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Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
Please make it stop. Sorry but I can’t bear to type out the Alt text of this. It’s just too painful.
This year saw the UK's hottest summer ever, with four heatwaves and persistent high temperatures throughout. @liamdutton.bsky.social examines what's caused these scorching temperatures, and what to expect in September. Read and watch:
Where has this ludicrous ECHR "debate" even come from. I've never once met an ordinary member of the public who's said to me, "Do you know what? We REALLY need to leave the ECHR." It's just a new right wing talking point because every other shit idea they've foisted on us has run out of steam.
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
Powerful new campaign today to recognise the consequences of unaffordable childcare, a lack of parental leave for all parents and pregnancy and maternity discrimination mean mums essentially work for free from today. Join me backing Growth Spurt UK call to arms and let’s change that ….
We know from the Windrush scandal that there isn't a clear, dividing line between citizen and non-citizen. And that is the reason why ID cards would be the inevitable precursor to a policy of mass deportation. And its liberals who are pushing for that. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, "Donald Trump is reckless and out of control. He is the biggest threat to our democracy in the history of our country"
"Some 460 million tonnes of plastic are produced annually, with only around 9% being recycled. This leaves over 90% in use, in landfill sites dotted around the world, or polluting our oceans."
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
CHICAGO…
Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR" Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?" Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating" *Article 8: Right for private and family life*
🧵 Farage is whipping up anger against the ECHR with false claims (see thread). As The Bear brilliantly writes: “The ECHR [is] the foundation that protects you from your own government.” That's why leaving the ECHR would be a Really Bad Idea. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk
Why on earth do the Tories want to keep people locked into high energy bills? And, come to that, why is the BBC citing Reform but saying nothing about climate science or renewable alternatives? Complete madness - except for the fossil fuel industry of course
Agreed, but when you say “Reform Ltd” without the “Ltd”, linguistically you answer the question: if this is reform, then by definition it’s a good thing and so climate science & renewables must be bad. Nonsense fixed by always saying “Reform Ltd” PS they hate being reminded of that. #StopFascism
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
We had swastikas and Islamophobic graffiti painted on a garage door and pavements in our solidly middle class road a couple of weeks ago. Red crosses are appearing all over the place on roundabouts and crossings. These areas are in no sense left behind. It’s really horrible.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
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“Human rights aren’t baubles handed down by ministers — they’re guarantees.” The Bear demolishes the myths around the ECHR, and asks why Labour are so quiet while the far right set the agenda.
This feels like a metaphor for 2025 www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
Governor of Illinois JB Pritzker criticises President Trump saying that "Troops on American streets is unAmerican"
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Fascists only believe in their right to mouth off lies. #StopFascism www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
We are so sick of this… In what world is a ‘double-tap’ a mishap?
2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit 2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer
The financial crisis theory of everything, by @samfr.bsky.social “Just as World War One led inexorably to the rise of extremist parties, the resurrection of trade barriers and tariffs, and geopolitical tensions, so has the financial crisis” open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
Just a random post off FB. Something deeply disturbing is happening to this country
You're still helping Reform Ltd by failing to include the "Ltd". Without it, your OP sounds like judges' use of the ECHR needs reforming and that's already happened, implying it's a good thing. The linguistic angle is important, because our brains will still respond to that. #StopFascism.
You can ignore climate science at your own peril, but you can't really make it disappear ...
....and that's it. Results on Tuesday! There's so many thank yous to come across the entire country but I'd request a huge collective thank you of @naranee.bsky.social who's voluntarily Campaign Managed for 4 months (!!!) All the love & thank yous, Naranee. You've been exceptional.
Sick of BBC continuously promoting Reform U.K. and ignoring other parties with far more representation? Please sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Huge congratulations! Excited for the future of the Scottish Greens! 💚
This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isn’t recruiting heroes, it’s recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
GOV. @gavinnewsom.bsky.social : “Facts are stubborn things… Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas…. Alabama is a top 3 murder state. Where is the President? — He isn’t focused on crime & violence. It’s about an expression of authoritarianism.” (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
Zack Polanski, "I'm really concerned that fascism is at our door" "We saw Nigel Farage run a press conference this week and Prime Minister Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer didn't even condemn the outrageous comments he made"
📌 Scientists are not in the business of advancing missions antithetical to public health. ✊🏼
Zack Polanski criticises Keir Starmer for not condemning outrageous statements made by Nigel Farage
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/ali... "The masquerades being performed by our supine press and politicians in this wonky, fractured place do not protect our interests. But Alice represents us." Article by Claire Jones for West England Bylines -
100% Our 10 publications at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk now get many more engagements (and click-through) from Bluesky than it ever did on Twitter/X. Here’s our graph of traffic from X vs Bluesky over the last 12 months.
You all rock! 🦋 🙌 🙏
Depressing piece. Hardly surprising that people have stopped listening to Labour because Starmer has never seemed interested to explaining what he’s trying to do. “Show, don’t tell” was never a convincing strategy, especially so when you’re struggling to deliver anything much. on.ft.com/4fYfuQM
The story of small boats isn’t just about refugees, writes Peter Thurlow. It’s about who shapes public perception – and who stays silent.
Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who chose to break into an unauthorized area during an insurrection against the repeated warnings of law enforcement. She ignored those warnings and got killed through no one's fault but her own. She was a traitor. She doesn't deserve full military honors.
