it? 👀)

Ensuring people’s needs are met is an essential part of supporting their mental health problems. It’s not either/or. This country just thrives on punishing people.

YOU’RE
NOT
SUPPOSED
TO
SHOOT
GUILTY
PEOPLE
EITHER

Surely Britain is where the kids who get sucked into the machines because they’re dickheads go.

It really, really sucks that so many people were right about this from day one but everyone called them cranks and now it’s too late

When the camera turns round though 🥲

We’re a country fuelled by spite. Individual happiness only possible with the knowledge someone else is being made to suffer for having the temerity to exist. All that’s changed is the politeness that used to hide it reasonably well.

“This is all the fault of Brexit” is the liberal equivalent of “stop the boats”

Screenshot from Twitter showing 3 trending topics. Mandatory McSweeney Venom

okay you don't have to be so literal about the last few years

I’m a Your Party Membership Portal and so is my wife

Jay Wo@jay.bsky.team Violence is always unacceptable, and threats of violence have no place in public discourse. Our thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family. @paulduane.bsky.social Really gonna be hoping for you to post similar thoughts every time a Palestinian child is shot in the head by a sniper while trying to fill a bucket of water for their family, Jay

I haven't been around here much since I was warned by @moderation.bsky.app that my account was "violating (Bluesky's) violent and threatening speech guidelines" because I asked the CEO of Bluesky if she would give the same importance to the murder of Palestinian kids as to the murdered podcast guy.

ngl probably the best exchange I’ve seen during this whole thing

Screenshot of 3 tweets 1. From Jamie Driscoll with images of a statement about Your Party 2. A person called Julia saying “Just in Tesco car park, will read this later” 3. A person called Calumn saying “That seems sensible, take your time there’s no rush.”

Incredible posting happening on twitter

I’m being such a curtain twitcher

Not Dion Dublin filming stairs leading up to the bedrooms next door 😲

The liberal disease of saying “can’t we all just be nice to each other” seeping across political boundaries, obfuscating, purposefully or otherwise, the observable and verifiable structures of power.

Nepal gets first female PM after deadly unrest - BBC News Former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki is sworn in after a deal with protest leaders.

We've been getting ten times as much coverage of Charlie Kirk getting airholed as this news out of Nepal, and I think that says a great deal about how craven, terminally twitter brained and America-pilled our media is, more than the relative importance of the stories.

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The impulse was already there and had been for a while, white nationalism isn’t new. GG caused the creation/expansion of online infrastructure for networking, community building (mainly among young online people) and spreading/testing of tactics and propaganda. But it didn’t invent the fasc wheel.

when being nice to people is an event

The UK government is signing contracts with AI companies and championing its widespread use, if they want to worry about water usage.

The UK government is signing contracts with AI companies and championing its widespread use, if they want to worry about water usage.

Liam Byrne doesn’t get enough credit for the absolute shit show we’re living through tbh

It's a paper from last year, but it still pains me to think that we could have achieved elimination without resorting to lockdown, simply by implementing universal respirator usage alone. Not masks, respirators. It's still not too late.

Post on /r/transgenderUK entitled “Reddit now censors LGBTQ+ content under OFCOM’s new ‘Online Safety Act’”

post text: “I honestly can't even think of words to describe how vile this is. Here's a screenshot of what I now see when I search "lgbt" with my VPN switched off. Occasionally a banner appears at the top of the screen saying something about needing to verify ID to access "mature content" but the button doesn't even work. The fact that we're now considered "mature content" makes me feel sick.”

The screenshot referenced in the previous image, showing the results of a search on Reddit for the term LGBT. No results from LGBT-specific subreddits appear; instead, posts from /r/Conservative, /r/Islam, /r/JustUnsubbed, etc are highlighted.

the UK’s Internet age verification law has led to the effective censorship of all LGBT content on Reddit

what a shocking and unexpected turn of events!

Climate Change Increases Intensity of Heat Wave Scorching UK Climate change is likely intensifying the heat wave scorching the UK, increasing temperatures by as much as 4C (7.2F), according to new research.

Climate change is likely intensifying the heat wave scorching the UK, increasing temperatures by as much as 4C (7.2F), according to new research

Roughly this time last year, at the end of June, we had a short heat spike of a few days. My mum always struggled when temps got above 25c. On 30th June she had a heart attack and died.