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A cross party platform - Reform and Tory - mad that the biggest shove towards a united Ireland is coming from the Brirish right....
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I spent years asking what exactly Peter’s role was and now he has disastrously humiliated the fuck out of everyone, we finally start to get some details.
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
"The Atlantic ocean's 'wobbling' is a concerning indicator, as it can suggest an impending collapse. Much like when in the pub you see someone wobbling on a bar stool, it's no surprise when they later fall off." This should be scaring the total PANTS off all of us. share.google/cNkaAjy8udTS...
Statement from Starmer soon?
I'm looking at that last line and thinking...'yeah, OK'
Poster. Norman Wilkinson. c.1924.
Amazing plot by LBNL heroes, showing oh-so-clearly that fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) are inefficient clown fuels that no one should ever take seriously. 2/3 losses from primary to useful, Jesus wept.
"It just could not happen in Britain."
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No reasonably curious follower of the UK media finds it weird though, to be fair.
He's right about the "it could not happen in Britain" thing though. That really jumps out. If you're one of the lads here, you'll be fine.
Does this also put Times Radio in an awkward position, given they invited Peter on for laughs and larks on about thirty occasions in recent years, while also knowing all about this stuff? Let’s find out
I guess back when Pete was a top lad, on everywhere getting stuck into Corbyn, all those shitposters with their photos of him and Jeffrey were just lucky to be correct, again. Amazing how many lucky predictions the online left have made over the years, yet the professionals just can't catch a break.
Lovely interview, strikingly similar sentiments about music (and similar work rate!) to the late, great Mark Hollis.
LOL, lads I don’t think you’re supposed to be saying this out loud www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Remember this one, about how Peter is your man if you want to start a business in Moscow? Maybe not: it was published to a deafening silence and nothing was said until a year later, when the author won an award for it and it turned out everyone had in fact read it www.theguardian.com/news/2022/ju...
If the Epstein horrors were an all-British affair, they’d be investigated by police who understand the precise sensitivities, reported to bosses who are hyper-aware of the consequences of fucking up and explained to the public by people practiced in presenting elite scandals without lasting damage.
Slowly but surely Britain has de-limbed itself of anything which dares smack of intellectualism. This country sneers at art as pretension and intelligence as suspicious. Melvyn Bragg was the antidote to that. His departure from public life diminishes Britain www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
The lowest note ever detected is a B flat, 57 octaves below middle-C. It is emanating from a black hole 250 million light years away.
AI is Capital's last and perfect wheeze, the one solution to sweep away worker protections, copyright law, to capture all knowledge and permanently integrate itself into our lives and government, all while destroying the environment, facts, reality and making a handful of people richer than God.
So there is no limit to what will be done to force AI into our lives and government, to make it beyond our refusal and a handful of people richer than God.
If Reform can be on the way to power then why not the Greens? We are at risk of paving Reform’s way to power by running this narrative for the next few years.
A point made here, also: www.thereengineer.pro/p/eastern-eu...
If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵
No, Farage will become PM if the government continues to concede every political argument to him, enact his policies and let him drive UK politics.
Every idiot who can read a poll knows that if you wanted to beat Reform, you would put in place a fairly radical social democratic programme. But that isn't their priority. Their priority is is demonstrating loyalty to the City, Wall Street, Silicon Valley at all costs (2/2).
I really can't stress enough the extent to which you've totally missed the point if, like every single liberal commentator, you assume that the Labour leadership are conducting themselves like this because they mistakenly believe that doing so will help them defeat Reform (1/2).
Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?
I believe he said it was time to rethink NATO in light of Trump's relationship with Putin and that Europe should consider an alternative arrangement, something that I believe some EU leaders have also said, so not really controversial.
I haven’t seen it repeated anywhere to be honest, this just isn’t something that’s landing with the public as far as I can tell.
Fair enough. I agree we need tax rises, but I wonder where the real opposition for tax rises comes from. It’s a bit like immigration, apart from a few instances, I haven’t heard a political party or media outlet really make the case for it in decades.
In what way do you think people's expectations have become entirely unrealistic? At least in the UK, I haven't personally seen anyone asking for a future beyond 'could we be more like the best performing European countries?' Are you saying that's not structurally possible for the UK?
An analysis by someone who only looks as far as their own life and concludes that all is OK. No thoughts about global food or water supply as long as the local shop's shelves are stocked and the tap is running. Why worry? Is smartphone addiction an indication of a deeper malaise? Nah, no bother.
