This. Our recent survey found that 70% of people felt they would find it difficult or impossible to avoid AI even if they wanted to. We cannot meaningfully consent to something that is baked into everything by default, whether it's used by us or on us. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...
Over 40% of people are limiting AI use, as popularity starts to wane | King's College London
People are increasingly choosing to limit or reject the use of AI tools, according to a new report published today by the Digital Futures Institute at King’s College London and Responsible AI UK.
kcl.ac.uk
Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social · 23h ago“Consent is really important,” Broussard tells WIRED. “We can connect that to the way that women, queer people, people of color, and minorities get exploited and abused online. Tech companies have never really been sensitive to issues of consent.” www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.
Now that my song about the Demeter is done, I can go find out what other people have done with the same Dracula mini-story. Mitch Benn's take amuses me greatly. #MusicSky
Sailing on the Demeter, by Mitch Benn
from the album Gilbert and Sullivan's Dracula: The Soundtrack
mitchbenn.bandcamp.com
Many people outside the UK have been asking me who Rod Liddle was. Here's Stewart Lee (from 08:53 onwards) on the man described by Fraser Nelson (former editor of The Spectator) as 'the greatest satirist since Swift.' Let this be the last word on the subject. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFt3...
Stewart Lee Comedy Vehicle - 4.5 Migrants
YouTube video by Ian Kenny
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Do these things whether or not there's an amber alert on
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · last wk.🟠 The Amber Heat-Health Alert remains in place until 9am Wednesday. Drink plenty of water, avoid the hottest part of the day where possible and look out for those with health conditions, older people, and young children and babies who might struggle to keep cool.
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
I'm at the stage where I will literally do anything for attention in my battle agaist a bin. I mean The Establishment.
The Odyssey (1) Polyphemus: Intelligence triumphs over brute strength. Circe: Excessive indulgence turns a person into a beast and robs them of their potential. The Sirens: Temptations distract people from their true purpose. #Odyssey
So Reform have now lost Caerphilly, Makerfield, Manchester… Their G/E polling has collapsed behind Labour in TWO major polls (YouGov, BMG) “I want the ppl to decide if I should go” M8, are you listening? Bcuz “the people” are telling you loud & clear to fuck off.
From 400 hives to 35: the Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s work
From 400 hives to 35: the Gaza beekeeper refusing to let war end his life’s work
Ibrahim al-Dabba continues to care for his colonies despite losing his home and most of his hives and equipment
theguardian.com
They’re at the book burning stage, guys. This ends well.
Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · 2w agoThese fuckers have enough self-awareness to know that what they're doing is shameful. That makes it worse.
Don't touch the figs... I, Claudius is being repeated on BBC Four from Weds 29 July.
NHS and government data policy on trans people now completely functions as a means of sidelining our needs and what we think, feel, experience through our healthcare on the basis that we don't know what's good for us. The approach to policy development around trans issues is fully disciplinary.
GeekOnALeash 🏳️⚧️@geekonaleash.co.uk · 2w ago"Sex at birth (observed)" is now a mandatory data item in the NHS core information standard (v2.0.1). It also appears (if I am reading this correctly) that gender identity and pronouns have been removed. The NHS are transphobic as fuck!!! standards.nhs.uk/published-st...
Long overdue for The Spectator's Islamophobia to come under the microscope. Excellent piece from Peter Oborne here doing just that. It is now, he writes, just "an upmarket version of GB News" (same owner, of course)
Exposed: The Rabidly Islamophobic Magazine at the Heart of the British Establishment
For almost 200 years, 'The Spectator' stood for civilised, bravely heretical discourse. But a new report reveals how it now spews out anti-Muslim hatred week after week to its upmarket audience
open.substack.com
While volunteers helped @txfreedomread.bsky.social track book removals from Tx schools after SB12 & SB13 were passed last year, I made a spreadsheet of the classic & acclaimed books that were banned from individual districts in 2025-2026. You won't believe it. open.substack.com/pub/franklin...
More Than 100 Classic and Acclaimed Works of Literature Removed from Texas Schools Last Year
Was your favorite book banned from a Texas school district in 2025-2026?
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Well, that’s the radical new direction for the show which has clearly been on the cards for a while:
Doctor Who Production News@doctorwhopn.bsky.social · 3w agoKing Charles and Queen Camilla opened the Commonwealth Games by stepping out of the TARDIS.
They’re being chased by the VAT Controller www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Grandkids of Thomas the Tank Engine author in HMRC court fight over huge tax bill
Almost 30 years after Wilbert Awdry’s death, the managers of a trust ended up fighting HMRC in a bid to pay out less tax on the royalties
independent.co.uk
The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party emerged after India’s Supreme Court chief justice compared unemployed young people to “cockroaches.” Embracing the remark, the movement became an outlet for grievances that supporters felt politics had failed to address. https://wapo.st/3RLlRPG
Nothing suspicious about this normal café. Stop asking questions.
I think a reason the current time seems so unhinged is because we “sane wash” each previous generation. I’ve been deep diving on the 1920’s for my PhD and it’s all Lords of the Admiralty earnestly debating whether the etheric penis is made of silver or astral material. We’ve always been nuts.
I've designed an appropriately recycled, appropriately British, spaceship for @countbinface.bsky.social - can you spot the homages to British Sc-Fi?
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.
If you know anything about Aberdonians, they don't do dancing in the streets.
