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submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I've had a secret theory for a while that I guess I'll just throw out there: The right is inevitably going to turn on AI, not because LLMs hallucinate or get things wrong, but because they mostly *get things right*, and reality, as a great man once said, has a liberal bias.

submitted 5 hours ago • 33 comments

The immigration system in a nutshell - a Brazilian sex offender allowed to stay here, but the small children of a professor and a nurse who are here legally are ordered to be deported without their parents

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

Richard Murphy is a plonker, thankfully nobody of importance listens to him anymore

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW!!! Germany's Merz pushes back on Trump calling for russia's G7 return "We are not sitting here in this format with warlords and not with war criminals, which is why Putin has no place at this table," Merz said.

submitted 18 hours ago • 19 comments

The dream is still alive 😍 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

A photo recently emerged online showing a “Glory to Russia” scar on the body of a Ukrainian prisoner of war. A Ukrainian doctor shared a photo of the soldier’s mutilated abdomen, taken not long after his release from Russian captivity. The photo was verified by Ukraine's military intelligence.

submitted 19 hours ago • 16 comments

V interesting from @dantomlinson.bsky.social and @jakerichardsmp.bsky.social on reform of the ECHR - very much coming onto the radar of Labour MPs www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I do this 😂

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Wow - looks like the real VDL is back Mega-hawkish speech on China at G7 - accuses it of intentionally making the world reliant on rare earths "We are seeing a new China shock - as China's economy slows down, Beijing floods global markets with subsidised overcapacity its own market cannot absorb"

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Oh dear

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Extraordinary

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

There is no need for active duty Marines on the streets of Los Angeles. This is deliberate militarization of the police functions that the LAPD can handle. The Police Chief said as much.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Most depressing aspect of Casey's report? None of the issues are new. Deeply troubling how despite 15 years of reports, inquiries, reviews etc so little has changed in victims being believed, in perpetrators being pursued & local gov prioritising reputational & cultural concerns. A broken system.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Mike, I waited a day or so to see if you’d take this tweet down or apologize for it. You’ve done neither. When you & I went to Congress together 14yrs ago, I thought there was no more principled conservative in all of Congress than you. Shame on you. Shame on you for selling out.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.

submitted 3 days ago • 482 comments

Macron in response to the Trump regime and Russia invasion threat: "Greenland is not to be sold or to be taken." "You are not alone, we stand with you" People in Greenland greeted the French leader and waved an EU flag.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

What did I just read? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco. The protest is among thousands of nationwide demonstrations that took place today against Trump. 📸: Photo by @santiagomejia.bsky.social #NoKingsDay

submitted 3 days ago • 122 comments

I was looking for something to read similar to Iain Banks Culture series and was recommended the Terra Ignota series. Why is so much modern science fiction like this?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

After panic and anger, Tehran dares to imagine life without the regime The failure of air defence and the scale of the Israeli strikes has done what decades of protest could not – hurt Iran’s ruling elite bit.ly/4l4fwYz

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When someone of Louise Casey’s stature recommends one as the conclusion of a report the government commissioned, then you can’t say just say, no thanks

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Abortion is already legal here. The UK has some of the most permissive abortion laws in the world.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

There’s always a tweet

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments