Kinda weird for the government to behave like there's a shortage of firms that want to take the government's money and there's some desperate need to make their contracts less onerous

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

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...

'Oh we're not a publisher' exemption needs to be fucked into the sun.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Bomb disposal robot deployed after drone carrying explosives found at German airport www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Bomb disposal robot deployed after drone carrying explosives found at German airport

Counter-terror team investigating after DHL plane also collided midair with unknown object at Leipzig airport

theguardian.com

$40 million to destroy state capacity.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last yr.

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Boosting for the afternoon crowd

Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 9h ago

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

I just saw a piece in @thebookseller.com about this fundraiser - to protect and share a collection of over one million Black books in the UK, a labour of love by one collector, Baba Pepukayi, but a vital resource for the nation. www.gofundme.com/f/save-1-mil... Please share, and donate if you can.

Donate to Save 1 Million Black Books, organized by Black British Book Festival

Save 1 Million Black Books One of Britain's Largest Collections of Black Books… Black British Book Festival needs your support for Save 1 Million Black Books

gofundme.com

This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Honestly, at this point, Democrats should be thrilled with this -- Miller has set himself on fire and if the GOP wants to hold him close, so be it.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5h ago

Mike Johnson tells Politico that he's standing behind Republican Max Miller — despite the "serious" domestic abuse allegations against him.

correct are you serious about beating fascism or not? get in, we’re beating them in november you can be mad, you can be disappointed, but at the end of the day having someone with D in any and all seats is better than having someone with an R in them

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 6h ago

I meant to post this last night but if you’re mad about any of the primary results you got 24 hours to bleed, try not to say anything you’ll regret in 48, and then it’s Blue No Matter Who.

That Joshua Bonehill-Paine is a suitable Tory candidate but Grant Shapps and Gavin Barwell have been excluded is quite a good indicator of how many seats the Tories will realistically regain at the next election.

Absolutely not going to lead to any scandals at all...

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 20h ago

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...

December 2021 and my first encounter with Milanese fog. So thick you can eat it, and increase your chances of cancer by a factor of 10

I remember the first time he showed up at the school gates: you have never seen so many middle-aged women so quickly switch to coquettish sex maniacs. Even funnier was when he showed up the Monday after he scored twice against Inter later that season, and he got a ovation from the dads.

Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 9h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

New readers often ask me which of my science fiction #books they should read first. To help, here are my most recent releases grouped by series and category. Which one catches your eye?

This is the literal definition of terrorism.

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.

No, Will, it is not cheaper to buy cheap shit that constantly self-destructs than a higher quality good that lasts the test of time. This is what is called a "Poor Tax", an economic burden on people that have to buy cheaper, replaceable goods that make them put more money into it.

I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’

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.

"If we don't let the prisoners out we won't have a functioning prison service" do we still have people in prison for protesting peacefully? #c4news

Worth noting that these guys getting into power with an effective majority would be a generational disaster.

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 23h ago

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

if any of you know anyone who still thinks that the flagshaggers are 'just proud of their country', i want you to sit down with them and read these court documents together

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.

There are legal consequences for unlawful use of trackers, as intimidation is clearly the motivation in this instance: nationalprivateinvestigators.co.uk/vehicle-trac...

Understanding Vehicle GPS Tracking Laws in the UK: A Comprehensive Legal Guide

Discover key facts about vehicle tracking laws in the UK. Learn what’s legal for businesses and individuals to avoid fines and protect privacy rights.

nationalprivateinvestigators.co.uk

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.

The 1688 thing is so funny. "Yeah, no, we definitely wanted to cede sovereignty to a foreign dynasty. We chose that. It simply made sense. FOR US."

Also the trope of England supposedly not having been successfully invaded since 1066 is largely an invented tradition. We ignore the 1215-17 French and 1327 Scottish invasions altogether, and pretend the 1153 Angevin and 1688 Dutch invasions and seizures of the throne were voluntary domestic affairs

Lewis Baston@lewisbaston.bsky.social · 23h ago

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

Did you know that The Map Center is the only map store in the country that is directly above a brewery? Tomorrow at 6:30 at Discipline Brewing, Robert Isenberg talks about his new book about bike-packing Canada for Lonely Planet. So if you like beer, bikes, travel or beer, you should join us.

The borders of the U.K. have been in place since 1922.

Pascal Jacquemain@jacquep.bsky.social · 23h ago

Rosindell is mad as a box of frogfaces.

Well of this is *long* after Dunkirk: this is all happened during Case Red, which is a campaign no one in the UK even *thinks* about: this is the Somme, the 2nd BEF and the brutal fighting in front of Paris in early June