This one hits hard.
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Former UK PM Gordon Brown is providing - voluntarily and not for the first time - information to the police about abuses of power relating to the Epstein files. As PM Brown was briefed against by people such as Alistair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as being ‘psychologically flawed’ ….1/
The first and last lesson of history is that it has always been a garbage time to be alive. Nostalgia is a fine thing to indulge by the fire with friends, but institutionalized nostalgia for a bygone era is a sign of arrested development.
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Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
There is far more outrage from tech leaders over a wealth tax than masked ICE agents terrorizing communities and executing civilians in the streets. Tells you what you need to know about the values of our industry.
OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice
Don't know if this sort of rhetoric has caught up with the fact that Reform's base are the most dependent on welfare of any party's
Major?
Last year, we reached the lowest per capita homicide rate in recorded history - not by chance, but as a result of our tough action on violent crime and our preventative approach.
We’re on the right path. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies.
European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA.
In the US, he is attacking news orgs.
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
Fb live video, this, stupid glasses, the list goes on…
London is becoming a cycling city.
As we continue to expand London’s cycle network, the number of daily bike trips is soaring. Cycling has risen by more than 40% since 2019 to 1,500,000 trips every day.
Proud to see London is fast becoming a cycling city ⤵️
📈 Daily journeys are 12% up from last year to 1,500,000 trips
📈 Up by more than 40% since 2019
This is just the start, we’ll continue working with partners to improve safety and invest in more routes.
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
Patreon CEO is pushing for his own company's business model, which he argues can help "make art, not content." It's a far better pitch than what we get from social media giants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO14...
controlla.xyz 1d + If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression a It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans 104 583 29 8 lesliejandersonwriter 19h ... If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans! 6.7K 53 88 15
President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally.
He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough.
Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
He was revered.
Blimey. Some pretty big questions for Nigel Farage to answer about this.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
A micro electric vehicle in royal mail livery.
⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans.
Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!
#ElectrifyLondon
Rare misfire.
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Apropos...
1) For all its challenges the BBC is the single most widely used source of news in the UK and is highly and broadly trusted across much of the political spectrum,. See e.g. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism research here: reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/bbc-und... 1/3
Ban the phrase ‘we need to talk about….’
Credit where it’s due: Scott Galloway cooked here
Bingo
Sometimes the best strategy in social media is to stop soiling yourself in public