#ScienceUnderSiege by @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & yours truly www.barnesandnoble.com/w/science-un...
She’s still the best Reform Ltd candidate! #StopFascism Oh, and every time you don’t add “Ltd”, you’re helping them, because linguistically “reform” just means to improve stuff - is that what we’re against? No, we’re against a private fascist company masquerading as a political party.
Flagshaggers vandalise, for what? So Farage can take £98k a month from GB News as Lowe pretends he’s working class? The only thing trickling down is contempt. Flagshagging at the bottom, cash bagging at the top. It’s a scam youtu.be/OoZw6TgVvCI
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
SMITE!
Appearances on standard BBC question time: Nigel Farage: 38 Jeremy Corbyn: 1 Now tell me the BBC don't have an Agenda...
What put the UK on the wrong track? Brexit
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Truth… Fox needs to be taken off of the air. They are the enabler that is brainwashing Americans and destroying our country by pandering to their fears… www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-...
First, they came for John Bolton And I did speak out Because even though I'm not a nutty right-wing warmonger with a ridiculous mustache, I am an American who is horrified by a simple-minded tyrant using our Justice Department to avenge his petty, personal grudges.
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But you're helping them by failing to call them "Reform Ltd". It makes you as blind as Labour's appeasement of Reform Ltd. Without the Ltd, it sounds like we're against something good. Do you not comprehend how obvious that is? You're helping them! #StopFascism.
Here's how the real two-tier Britain works: 1. Whatever Nigel Farage says, however stupid, is looped and discussed by the media, while left-wing voices are treated as noises off. 2. Tiny far-right protests get massive airtime, while 10s of 000s gathering for Palestine or green causes are ignored.🧵
As several have pointed out, this also applies to the massive (100,000 or so) Trans Pride event. Almost entirely blanked.
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Himalayan balsam, with its tall stems and pink flowers, has become one of the UK’s most problematic invasive plants... For years, control has relied on painstaking manual removal, but now a new solution is showing promise: a rust fungus, imported from the plant’s native range. 🙌
I've written about the concerted effort by the combined forces of the right to turn convicted race hate monger Lucy Connolly into a victim, a saint and a martyr. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
Fascism ended in annihilation and surrender in WW2, but please go on.
It shows such a basic lack of political understanding that Labour didn't go straight on the attack over this. Just because most people are worried about immigration being too high it doesn't mean they're psychopaths.
Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent. I guess it wasn’t a ham sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Well played sir, very well played.
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
@abc-news.bsky.social In not even 1 min before the weather presentation after the daily news @terliwetter.bsky.social informs his German TV audience regularly about the crisis. Here, that German forests don't work as CO2 sinks anymore. Wished Australian audiences would be informed similarly.
Frey: And don't just say, this is about thoughts and prayers right now. These kids were literally praying. It was the first week of school. They were in a church.
Minnesota is heartbroken. From the officers responding, to the clergy and teachers providing comfort, to the hospital staff saving lives, we will get through this together. Hug your kids close.
They put them up, I ripped two down, saving the council the effort. #StopFascism.
Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
With a straight face.
American neocons have always hated the common European customs schedule. They want to isolate countries to force terms. Current US far right hates that Europe has a common border system and Americans are not outside the law. 1
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *Polish Tourism Organisation *Hafren Furnishers *Dormeo *Freedom Showers *Reclaim Nation *Moneyfacts Compare *Faster Property Solutions *Burlingtons *Pink Sand Group *RepairMyKitchen *Madison & Mayfair *Aqua Warehouse goodlawproject.org/gb-news-the-...
The far-right want migrants dead. They promote fossil fuels & arms which increase migration; oppose foreign aid, which also increases it and then kill the people whose migration they’re accelerating. They want mass, multi-ethnic, pan-national genocide. Just like fascists always do. #StopFascism
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure. It's capital. The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Not even 9am. So far on Radio 6, the news bulletins have featured a mother saying her daughters aren't safe because of asylum seekers, a Tory politician lambasting Labour for crossing numbers & Badenoch encouraging councils to lodge legal challenges against hotels. An endless stream of hateful bile.
In the 1970s, UK discovered oil/gas in North Sea. Thatcher onwards, money squandered on tax cuts for corporations/rich. Now ... crisis. Norway heavily taxed oil/gas. Now, $1.9trn sovereign fund. Its income funds national budget. Appeasing rich/corporations costs the future.
More from Gavin Newsom on gerrymandering 👇👇👇👇👇
Jesse Watters did not believe the election fraud claims but still texted his colleague Greg Gutfeld to say he thought Fox would get “incredible” ratings if they “went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL.” Who cares about democracy if you can get ratings? www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
President Macron: I don't see Putin really willing to make peace.
Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.
Chair of the London Assembly Fire Committee, Zack Polanski: "With drier springs and record-breaking hot summers becoming the new normal, every increase in temperature pushes wildfires closer to our doorsteps, threatening our homes and our city’s green spaces." www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...
Gavin Newsom’s late-night message to Fox
After Netanyahu accused Australia of fueling antisemitism by recognizing the State of Palestine, Australian Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said “Strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry".
There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...
Voters want and are desperate for a positive and bold alternative to the failure of Labour and the Tories. I think this polling reflects that. The energy this leadership campaign has generated is transformative. Voting closes at the end of the month. Remember to vote!