Tig the cat looking a bit cross. The ponies having a water cooler conversation.
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Tig the cat looking a bit cross. The ponies having a water cooler conversation.
NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
In 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
As Golfcart Mugabe’s approval rating craters to historic lows, polling conglomerate Gallup respond in the way we’ve become depressingly accustomed to…
The ponies waiting for their treat balls to be delivered. It was raining so much that they had to stay in their stables that day. They want to have some toys to play with if they have to do that. Bless them!
Tig looking very chic.
Agreed
I agree.
Purdey insists on having the chair
And another of Tiger being rather vocal.
A portrait of Purdey
"Reform always talk about free speech but clearly at Lancashire County Council there is no free speech."
leftfootforward.org/2025/12/refo...
News! Applications Now Open for Sheffield Comic ARts Fair (SCARF) – Organiser Chris Mole Brings Us a Brand New Indie Comics Event in 2026. www.brokenfrontier.com/scarf/
Sounds about right.
Fab. Thank you
Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.
Not once did the presented correct that it is NOT foreign nationals but foreign-BORN.
Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.
And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.
Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!
Bad bosses will be banned from using agency staff to replace sacked employees as ministers close a loophole in workers' rights reforms 👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Familiar from Brexit
Betting on Geopolitical Violence
These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement
open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...
We have seen signals which indicate lack of support for adults growing in the last few years. Not everyone needs medication but everyone should have support.
Grok is actually powered by up to 35 portable gas turbines in South Memphis, which is 25 more than the permit they just received. The air quality is so horrible that people don’t go outside. It violates EPA regulations, but it doesn’t matter since Musk gutted the EPA. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/m...
Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system
www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...
"The media reporting of the "millionaire exodus" was primarily based on a report published by Henley & Partners, a firm that sells golden passports to the super rich... the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires"
#r4today
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[show exterior of a comprehensive primary school, voice of TEACHER taking assembly emanating from it]:
TEACHER:
Ok children
2
[Interior of school hall, TEACHER is taking school ASSEMBLY]
TEACHER:
Now the next hymn we're going to sing is one of your favourites...
3
[she puts the words to a hymn up on the interactive whiteboard. It's title is]:
'Better-Off Families Should Pay Less For Their Summer Holidays'
CHILDREN;
Yay!
4
[the children all sing]:
God made the cloud of starlings
God made the flock of sheep
5
God made the kids at private school
Get holidays for cheap
6
God made the herds of Land Rovers
That stream across the plain
7
Two weeks before the rest of us
For cut-price stays in Spain!
[show exterior of the school, while Land Rovers stream past it down the road, with surfboards and bikes on top]
8
God made the two-tier system
God made the Hidden Hand
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God made two weeks in Bog-nor
Cost upwards of two grand!
11
Aaaaaaa-meeeeeen...!
12
TEACHER:
Very good children
[show exterior scene again, Land Rovers etc]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreia5wmxguqfmnxju56hohubuk6r7yblfbavly4ghk2hbs27m3kmvkq)
1 [show exterior of a comprehensive primary school, voice of TEACHER taking assembly emanating from it]: TEACHER: Ok children 2 [Interior of school hall, TEACHER is taking school ASSEMBLY] TEACHER: Now the next hymn we're going to sing is one of your favourites... 3 [she puts the words to a hymn up on the interactive whiteboard. It's title is]: 'Better-Off Families Should Pay Less For Their Summer Holidays' CHILDREN; Yay! 4 [the children all sing]: God made the cloud of starlings God made the flock of sheep 5 God made the kids at private school Get holidays for cheap 6 God made the herds of Land Rovers That stream across the plain 7 Two weeks before the rest of us For cut-price stays in Spain! [show exterior of the school, while Land Rovers stream past it down the road, with surfboards and bikes on top] 8 God made the two-tier system God made the Hidden Hand 9 God made two weeks in Bog-nor Cost upwards of two grand! 11 Aaaaaaa-meeeeeen...! 12 TEACHER: Very good children [show exterior scene again, Land Rovers etc]
The legal press - whose job it is to help lawyers advise their clients - knows this is a serious change of position. And that's why the public facing press - which understands its job to be spreading transphobic propaganda - won't cover it. www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk/governance/3...
The HR press also now picking up on the story that our dishonest media won't cover. www.internationalemploymentlawyer.com/news/ehrc-is...
Millions of children at risk as global vaccine rates fall, study finds
Major progress in rolling out jabs to billions of children in all corners of the globe over the last five decades has prevented the deaths of 154 million children
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...