Hypothesis: Labour's counter-productive obsession with looking tough on immigration is because they've been misled by the media into thinking they should. But the media is an increasingly poor guide to public opinion: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/the-politi...
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Lots of 'the hole in the ozone layer didn't turn out to be a big deal after all' takes still out there in the wild.
Unfortunately the biggest weakness of every universal public service or collective action - the more effective, the more ‘invisible’ they are and so more vulnerable to attack by dickheads.
Angela Rayner bent to just about all of current Labour's demands (derogatory). She has spent five years betraying her old values and making sure she toes the party line. And the party has Corbyn'd her anyway. I hope other leftwing MPs take this as a valuable lesson.
Aye, fair enough, quite often on here I need to double check which party someone’s posting about.
Have we ever seen a political party leadership that hates its core voters so much, that finds its supporters so repellant? No other political leadership in the world does this. Maybe this explains the ‘tactics’?
At what point does any of this go beyond a discussion about strategy/messaging and we maybe admit that it’s just what they want to do, what they think is right and they think if they do it ‘well’ enough, voters will finally see them as true believers?
I’d argue that irrespective of whether any of this ‘works’, even entertaining this stuff as a ‘tactic’ puts a party/individual very much on the right of the political spectrum, beyond even centre right.
It was obviously an op since the very beginning and it pisses me off that so many supposedly smart people engaged with it in good faith. Like, there was reporting that unhinged billionaires were bankrolling the thing since November 2024.
New paper in Nature finds that global geologic CO2 storage potential is ~90% lower than previously believed. Many candidate sites could leak CO2 back into the air or into groundwater, undermining climate mitigation efficacy or putting nearby human health at risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dangerously close to the Quo.
In the spirit of encouraging fun, non-discourse type posting on Bluesky, I'm going to share one of the most intimate dimensions of my tastes with you all: 1 like = 1 song that falls into the cursed genre of music my friends derisively refer to as 'gregkcore'. Buckle up.
This is the epitome of my all time number 1 despised genre of music and yet I have to admit it's a banger.
I love this tune, it's pure magic, like a drug. Time the crescendo to hit just before the big interview, going into work, a sunrise, whatever. It'll make you feel like the hero in the final scene of a movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N8J...
Who has the leverage here though? Reform's rise has been driven by media coverage out of proportion to their size. Maybe engaging with them less mightn't be a bad idea?
Early days, but I don’t think it can be overstated how important it is to UK politics to have a party leader willing and able to lead and re-frame the debate away from the climate apathy, austerity, corporatism, neoliberalism, flag shagging, racism, transphobia and bigotry that it is mired in.
Feel like these first two would fit well into a thread about how the Travelling Wilburys were so much less than the sum of their parts.
It is quite funny that any pundit wondering about Labour's strategic failures could just consult any post by the online left in the last 10 years to get the answers. The people behind Starmer's Labour are exactly what we all always knew they were.
They're fundamentally wreckers, no idea what to do with power, only a vague idea that they should have it.
I think one of the most notable things about Starmer's Labour and the people behind the Starmer 'project', is that they only know how to react (mostly against the left), never to take the lead, because it's all they've ever done in their political lives.
He's very good at this, particularly pushing back at the framing of the questions, but the fact this is so refreshing shows what a dire level of political discourse we currently have.
I think part of this is the start of the throwing shit at the wall to find what sticks. Will be interesting to see over the next while how many angles they try and go at Polanski from. He looks well capable of handling it.
I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim. 1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵
You've just rehashed a few old out of date tropes here and again avoided any details of what are 'fantastical' policies.
The inevitable smug centrists will say that it's easy to say this stuff from a minor opposition party, but that ignores the massive importance of having any party leader articulate this stuff, clearly and loudly, in the public sphere. That alone can shift the debate.
It really shouldn't be beyond our ability to reconstruct our economic system to meet the moment, whether that is demographics, or climate change. The obstacle is vested interests. But if we can't overcome those to meet that moment, we've surely failed as a civilisation.
Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
'Fantasy policies' is something you say when you don't have a substantive analysis or alternative. As with Corbyn, nothing that Polanski is calling for is radically different from standard social democratic policy already in place across Europe.
