Sleepy kitten yawning.

Tug has found some twine to play with

Oh.

Mine was Dumbo too. Ran out of the cinema crying.

Dale hurtling in to get out of a hailstorm

Tig the cat looking a bit cross. The ponies having a water cooler conversation.

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed Exclusive: in 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed

In 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

As Golfcart Mugabe’s approval rating craters to historic lows, polling conglomerate Gallup respond in the way we’ve become depressingly accustomed to…

The ponies waiting for their treat balls to be delivered. It was raining so much that they had to stay in their stables that day. They want to have some toys to play with if they have to do that. Bless them!

Tig looking very chic.

Agreed

I agree.

Purdey insists on having the chair

And another of Tiger being rather vocal.

A portrait of Purdey

Reform council accused of ‘stifling free speech’ over questions about possible care home and day centre closures "Reform always talk about free speech but clearly at Lancashire County Council there is no free speech."

"Reform always talk about free speech but clearly at Lancashire County Council there is no free speech."

leftfootforward.org/2025/12/refo...

Applications Now Open for Sheffield Comic ARts Fair (SCARF) - Organiser Chris Mole Brings Us a Brand New Indie Comics Event in 2026 – Broken Frontier Sheffield Comic ARts Fair (SCARF) is a new event for indie and small press comics creators coming in October 2026.

News! Applications Now Open for Sheffield Comic ARts Fair (SCARF) – Organiser Chris Mole Brings Us a Brand New Indie Comics Event in 2026. www.brokenfrontier.com/scarf/

Sounds about right.

Fab. Thank you

Nothing Gold Can Stay
By Robert Frost

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.

He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.

Not once did the presented correct that it is NOT foreign nationals but foreign-BORN.

Many of these people are British citizens, e.g. Boris Johnson, born in the US.

And if households with foreign-born people are to be excluded, that would include people like Nigel Farage, who has a German wife.

Writers! Note that AI translation (under the guise of "global access") is being seen/used as the weak point to get AI into publishing (possible bc Eng lang publishing is weak on translation). Stand with translators & for more human translation, fairly paid!

Ban on replacing sacked staff with agency workers in fire and rehire crackdown Deputy PM Angela Rayner tells the Mirror the Employment Rights Bill will be beefed up to stop firms exploiting a loophole on unscrupulous fire and rehire tactics

Bad bosses will be banned from using agency staff to replace sacked employees as ministers close a loophole in workers' rights reforms 👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Betting on Geopolitical Violence Back in 2003, a Pentagon office led by Admiral John M.

Familiar from Brexit

Betting on Geopolitical Violence

These are markets in which people with inside information can make a lot of money without risk of exposure, since the exchange is crypto-based and doesn’t have a know-your-client requirement

open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

We have seen signals which indicate lack of support for adults growing in the last few years. Not everyone needs medication but everyone should have support.

Musk's xAI scores permit for gas-burning turbines to power Grok supercomputer in Memphis Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup attained an official permit to power its Memphis supercomputer facility using natural gas-burning turbines.

Grok is actually powered by up to 35 portable gas turbines in South Memphis, which is 25 more than the permit they just received. The air quality is so horrible that people don’t go outside. It violates EPA regulations, but it doesn’t matter since Musk gutted the EPA. www.cnbc.com/2025/07/03/m...

Thousands are in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system Lord Woodley is right that it’s time IPP prisoners were released, writes Andrea Coomber, chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform – but his intervention won’t change the government’s mind

Thousands remain in prison under IPP sentencing – it brings shame upon our legal system

www.independent.co.uk/voices/lord-...

"The media reporting of the "millionaire exodus" was primarily based on a report published by Henley & Partners, a firm that sells golden passports to the super rich... the 9500 millionaires widely reported to be leaving the UK in 2024 represented 0.3% of the UK’s 3.06 million millionaires"
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