Claire Vaughan

This is full on bullshit non stop.

She has more money that Jesus and I know a few high end places that only will give you a woman if you ask ( and fewer than you think do)

She doesn’t want trans women to have work period and she’s using “I’m scared” to hide that

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

a police officer wearing sunglasses and a helmet has the letter o on his cap ALT: a police officer wearing sunglasses and a helmet has the letter o on his cap

“Excuse me, do you have a moment to discuss Labour’s plans for improving local services?”

The DoD Rapid Response team on Twitter writes: "The Secretary of Defense has great jeans." The attached photo shows Sec. Pete Hegseth wearing a blue sport coat, white button-up shirt, blue jeans, and a big buckle Western belt.

I disagree. I will tell you what's wrong with his jeans. 🧵

Dear God, read the room guys.

MONORAAAAAAAAAIL!

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Ai filmmaking cannot be "punk rock," its not some movement started in the underground by DYI artists.

Its a movement started by billionaires trying to sell investors on the "next big tech thing" they can cash in on until the bubble bursts.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Exactly. It's a completely stupid idea.

What is the legal recourse when this AI gives a constituent bad advice? How much of our taxes have gone to this company to help this MP avoid work? AI can do some great things with data analysis, it cannot do anything creative or be a human giving another human advice. Repulsive government.

We live in hell. This is an environmentally and ethically terrible way for government to behave. It is lazy and dismissive of the people MPs represent. They work for us. They are paid to listen to us and then and represent those views in parliament.

They should really try again with a new set of billionaires. In fact, we should aim to do this at least once a month until we're out of billionaires. For science.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

strong Madness of King George energy

Kissing Now Required

He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation. Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.

Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.

“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"

Not just one, a triptych.

Looks like someone is trying to cover their complicity...

The name contains the ghost of a music hall song that was over half a century old in 1958. This is the sort of knowledge that eludes AI, because it knows songs in the way that a mynah bird knows them. This is why we need expert broadcasters and critics. I'm not confident that all media bosses agree.

Whenever I see AI fiction, it feels like being both underwater and dead.

I mean, if you take people off statins, their cholesterol goes up again. But in general, people stay on statins because it's good to maintain that healthier metric. Taking people off glp-1 drugs is going to lead to weight gain. I don't see why you shouldn't stay on them, tbh.

the home office are not fit for purpose. I will say this every day if I have to. A completely dysfunctional government department that has contributed to the fracturing of our social fabric. And it has zero morals.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Headshot of young Leo during his ‘Growing Pains’ days

Leo, more recently, in a tuxedo

Born Nov. 11, 1974, Leonardo DiCaprio is 18,530 days old today, matching Wilford Brimley’s age on the day ‘Cocoon’ was released. Congrats Leo! You’ve reached the Brimley/Cocoon Line.

This is a key table to understanding public opinion on migration. *When confronted with the real trade offs* people go for protecting the NHS and the economy over reducing migration.

The problem as per the rest of the thread is many don't believe those trade offs exist.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

*yelling this on repeat until my voice gives out* we have empirical evidence! Rich people swore they'd leave MA if we passed the Fair Share amendment, but we have more millionaires now than before it was enacted!