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)
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
The Tom Waits / Massive Attack collaboration is out...
Billy Bragg raises a fist in front of the mural at the OSD
A tifo of the colours
W1T players with the flag
M1T players with the flag
¡Viva la República! 🔴🟡🟣
Today is the 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic.
We've been proudly wearing the colours on our away shirts since 2018 and now they're on a mural at our Old Spotted Dog Ground home.
¡No pasarán!
#DiaDeLaRepublica #14deAbril
Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:
Has anyone studied the psychic toll of years spent waking up to the unhinged rantings of a vicious madman who could kill us all — and then going about one’s day per usual?
110th anniversary of the Easter Rising. Ten years ago made this piece for Newsnight (one of my first!) for the 100th. Hard to believe just how much has been packed into Anglo-Irish relations, how much has changed, even since then. Much for the worse. youtu.be/RmaIOG9-BBk?...
The first MIP solvers have told me that they will try our modified perturbations. Hopefully its as big an improvement in practice as in theory 🙏
This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bro where the worm headshot
Now would be a good time to read @graemewood.bsky.social on Mojtaba Khamenei:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Wolves have only lost two full-length matches at Wembley: 1939 FA Cup Final (months before WW2) and 2019 FA Cup semi-final (months before Covid). Probably best for the world if we don't get there this year.
Happy Threads Day
If you use generative AI willingly, if you engage in cryptocurrencies willingly, if you need ChatGPT to type out your emails and live your simulation of an actual life then you have compromised your soul unblinkingly and are someone who simply chooses to feed the beast for your own convenience.
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
First senior member of the royal family to be arrested since Charles I...
On Jan. 7, a European Robin was spotted in Montreal. The bird was authenticated by the Cornell Ornithology Lab. No one knows how he could have crossed the Atlantic.🌻🙂
emerald fennell - "imagine Jane Eyre but the wife in the attic is a kink"
NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Maduro had lost the aloha spirit
