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Counting the Bastards in UKIP/BXP/Reform/whatever Brexit is more unicorny and pishy than ever

This is appalling. If someone doesn’t want to be treated by a person of colour then put them in the corridor and give them the phone number for a taxi company. People can’t pick and choose, who treats them, by skin colour. news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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SCENE: A man runs panicking from a murder scene. He knows he is the murderer's next victim. He runs to a phone box to call the police and leave the clue that will catch his killer. He flings open the door -

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

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My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

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Oof. Google told Henk van Ess "if someone is unsure about an image, they can ask the Gemini app or use Lens in Search to see if the image was Al-generated." That works if I upload the original screenshot, but not if I crop out the TEXT THAT SAYS IT'S AI. (Funny with the crop it thinks this is Iran)

Screenshot of Google Images AI mode saying the AI image is AI because of "interface artefacts", literally text that says "experimental" and a "create image button". The button for control prompts is also visible, so Google picks up on that. Screenshot of Google Images AI mode on the altered image, in which I very crappily cut out the text that triggered it last time, and this time AI Mode says it's a satellite image showing destruction of military aircraft in Shiraz, Iran, with no mention that the image was made by Google's own AI.