Drew to some. Andrew to others. It all depends on the radio era & station + the country and the need to disambiguate! 🇬🇧/🇧🇷 en-gb/pt-br Hello to all ex X! Nice to see you here.
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I think the thing that gets lost is that Fox, Newsmax, Breitbart, and the like have successfully trained Republicans to hate Democrats over the past 30 years. Conservatives now support anything that generates liberal tears. Meanwhile, the Democrats try to court these same voters. 1/
The Mirror is reporting the racist attack in Halifax like they're appalled. But when a man on a National Express from Bristol to London was bullied off it by racists for "looking shifty", they used an image of a flower seller in a Rajasthan market, captioned "Victim:" so you'd think "I can see why"
The Mirror is reporting the racist attack in Halifax like they're appalled. But when a man on a National Express from Bristol to London was bullied off it by racists for "looking shifty", they used an image of a flower seller in a Rajasthan market, captioned "Victim:" so you'd think "I can see why"
VOTERS, surely?? They don't elect themselves.
They are so desperate for Reform (freedom for them and a hobbled BBC) Take these 3 examples: 1) "he has gone much further than the Tories would have done" ^comparing an IDEA with what a previous gov DIDN'T do 2) "can expect to see" = COULD. Highly conditional 3) "will be detained" = WOULD. Ditto
Yes, the UK is a democracy and even the racist, xenophobic fascists have a 'right' to express their opinions, bigoted and hate-fuelled though they are. But @news.sky.com has been a major platform for the far-right Faragists for quite some time. It's almost is if #SkyNews wants them in power 🤔
They are so desperate for Reform (freedom for them and a hobbled BBC) Take these 3 examples: 1) "he has gone much further than the Tories would have done" ^comparing an IDEA with what a previous gov DIDN'T do 2) "can expect to see" = COULD. Highly conditional 3) "will be detained" = WOULD. Ditto
Breaking bread?
Are the people wanting to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land" the same ones complaining about how England is becoming like a foreign country?
Are the people wanting to "build Jerusalem in England's green and pleasant land" the same ones complaining about how England is becoming like a foreign country?
Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
I'm not quite sure how else to describe it.
It didn't stop news outlets talking about what he "will" do.. and what we "can" expect to see rather than "would"/"could" - as if it's a foregone conclusion he will be our next leader. They even compared his expression of an idea as something that "has gone much further" rather than "would go".
On any post about crime, someone will remind the OP crime isn't new. Then someone posts 'the Orwell quote'. But "evidence of your eyes and ears" means things we personally witness. Not "anything anyone anywhere has experienced & we've seen decontextualised via social media thanks to phones/CCTV."
2016 - ‘take back control’ 2025 - ‘we need a far-right revolution’
It was & still is amazing piece of production. If they wanted to be popular with kids in 2025, of course, they'd probably need to be called Seoul II Seoul
I'm sorry Jim, but have you checked that for motential pisinformation?
Nostalgia reaches older, fearful people who buy into the idea "things never used to be this bad!".. because the prevalence of phone footage & CCTV + ease of social publishing means we see every break-in, pub car park fight, shoplifter etc but as 'non net-natives' they remember a time when we didn't!
Nostalgia reaches older, fearful people who buy into the idea "things never used to be this bad!".. because the prevalence of phone footage & CCTV + ease of social publishing means we see every break-in, pub car park fight, shoplifter etc but as 'non net-natives' they remember a time when we didn't!
Today: Farage posting an old clip from the Aegean & claiming it shows "our country", while suggesting the exclamation "God is great" after a perilous journey is somehow antagonistic +Grimes posting in support of locals in his area challenging immigrants on the street How do they get away with this?
Now Playing: Soul II Soul's debut album 'Club Classics Vol. One' (1989). Is this classic part of your record collection? album.ink/SoulIISoulCCv1
Wouldn't be DH, by any chance?
A few days later, Collins pops up again, this time at the Barbican in London, and once again claims to be a local resident.
