These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 18h ago

Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.

On the open, exterminationist fascism of Miller, Musk, Reform, Restore, and, yes, the oh-so-respectable Tory party. (And honestly, I'd probably add Mahmood and the Blue Labourites to the list at this point too.)

Toby Buckle@polphilpod.bsky.social · yesterday

modern fascists aren't posturing, or saying stuff for some other purpose—they mean it my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

The press in this country can hound anyone out of work or their lives with no repercussions. I know -it's happened to my family when my partner got it in his head that trans people might exist- so he got death threats and lost work because the press thought that might be fun. We haven't recovered.

This bit here I have to stress--because it really matters: This is all about racism, and was only ever about racism. As far as the press was concerned, whether any plagiarism or intellectual dishonesty had actually occurred was irrelevant. Here, I'll prove it: Imagine he was White.

Natasha Simonova@philistella.bsky.social · 20h ago

While this was all happening, friends and I were literally listing off senior white men who were still in post despite not being able to work with students because they're actual sex offenders.

A reminder that this was started by a “Race Realist” who got fired by Cambridge for being racist and the media interviewed him and lapped it up

Thomas Li@tomli80.bsky.social · 21h ago

Tragic and needless loss. He was treated as just notch in a DEI culture war against DEI by those in the press - over a furore started by a disgusting, partisan racist. For shame, if they could feel any.

Every person saying We Must Not Score Political Points means: members of the public should not correctly summarise what we have done.

See how easy that is?

It really isn’t normal for media outlets to hound minor public figures to death, just for fun, because they can. That really is a Just Britain thing.

The media won't learn or reflect on anything because it was the perfect culture war story that they'd repeat again and again as soon as they get the chance.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 21h ago

The term “witch hunt” is overused in politics. Perhaps not now. Quite a bit of the British media should ask themselves serious questions as to whether the coverage they gave to this man was remotely proportionate. Likewise there are Qs for Cambridge- and whether they discharged their duty of care.

I think it's bad that the UK press can escalate what is essentially a workplace matter into national news ahead of the fucking country being on fire and then get away with hounding their victim until they die.

leveson 3, 4, 5 and if necessary 6

There is a very high risk of wildfires globally. Governments and businesses should not undertake any activity that could increase this, including deforestation and extracting, refining, or burning fossil fuels. Even a small amount of additional CO2 can add to global heating.

Having my phone scream at me to not use a crappy disposable BBQ, while our gov continues to give a thumbs up to water-wasting AI 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Perfect. Burn the planet to appease conspiracists who will never vote for you anyway. Continuity Starmerism at its finest.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterday

Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets

Don't mind me, I'm off to gut higher education, one of the UK's most successful and globally respected exporting industries, because I think doing so will let me defeat white nativism with immigration charts. I am the most naive human being alive.

Tomorrow's headlines will, of course, immediately revert to "Drill, Burnham, drill!" at maximum volume.

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · yesterday

This is fine... "Britain on fire" "Heatwave devastation" "Inferno" "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" "Rampant wildfires engulf streets of family homes" "Record 2.5m trips to A&E" "Temps hit 38.1C as fifth heatwave peaks" "Britain in meltdown"

The more I ponder what Mary said here, I think it is VERY important for those who don't like this EVEN IF YOU DON'T STREAM and want to send a message to Amazon on where the Twitch community falls in the genAI discussion to go in their settings and turn this off. The metrics are what speaks to them.

AnEternalEnigma@aneternalenigma.com · 3d ago

Each part of this BBC breakdown of the Clacton by election is funnier than the last

Larry Ellison has been absolutely clear that he sees AI primarily as a tool to force the public to behave themselves, and you can imagine what that crank thinks is good behaviour. Our Home Secretary thinks they’re building a digital panopticon.

I see the US military is doing Millennium Challenge all over again: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game

Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.

arstechnica.com

When you have to make up excuses not to even bother attending the result of the Very Important By-election you just demanded everyone else take part in

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

* U.S. SENDING FRESH AIRCRAFT CARRIER TO MIDDLE EAST AMID IRAN WAR STRAIN -- WSJ @reuters.com

I cannot get over that we’re having conversations about literal Spider-Man villain weapons being handed to our unaccountable masked white supremacist Gestapo

Strange how the media never ask politicians how we can afford to keep doing so much racism, isn't it?

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d ago

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues

Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified

independent.co.uk

Successive governments' failure to ensure our food supply is secure goes beyond complacency and into outright denial. This is not a game. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

theguardian.com

Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school?

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

My modest proposal continues to be that if any artwork gets written off for tax purposes, that artwork immediately becomes public domain. The public bought it; we own it now.

William Bibbiani@williambibbiani.bsky.social · 3d ago

I'm not comfortable with folks saying COYOTE VS. ACME was "worth the wait." I'd argue the opposite. It was worth NOT waiting for. Warner Bros. shelving a whole film as a tax write-off, potentially forever, doesn't become forgivable if it's good. That's what the word "unforgivable" is for.