While Joshua Bonehill-Paine has now withdrawn as a Tory council candidate, most Britons say it is unacceptable that the Tories selected the reformed neo-Nazi as a candidate in the first place Completely acceptable: 6% Somewhat acceptable: 18% Somewhat unacceptable: 22% Completely unacceptable: 35%
I'll bet Badenoch is really glad she wasted her slot on R4 this morning desperately trying to defend the neo nazi guy
And her film is a must see. Find it, watch it. Kherson: Human Safari share.google/ER4qt7TIYdyF...
Kherson: Human Safari (2025)
Kherson, Ukraine's embattled city, has endured invasion, occupation, and liberation. On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks entered Kherson, leading to brutal occupation marked by violence. Despite being...
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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2h agoA reminder that @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social has been on the frontline reporting on Russia’s “human safari” Everyone should be following her phenomenal and courageous work share.google/D5LgdcUTqzVv...
The United States has removed counterterrorism sanctions from two aircraft and three airlines with links to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to details posted to the U.S. Treasury Department's website on Wednesday. ofac.treasury.gov/recent-actio...
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
NEW — Israeli forces have released two Syrian civilians who had been held in Israeli detention for nearly a year after being abducted from the village of Suwaysah in the southern countryside of Quneitra, southern Syria.
A paramilitary group plotted to overthrow the Constitution then conducted a violent attack on America. They were convicted in court of seditious conspiracy, and jailed. Then the leader they aimed to illegally install got power and let them out, their records wiped clean. The Jan. 6 attackers won.
Judge Pained as He Grants Dismissal of Jan. 6 Charges Against Oath Keepers
The judge, Amit P. Mehta, blasted the administration’s request for a dismissal in the case, saying it bestowed “unearned grace” on the Oath Keepers defendants “by wiping their records clean.”
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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
This is what book burning looks like in the AI age.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5h agoWhy is Anthropic destroying books? | Kathryn James
EA now effectively exists to service the debt used to purchase it. It’s not really a software or game company now. It’s a financial vehicle in its owners’ complex financial arrangements that happens to periodically develop and release games. bsky.app/profile/jaso...
Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 17h agoEA officially goes private tonight, meaning: - EA will no longer trade on the NASDAQ for the first time in 36 years - All stockholders of EA (including many employees) will receive $210/share - EA will take on $18 billion (!) in debt, putting it on the hook to pay ~$1.8 billion/year in interest
catastrophy choreography now do the 2011 Japanese earthquake/tsunami
CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 23h agoOh my god I think I found the video.
Instead of the Romesh advert the BBC should've just done a 10 second clip with "look we've got all the Spider-Man films on iPlayer this summer - yes the Spiderverse ones too"
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN SE ASIA Min 29.7 Tak HOTTEST AUGUST NIGHT EVER IN THAILAND Records smashed in every region of the country Min 28.4 Tagbilaran PHILIPPINES 27.2 Palu INDONESIA Thailand,Philippines and Indonesia have broken thousands of records for 1200+ consecutive days!
Also I feel like if he had truly changed and reformed, he would *get out of the way* rather than demand Jewish people centre his political ambitions
Has anybody checked that it's NOT Grant Shapps?
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · yesterdayRather puts Grant Shapps being rejected as a Conservative candidate into perspective.
New piece from me: Getting over the 2030 energy bill bump On how we're in a period of unusually high energy bills that we should be able to escape from - but only if we start making serious progress on electrification www.nesta.org.uk/blog/the-ene...
The energy edit: getting over the 2030 energy bill bump
Every six weeks Andrew Sissons assesses the most important signals and trends underpinning the UK’s energy transition.
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All the indicators I’m seeing suggest this is the Iran‑controlled route, with a service fee attached. Trump took the loss and is now going to try to lie and spin it as a positive outcome.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · yesterdayU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: There has been progress in talks to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but no final agreement has been reached yet. We are hopeful that an agreement will be finalized very shortly.
I'm going to alienate some people now. Abortion is a critical part of gynecological care. Full stop. Hormonal birth control is used by many individuals simply to regulate difficult menstrual cycles. Legislators who don't understand the minutiae of reproductive biology should SHUT THE FUCK UP.
Ralph Bakshi's gorgeous, rotoscoped, and incredibly dark animated version of THE LORD OF THE RINGS (1978) was, at times, like a nightmare to my 9 year-old self. I had particular problems with the creepy Nazgûl, especially during this famous scene...
Badenoch defending Bonehill-Pain is mad(even for her) antisemtisim & harassing female MP- either -she u-turns & he quietly fades away -she u-turns & he bitterly turns his memes on her -somehow they ride it out until his hard drive ends up as evidence in a multi-jurisdictional police investigation
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
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"need you to get Kemi out there defending a neo-nazi" "yes my master" "say it proper" "nice one, top one, sorted lad" "bangin"
This means Gianni Infantino will almost certainly be out of a job by the end of the week. #WorldCup #InfantinoOut
The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.
The Time Travellers Wife uses time travel as a mcguffin to explore grooming 😬
Inputs are outputs. Feeding the corpus of American religious fundamentalism into an LLM resulted in the desired outcome. www.al.com/news/2026/07...
ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges
Christian Faith Madison, a 29-year-old mother and accountant, walked into traffic after AI convinced her she was a prophet, lawyers claim.
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