“This is my local community. I’m worried about my children.” That’s what a woman told GB News at the anti-migrant protest at the Barbican in London. Problem is, she said the same thing at a protest in Epping days earlier. 🤦 ❌ hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/05/o...
"Look, not in a racist way, but some groups of people are just naturally designed for farm work. Why would anyone think that's racist"
The most crucial two minute whistlestop history lesson of what Trump did in Aberdeenshire, from someone who can tell us how the process went and where we are at now. 2 minutes of your time, please..
A quick and timely reminder... bsky.app/profile/drew...
A valuable reminder for anyone who doesn't know the key local history involving Trump.. bsky.app/profile/drew...
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But also on a little of this... bsky.app/profile/drew...
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The most crucial two minute whistlestop history lesson of what Trump did in Aberdeenshire, from someone who can tell us how the process went and where we are at now. 2 minutes of your time, please..
Laurie at 10:42 nailed it: "outsider grouping" Societal focus on "others", judged only by the worst. Must protect our women/kids from 'them' (All foreigners, LGBTQ+ folk, whoever) Not new. Waterloo voxpop from last century has “blacks get free houses” line, while they show black man help a beggar
I see GBNews hasn't found time to cover these stories, because they're waiting for something to happen in Epping. Such is rolling news.
Another societal focus of “othering" trend: "dangerous cyclists" features. Airtime, columns & social media vitriol over an "accident waiting to happen" while 5 a day are killed on our roads & almost all KSIs involve drivers. + "Speeding cyclists!" despite 85% of drivers speeding per DfT figures.
Another societal focus of “othering" trend: "dangerous cyclists" features. Airtime, columns & social media vitriol over an "accident waiting to happen" while 5 a day are killed on our roads & almost all KSIs involve drivers. + "Speeding cyclists!" despite 85% of drivers speeding per DfT figures.
Laurie at 10:42 nailed it: "outsider grouping" Societal focus on "others", judged only by the worst. Must protect our women/kids from 'them' (All foreigners, LGBTQ+ folk, whoever) Not new. Waterloo voxpop from last century has “blacks get free houses” line, while they show black man help a beggar
Well quite!
This is what happens when neoliberal meritocratic technocracy hollows out democracy and leaves social media to fill the vacuum with outrage, distortion, and division.
WARNING Royal Mint Street (CS3) is closing for several years shortly. Both road and north side footway. I cannot see anything on Tower Hamlets website about a cycle diversion. It's an awkward spot. I've emailed and we'll see what happens. @londoncycling.bsky.social
@bloomberg.com #SpaceX Warns Investors Elon Musk Could Return to US Politics ( Ed: poor starship HLS ) www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 7/22/2025
Donald. Old Orange Degenerate, Loser Extraordinaire #Doodle
@owlernook.bsky.social I've concluded that he gave up on this platform because he couldn't get the angry traction he sought! All who challenge him having been long blocked by him on X. So exaggerated and misleading claims go unchallenged while those unfamiliar with reality (vs montage) lap it up.
As we mark 20 years since the death of Jean Charles de Menezes.. comments on X include: "Police made a mistake, his family were paid compensation, in war errors occur. He's no martyr"
Absolutely!!
A really fun launch from the @funkidslive.com team. Listen on the radio, as an audio podcast or watch as a video show.
Well said.
^at least until we've completed the book and then compare notes with friends or online resources regarding the experience, as we do with movies. But it's still a good sign if kids harness the ability to find out what a word means or are looking to answer questions using the research means available.
I explained to the kids.. if an author hasn't told you a detail like the age, gender, or about the family of a character it can be tempting to search it up. But it's quite often and likely deliberate.. so we should go with feeling comfortable about looking for clues within what the text tells us..
"I never wrote a picture in my life" - Trump, yesterday 2017: Trump sketch of the Empire State Building sells for $16K 'Art by Donald Trump Sells for Thousands | Vanity Fair' share.google/693wggQe22kq...
