What I don't understand about Rayner's comments on banning crypto donations is, once more, that these *are not* donations in crypto, they're donations from crypto billionaires The donations aren't in crypto because pretty much nobody does anything in crypto (except money launders, drug dealers etc)

BBC News: Mass trespass staged in PM Andy Burnham's constituency "They walked on to the Winstanley Hall estate in Wigan as part of their calls for a change in the law to bring in a Scottish-style right of responsible access to land and water that is privately owned." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Mass trespass staged in Prime Minister Andy Burnham's Makerfield constituency

Protestors walked on to a private estate in Wigan as part of their calls for the right to roam.

bbc.co.uk

The Canadian boycott isn't a response to the trade war. It's a response to the clowning: 51st state jokes, "Governor Carney," a hockey video of Trump beating up their PM.⁣ ⁣ My guess: the consumer boycott is costing us more than the tariffs ever will. https://youtu.be/lsRhHpwZfOk

‘It’s connecting the supply chain at small scale. If we had a coordinated, national approach that we should be eating target foods, you could line up supply & demand nationally getting a shift in economies of scale’ Sarah Newton - lead Birmingham Food Systems Team www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A joyful harvest: the young Welsh farmers growing food for Birmingham

A charity in Powys provides the land while growers do the hard work, producing bumper crops for city children

theguardian.com

Thank you to the 9 MPs who, in the last 2 weeks, have joined the Parliamentary Call for a live emergency briefing on the climate and nature crisis. Has your MP has joined the Parliamentary Call? Enter postcode to see: nebriefing.org/parliamentary-call #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp 🧵

Until we grapple with the topic of 'free movement', the UK is going to keep ar$ing around on Europe.

Simon Usherwood@simonusherwood.bsky.social · 12h ago

Osborne: "If I was Andy Burnham, I don’t see why you wouldn’t rejoin the customs union. It’s a pretty straightforward decision because unlike (rejoining) the single market it does not require you to accept the free movement of people" www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Columbia has been violating its 1953 agreement with the city that allowed residents to pass through their campus since they shut down the Palestine protests. The school caves to the bullying of Trump but won't honor its commitments to its neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/n...

New York City Supports Push to Reopen Columbia Pathway to the Public

Community members and students sued the school last year to reopen the gates, which were closed during protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

nytimes.com

L'ombra. Cas Saboners 2026

#PalantirOut

Privatisation means our water only serves shareholders, while we get hosepipe bans, sewage and higher bills Stephen Fry sent this message to Keir Starmer and Steve Reed in February 2025. They failed to listen Andy Burnham needs to listen because more than 8 in 10 of us agree with Stephen Fry

You can't even see Putin's lips moving

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 11h ago

🇩🇪❗️🇺🇦German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: We will stop payments to Ukraine and all support for the war, and we will also make substantial repayment demands on Ukraine.

Trump claims that he graduated 1st in his class at the U of Penn's Wharton School in 1968. But research by student newspaper "The Daily Pennsylvanian" showed that Trump's name was missing from the 1968 Wharton Dean's List of top 56 students. But keep checking the mailbox for that $5k check, folks.

🤿 A brilliant morning taking out some of the Wavy Quines crew for a snorkel at Boddam! 📍Plethora of life on the Kelp stipes 📍Blue-rayed Limpets were a favourite #snorkelling #underwater #wavyquines #saltwaterlife #underwaterphotography #marinelife

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

Reform UK and Christopher Harborne say the mega-donor crypto billionaire is living in the UK (so the overseas donor cap supposedly won't affect him). Since when? A claim form filed by Harborne in the High Court only this June lists his address as (still) in Bangkok...

It’s not just the scale of the money. It’s also the character of the people making the donations which is extremely worrying - as I argued in this thread over the summer ⬇️

Phil Brickell MP@philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2027. If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely! (1/2)

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This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography. Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...

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This.

One of two Curlew Sandpiper amongst the Sanderling, Ringed Plover and Dunlin during this mornings @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count on Dunnet Beach #CaithnessBirds 📷 @rob-hughes-birder.bsky.social

Delighted to have this #cartoon published in @theguardian.com #datacentres #environment

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

Inheritance tax is paid by less than 5% of estates and couples can already transfer up to £1m in property tax-free. Abolishing it would be regressive, unmeritocratic and a bad use of £9bn.

London news, sport and culture | The Standard | London Evening …@standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy · 19h ago

The Trump administration smuggled a suspected paedo out of the UK.

US embassy child abuse images suspect flown from UK before police interview

The individual worked at the US embassy in Vauxhall, south London, had diplomatic protection, despite not being a diplomat.

bbc.co.uk

“We made the Torment Nexus and you have to take responsibility for it, whilst letting us keep the profits.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 13h ago

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "My view here is it has always been very strange that this technology is being built by a private company ... I think the government and the public needs to have a stake. And that's why we've supported regulation."

We were promised a better postal service, at lower prices. We got neither. Privatisation failed It would cost just 0.1% of the UK national debt to buy back Royal Mail In public hands, we can reinvest profits from parcels into improving the overall service and run it solely in the public interest

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Russia can end this war any time

24Hours Ukraine@24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 12h ago

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸Trump to Zelenskyy: “Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia. He is causing a shortage of diesel.” 🗣️ Again, he’s talking to the wrong side. Russia must end this war, withdraw from Ukraine, and stop the attacks. That’s how this all ends.

Nada como subirte y dejarte llevar por la cresta de las olas, y salir de un salto en la misma orilla. Correr las olas, lo llamábamos en La Carihuela.

Peter Howlett@cardiffbirder.bsky.social · 16h ago

Adult male Guillemot with its youngster in the Minch a few days ago, saw and heard a large number of these during the 11 day cruise #superseabirdsunday #birds

There’s only one way to have a healthy relationship with a chatbot: don’t. Just don’t. The Guardian is lost.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 12h ago

Chatbots can exploit our most basic human drive for attachment. Here’s how to have healthier relationship with AI | Gaynor Parkin and Dave Winsborough

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "