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

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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Just thinking how Johnson spoke like a newspaper column — colourful, bantering bullshit — whereas Badenoch speaks like the worst kind of comment section: querulous, chippy, pedantic (I'm just talking tone here, not content)

I'll be honest: I'd buy this a lot more if his main outlet wasn't abusively attacking opposition politicians via AI slop in ways which obviously nod to other forms of prejudice.

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social · 13h ago

ConservativeHome has always been a critical friend of the Conservative Party, and a place for all of its wings and views to debate and discuss. So in addition to the above editorial, Bonehill-Paine is also in today’s Comment section making his own case conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/j...

im watching a big joel vid about avatar and it is truly extraordinary that TV looks like this. What are they thinking lol.

issuing a correction on a previous post of mine, regarding antisemitism in british politics. there is a place for it, and it’s in the country’s natural party of government and the broader right-wing coalition, which is radicalising at an alarming clip.

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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One of the best ever to do it. Still sounded absolutely phenomenal when I saw him last year www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...

Glenn Hughes announces retirement from live performances

"I really have no option and no choice"

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Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

bloomberg.com

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

Such sad news about Horrible McBastard, such a brave voice in this polarised time. I just hope if you've spent your whole life being a horrible bastard that you might not want people to be mean to you when you die #bekind

AIMEE-FFION EDWARDS AS PRINCESS LEIA

Empire Magazine@empiremagazine.bsky.social · yesterday

Star Wars is officially getting a Welsh-language dub this Christmas, with Matthew Rhys, Rhys Ifans, and more lending their voices to a galaxy far, far away. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

Ofc she doesn't. She has the IQ of a satsuma.

Pawel Swidlicki@pswidlicki.bsky.social · yesterday

Does she realise Dunkirk wouldn't have even been possible if French forces had surrendered as opposed to fighting a rearguard action which allowed the BEF to assemble in Dunkirk and the evacuation flotilla to be formed?

this story puts me in mind of the ongoing @stephenkb.bsky.social bit about the HP series that, when Amazon is forced to completely do over a series already half spot, they take the decision to significantly age up the lead child actor... www.reddit.com/r/CosmicBook...

From the CosmicBookNews community on Reddit: Dave Bautista In Talks to Play Kratos in Amazon's God of War — And Atreus Is Getting Recast Too

Explore this post and more from the CosmicBookNews community

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You are also, fundamentally, just *not* the Conservative Party any more. You're just a new party wearing its clothes. Yes, the tory party evolves over time but...evolution not revolution, and all that.

Chairman Moët@chairmanmoet.bsky.social · yesterday

you can't build a big enough coalition if Gavin Barwell is too radical for you but an ex-Neo Nazi who broke into a police station isn't

ewan is simply wrong about this - Kenobi's athletic skills - coupled with his laser sword and mind control abilities - would give him a significant edge over anyone he encountered. If trouble came he could simply backflip away

it is possible to deradicalise, even if it is not clear thats really happened in this case. It means a lot to me to believe people can. Do think however, a fair price to pay is 'you are not a credible candidate for elected office' for a very long time. For your own benefit as much as anyone else's!

Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterday

Absolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.

problem i am having with Lies of P Overture on NG+4 is that bosses (and regular enemies!) hit SO hard that taking them on in any way other than 'guard and wait for a charged Puppet String attack' feels hopelessly inefficient. So im essentially doing the same attack over and over

feel like one irony of both universal healthcare + childcare is that it simultaneously also creates a new bloc of voters who are likely much more to take risks + be entrepreneurial which may make it harder for social democratic hegemony

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2d ago

reading this book (yes, i don't upload everything i'm reading to the book thread, mainly on the grounds people would start debating if i'm actually reading) and yeah one of the largest pressure points for the Middle Precariat is basically both healthcare and childcare it wouldn't get rid of MAHA...

bit down on this season of House of the Dragon - think it lost the plot midway thru s2 and i don't feel like it has found a groove again really. Think it has completely lost track of alicent and rhaenyra as characters. Shame as the performers are good.

my only Lies of P save file is on NG+4, so my first playthru of the DLC is, er, quite hard. Can be 2 shot by virtually any enemy. But on the plus size i am like level 300 so kick like a mule

they sold the world so that they could do this

Recommended related reading from @doctorow.pluralistic.net bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d ago

“Bybee drove about two miles to a restaurant, picked up an order, and placed it in the Dot robot as it waited in the parking lot, she said. She took photos of each step to document the process, and the gig took five minutes, she said. DoorDash paid her about $5.”

this story is mad - also not sure what his teaching resp are, tho from the detail he has contact time with students will be interesting to hear what their experience is www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Playbooks, plagiarism and a pig’s head: new claims surrounding a star Cambridge professor

Jason Arday was regarded as an academic superstar, but then questions about his work prompted scrutiny of his backstory and counterclaims of racism

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Coming back to this after Paul Sweeney has, inexplicably, backed *Joe Fagan* for leader

RDCK98@comradekenobi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Reading this, and thinking about the 2026 election where activists boycotted campaigning for Scottish Labour and LGBT+ voters held with SNP on the constituency and Greens on the list, wondering what on earth the theory of victory is from left-wing transphobes www.heraldscotland.com/news/2642848...

think this is fantastic on the odyssey and the LRB review dominicdean.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/o...

On Emily Wilson, Christopher Nolan, and The Odyssey

Emily Wilson’s review of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for the London Review of Books has generated an enormous amount of comment, both criticising and defending Wilson. Since my own response her…

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Ulrike Franke@rikefranke.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is a sensitive topic, but an important one: when we talk about disinformation & propaganda we (rightly) think of Russia. But how should we react when our partners - specifically the US - uses its information channels to attack our values or laws and aims to increase societal divisions?

i bought this book as a novelty because it is extremely small and looks nice. But helpfully the short stories are excellent - had never heard of yoshida prior but am a fan now

Actually quite angry reading this. I know it’s a bit passé to talk about “why don’t politicians crack down on people not using headphones on the bus” but I think we do need to reckon with platforms that incentivise people to completely disregard the norms of civil society and get away with it.

TikToker faces police probe over secret filming using Meta 'smart glasses'

The "content maker" published videos of encounters with young women and a female Sikh shop worker where he talked of a plot to "breed out the white race".

bbc.co.uk

i have seen the new Doom DLC and dark ages is on sale already (on xbox at least!). Strongest recommendation. Base game is prob an 8/10 - the DLC however feels like an entirely new game, and is a perfect 10. Instantly up with Old Hunters and Erdtree as simply perfect expansions.

Restarted Lies of P so i can eventually play the DLC!