Classic British tabloidism from LBC today. Quite disappointing. Shelagh Fogarty talking with a psychologist about the harm done to the people involved in this incident, because of a tendency to "dehumanise for entertainment" ..while showing this super-zoomed still & posting the clip on social media
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Feels more like listening to a school parents evening... 😂😂😂😂😂
"Be the envy of all your friends and always on time with this incredible state of the art carriage clock" #ad
Imagine Reform's Staffordshire County Council team being an indication of their model for government. Is this 2 minute clip the Reform UK blueprint for handling standard questions at an official meeting? It's like the Trumpian model of handling media scrutiny.
Another Paul Baxendale-Walker tax avoidance scheme fails, this time at the Court of Appeal. Baxendale-Walker's own lawyers were acting for the poor taxpayer, and even they admitted the scheme failed. The only question was how badly it failed. The answer turned out to be: very badly.
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If people can't even watch a road safety debate without wondering what's in someone's underwear, there's something very wrong. I bet they're all Mrs Brown's Boys fans too.
^I think it's really relevant because - of course - such factors are completely *irrelevant*! "trans"/clothing/naming/genitalia is unrelated to the topic of road safety and to the interview appearance that is completely about that topic. But here we are with a group who can't see past that.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Have you ever talked to/about "SEEN In Journalism"? A group on X, supposedly about accuracy & impartiality of sex+gender coverage, but which now apparently wants to determine what road safety campaign managers should look like and how they must be named to be allowed on BBC.
I'm glad you raised that. I still can't get over this clip which revealed some journos find it.. "refreshing". Isn't that just obnoxious? youtu.be/7PApkFNFw7Y?...
"SEEN Journalists" is meant to be about "accuracy and impartiality" around gender coverage. But now thinks a road safety charity rep must employ either a man with short hair in shirt with trad. male name, or a long-haired woman in dress with trad. female name if they expect a place in a TV debate.
Why some Londoners aren't able to access a bike... 💸 Cost: Prices are high, and a scheme like 'Cycle to Work' falls short 🏢 Space: Many live in places with stairs and limited storage 🚲 Specific cycle needed: The challenge of finding one can be great Ask Sadiq to find solutions: bit.ly/43YSUC7
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@ub1ub2.bsky.social Now why on earth are these getting called out in Brent, NW London 😭😭 x.com/UB1UB2/statu...
Meanwhile on X.. dozens of bots 'celebrate' 𝕏 (a symbol which their own crappy code can't display) being the "#1 news app" ..where "news" means anything any anonymous person wants to publish as a claim, without the need for evidence or risk of recrimination. Rather than "professional journalism".
All the stories in the world, a world literally on fire with stories, and they choose to go after a minor social network TWICE in one day. Slate ain’t great!
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I'm wondering.. does Gemini actually log that it got this wrong? It's not a great mystery of the world - it's a clumsy human-like error. My kid was not only disappointed, but said "lucky we spotted it!" and my immediate concern was: How often must this happen with large datasets & nobody spots it!?
I asked Gemini to put a list of 42 items in order, to show my 12 year old son the "clever timesaving things" AI tools can do. He immediately spotted 2 missing items. While I was highlighting this to Gemini, he noted there were still 42 items, so deduced it had introduced accidental duplicates. Ouch
Arses like that are why it’s so dangerous on country roads We NEED A nation wide Car free network
Of course, because car brands, car dealerships, car financing/leasing, car maintenance (tyres, exhausts, MOT) and car insurance are all big advertising markets!
I'm wondering.. does Gemini actually log that it got this wrong? It's not a great mystery of the world - it's a clumsy human-like error. My kid was not only disappointed, but said "lucky we spotted it!" and my immediate concern was: How often must this happen with large datasets & nobody spots it!?
