Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat after 'painful' election result Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat after what he called a ″painful″ election result, ending 16 years in power for a powerful figure in the far-right movement allied with U.S.

BREAKING: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concedes defeat to Peter Magyar after "painful" election result, ending 16 years in power.

Is AI the greatest art heist in history? New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

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Prophetic 2020 cartoon by Rob Rogers.

Rogers was sacked by the vile Trumper owner of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2018. Since then, his work since has never been better.

The idiot owner ran the P-G into the ditch. It's bankrupt and will cease to be on May 3, after 240 years.

Wishing a happy Brian’s Hat Day to all who celebrate.

Peter Thiel would be one of the biggest losers if Orbán fell today.

The fascist tech oligarch and his allies use Hungary as their ultimate authoritarian laboratory.

Defeating Orbán would shatter their entire blueprint

i'd die on the hill that @caelan.bsky.social is doing some of the best work on chatbots & AI harms surrounding young people these days. every video lately has been harrowing but really illuminating, and asks serious questions about what the fuck "safety" and "guardrails" AI companies purport to have

Well, that seems like it should be more significantly reported news than it is.

Ten years later we’re allowed to call one decision a catastrophic mistake, but twelve years isn’t yet long enough to reconsider another. Got it.

Victoria is one of the best of her cohort IMO and here she is, reduced to stammering like a red-handed crook in front of a fascist crackpot, entirely because the system she speaks for is so brazenly bent and disgusting.

Leaflet of three candidates, white blokes with limited hair, all in glasses. --- **GATESHEAD IS BROKEN. VOTE REFORM UK TO FIX IT** Introducing your Reform UK candidates for Low Fell leaflet text: **ATKINSON, John** Reform UK John has lived in Low Fell for 30+ years. His background is in civil engineering, policing, teaching and transport. He wants to bring back a sense of community, listen to residents' concerns and focus on local issues such as crime, roads and streets, and better services. --- **HENDERSON, Iain** Reform UK Iain has lived and worked in Gateshead all his life. Now retired, he wants to give something back to the borough. With a positive outlook, Iain is looking forward to making a real difference to the lives of the residents of Low Fell and to working closely with them. --- **MURRAY, Arthur** Reform UK Arthur has owned several businesses for many years. He has lived locally for 50 years and employs local staff, servicing the northeast and Scotland. His priorities are to see the ward and area prospering once again, caring for the old and infirm and maintaining our parks and open spaces. ---

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."

four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"

Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"

Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities' ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are rejected by the Home Office. However, the changes coincide with a marked increase in the numbers of visas being refused by the Home Office on spurious and inaccurate grounds, according to research by universities that has been shared with The Times. Neither students nor universities are able to challenge the decisions, which are often taken months after a university has accepted the applicant and in some cases just days before they are due to start studying.

UKVI carries out discretionary "credibility interviews" to ascertain that a student's intentions to study here are genuine. In another interview, when asked why they had chosen to apply to their chosen institution, the applicant said they had considered several factors, including the university's ranking, employability support, student satisfaction while also noting that it was an ancient institution and cited the year it was founded. The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered.

In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.

In another credibility interview the applicant was asked to describe some of the taught modules they would be studying as part of their degree. The applicant explained that they had been offered a place to study a PhD in biomedical engineering which was fully research-based so did not have any taught modules. Despite this, the UKVI refusal letter stated that they were not satisfied on the basis that their answers were "vague and generic" and had failed to explain the taught modules they would be studying.

It is almost, almost, impressive just how Labour have taken the massively dysfunctional and incompetent Home Office and managed by dint of policies and rhetoric to make it even more dysfunctional and incompetent. It is a true testament to how hostile they are to migrants.

