Starting at £1999. I just can't with this.

Apple's new boss starts with gamble on costly new foldable iPhone

Apple showed off at an event the first major design change to the iPhone in almost 20 years.

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Back in the day, 20 years ago, on a Wednesday night like this, I'd be in a pub, drinking pints and pints of lager, watching Chelsea play on a big TV, trying to take notes in preparation to write a match report for my Chelsea FC Blog, and I did it all out of love. #ChelseaFC

Just the 28 years have passed since I was sat on my bed in my room in halls at uni listening to this after returning from HMV in town... that excitement of hearing something for the first time. #NowPlaying

If you have lived by the sea for any length of time (in my case, almost my whole life) you will know just how important the RNLI and Coastguard are. Having friends and family in both services, volunteering to risk their lives to help others, makes me proud.

Yet again, it’s the satirists I feel sorriest for…

Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · 14h ago

Daniel Thomas / Danny Tommo has today marched his private army of blackshorts to Daily Mail HQ to demand a new house for his mum within 48 hrs, after they doorstepped her for a feature on him. Apparently he plans to blockade them + cry at them until they do Bet those lads are glad of the balaclavas

Splendid timeline juxtaposition. #Wodehouse

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

It's time for bed. And here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to get in bed, and I don’t have anyone to sleep with now, so what I do is I sleep with my books ... westernflyingpost.tumblr.com/post/3565531...

Straight up I'm doing something I have never done before - listening to Badfinger. There's a first time for everything. #NowPlaying www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

Oh, dear, Mr Ferguson. Oh, dear. ID'd through your Instagram, cross-checked against your self-published photos of you at your place of employment, and a phone call. Your head office is talking to your boss, right now. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Took a break from updating WordPress websites and listening to The Phantom Band to take part in Tommy the cat's daily funny five minutes - the most exercise I've had in a while. Usually ends in me bleeding but not tonight, cider sharp reflexes saved me.

"And if you tolerate this, then your children will be next" Apt. #NowPlaying

The greatest country in the world... where you can't eat food without the risk of shitting out your soul.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d ago

The FDA has announced a recall of 25 varieties of cream cheese due to possible contamination with listeria.

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Israel announces it is banning these MPs in order to retaliate against the UK settlement ban. (You have to admit it is objectively quite funny)

BUT it seems self-evident that X and the things it pushes on to the vast majority of sensible British politicians and pundits who use it every day, is having a non-zero effect on their worldview, most obviously in the valence of news events, and their conception of how the "public" feels about them.

I'm convinced the "The Tech-Bro Class" is comprised entirely of people who think/say weird esoteric shit wholeheartedly believing that they're making really profound observations for their peers, when in reality everyone is just pretending and nodding along because they don't want to feel "left out"

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Um, no?

The more I think about it, the stupider the Burnham position over the racist mobs looks. It’s exactly the same mistake as Starmer: boosting his enemies both to right and left.

The return to physical media is a radical act. A book in your hand or a record on the turntable belong to a world beyond subscriptions, licenses, and corporate permission, and they can be lent, inherited, annotated, repaired, and loved. They remain when the platform fails and the servers die.

J.H. Siegal@joshuasiegal.bsky.social · 2d ago

yes....YESSS.....

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

If I've made a website for you, and you see this, I'd appreciate it if you'd spread the word.

Nick@handpressed.net · 2mo ago

Writers, poets, photographers, artists, artisans, academics, activists, musicians, bohemians, beats, boozers, booksellers, radicals... do you require a website or have a website that's in need of a lick of paint? Hit me up. I don't charge the earth.

Powering through a tension headache with coffee, painkillers and Primal Scream. Is it any wonder I don't feel well most mornings... #NowPlaying

The courage of those who set out to save those at risk of drowning can never be overestimated. Each rescue is a challenge. I used to watch the Orkney lifeboat head out into rough seas with my heart in my mouth. Remarkable bravery. Donate to the #RNLI here: shop.rnli.org/products/don...

Donation to RNLI

It costs us around £483,000 a day to run our lifesaving service. Your kind donation will help deliver our lifesaving work.

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If I've made a website for you, and you see this, I'd appreciate it if you'd spread the word.

Nick@handpressed.net · 2mo ago

Writers, poets, photographers, artists, artisans, academics, activists, musicians, bohemians, beats, boozers, booksellers, radicals... do you require a website or have a website that's in need of a lick of paint? Hit me up. I don't charge the earth.

You know the bit in Jurassic Park where he talks about the velociraptors testing different parts of the electric fence? This is what we're seeing now with far right protesters, only they've turned the electric fence off.

oh my god they're gonna kill their own bounce in under a month aren't they

Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · 3d ago

Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”