I feel like you could avert a surprising amount of chatbot delusion damage by making "periodically accuse the bot of lying and see if it comes clean" common wisdom, at least until the response gets trained out in alignment
I asked Gemini to put a list of 42 items in order, to show my 12 year old son the "clever timesaving things" AI tools can do. He immediately spotted 2 missing items. While I was highlighting this to Gemini, he noted there were still 42 items, so deduced it had introduced accidental duplicates. Ouch
Still wondering about that preposterous 25 May Telegraph story about “investment bankers” Al and Alexandra Moy and their children Ali, Harry and Barry? @privateeyenews.bsky.social has more! ”We earn £345k but soaring private school fees mean we can't go on five holidays”
You can just imagine all those everyday working-class types who can afford to drink at pubs in Westminster.
It's as if copyright already doesn't exist. This is a common choice of background theme on Instagram newsy posts. An automatically suggested soundtrack. youtu.be/xBXc_vrr_98?...
It's much worse than before "over there"! There's not even any doubt about whether such people are talking in bad faith (rather then just never having thought about another perspective or being a little bit easily led by tabloid clichés). And their timelines are always filled with horrible views.
Significant… “Jaywalking” was a term invented in the 1920s in the US to deflect blame from motor vehicles then killing thousands of people annually. www.vox.com/2015/1/15/75...
A century of motonormativity! Add that to continued talk of "beaconisation", where having phone on (+GPS & data) & charged at all times becomes an expectation "to keep you safe". Reporting would join in, as with "wasn't wearing a bike helmet" (as if helmets prevent crashes, or absence causes them)
The fact self-driving car company bosses now talk about the problem/challenge of "levels of jaywalking" in the UK is a concern. They're clearly trying to talk it into existence so they can suggest authorities clamp down on it. GB News, Talk, Daily Mail etc are likely to let them get away with it
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt. In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. 'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)
Absolute frootloops on X - see the person's timeline.
This fantastic response is a comment under a story about a car parking charge increase in York.
I know this expression of hatred on X isn't new, but... whatever happened to broadcasters moderating social comments to remove expressions of hate and violence. There's references to execution on this feed. @mrjamesob.bsky.social I'd love to hear that topic discussed. x.com/BBCLondonNew...
I believe the research was undertaken during the last government... (although it may have been updated) but in any case that shouldn't suggest to anyone that it's going to be less of a problem under a leadership that is so concerned about appealing to Reform & Tory voters.
Isn't this a depressing scenario!??
@2-wheeled-wolf.bsky.social Good to see you here - though when I take on the idiots over on the dark side, I do miss your splendidly direct responses to some of their points!! Hope you are doing well.
As a law-abiding person I have never considered that we need an "encouragement" to pay. Are people expecting praise, applause, rewards for doing so? Are some people actually looking for an excuse not to pay? Is crime "encouraged" by the fact you can 'get away with it' - if you are law-abiding?
Astounds me that some people who lived through Bolsonaro era and saw the dismantling of agencies that protect, prevent, respond to and educate public & industry in relation to natural disasters and climate change STILL believe in him, when they've seen him deny what's happen because he can't face it
Except the other wars I mean
Ain’t no war but the class war
I'm loving it. Tried SO many apps and couldn't feel at home or find functionality I needed until I settled on UpNote. Huge credit to whoever created it. But ironically my fear is that "what if it gets screwed up" and adding unwanted AI interference would be exactly the kind of thing.
E vai ter dinheiro pra todo mundo comer, beber, viajar, pagar as contas, se divertir...? Vc está dizendo que inteligência artificial é deflacionária, amor...
This much
I wasn't, of course, referring to Ant Middleton (who was never even selected) when I mentioned the Reform candidate for London mayor. I was referring to real life actual Reform candidate Howard "Cox 4 London" (3%)... who took a little while longer than many to spot what others thought obvious:
I now think of "Broken Britain" more than I think of "Great Britain". Not because I'm failing as a patriot, but because I can't believe what other 'patriots' say. eg. this guy telling me that despite Ant Middleton's toxic rhetoric AND criminal record.. "I like him and think he'll be a good mayor"
