"I'm sorry. You're correct that 2+2 does not equal 84. Instead of using the numbers, I counted all the pixels that made them up and added that. That was a mistake on my part and you're completely right in calling me out. Would you like me to add 3+3 next?

Another massive difference is that a calculator isn’t answering your questions in a way that’s specifically designed to get you to continue using the calculator.

Telling that Wes Streeting considers someone diagnosed with ADHD has been 'written off'. Also telling that the government commissioned a review in the face of independent reviews finding there is no overdiagnosis, just increased awareness & historic underdiagnosis of girls & women.

REwadent Evil@ewacat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Pleased to announce that ADHD is being overdiagnosed again according to the BBC and pathetic skidmark Wes Streeting, so now - during ADHD Awareness Month no less - it's time to give it up and just be normal. Let it go. Just turn it off and get on with things www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

How many parents who won't allow a LGBTQIA+ book to exist in a school library will allow little Johnnie or Suzie to stay up and watch a man get shot to death?

She is currently doing her bit about defending the UK from "separatists". Her problem, and it is a very severe one, is that Burnham's version of this section was one of the most compelling moments of oratory in decades of British politics. Her version is like watching something die.

Standard bit of Tory free market blather. It all feels so knackered: ideologically, intellectually, emotionally.

That's the first time I've seen an impassioned moment from Badenoch distancing herself from the extremism of Reform on moral substance. I don;t understand why it took so long, but it;s a very good sign.

Actually interesting section on Reform. "To those who say 'unite the right', we are not uniting with that". Says she doesn't want to debate if her mixed-race children are English. "We must not let these people take us backwards." This is a very welcome section, which wins a standing ovation.

It should be a no brainer to convince Christians to get behind renewables, telling them God created the sun and the wind and the tides and the heat of the earth, and it is Satanic to burn coal and gas and oil and split an atom to create power.

It is also perfectly possible to make the case that Zionism inevitably leads to the kind of behaviour from the Israeli government which we see today. Those positions are valid and respectable.

The thing that gets me about these lurid anti-Zionist statements, like the one the Greens just passed, is that it is *so fucking easy* to criticise the Israeli government without engaging in that type of language.

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · last wk.

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

To the people voting for Nigel Farage: is this really the finger you want on the red button? | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader’s reaction to the RAF Fairford affair is again revealing. If what’s needed is a steady hand and cool head, he’s not the guy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.

#TwoTierPolicing

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w ago

A man who assaulted a protestor at a Reform UK conference has received a caution from police 👇

Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?

John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 3w ago

The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

A long read, but so worth it. Russ has a wonderful turn of phrase.

Russ Jones@russincheshire.bsky.social · 3w ago

It is four years tomorrow since Liz Truss’s mini-budget. So drink heavily, move the cat out of kicking distance, and relive the experience. No paywall. But you're responsible for your own therapy sessions. russincheshire.substack.com/p/it-would-a...

I really need the British media to stop referring to these people as ‘protesters’, ‘demonstrators’ or ‘activists’. There are plenty of words for what they are, but not those ones

Katiesaurus@katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 3w ago

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I mean, any time now would be good. If it's not too much trouble

Emma Yeomans@yeomans.bsky.social · 3w ago

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

I'll add that the failure to take down those tatty flags last year has just added to the air of intimidation and the sense among these racists that they can do what the fuck they like without consequences

The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.

The Conservative abdications to Reform have certainly generated some insight into 2022-2024 decision-making we might not otherwise have had

“So I lied, I cheated, I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all, I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would.” Acts of the Emissary 6: 19.

Jonathan Edward Durham@thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What’s your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only)

Any serious British politician doesn’t fear being photographed next to Count Binface at an election count - indeed, for an aspiring Prime Minister, it’s a rite of passage.

Rod Liddle was a piece of shit in both his private and public life, and it speaks to the state of British media that they're praising the man. He presaged the steep downward decline of British broadsheet print columnists into increasingly open racism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people.

I have never seen a social platform so united as on the death of Rod Liddle. Right across the spectrum on here. Not even the standard self-righteous micro-bollockings in the replies. Imagine what kind of cunt you have to be to stem the high-handed whining on BLUESKY. Remarkable.

this country has produced some amazing writers, rod liddle wasn't one of them, don't be fucking daft

In the comments to the post below, someone posted this, uhhhh, tall tale Google's "AI Overview" was telling about me and I had to check it for myself, and sure enough Anyway, "AI" is the wave of the future, folks

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3mo ago

Some "AI" fluffer on the Internet explaining how I don't really understand "AI" because I just write Star Trek fan fiction, meanwhile, here's "AI" incorrectly explaining why I dislike black currants by attributing a quote to me that was made by someone else Yeah, I get "AI" just fine, thanks

Funnily enough I don't remember Andrew ever expressing these concerns the last four times a Conservative MP became Prime Minister outside of a general election.