the most generous view you can take is every government minister gets 100% of their knowledge from A Nice Man From Google/Meta/OpenAI giving them the tour of how their product can magically produce jobsgrowthsecuritysavings, with the only balance being the other tech firms saying theirs is better

wild situation where accessing meta services without a robust adblocker in the UK could mean YOU have committed a criminal offence we are so far past the point where any sort of healthy govt would have clamped down on big tech. the reasons it hasn't are about 25% tech illiteracy, 75% open bribery

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 8h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago

If you've ever wanted to live in a MagicEye house... www.anthonywebb.co.uk/properties/2...

Google's move to AI means traditional SEO doesn't work anymore so every big company is now desperately doing Reddit AMAs to try and get their responses ingested by the Gemini slop machine and farted out in AI summaries

If I was in hospital for something serious or one of my loved ones was, and I saw this cunt trying to be an edgelord, I'd have made it my business to make my way up to that rooftop and push him off

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

the number of people in replies here going "oh, I thought it was funny" yeah, what's the problem? i mean who doesn't love a laugh, right? don't worry, mate, she'd have loved this if she was around to hear about it!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 11h ago

Man arrested after dressing as Grim Reaper on hospital roof and staring at patients

fallen foul of the Socialist Sunday crew again i try very hard not to start beef with mutuals cos that's not what this site is for, and i hate beefing with people broadly i agree with anyway got blocked by one mutual for giving short shrift to some SS dipshit reply guy trying to start a fight

Remembering Adam Yauch (a.k.a. MCA) today on what would have been his 62nd birthday (born August 5, 1964) | Explore the Beastie Boys co-founder's musical legacy (including audio & video highlights) here: album.ink/AdamYauchHBD

if you're wondering, FIFA made a huge amount of noise abotu the increased prize money, which they bumped by $11m to $36m for this version of the tournament. many press releases runners up were/are due $4.2m, lol

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · yesterday

More incendiary stuff. Prince Ali, the FA president from Jordan, who was a rival to Infantino in his first election in 2016, alleges FIFA attempted to effectively blackmail theJordanian FA, withholding funds until they had provided backing to Infantino for next year’s election.

In Dec 2024, Mazraoui refused to use a Man Utd jacket with support to the LGBT cause because it was against his religion. Today, Man Utd has announced a partnership with a betting company & yes, he was seen wearing a shirt with the sponsor on it So just a raging homophobe hiding behind religion

Mazraoui recusou-se e jogadores do United não usaram casaco de apoio à causa LGBT

Campanha da Premier League envolta em polémica

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The best YouTube channel ever made has just dropped another of the best YouTube videos ever made. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGt7...

Johnny Depp's Bed

YouTube video by Bobby Fingers

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can we have Jonathan Baz retrospectively arrested or something for claiming that neo-Nazi troll Joshua Bonehil-Paine, not Rod Liddle, was "Britain's leading political satirist"? (this is from February 2026)

Naadir@randomvariable.co.uk · 16h ago

He's been deradicalised by the British state and gave seminars about antisemitism in schools and colleges because he is now a fully acceptable Islamophobic Zionist blogs.timesofisrael.com/talking-to-b...

If you don’t fancy trekking back home from Crystal Palace late on a Sunday night after a gig targeted at elderly millennials, you can risk having this experience for the low low price of FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO POUNDS

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 17h ago

Another day, another 'strange person entering someone else's hotel room in a Travelodge' story

Everything you need here

decided to fuck around with openmw and have spent the last 9 hours installing Nerd Shit this better pay off

Web version is finally here. Go have a Scroll → upscrolled.com

truly spectacular stuff (he's standing as a Tory council candidate)

I recognise the specific context here but “Please, I need my car to meet criminals” is a very funny plea for leniency.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months

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A Lich Necromancer taking one look at Rod Liddle's cadavar before going "Ew, no." and throwing it back into the pit.

If you’re not a good person in this life, you won’t get to join the skeleton army in the next.

I think it's very important to remember that Rod Liddle, by his own admission, was a paedophile

hahh a haha ha hahaahahha this is funnier than when scruton carked it rod fucking liddle!

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Fraser Nelson reckons Rod Liddle was “the greatest satirist since Swift” while Michael Gove is comparing him to not just Swift but Orwell. Amazing the comparisons you can get if you’ll pump out exactly the racist opinions even they are too squeamish to commit to print.

is goldacre terfy now then? early twitter brain sufferer who suddenly starts working with tory govt and stumbles out the other side of covid mumbling about the need to respect for fucking liddle of all people

What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back