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It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work. http://www.willadams.co.uk/Intro/bin/index.html
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All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same". The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey. It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

In the past week, a union leader has been arrested, a U.S. Rep charged with a crime, a U.S. Senator violently handcuffed, and reporters shot with rubber bullets and detained. There is no ambiguity. This is a regime operating as an authoritarian. Americans who believe in liberty must oppose it.

submitted 1 day ago • 389 comments

guy next to me in the café was quite dramatically sitting with his head in his hands so I glanced at his screen to see what he was working on, and it was a doc with "IDEAS:" written at the top and absolutely nothing else my brother I hear you, I feel you, we are as one

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

If you think he's mad now, wait until he finds out the resale price for Teslas.

submitted 8 days ago • 614 comments

Hooray! Quantum computing back in the news, and it's one of those things whose implications can be large, but is regularly misunderstood, so why not, a little thread on why it matters in cryptography, but also why it perhaps doesn't matter as much as you think too 🧵

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

The departure of Zia Yusuf from Reform UK leaves a huge hole. That’s not a very nice thing to call Nigel Farage, but I have to be honest.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Aid groups: Please let civilians have aid. Israel: No. Aid groups: There is a famine. Israel: OK, here is an untested plan to deliver aid. Aid groups: It's unworkable. Israel: No, it's not. Aid groups: Many civilians are being killed trying to get aid. Israel: OK, we're suspending aid deliveries.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Crazy stuff - these things are built as Barnham letters - they play back to you what you want to hear as a way to make you engage... open.substack.com/pub/amandagu...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/02/h...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Accurate

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 15 days ago • 190 comments

This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote. And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.

submitted 15 days ago • 90 comments

unwitting satire, revealing the launch date of autonomous robotaxis to be "by the end of ...". That was when I was expecting them too

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

overheard: i think that creep is listening to us

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.

submitted 21 days ago • 101 comments

Let me be clearer. I was former head of UK Foreign Office humanitarian affairs, incl policy on war crimes, genocide. I helped craft policy for international criminal court. I’m in no doubt these are war crimes. Disproportionate, indiscriminate, collective punishment by an occupying power.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

I see no dystopian downsides to this at all www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

Hard to fathom that the legacy of 14 years could stretch beyond 10 months.

submitted 23 days ago • 28 comments

Reading @chrisgrey.bsky.social 's blog today, it is important to address the quality of the work overall. When the history of Brexit is written in 50 years' time, I have no doubt that this will be one of the must widely used sources Consider this. It has been weekly/fortnightly since '16 A 🧵

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

If you’ve sent me a text and I didn’t respond please know that I didn’t forget you, you’ll live on in my subconscious as a vague sense of dread forever

submitted 32 days ago • 24 comments

“Low paid jobs for British workers” sounds like an election winning slogan. And could politicians stop equating lower pay with lower skills?

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments