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Nice to hear Marc Riley pointedly dedicate Sheila Take a Bow to Johnny Marr, Mike Joyce, Andy Rourke and Craig Gannon.

I read this Damon Knight story too. It was called To Serve Man.

That's the spirit. More of this 90 years on, please.

“In email after email, [AfD] supporters use racist slurs and share antisemitic theories of Jewish world domination; there are jokes about turning refugees into handbags and boots, discussions of whether refugees should be shot at the border, a Christmas card sent with a swastika and “Heil Hitler…””

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Absolutely ridiculous that banjo wanker gets a spot on Newsnight.

8 hours at a 'turkey processing plant' in Yorkshire. Became a veggie soon after and developed a lifelong aversion to psychopaths with machetes.

Saw a white van at the supermarket with a large UK flag saying "if this flag offends you I'll help you pack". Momentarily thought they meant they'd help at the till to show that some flag shaggers can behave decently. Then realised what the owner really meant and they're a cunt.

I left Twitter because I was permanently banned for writing about fascism. . . . . .Because Twitter is now a fascist platform controlled by the richest fascist in the world. Some of us aren’t allowed there. So, the pro-X discourse seems like desperate (fascist) propaganda.

Well, there you go. Those graphs looked like wishful thinking bollocks and it appears they were. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Remembering that time when some big name accounts were arguing that X is all good now and the algorithm has been de-Elon'd. Wait, that was yesterday. The same time this was happening.

Absolute trash, by trash people who are not scientists

This season of Slow Horses is the funniest and most tense so far. Loving it.

It's fine because Jeremy Clarkson says he can remember 1977 being a bit cooler than 1976.

A podcast for Red Flare (@redflareinfo.bsky.social) in which we chatted about culture - why the right has been winning online - compared to the 1930s when the left won in books or the 70s when we won in music open.spotify.com/episode/1hLu...

Reminder that Vice President JD Vance has said that he considers Curtis Yarvin a friend

This is grim but unsurprising reading. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

90 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️

10% psycho 100% loser 😂

This is an excellent article by Leif Wetherby - why AI is a cultural technology not a collection of human-like agents (citing our work on this). And why the anthropomorphism is a distraction from the very real risks and dangers and the way to deal with them. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...

Get their arses.

Anyone know if there will be screenings of NAZA? I know it's going to be online soon but was interested in cinema screenings.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

I think it's time to repost this blog post on #AI, ¢metaphors and 'control' (and 'going rogue') makingsciencepublic.com/2026/08/07/a...

My Glock system went rogue and issued 9mm agents which accessed the internal organs of several victims. Please give me billions of dollars to help me regulate the behavior of the gun whose trigger I keep pulling.

We spoke on the podcast a little while ago to different experts about some of the issues raised in this article. theconversation.com/how-the-emoj...

Interesting read - plausible deniability and in-group codes at the heart of this. Oh and lots of fascism.

Presumably he was interrupted as he started railing against the Lügenpresse and smashing his fist off the desk?

Amid the pessimism that we're sinking back to late 70s levels of far-right street activity - or worse - this is a positive piece about lessons we can learn from the past and how they are being implemented in some places now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Would be amazing to see Burnham and co set up an agency to fight information warfare from the likes of these sinister foreign powers.

Would DC Price of @thesquareball.net care to comment on this description of his 'big boy bowl'? bsky.app/profile/fess...

This is where 'legitimate concerns' gets you.

Why not go the whole hog and call it Super Trump Intelligence, or STI for short?

Grandad's on the crack again.

Hard to believe, I know.

Bloody hell, have accidentally heard about 10 minutes of Nick Robinson on the radio. Never again.

That relative clause is doing a lot of work for the far-right. Let's face it, a plumber, teacher, delivery driver, care worker or even a politician from outside the principality itself, WHO COULD BE A MURDERER, may move unchecked into the area.

Why does every picture of Ratcliffe make him look like a man who's been sent to the wall to live out his days as a nightsoil collector in Moletown after an incident with a goat?