#LFC fans: if, before the deadline, the club manage to: - Buy Barcola and Mbaye - Sell Gakpo and Jones - Buy Zubarnyi - Keep everyone else ... would you see that as an acceptable transfer window?

Algorithmic fumes Machines drive social fractures Wedges between us #haiku

I mean, look at Britain. Does it look like a country where an irreverent, irrepressible, iconoclastic free press pushes back against the powerful, in the interests of the average punter? I would say: LOL no it does not.

Curtis has had a clown show, do you think his mind is elsewhere?

Not upset about the score. Given the strength of the two squads at this stage in pre-season it was always likely that Leeds would come into the game as it wore on. Lots to be happy with in this match.

Football without Trey is nothing!

Liking the look of Nyoni again, and Isak looks more like it

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

A few facts about Water Nationalisation. 1. We don't need to pay for it. 2. We don't need to pay THEIR debts. 3. They don't invest anything, that is YOUR money that they steal almost all of, then the tiny bit they don't is 'investment'. Freeze bills, fine them. Nationalise for free.

I love capturing those moments where London Underground trains line up perfectly with station posters. With a little patience and a bit of luck, you can end up with some wonderfully amusing and unexpected shots.

Shocking to discover designating AI data centres as “National Critical Infrastructure” means water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first. Thanks to @olliehayes.bsky.social at @globalactionplan.bsky.social for joining me

Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min

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Plains, valleys and peaks We're travelling side by side With laughter and love #haiku

Have you noticed how disability benefits are now being treated in public discussion as if they are simply unemployment benefits? An increasing sleight of hand and the politicians, journalists and commentators doing it need to be challenged.

The main parties and the press can’t build anything the public like or want - could not do it, in a trial of one thousand years. But they absolutely can rend a bunch of left wing environmentalists to death in a truly despicable all-media hate campaign, until the public are puking blood with fury.

Sunlight through the leaves Dappled green framing bright blue Shifting with the wind #haiku

As Ed Miliband leaves his post as energy and net-zero secretary, a final tally: There have been an incredible 251 newspaper editorials attacking him and his approach to net-zero since the start of 2024 That amounts to two editorials a week, mainly in the Sun, Daily Mail, Times and Daily Telegraph.

There's something in me Long suppressed, dormant maybe An urge to explore #haiku

And here is where we Perform cruelty rituals To appease the banks #haiku

All I know is that I try to always consider the latent ways growing up under capitalism poisons our perspectives wrt every day human interaction. How it can make everything transactional if you let it. Relationships. Dignity. Basic rights. It fucks up your clarity. Distances you from what matters.

I can't sleep tonight Mind racing, body aching Trapped in restlessness #haiku

Thing is, it would have been so, so easy to wash this stink off. Trans people and & progressives are desperate for hope. I think people would have been very willing to give him a chance to start fixing this, and quite a lot of grace in the meantime. But apparently, even a symbolic change too much.

Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 2w ago

🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.

I think the original post got deleted so I cropped out the name, but I've thought about this one for a while lol

You had one job (sacking Shabana Mahmood)

Indestructible; Then falling away in chunks. Steam defeating ice #haiku

But more than any other class, the modern British working class is defined by its diversity. Diversity of race, religion, culture, background and yes, political views. It is also mostly female.

Ah well, show's over The Nearly Ones again, right? Time to let it go #haiku

Is Tagliafico good? He had a name that sounds like he should be good.

The Shithousery Semifinal

It is just a game Though we feel so invested Let it still be fun #haiku

The UK media looks like the media they’d create for a dystopian satirical film set in the future where the media has been captured by three billionaire right wing bigots and reproduce their views to distract from their wage suppression and wealth extraction which is causing the planet to burn. Oh.