"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.

Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 3h ago

President Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

Who else could watch this for hours? Defragmenting Drive C in Windows 95

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

my extremely boring James Bond opinion is that casting a handsome young dude who can credibly punch bad guys and smolder sexily at ladies is all we need to do here it's James Bond, there's a formula, people like the formula, people will watch the formula

The Independent@the-independent.com · 14h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

And now she can get questioned on the dubious content of his stupid videos?

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 8h ago

Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.

Having said it was okay for Bonehill-Paine to be a councillor because it was just bins, instead of dropping him, Badenoch has given him an advisory role – *after* Jewish groups refused to meet with him? Does she just never want this story to end, or....what.

no thank you, but good reminder that I should finally delete that unused dropbox account

genuinely why doesn't Google Maps have a setting you can tick that says "I will not in fact die on the spot if I have to walk for over 20 minutes and would prefer a walk and a tube to somehow seventeen buses"

The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?

The arms trade must be jumping with glee

Reminds of the issues caused by relaxing rules for Companies House i.e. proper checks on companies, directors etc (to the extent that HMRC won’t accept a CH check as due diligence). There is a Company registered at our home address, who we know nothing about, yet CH & HMRC will do nothing about it.

Should we assume that donations to party funds, employment of ex-ministers and secondment of staff have also been scrapped as requirements for tax funded contracts?

Wait, aren't we still probing all the fraud from stripping back or ignoring the procurement rules during COVID?

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · yesterday

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

I finally did it. On the train I said out loud "damn, someone's headphones aren't connected" and they stopped playing their music out loud.

Yep. His constituents - almost entirely white native British - who survived mostly on seasonal tourism would be devastated by this. Ironically, same in Clacton. But here we are.

He does not seem to mention his constituents as being so indolent. Great Yarmouth has high levels of benefit dependency and a high rate of health-related and unemployment-related claims. 2,990 people claim unemployment benefits, alongside wider reliance on Universal Credit and disability allowance

census numbers show between 150k to 200k Somalis in UK, with many students 27% and stay-at-home-Moms 20%. Even though there is a high level of unemployment at 10% this is close to the number for black people overall at >8% (double white people). They're not indolent, racism is driving the issues.

I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.

I do not and will not ever understand people who pay a bunch of money to come to a concert just to talk through the entire thing and I’m surrounded by them right now.

Two AI accounts wanting to connect and stay in touch with each other in the mentions of a post I wrote about AI is fucking hellscape material.

Biked 1 mile to coffee. Then biked another mile to the pharmacy. Then biked 1 mile home. 95% on protected (separated) bike infra. More Americans deserve the freedom of a life like this (if they want it).

Reform MP Robert Jenrick: “Rod Liddle said the unsayable truth years before anyone else would come close.” Rod Liddle on child abuse images: “We should not be in the business of putting people in prison for simply looking at things."

What the hell

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

This thread 👇

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

I have to say that looks far more like Terrorism than anything the Palestine Action supporters being arrested in recent weeks have done. They are literally trying to intimidate worth terror members of the public!

There seems to be a group of people who think murder, attempted murder, assault, domestic violence and child abuse is patriotic.

This is actual terrorism.

There are a lot of natural resources in Argentina.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · yesterday

😳 On August 6, Argentina will vote on a proposed Land Reform Law aiming to facilitate the purchase of rural land in Argentina by private investors. It seems they are preparing to “celebrate” with Peter Thiel. The bill was written by Sturzenegger who will appear at this Sept event with Thiel. 1/

He's gone for Pratchett. Thats enough. Ive defended Stancil but this time he's gone too far. (And no, no one thinks the boots theory is a fully worked out economic system: its a elegant metaphor for part of the problem)

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · yesterday

Yeah, for days people have been citing “boots theory” at me and I want to shout DO YOU REALIZE THIS IS A RANDOM IDEA TOSSED OUT BY A FANTASY WRITER AND MAY NOT ACCURATELY DESCRIBE REALITY