A small-town mayor told me how in his town people hanging up flags would chase down those who took them down and beat them up. The legacy of Starmer is one of increased and empowered far-right and racist violence. I don't see any Labour attempt to turn this around or even critically engage with it.

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Juro que tem dias que eu acordo pensando nisso aqui:

BOMBSHELL story by Olivia Carville @bloomberg.com Internal Report Shows TikTok Kept Safety Feature From Millions A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement NO PAYWALL www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

bloomberg.com

If the public choose to remove these flags, is it illegal? Does it count as litter picking? ***googles pole-climbing Lego robots***

Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterday

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.

"...His insightful film showing China on the verge of modernisation was condemned, and with the exception of a screening in a BFI series marking his centennial, it has become an “un-film”..." #FilmSky share.google/f6SXlZtk3tcF...

Careless whispers: what really happened between George Michael and Lindsay Anderson? The Wham! movie producer reveals all

How did the pioneering director get involved – then fall out – with the 80s’ poppiest band? How are Sam Peckinpah and Michael Jackson’s Thriller involved? Prepare for a tale of ambition, deception and...

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was reminded by the recent boom in undersea horror of this game that @haraiva.bsky.social made. just fantastic dominoclub.itch.io/gutless

GUTLESS by DOMINO CLUB, haraiva

hadopelagic false light

dominoclub.itch.io

My son just explained that the first time he heard “Golden Brown” by The Stranglers, he thought they were singing “Gordon Brown”

I knew about the link from British microcomputers to modern phones via Acorn/ARM. But I only just learned that some models of the ZX Spectrum were manufactured by Samsung

Jurassic Park: The Victorian Remake: Crystal Palace dinosaurs developed via Lamarckianism where a rich coal magnate recreates dinosaurs by selectively breeding lizards in steam heated enclosures in the Jura. Eventually they escape, rampaging through London until an early snow freezes them to death.

Continuing my series of updating old side projects, I gave Supercut.org a big refresh, plus some notes on the sad state of Vimeo.

Waxy Refresh: Supercut.org - Waxy.org

Continuing my series of updating old side projects, I gave Supercut.org a big refresh, plus some notes on the sad state of Vimeo.

waxy.org

This week's revival of soft climate denialism means we get to dust off the old climate crisis game theory calculation: If they're right and we pursue net zero unnecessarily we misallocate some capital. If we stop decarbonising and they're wrong we get global catastrophe and economic collapse.

Sitting calmly on a train through Greece as everyone’s phone is beeping Emergency Alerts

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.

Greetings from Bari, Italy where I’m trying to relax. Instead I’m listening to two men, a Brit and an Italian discussing how to build an “AI Gigacenter”. The trick apparently is to build it with gas turbines but not to connect them yet.

Greetings from Bari, Italy where I’m trying to relax. Instead I’m listening to two men, a Brit and an Italian discussing how to build an “AI Gigacenter”. The trick apparently is to build it with gas turbines but not to connect them yet.

Worth bearing in mind that it's 15 years since the government rejected a new strategic reservoir for the southeast (near Oxford). They claimed Thames Water hadn't made the case for it (to me it looked like they had) Interestingly Thames Water now say it needs to be 50% bigger than what was proposed

Abingdon £1bn reservoir plan rejected by government

Plans for a £1bn reservoir in Oxfordshire to supply more than eight million people over the next 25 years are rejected by the government.

bbc.co.uk

Dan Grey@dangrey.bsky.social · last wk.

It hasn't rained in parts of Devon for 50 days (I last had rain on 22 June) Southern England has only had 1% of the usual July rainfall The Environment Agency has now decreed a "flash" (sudden onset) drought for much of England

You could do this late at night on TV and call it “Late Review”

Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them)@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · last wk.

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

Wowza. Look at this chart on wildfires in France from @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social EFFIS. Red line is cumulative area burned this year; blue line is average since 2006...

Rest in peace, awesome Myst prototype

Cyan Worlds@cyan.com · last wk.

Over a year ago, we built a prototype for a new Myst Universe game meant for publisher eyes only. This project is NOT in active development, but we're proud of the work the team did, and wanted to share it with you all. Presenting: Project Anglerfish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvNGt02yZNc

"The 19-storey glass-fronted block is owned by Criterion Capital, set up by the billionaire property magnate Asif Aziz."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.

Homeless families in London temporary housing told not to use air conditioning

NEt zeRo iS ToO expENsiVe

Shadow Hedgie 🌻@shadow.hedgie.social · last wk.

A Bordeaux City Council spokesperson told Sky News it is "currently studying scenarios for all possible ways the fire could evolve". This includes a total evacuation of the city, if needed.

From a historical perspective, small groups of motivated people can drive change, even if the majority is supine. This is fortunate, otherwise I’d despair about how we’re going to combat fascism & climate crisis when people won’t even slightly inconvenience themselves by leaving a Nazi CSAM website

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · last wk.

The decision of so many people to keep using X in its race-war phase has made me a bit more cynical overall about the ability to draw moral red lines. It’s beyond disappointing.

I’m just a simple Internet user, but it seems to me that the UK government shouldn’t use this man’s website for official communications, I dunno.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Here is a call for the murder of Home Office ministers + officials by the X user endorsed by the site owner Elon Musk.

Living in Turkey means that whenever you see a map like this, the first thing you do is to check your position. Like, right now I sit pretty much right at the yellow border.

#BruceSterling@bruces.bsky.social · last wk.

Where I live, we haven't been able to open our windows for days because of this. Remember, this is the crap they want us to adapt to. Climate adaptation is a society and economic con job.

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵

Andy Burnham, 21, writes to The Guardian in defence of Philip Larkin

Only just got to see this. It contains a remarkable graph. Appears that Councils stopped building houses...and basically nobody took their place.

@michael-s-marshall.bsky.social · 3w ago

1) Andy Burnham wants to pivot the Affordable Housing Programme away from housing associations towards councils. This FT article highlights several associated challenges. Previous attempts to boost social rented delivery show us that these challenges are real. www.ft.com/content/354e...

Jurassic Parcs - a pack of velociraptors in the Subtropical Swimming Paradise

NERV IRB Coordinator@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 2w ago

JURASSIC PARK but set in China and they actually just make a successful park

I‘m fascinated by this front page posted by @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Did the people assembling that know the juxtaposition? Was it people lower in the hierarchy who dared do this, against the editorial line? Or no one assembling this front page made the connection?