Scenes like this did a lot of damage to Mosley and the BUF in the 1930s. Though that relied on Conservative papers reporting them.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 6d ago

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

Guess what? 1) You can 3D print a crow and squirrel feeder that looks like a Flock camera 2) Crows are extremely good at pattern recognition 3) People are fucking hilarious and creative and I hope every Flock camera gets its own personal murder (of crows) www.printables.com/model/180491...

Flock Camera with chamber; squirrel and bird feeder V2 by David | Download free STL model | Printables.com

Designed to look like a Flock camera, hollow with chambers and a removeable hatch for putting treats for your friends | Download free 3D printable STL models

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7p each! One whole digestive biscuit for every UK resident! An outrage!

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3w ago

Totally normal front page in a totally normal country

Many US firms are way past the point where 'not being political' is a key political choice. Lots of ads and excitement around Grok 4.6: maybe equal to other frontier models, and cheaper. But WTF? Grok is the one that nudified minors, and that enriches the Nazi-saluting, child-killing-USAid-cuts guy.

What a bonkers statistic as.ft.com/r/3b0a9bd3-a...

Learning from recent heatwaves: when buying a fan, it's worth paying extra (£50 – £100) for a good one with a DC motor. They use less power and make less noise — can be barely audible when producing a pleasant light breeze at lower speeds.

Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism

BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...

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This, in particular. Increasingly of the view that government policy towards universities is the test case of whether it really has a wider economic policy.

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"A closed country will be poorer. A country that underinvests will not grow. A state that refuses to reform tax will ration ambition. And a Labour government afraid to say these things will discover once again that caution, too, has costs." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is what you do when you know you are committing crimes and want to keep committing crimes. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court

Trump’s secretary of state claims the global tribunal is interfering with US military and law enforcement operations

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I missed this at the time - I need to remember it if i'm ever tempted to feel sorry for Starmer

Jonathan Birch@birchlse.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

This is truly something to watch. GMB and Unite's GS both going for the throat over Miliband, because he will pursue green policies that affect the jobs of a handful of their members. I'm firmly a union guy but wow do I disagree with this. If they're threatening to leave over the issue, let them.

Dr Dave Hitchcock@davehitchcock.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Miliband still managing to anger all the right people I see. They're obviously doing this because he's influential and it's working. Leave it too long and no one in the public sphere will nod along.

Talk about telling on yourself and your boss all unintended-like there, slowcoach.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Pies and doughnuts: good to eat, hopeless for data visualisation (a public service announcement prompted by some dissertation marking). scc.ms.unimelb.edu.au/resources/da...

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

The Crisis in Britain’s Universities

The cuts that have been proposed at the University of Exeter demonstrates the crisis of purpose in Britain’s universities. Should not universities also be places to prepare for "eternal dwellings"?

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Here is my campaign flyer for the #Makerfield by-election. Unlike the Green Party I’ve made mine electronic only, to help save the environment. #LoveEarth #VoteBinface

I do love it when "the silent majority" turn up to do some shouting about flags, and find themselves outnumbered by more than ten to one.

4000 vs 300. Never change, Brighton.

My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Thought experiment. If guns were more widely available in Belfast, who would be the most likely to have them?

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The second amendment can be hard to defend because when things are going even moderately all right, you do not need to own a gun When shit like this starts happening, though, it's a damn good right to have

As Lord Acton warned in 1887, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority". Power on this scale is dangerous, and fundamentally incompatible with democracy. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/06/b...

Elon Musk is poised to become the first trillionaire. Just how much money is $1 trillion? | CNN Business

Elon Musk is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire. It’s a staggering amount of wealth never seen before in the history of human commerce.

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My new standard response to missed deadlines.

Status this week: XKCD 303, but replace 'Compiling' with 'Actualizing', 'Boondoggling', 'Flibbertigibbeting', 'Clauding', ... xkcd.com/303/

Compiling

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The Trump administration is attacking our democracy. Not in secret, but openly on social media. Starmer needs to show some backbone and call this out today. We can’t turn a blind eye to this blatant interference any longer.

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Yiannis@yiannisbab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

Our next @bfchorus.bsky.social concert: Howell's Hymnus Paradisi, 18 July, Hove. Should be beautiful.

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Read Careless People last summer — strongly recommend. Fascinating insight into how Facebook/Meta are even more evil than I'd previously imagined.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you, Meta, for silencing Sarah Wynn-Williams. If it wasn't for your gagging order, I wouldn't have just bought her book CARELESS PEOPLE about your astonishing institutional malevolance, or have been inspired to encourage everyone else to do the same. www.hive.co.uk/books/?gad_s...

If only we had a national broadcaster with a mandate to educate and inform who could put out programme after programme trying to correct the dangerous misapprehensions that have captured a portion of the nation.

There was similar racist bullshit on the Today programme too: seems senior editorial staff are once again shilling for Reform UK. @labouruk.bsky.social should make sure BBC heads roll for this.

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it