Letter of the day (in the Times)
11.08.2025 08:00 β π 6105 π 2417 π¬ 120 π 140@zedwally.bsky.social
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Letter of the day (in the Times)
11.08.2025 08:00 β π 6105 π 2417 π¬ 120 π 140And just like that Trump is backing to blaming Ukraine for being attacked.
His anti-Russia period lasted maybe a month.
Just watching Trump's press conference. Words fail me.
11.08.2025 15:54 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fascinating piece from Wired magazine about Palantir. www.wired.com/story/palant...
11.08.2025 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, terrific..
08.08.2025 20:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0New one finished!
07.08.2025 10:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fascinating post from Miles Kellerman: open.substack.com/pub/mileskel...
01.08.2025 12:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Spinal Tap II: The End Continues β first trailer released
25.07.2025 00:44 β π 208 π 58 π¬ 8 π 34Oh!(Times 21st July)
21.07.2025 20:38 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0π§΅Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!
Today Iβm launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarianβstyle actions from Trumpβs second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14
1. @abenewman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in @wired.com on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world.
15.07.2025 12:40 β π 471 π 200 π¬ 15 π 25It's looking like it could all end up down the toilet for #Masterchef..
19.07.2025 11:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0this @helenlewis.bsky.social lede: βDefending mainstream journalism these days is about as appealing as doing PR for syphilis. Nonetheless, here I am.β
18.07.2025 20:14 β π 45 π 14 π¬ 4 π 1@lner.co.uk how about installing some decent microphones for the staff in your inter-city trains to use? The ones on this train sound worse than a 1960s end-of-the-pier show.
18.07.2025 13:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#ketech see if you can persuade LNER to install some decent microphones for their staff announcements. There's no point in having snazzy displays when the sound is like a 1950s working men's club!
18.07.2025 13:24 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What a game!!!
17.07.2025 21:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think Labour just lost my vote.
17.07.2025 17:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Another pointless, stupid celebrity loop (which I'm just amplifying..) BBC News - In pictures: Royals and A-listers grace Wimbledon finals
www.bbc.com/news/article...
First Past The Post simply doesnβt work in a world of multi-party politics. Please help us change things by emailing your MP today.
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/174419/...
This review has energy, but relies entirely on context, not content.
09.07.2025 08:22 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Personally, I'd reserve overheated rhetoric like "national shame" for our (and the international community's) failure to take action to halt systematic war crimes and the deliberate murder of starving civilians, not what some rappers said at a music festival.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Spot on from Robin Lustig about the Bob Vylan fuss: substack.com/home/post/p-...
01.07.2025 09:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think the government and the BBC need to develop a sense of proportion - quickly.
30.06.2025 17:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place
30.06.2025 07:27 β π 2642 π 917 π¬ 90 π 70Correct. If we want to charge them with various trespass and criminal damage type things, knock yourself out. But they obviously aren't terrorists.
29.06.2025 17:57 β π 14 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
28.06.2025 18:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm afraid we're some way through the looking glass now.
26.06.2025 08:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Seeing a lot of outrage about this β and rightly so.
Meanwhile, in the UK: ALL state schools are legally required to hold daily acts of collective worship. Prayer is not education. Religion should be taught objectively e.g. 'This is what Christians believe.'
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I didn't post a link to this before - please listen and donate if you can. music.youtube.com/watch?v=ByZP...
www.justgiving.com/page/theceas...