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Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon
#Pakistan #ısrael #Iran #Trump #jaredkushner #stevewhitkoff #netanyahu #straitofHormuz

Del Naja has been critical of the government policies of the United Kingdom. He was strongly opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and with fellow musician Damon Albarn personally paid for full-page adverts in the NME magazine. 49] [50] On the eve of the invasion of Iraq, they tried to organise a group of prominent musicians into an anti-war campaign, only according to Del Naja to be greeted with silence bordering on hostility. 511

I’m afraid Britain is the kind of country where you I would expect to see minimal anti-regime activity by people who want to keep working, and the most daring anti-establishment figures advertise butter then come out supporting MAGA

Writers of Daredevil: Born Again having another incredible week.

This useless dweeb will be joining Calhoun and Agnew shortly.

World’s Centre-most Centrist somehow finds new, unexplored centrality.

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

If you’re going to imitate the Mamdani campaign – and they unquestionably, although inexplicably have done just that – the first thing you need is a naturally charismatic, reliably adroit communicator as your candidate. Sarwar ain’t it.

YouGov YouGov's first MRP of the 2026 Holyrood election shows the SNP are on course for a small majority SNP: 67(+3 from 2021) Ref: 20 (+20) Lab: 15 (-7) Grn: 11 (+3) LD: 9 (+5) Con: 7 (-24)

Remember, the Scottish system was designed to create coalitions and to make one party majorities extremely difficult to achieve. And as far as I can tell, the full explanation offered for this is *still* “they’ve had their heads turned by the wrong flag”, after twenty years of the SNP in charge.

As expected, giving fascist.

This was framed immediately after the Gorton and Denton by-election as a scandal: it was ‘Islamo-gauchismo’—an unholy alliance of progressives and Muslims—that the Greens dared reach out to Muslims (and non-white Brits generally!), who agreed with their political programme and thus voted for them

Telling The Caricature Artist You Know What They're Doing YouTube video by Make Some Noise

One for the caricaturists via @dropout.tv
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a cartoon of a man sitting in a chair with the caption robot experience this tragic irony for me Alt: From a “Scary Door” segment of the cartoon series Futurama, parodying The Twilight Zones. A scientist creates a labor-saving robot and has it do more and more for him, including parenting. When he realises his son loves the robot more, he says “Robot, experience this tragic irony for me.”

“The most abusive & authoritarian regimes on the planet all seem to want to double-down on A.I. Better keep up! Don’t worry, even small & emerging economies will have their own power shortages, widespread unemployment, cratering academic standards, and nascent class of ghoulish technogarchs soon!”

But every study shows that once you start, the A.I. is very swiftly relied upon for more and more tasks. I need to know when I ask someone a question I’m getting their answer, and that when a fact requires verification it’s done so using research & expertise, not a big, biased Mechanical Turk.

It is difficult. I’ve personally ended (working) relationships with people – often but not exclusively from smaller economies – who simply couldn’t see why their use of A.I. was an issue, having it to do things like turn a static drawing into animation almost instantaneously. A miracle, a delight.

Of course many people in relatively underserved, marginalised, or otherwise disadvantaged markets are going to hope that A.I. provides what its mavens are selling i.e. a leveller, frictionless fast-tracks to global reach and scale. Doesn’t mean they won’t be failed. The problems are baked in.

Another Broken Robot four panel gag. Sorry I don't have time toi tpe up the entire premise, doctor appointment in a half an hour. Thanks.

NERD INFERNO is out April 28th from @darkhorse.com.

Every day until then (or the world ends) I will post something from the 648-page behemoth. Today: the second Broken Robot strip from Dork. Color by Sarah Dyer.

#NerdInferno #ItsAComicBook

PAHAHAHAHA this is like willingly dating an absolute scumbag and then HE breaks up with YOU

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a microphone in a courtroom . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in front of a microphone in a courtroom .

Periodic reminder to Democrats on here that your A.I. slop is just as ugly to look at, insulting & unethical in its providence, and empowering to the nihilistic, longtermer, white-supremacist ghouls whose services you’ve patronised as the other side’s A.I. slop, and will get you blocked as fast.