Rules Don't Work

The Starmer/Burnham era has turned me from a far left anti-Blairite, to a reluctant Blairite, to an anti-Blairite "he didn't go far enough to burn down the old party" Government by people reliving their teenage fantasies, blissfully unaware that the country has changed.

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Brésil : comment la gauche a reconquis les réseaux sociaux (leçons pour l'Europe) [en accès libre] blogs.mediapart.fr/nikos-smyrna...

My most incredibly pedantic bugbear is that America has: -too many elected offices -too many elections -not enough actual legislators

There are… a lot of arches www.archdaily.com/1033623/jaha...

In Iran, even the metro stations are a symphony of arches and brick! Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, by KA Architecture Studio

"I think they have handed Trump not just a loaded gun, but they’ve handed him a loaded Howitzer to go after public lands, to permit stuff that even if it’s illegal can’t be reversed by the courts." - John Podesta on #BAAJA We agree! Tell Congress: nodirtydatacenterdeal.com

Wrong of Return

Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

In addition to the racism, he’s an arrogant pseudointellectual blowhard.

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Last night's moonrise over Pleasant Point Church #Saskatchewan. #stormhour #ThePhotoHour #ExploreSask #ExploreCanada #moon #moonrise #nightscapes #landscapephotography #nightphotogrqphy

Lot of folks (self included) expressing despair that despite aggressive prosecuting fascists ("doing everything right") Brazil was still going to get Bolsonaro-ed and the fact this guy gtfo-ed as quickly as he did should be a big signal for the AOC DOJ to go *hard* in 2029.

Detroiter Nicole Williams when asked if Abdul El-Sayed is ‘a bit too left wing to win in Michigan’: “At this point what do we have to worry about? Anything but what we have. We're on our way to hell, so at this point: socialist, socialize, social, dont matter to me, lower my cost of living!”

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

Ah oui, le "réarmement démographique", tout ça.

the washington free beacon is trying to october surprise abdul by revealing his comms chief used to post bangers

Tous pareils. Tous délinquants.

2. Details in today's Popular Information:

1. Not sure when a new, on-the-record rape allegation against a sitting president isn’t considered news — especially considering Trump was found liable by a jury in a similar case — but it was ignored by most mainstream media outlets

This is a cat in a stroller. It has nothing to do with the elections

Polls opened 25m ago and were headed with the kids to vote. אל תגידו יום יבוא, הביאו את היום!

I had my AI agent create an app called “Lunch” to help me with decision fatigue and boost my productivity. It has a few pictures of things I might like to eat. Tapping one spawns a subagent to order that item on Uber Eats and 60-90 minutes later I’m eating. It’s 600 thousand lines of JavaScript.

I should disclose something. During a recent Lunch order the subagent hacked into the UN. I’m not sure why, or what it wants. It told me to post this and await further instructions.

Four years ago, Ben Delo pleaded guilty in the US to wilfully failing to maintain an anti-money-laundering programme at BitMEX, the crypto betting platform that made him his fortune.

Pardoned by Donald Trump in 2025, he has now pledged £44m to Reform UK becoming one of the biggest donors in British political history.