Two fictional (presumably AI) stories in recent X posts, now repeated as a Google summary. No need to tell tall tales about your achievements when the AI ecosystem will now do it for you…

I Remember, Hope you do….

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

theguardian.com

1/3 Strip away the theatre and Reform UK is a billionaire-backed project to dismantle the public realm, shred regulatory protections and hand what remains of state power to capital. It’s plain to see – just follow the money.

Of all the many ways to criticise the MAGA movement, making up quotations and attributing them to famous fugures must be the worst.

Pierre Polyester@canadian-critic.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is it. Will they outnumber us or will we outnumber them? Teach your children well.

"Let the bodies pile high" is perhaps the most memorable quote from that period of national discourse. Is that the absolutism you're referring to?

A leading UK Conservative and moderate criticises leader Kemi Badenoch for chasing Reform policies and suggests it might be better if the party split.

I’m always impressed when men are revealed to be living a secret life with another family because I’m not exactly nailing one life so the idea of two or more is quite intimidating. A secret affair? I can’t even remember which days the bins go out.

I really wanted Lewis Goodall to be a good journalist. Sadly it turns out he's another journalist who understands the political world, but not the scientific reality it is embedded in.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 5d ago

There are working class and vulnerable kids who will never have the life they should have had because of school closures. Let’s address that too, shall we?

19-year-old Saghar Gholami has a death sentence, obtained under torture, which includes the stipulation they she has to be raped by a member of the IRGC before she is executed. Please, please, be her voice. No one deserves execution. No one deserves this horrific sexual violence

Really making the whole "dont call us fascists!" pitch a little harder.

BREAKING: Google has rolled back its tool less than a day after it launched. Updated story coming soon.

In a crowded field, this is one of the most dangerously stupid things Google has done in the last few years. And I use the word "dangerously" advisedly.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

If/when we have an H5N1 pandemic, there will very likely be a lot of preventable child deaths because people have been deluded by these revisionist right-wing lunatics and will insist schools must be open no matter what.

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago

Keeping schools open is a goal not a policy. A blanket "never close schools" is a bad lesson. I suggest these: 1. Do not prejudge next pandemic which will be a different virus and could have very different age profile of who it attacks 9/12

Nigel Farage (2016), "It's legitimate to say.. If people feel that voting doesn't change anything" "Then violence is the next step"

Great Barrington Expectations

Jake_Vig@jakevig.bsky.social · 6d ago

Downplay a book or movie: "Reasonable Expectations"

Here's our new factcheck that debunks the misleading claims being spread by the likes of Ridley about European wildfires www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-no...

Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires - Carbon Brief

In recent days, prominent climate sceptics and rightwing commentators have shared charts on social media incorrectly implying that Europe is having its “quietest” year for wildfires in 2026.

carbonbrief.org

SUFFOLK FIRE >>>> Reform-led Suffolk county council voted to rescind a climate emergency declaration that had been adopted in 2019 and removed references to the climate emergency from council policies, strategies and communications “where appropriate”. BONKERS www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Hundreds evacuated after ‘apocalyptic’ wildfire near Suffolk nuclear power station

Major incident declared, with Sizewell B power station monitoring blaze and RSPB nature reserve badly hit

theguardian.com

There's still time to construct a fire break made of peasants

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d ago

I always wondered what it would take for the Telegraph to decide there might be a downside to climate breakdown. Well, now we know. Even so, this article manages not to mention it.

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The terrible, stupid waste of UK universities policy continues. Your cash down the drain. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-bri...

New British Academy fellows at risk in Exeter jobs cull

Being at the ‘top of your game’ no guarantee of job security, warns decorated historian now facing the chop

timeshighereducation.com

this aged like raw milk

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

When President Donald Trump was reminded in an interview with Time magazine that he had said he would end the Russian war on Ukraine on “day one,” he claimed he hadn’t been speaking literally or seriously.

Thanks to the Catholic Church, a significant minority of us are unable to answer that question.

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

Nigel Farage: the controversies A chronology of claims, contradictions and crookedness.

Farage quit in a huff - why should Burnham invite him to talks?

Farage quit in a huff - why should Burnham invite him to talks?

Metro columnist Pablo says Nigel Farage can't throw a tantrum because he hasn't been included in talks - alleging he just wants choas.

metro.co.uk

#R4Today reports Mail and the Sun pictures of heavily laden small boats off the French coast with snide comments about government letting in loadsapeople. When were the pictures taken? Home Office figures: 26 July - 0 arrivals 27 July - 0 28 July - 26 We'll see what they record for 29 July

Hard mode: try to demonstrate that your emotional maturity and cultural awareness have developed since you were a teenager.

😈Sarcastic momma and really fucking inappropriate@sarcasticmom69.bsky.social · 7d ago

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

After 17 and a half years today is my last day working in the NHS. I've worked under 12 Health secretaries. Every single one made it harder for us to look after patients and pursued an agenda of privatisation and outsourcing. The NHS thrives in spite of, not because of it’s political leadership.