i cannot stop laughing at this, this is incredible
Théo@tlpavlich.gay · 4d agoOkay I went back and recorded the WPBL anthem. I haven't seen a clip of it yet and....it needs to never be forgotten.
Looking forward to reading a 50,000 word piece on the acrimonious 12 year flame war between the Wikipedians and the stubborn editor who insists on relabelling Brighton a "seaside resort"
Robin Wilde@robinwilde.me · 7d agoI actually know the answer to this and it's slightly insane. Google pulls from Wikipedia to determine if a place is a city, town, neighbourhood, whatever. Brighton's first line describes it as a "seaside resort" so Google Maps thinks it's a neighbourhood and doesn't display it in the "city" font.
we’re so close to transforming tokens into magic beans that will heal all the scars of your childhood, restore enchantment to the world, and generate infinite passive income for all via free real estate atop the most scenic ridges of big rock candy mountain
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last wk.“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
Can't get behind the paywall to see if it's mentioned in the article, but they were still making Catholics wait at the back of the queue for induction into the Privy Council as recently as 2010 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli... Don't know if it's been done that way since
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoAndy Burnham is set to be the first lifelong Roman Catholic to become prime minister of Britain when he is appointed on Monday. At one point, that would have been a big deal.
"Infiltrating" their own house, through the big wide open front door that has a big welcome banner above it, manned by this security guard
Man in Green and Blue Jacket Interacting
ALT: Man in Green and Blue Jacket Interacting
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Times reports an 'extreme far-right campaign to infiltrate Restore Britain' Yet this had been an inflitration - by invitation - in plain sight The Times now understands Lowe "plans to root out those who espouse those ideologies from his party" (!) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
"no one on a temporary (work) visa should have the automatic right to stay forever" nothing about settlement is automatic. but not one single labour MP will call this out, because they've spent months repeating this same lie with regard to the settlement consultation. an endless shower of cowards
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 3w agowith alt text
Yes. Every time police announce a suspect is white/ British/ apolitical the pathetic, pleading subtext of "please don't riot!" comes over like a foghorn, as does the implication that it was reasonable to assume until then that the perpetrator was not white & politically motivated
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4w agoCongratulations to Britain on becoming the kind of country where the police have to walk on eggshells when talking about a murder case, because one false move could set off a week of fascist rioting by the vicious far right swine our whole system is increasingly designed to please and impress.
Google AI summary tells me there is an "HMCTS Civil War-Filing System"?
About a month later, on Nov. 4, 2025, they transferred him to Valley Baptist Medical Center in Harlingen "for dementia concerns." The release says nothing about the next eight months, only that he died June 24. There's no cause of death listed. This is fucking sick.
Florian applied for admission to the US at the Columbia Solidarity Bridge Point of Entry in Laredo, Texas on Aug. 28, 2025. He didn't have the right paperwork and was transferred to ICE custody a day later. On Oct. 1, 2025 "ICE placed him at a rehabilitation and assisted living center."
ICE just announced the death of the 21st person in immigration prison, Adrian Andreas Florian, an 85-year-old man from Germany. He died June 24. There's very little information in the press release but it sounds like he may have had dementia. Absolutely horrific.
Alien in ICE custody passes away in Texas after long-term hospitalization
Adrian Andreas Florian, an 85-year-old illegal alien from Germany, passed away in ICE custody June 24.
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Yes - many immigration appeals now turn on nebulous phrases ("very significant obstacles" "very compelling circumstances" "genuine & subsisting" "unduly harsh") which the public may interpret far more leniently than hardened immigration judges
Dr Jo Kershaw@mthrjo.bsky.social · last mo.The oddity here is I suspect a *genuinely* representative selection of the British public would probably lead to the success rate of appeals going up (it's pretty high already because the HO are unreasonable), bc a lot of people say they think fraud is high but are sympathetic to individual stories
📢📢Important new blog post by 'Lisa' in response to comments made by Sir John Mitting at the end of yesterday's evidence from Helen Steel at @ucpinquiry.bsky.social about the supposed 'genuine feelings' of #spycops. policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/genuine-feel...
‘GENUINE FEELINGS’ AND SPYCOPS ABUSES by 'Lisa'
On Friday 19th June 2026, at the end of an emotional day for Helen Steel who was giving evidence to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing about being deceived into intimate sexual relationship w...
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Or being told that they are liable to deportation from the only country where they have ever lived after receiving a criminal conviction. Sometimes incorrectly, e.g. www.turpinmiller.co.uk/site/news-up...
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2mo agoEvery year young people are shocked to find out they are foreign nationals not British only at the point of trying to get their first passport or bank account
It is extremely annoying the way that Hunt, like Osborne before him, personally undermined the foundations of the British state and now gets to opine as if this mess was absolutely nothing to do with him.
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2mo agoI’d have a lot more time for this if the answer was “by not cutting employee NICS”. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Fatboy Slim is f̶u̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶h̶e̶a̶v̶e̶n̶ shouting at Nazis
Trinket@trinketbirdy.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim
Here it is: open.substack.com/pub/thoughts...
No, the UK government should not be following Trump's lead on refugees
Yesterday someone sent me this article and asked me to write a rebuttal, saying that this is “the sort of nonsense we ignore from random commentators but that is highly problematic from someone in his...
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Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.
My late, lamented dad, Henry Brooke (1936-2018) said that his 1993 Kapila Lecture on “The Administration of Justice in a Multi-Cultural Society” was the best thing he ever wrote. I'm sending it back into circulation, as it's sorta kinda relevant to what's been preoccupying a lot of people this week.
The 1993 Kapila Lecture
When I look back over nearly 80 years of life, I regard my Kapila Lecture in 1993 as the best thing I ever wrote.
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A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind". When was that, precisely? The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.
Why is someone on our state broadcaster being given space to express the view that there has been a "30 year initiative" to "privilege every other race above white people?" What the hell is going on that you don't immediately cut the mic? Why is he even there? bsky.app/profile/huwc...
Huw C. Davies@huwcdavies.bsky.social · 2mo agoGot to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.
