Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.
Palantir in the NHS is linked to Mandelson
Mandelson is linked to Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting is defending Palantir’s involvement in the #NHS
Nothing to see or everything to see
Palantir must be removed from the NHS
Author of the original game is doing a media round to promo a new version of Chuckie Egg, fair enough really, and the interview is fine, but the Chuckie Egg reboot looks a bit wank - not sure fucking with the graphics makes sense given the audience is nostalgia www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhzw...
The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.
We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.
Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social just to let you know there are other ways to monitor your child and their location - we went for a watch rather than a phone. Limited comms, no apps etc.
The idea that being *a member of the House of Lords* in any way means you can be trusted with Top Secret/STRAP material without proper vetting is so beyond absurd that this must surely be a joke?
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.
Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.
(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
Your Party knocked their own keeper unconscious and then dribbled the ball round his body. That whole thing was a comedy clown show from the name on.
Nick Robinson on the Today programme this morning was quick to repeat a misleading line about why we should support new North Sea oil & gas extraction in the UK on the grounds that it's MUCH (4x) cleaner than importing LNG. It's incorrect on several grounds: 🧵
It's 'for worse'. There's no upside at all. It might've seemed like a fair risk back when he wasn't parachuting in to micromanage specific projects at SpaceX, but the more he gets involved (& the board seems uninterested in curbing him), the more SpaceX f*s up.
NEW PODCAST: Electricity is just 20% of global energy. The other 80% (heating, transport, industry) still runs on fossil fuels. Full electrification could cut total energy demand in half. More in my conversation with @bobbyllew.bsky.social of Everything Electric Show
youtube.com/watch?v=-jSqcwxpd14
Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).
Anyone know whether today is a ‘ceasefire’ day or a ‘destroy your civilisation’ day yet?
It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.
The great thing is those placards of President Trump's deranged posts can also be used to show Mike Johnson in press conferences.
"Millions of Americans are wondering if this president is delusional and thinks he's Jesus Christ" -- Brilliant line of questioning here from Rep. Takano to RFK Jr about Trump's nutso social media posts and what it says about his mental health
Picture of a luscious cat with caption: stop using chatgpt i can also give you misinformation and i'm beautiful
spotted on the office door of my student assistants
I like that he has his cap as well as his helmet. He's ready for anything!
With Trump you don't know this is because he's so detached the reality of everyday people, or he's just losing his marbles and can't remember words and phrases anymore.
Every time we get new measurements of methane emissions compared to what the industry claimed they are....much higher.
"Urban emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—are rising faster than bottom-up accounting estimates anticipated, according to a study led by University of Michigan"
If you're sick of water companies being allowed to pump s**t into our rivers with no accountability:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
Finally, a good new story!
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
In swedish news:
"And many Hungarians went to the polls. By early evening, voter turnout had broken all records with 77.8 %"
SEE!!! It works if people ACTUALLY shows up to vote! VOTE AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPEND ON IT BECAUSE IT DOES!
But it's mechanical feeling!
