TfL app sends you alerts of strikes and status. Even if you do not live in London...

I saw this chart and thought- I eat about one egg a week. Who is eating the other 150 above the average?

Fascintern Media We are facing a coordinated international fascist movement that works with explicit backing from Moscow, Washington, and tech monopolies, and is propagating itself through its own media apparatus. Yet...

Also, people generally misunderstand how these places work: berjon.com/fascintern-m....

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto The problems with our tech philosopher kings

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally.
It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

Clearly, this disqualifies Palentir as a business partner for any other country than the U.S., not just in defense and security related sector but ANY sector — as information is power.

European countries should not just start new collaboration with Palentir, they should divest it ASAP!

A tweet from Pope Leo XIV that reads: “When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.”

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

ICYMI @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

That is what failed states do.

2012: conservatives cut 20,000 police and never put them back, in the name of austerity. Likewise the courts. We have yet to recover from these crimes against the country.

This is an extraordinary story they deserves much more airtime. Shocking in so many ways. Share widely.

A great article, and that is the paragraph to highlight. Still, more power to the YIMBYs (and thus to young people in general) would help in the long term.

What a fantastic job, and what a clever, engaged hiring process.

It is beyond ridiculous that a government that is allegedly concerned about social cohesion and the rise of populism is doing nothing to stop this latest act of vandalism against the BBC.

This is why people feel worse off.

The BBC is the national broadcaster. It covers those events which bind the nation.

Now it's dying. Killed finally by a Labour government who hates them. Sure, the Tories did their best to destroy it but Labour have done nothing to save it.

Spectacular colours.

That was so moving and sad. I think about it often.

There is a Churchill anecdote where a minister in 1940 suggests cutting budgets for theatre + arts and using the money for defence.
"Well what then are we fighting for?" He is reputed to have said.

Tax and local services are the same, for those who pay them. What then are we paying for?

BBC NEWS Shropshire Council Issuing statement on council website: "We will be removing all unauthorised flags from our street lighting columns and other highway assets. This will be in Shrewsbury initially with plans to remove all unauthorised flags across the county in time. Where appropriate and legally possible, we will seek to recover the cost of removal from the individuals responsible for installing the flags."

Every council should follow suit.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, Washington DC

I hate when fantasy films I made a long time ago begin to come true in real life.

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

"All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."
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Non-enforcement is a gateway to worse outcomes. Hard agree.

Why not use metric?

The Telegraph just gave a convicted criminal a two-page spread to explain why he's pumping £4 million into Reform UK. They tucked his criminal record away in the small print. So as a former financial crime specialist I’ll do their job for them👇

I have found my tribe. Not going to choose between Ok Computer (my god what was that and are we allowed to do this?), Kid A (yes we can and jeezus we can take you places) and InRainbows (we can do this like bloody symphonies and reinvent what sound is) .

From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

📌 ICYMI — From Coal Tip to Clean Energy: The UK Projects Turning Former Mines Into Renewable Powerhouses

Solar farms, wind turbines and geothermal heat pumps are breathing new life into former collieries. So why don't we hear more about them?

Very much in this style of Albert Speer…on brand.

Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.