The top five most frequent non-politicians on BBC Question Time all write for a single rightwing paper And this was from last year
“Scientists have warned previously that Amoc collapse must be avoided “at all costs”. It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels”
They're spending the trillions to try and strong-arm AI into every government, all our lives, to get our data and make it irreplaceable so they can monopolise every pillar of society and make a profit. That's the business model, because it doesn't currently work yet and we don't know if it will.
We haven't tried the four day week either.
Probably the most annoying tendency in recent months is folks lining up to wonder loudly why Labour keep making mistakes, miscalculations, strategic errors etc. I guess this more obvious explanation is too embarrassing for too many people.
"... Labour's defences against Polanski's eco-populism are so many chocolate fireguards. The Greens stand on the threshold of an historic opportunity, and every sign points towards their readiness to capitalise on it."
Desperate stuff
Near Wild Heaven
The Greens will be polling above Corbyn’s party within months unless something radical happens.
Telling it like it is, and cutting through.
Loads of folk on here before he was elected insisting it was a fatal amount of baggage for him and yet I haven’t heard it mentioned since. I guess we can expect another spate of people trying desperately to make it a thing.
"We are here to replace you" Zack Polanski to Labour
Polanski winning with 84% of the vote is not only good in terms of the direction of the Greens’ membership, it’s also quite obviously a ‘shit or get off the pot’ moment for Corbyn and Sultana.
Labour have chosen to run on being tougher on immigration. So have the Tories and Reform. Where we are is the inevitable result. Can this be described as a failure of leadership?
It feels like the solution is likely to be related to how we got to ‘not really noticing the problem’ in the first place?
It’s hard to look around—at Blair pitching a luxury resort to be built on the Gaza killing fields or Keir Starmer responding to anti-Asian hate by affirming his affinity for the perpetrators—and not conclude that the elite’s real problem with Corbyn was that he wasn’t sufficiently Islamophobic.
He's like an AI politician before his time, just nothing there, a void. Whatever he was he's erased, at least in public, for this, for what?
The elegant, aerodynamic appearance of the European SM is shown on the cover of this UK brochure. The car, featuring a 2.7-litre Maserati V6, was an ambitious grand tourer which proved spectacularly ill-timed, being hard hit by the 1973 fuel crisis and a myriad of internal troubles at Citroën.
Sensible Centrism achieved total victory last year. This is what they're choosing to do.
And we were all supposed to be feeling sorry for Policy Exchange a few days ago.
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“We must tear up our international obligations the way the far right demand, to fend off becoming a nasty, cruel dystopia” dude I know the libs are pretty dense, but I hope even they would be switched on enough to suss this one
We need to be really clear here that this is environmental destruction on a huge scale, we know exactly what the problem is and how it can be fixed, but our politicians are refusing to tackle it. Just like last year, they're putting it on the long finger hoping the problem goes away again in autumn.
"Despite numerous promises of action from politicians, Northern Ireland’s devolved government has struggled to make progress on tackling the reasons behind the lough’s pollution amid pushback from some farming groups" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wonder if these are connected?
The problem is that it *has* to be this way now; they have to double down on both-sides equivocation in pursuit of 'objectivity', because the fact of the genocide and every antecedent event contributing to it from October 8th onward is so glaring that to change tune now would be to admit complicity.
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No, the media did the job it intended to do, well. Once again: at this point this moon-faced innocent affect about what is *very clearly* a highly motivated attempt to whip up race riots is equivalent to denialism. It obfuscates obvious motives and shields bad actors from accountability.
You say that, but by what magic does it happen? Powell was sacked by his party leader. Party leaders are the ones making Powellite statements now.
“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
The restoration of bison to the Yellowstone region has had a remarkable impact on grasslands, a new study finds.
Probably would have sunk them financially though, to be fair.
I always thought Lotus should have given the Esprit a digital dash so the inside could look as radical as the outside. Also think it should have got more radical over time, like a British Vector W8.
Absolutely magic, this was everything I thought the future was going to be when I was a kid. Nothing quite like it since.
Aston Martin was determined to give the Lagonda driver a very high-tech experience at the wheel. The brochure boasted that 'ugly and confusing switches are noticeable only by their absence, with the 1980s-style interior including sensitive touch switches'. Unfortunately it proved troublesome in use.
Styled by William Towns, with looks like no other luxury saloon, the Aston Martin Lagonda caused a sensation at its late-'70s debut. Its brochure shoot headed to Northumberland, where Alnwick and Bamburgh castles provided backdrops for this dramatic V8-powered vision of the future. #weirdcarbs
