What’s this now?

I looked at the thread … I am stepping away from the thread.

Wait, Homelander is a Trump parody now.

🤣

Nobody can be held accountable for the actions of thousands of people that work for them.

Whoever lied should be fired.

Those who didn't, shouldn't be fired.

There are bigger problems right now in the world, and I'm seriously tired of the circular firing squad of UK politics.

UK has quietly regained its position as the world’s 5th largest economy The United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures.

In other news today the United Kingdom has regained its position as the fifth largest economy in the world, according to the latest figures
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/uk-econ...

Far better to be an old Etonian, Oxford classicist I guess.

I really don’t understand this perverse narrative that being an (excellent) lawyer somehow disqualifies someone from being PM.

Yes, I t’s all been a bit of a joke but it held together because people didn’t behave like fragile, narcissistic, psychos.

But, what laws or constitutional constraints would protect the people from the whole
government behaving like lunatics?

Sometimes, the people have to step up.

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

“Efforts are needed to develop and evaluate interventions to mediate these negative effects of LC [long COVID] that could last through adulthood…”

As a first step, more adults need to snap out of their denial and accept that COVID is still out there and still dangerous.

They'll defend it to the grave. Not because the evidence is on their side, it isn't, but because it's the only thing they ever thought they'd won. Let that go, and what's left? Just the dawning realisation that their whole life is abject failure.

If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.

A ginger cat with large orange eyes peering over the edge of a table.

Is it safe to come out yet?

#Cat

If he was forensic about everything nothing would get done.

He has to delegate and assume that those he delegates to are trustworthy.

Maybe that was what they needed, one dodgy bloke to talk with another.

We can’t even do “secret” right.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

EXPOSED: How Viktor Orbán Bankrolled the Network Around Reform UK

As Hungary’s Prime Minister suffers a historic electoral defeat, Byline Times maps out how his government’s funding arm channelled hundreds of thousands of pounds into organisations at the heart of Britain’s hard right.

It’s important to proofread.

I would like to thank @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk for fitting me in again.

I apologise for the rather bleak analysis... but it is just honestly where I think we are. The escalation from "Area Denial" to "Access Denial" is a big shift in where the world economic security will sit.

Have you tried it?

I have blocked this person it seems, and now I want to read their wisdom and can’t unblock them.

Or maybe they blocked me 👀

Hello philosophers, how do you find philosophical conversations with #AI?

Is it basic, nonsense, useful?

#philosophy

I’m a fan but “pocketing”?

How did you see the report if it was suppressed and redacted?

🔴14 Government Reforms the Media Has Largely Ignored Over Recent Weeks

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements designed to improve people’s lives across the UK

bylinetimes.com/2026/04/10/1...

When Trump goes no one will talk about it … too embarrassed.

He really wanted that explanation mark to be a comma.

Good job there isn't much oil and gas in the N. Sea to make it worth while. A few years at most.

That's home. That's us.

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew.

Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right.

Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Am I right to think that its doubly stupid because there isn't actually very much there - maybe five or six years worth if it was all consumed by the UK?

NHS staff boycott Palantir’s data platform over ethical concerns Controversial US tech group was awarded a £330mn contract in 2023 to collate hospital and patient information

"'I will continue to refuse to engage with any work involving this company,' they said. 'I know that there are staff who are already working as slowly as they can when pressured to work with Palantir.'"

It’s keeps the TV presidency fresh with drama.

He was pretty broken already.