Don’t interrupt your enemy when you might be able to persuade them to hop on a rocket to the moon bsky.app/profile/toma...

Tomas Hirst@tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 4h ago

Like with self-driving cars, feels only right that we send at least one human operator to supervise. One might suggest that it should be the most enthusiastic champion of this endeavour.

This is not a plan, or even an ambition. This is bad sci-fi being written by panicked losers.

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 7h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

The modern British (and international) right’s hypocritical treatment of antisemitism depending on its origin is on full display. Imagine a Labour candidate who was a former Islamic State supporter and who had been jailed for harassing a Jewish Tory MP. The right would not respond the same way!

“It’s fine for the ex-Neo Nazi to be a councillor, obviously we wouldn’t make him an MP” is a truly incredible line to take

Liam Hoare 🇺🇦@liamhoare.com · 13h ago

It doesn't say much for the Conservative Party that this is the quality of candidate who wants to stand for them now—and that they're willing to defend his selection.

Good for the Bears to have their Wright Tackle sorted

NFL Daily News@insidenflnews.bsky.social · yesterday

Fowler: RT Darnell Wright to sign a 4-year, $116M extension with the Bears.

This + elite college run + early SB appearance have given him armor to criticism. He’s obviously very good, it’s just interesting to me how much gets pushed to the side with him vs the following 5~ QBs on that list

Conor Sewell@ccsewell.bsky.social · yesterday

I feel like he weirdly benefits in the public perception from being injured so often - people see the highlight plays and when the end of season record isn’t great, they chalk it up to injuries

It’s always good to see that NFL coaches and execs overreact to the playoffs in the same way that fans do. Something oddly reassuring about it.

The Athletic@theathletic.com · yesterday

Our 2026 NFL Quarterback Tiers results are here. The panel this year consisted of 21 execs and 29 coaches overall. Each voter placed 35 veteran QBs into five tiers, from best (Tier 1) to worst (Tier 5). nyti.ms/4yYcfln

The past few years have been an explicit test of two theories of how to win back AfD voters: first, the CDU just needed to pivot to the hard right under Merz and second that the Linke as a party was too woke and needed to turn to workerist anti-migrant nationalism via BSW. Both failed.

Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com · 2d ago

The latest poll for Saxony-Anhalt has the far-right at 41%. If some of the smaller parties (SPD, Greens, BSW) don't clear the threshold to enter parliament, the far-right may gain an absolute majority in September.

Okay let’s do this

Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago

1 like = 1 book question 📚💙

This is so deeply unsurprising

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Doing Drake cosplay in the year of our lord 2026

Erik Hane@erikhane.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m glad everyone had fun with the NBA Finals and then the World Cup. That was a nice distraction. As we head toward August and the US Open though I need for people who have checked out of tennis to be aware of something: Carlos Alcaraz is doing this with his hair now

In Greater Manchester, the left consolidated more effectively than the right in the second round. Labour up by 58k off 80k Green/LD votes (72.5%). Reform up 45k off 87k Restore/Tory votes (51.7%). Labour were either much better at uniting their coalition, peeled off a lot of Tory voters, or both.

Here is a list of WRs the Patriots have taken in the first 2 rounds of the draft during the last 20 years or so: - Ja’Lynn Polk - Tyquan Thornton - N’Keal Harry - Aaron Dobson - Chad Jackson - Bethel Johnson

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends

I see the quality of electoral coverage on the BBC has carved out a third sub-basement at the bottom of the barrel

Karim Palant@karimpalant.bsky.social · 5d ago

Newsnight has just shown the Manchester (city) result and thought it was doing the full Manchester (Combined authority) result. The giveaway is Bev Craig got way over 50% of the vote and they did a second preference count. Total chaos. @luketryl.bsky.social asked to comment on just 92,000 votes

With so much of this nightmarish boosterism, it ultimately comes back to “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should try to take joy in the things that you do”

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wish the Conservatives were as alarmed as I am about them finishing *behind Restore* in the Greater Manchester byelection.

Every day the last remaining Starmerites on here fight on, the more bizarre it becomes. He was so clearly at the heart of all Labour’s failings.

Josh Halliday@joshhalliday.bsky.social · 5d ago

Looks like Labour has stormed the Greater Manchester byelection. Votes still being counted but we're told they've won in places where Reform UK and the Greens dominated in May – including all wards in Green MP Hannah Spencer's constituency. "It's a massive turnaround," says Labour source.

Amazing what trying to actually do things rather than pulling the uwu smol bean schtick does

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d ago

Which political party is currently doing the most to set the political agenda? Labour: 33% (+19 from 28-29 Aug 2025) Reform UK: 16% (-28) Conservative: 7% (+4) Greens: 4% (+3) Lib Dems: 1% (=) yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...

If the left doesn't enthusiastically turnout for centrists, it's the left's fault If the left sucks it up & votes for an awful centrist, it's proof that moving rightward was correct If centrists refuse to turnout for a left wing candidate, it's the left's fault www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Some Wisconsin Democrats claim they'll vote Republican if democratic socialist Francesca Hong wins primary

Hong's rise in the Wisconsin Democratic primary has exposed a sharp divide, with some voters saying they would cross party lines in November rather than support a DSA-aligned candidate.

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The Odyssey merch is getting out of hand

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d ago

Sainsbury's to sell Argos for £120m

Me watching my friends’ tans fade in September: our age of bronze is collapsing

This will be particularly easy for the Italians

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 6d ago

🔺 EXCLUSIVE: England and the other European members of Uefa will boycott Fifa’s tournaments if Gianni Infantino goes ahead with his plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors

Completely agree with this. Feel like it would be both massively popular and a good way for councils to raise additional revenue at essentially zero cost.

James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 6d ago

We should really just make citizen reporting of this sort of thing far easier? I get resourcing wardens etc is hard but if there was a easy way to upload people parking illegally etc. Then it'd be huge boon for councils and wider society

I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social · 7d ago

Okay now it's getting real

I genuinely cannot conceive of the mind of a person who could bring themselves to say something like this, at a funeral of all things

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."

Lord Glasman remains deeply in touch with the things that really matter to working class northern voters, such as the restoration of the Shah

David Klemperer@dmk1793.bsky.social · last wk.

Andy Burnham may be giving people some breathing space on the cost of living, but the cost of normal crisis remains as serious as it has ever been

Warhammer isn’t just the engine of the British economy, it’s also our greatest cultural export (Only half-joking)

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last wk.

Always fun to look at the Games Workshop annual report. “in the last financial period we sold over five million novels.”