JON STEWART: “So in the FUTURE we WILL use A.I. to cure diseases… but right now it’s mostly murder, surveillance, and surge pricing for the McRib — What a trade! I’m getting the sense you guys might be full of shit.”
Simon Scarrow
@simon-scarrow.bsky.social
Writer of historical and crime fiction. Have been known to be a Sunday Times number one bestselling author. I was a lecturer previously and sad to leave formal education. Try to make up for that by making interesting comments on social media.
This is from a now not-anonymous woman who was a child when Trumpy told her he would kill her and her family if she ever said anything. Toady Blanche is making sure all the girls (now women) he assaulted don't talk. ut those of us who are paying attention 100% know what Trumpy did to so many kids.
Bloody hell #Ofwat! Spending millions to get accountants to do *your* job now? Of all the Tories' grotesque failures, water privatisation must be one of the worst. It's time to stop enriching the already wealthy. Renationalise water, without compensation! share.google/C5Ri3DX2WxvG...
Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
Conservative Helen Whateley, "Tax cuts have to be funded.. I'm doing work on what is the right way to bring down the welfare bill" My view: Why is the answer always more hardship for people who are already struggling, while vast wealth can be hoarded almost untouched?
Reminder that Amazon dropped "Artificial." Also, Musk has been trying to get social media sites to ban paid promotion for Gibney's doc. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
‘Artificial’ First Reactions: Luca Guadagnino’s OpenAI Drama is ‘Provocative,’ ‘Downright Horrifying’ and His ‘Best Film in a Decade’
Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” premiered Monday night, and early reviews have members of the film press championing the Sam Altman-centered movie.
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The BBC's sane-washing of Badenoch goes on. Different Tory faces, same mantra. The default position is to protect the rich and old homeowners, kick down on the poor and young. Never changes. #r4today
Something tells me that Christina Ricci is a hell of a parent. I love seeing parents who teach their children right from wrong, and to stand up for what's right.
This British Labour government is arresting peaceful British OAP’s as ‘terrorists ‘.
Two cows on a conveyor belt *slowly* going into an abattoir. One looks at the other and says “but are you REALLY a cow?” “Of course I’m a cow, look at me! MOOoooOoOOo!” “But HOW cow’ish are you? <clunk clank> “I’M A COW! A PROPER COW!” <clank clunk> “Which field? And which farm is your mum from?”
Why you can't trust Musk's mendacious mouthpiece in particular.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 3d agoWhy you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
Shakespeare (& Sir Ian Mckellen) vs Far Right Xenophobia
StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻@strictlychristo.bsky.social · 4d agoSir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
Ancient Greek amethyst intaglio of Achilles playing the cithara, dated to 75-50 BC. Currently located in the Getty Museum.
Everything Pedolf Shitler says is bullshit. He couldn’t tell the truth to save his worthless, shitty life.
"Your IQ test came back negative" made me choke on my coffee...🤣🤣🤣
Suella Braverman suggests on #BBCQT that you can't be English unless you are white, and have a lineage or heritage going back some generations
American professor writing that writing isn't important may not be the flex he thinks it is...
Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · last wk.Really something to have this be your takeaway from the last decade of American culture