If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Oh well! Thanks Meta. Link to ad: www.facebook.com/share/v/19TT...

Jim Waterson@jim.londoncentric.media · 3w ago

I’ll raise you this Facebook/Meta advert from last week that offered the chance to tell an AI child exactly what to do and she’d do it!

Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.

This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

To anyone who follows me, or doesn’t, please contribute to @richardkadrey.bsky.social ‘s extremely urgent new Go FundMe. His cat’s depending on you too. I don’t know a harder-working writer, and what he produces is always wonderful. Please re-skeet!

Please give our capital city its full name: you plan to return to Khan’s London for your safety

6 July 1939 | French Jewish girl, Huguette Gutmajnster, was born in Paris. In August 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz from Drancy. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

This is unambiguously unlawful abuse. Ofcom accepted voluntary targets from X solely about pace of decisions, not the content or quality X has met its voluntary target: it *quickly* decided to protect unlawful abuse it has a legal duty to remove! The voluntary targets dont measure what matters

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

petition.parliament.uk

I know we shouldn't respond to the trolling, but Vance implying that Sikhs are part of a "mass invasion of migrants", when they fought in tens of thousands for the British in two world wars and even THE INDIAN MUTINY is 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

While CDU and EPP were fighting against the supposed ‘combustion engine ban’ that never was a ban, and now want to double down on new gas power plants. Rearview mirror politics.

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

The number of ‘bells’ an English Bluebell has reflects its age It is dependent on the increasing size of the bulb, root system & leaves capable of managing the weight, nutrients & water Individuals plants can live over 15 years. Established colonies can be a thousand years old

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

I just need everyone to watch this and understand I have been laughing about it for 24 hours

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

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Just listen to what Andrew’s nickname was amongst royal protection officers.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

Mo Farah, trafficked to UK aged 9 in 1992. Teacher Alan Watkinson secures citizenship after 8 years here, 2000 (aged 17) so he could travel abroad as GB athlete Under future rules Renew status? 1995, 98 x6 Eligible settlement after 20 years (2012) Citizenship 2013 news.sky.com/story/sir-mo...

Sir Mo Farah reveals 'the truth' about how he came to the UK

The Olympic star was warned speaking out could put his British citizenship at "real risk" - but it is understood the Home Office is taking no action against him.

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Got these new trainers today but I can't get it out of my head that they look like fuckin DC Tosh Lines from The Bill

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 10mo ago

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out

Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’

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Sadiq Khan bringing Sharia Law to London like

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Michael Gove, "Reform voters are very close to, in their general views, with the British public" 🤔

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Dr. Casey Fiesler@cfiesler.bsky.social · last yr.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…