Is Richard Tice’s picture AI-manipulated? Here are five giveaways Experts and social media sleuths studying the Reform deputy leader’s image of an apparent campaign event say the sausage fingers point to sleight of hand

If Reform are so damn popular, why the need to fabricate supporters with A.I.? And "editing to increase the brightness" doesn't give people six fingers or cause signs to float in mid-air.

I have a poem in this one... looking forward to reading the whole anthology!

'Poor Things' by Alasdair Gray

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Trump’s Quest for a Mar-a-Lago Papacy A schism that leads to a Mar-a-Lago papacy would be the perfect allegory for Trumpian spiritual rot.

"The greatest evils are not committed by psychopaths but by ordinary, unthinking people who conform to systems and fail to critically evaluate their actions."

Is anyone surprised? This vile creature's only religion is money.

'The French Lieutenant's Woman' by John Fowles

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I am not interested in being a person on Instagram, doing collaborative posts with people or filming myself talking to the camera. I want to be a person who fucks off away from the noise and works hard and writes better and better books for the rest of his life and then dies. Why is that not ok?

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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

"In 2024, OpenAI’s chief technology officer Mira Murati told an interviewer that the creative jobs destroyed by her company’s product maybe “shouldn’t have been there in the first place”.
Such attacks on art only reveal the deep anti-humanism of the tech elite."

'A Passage to India' by E.M. Forster

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People in England instead of questioning why Scotland has no tuition fees, no prescription charges and free hospital parking why dont you question why you dont?

'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan

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Meanwhile they all stand around watching, terrified to make the call.

'The Buddha Of Suburbia' by Hanif Kureishi

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'Under The Skin' by Michel Faber

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JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’ Catholic vice-president effectively tells Leo to stay in his lane after pope criticized the White House over the Iran war

"It would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality," says hamster-in-eyeliner Vance. Funny, I would have thought criticising nation states for committing war crimes and valuing power and money over human life was precisely a matter of morality.

'Rebecca' by Daphne du Maurier

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The best response to Trump is to pray for him The President’s TruthSocial jeremiad against the Holy Father is highly offensive, of course - but it is to be expected

For those unfamiliar, this is from a right-wing UK magazine:
"Show some respect for the Vicar of Christ, you Fanta-faced heathen." 😀
They also call him an "outgrown toddler" and a "chimp-brained heretic". 🤣

'This Man Is Not Well': Critics Damn Trump After 'Unhinged' Late-Night Attack On Pope Trump slammed the pontiff on Sunday night while also taking credit for his selection.

“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!” - Pope Leo XIV

“I’m not a fan of Pope Leo" - Donald Trump

Honestly it would be hilarious if the clueless muppet wasn't US president. But Leo is echoing Christ. Which makes Trump, what? The AntiChrist?

It's enough to make me convert to Catholicism.

I don’t think Pete Hegseth’s henchman yelling at the papal ambassador to the US is going to intimidate this Pope.

'Women In Love' by D.H. Lawrence

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'Watership Down' by Richard Adams

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What on Earth is Melania Trump thinking? | Arwa Mahdawi The first lady has put the Barbra Streisand effect in overdrive with a PR nightmare of her own making

"The Trumps aren’t just morally bankrupt, they’re also very, very stupid." 🤣

The moron STILL doesn't seem to have understood that NATO is a defensive alliance, not his playground gang to call on every time he feels like bullying someone. He is nothing but a monstrous schoolboy who enjoys hideous cruelty and whose only religion is money. That's who the USA put in charge.

'The Silence of the Lambs' by Thomas Harris

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EEurope cannot bet on a post-Trump US turning back to sanity | Rafael Behr If the president’s first term didn’t inoculate the American body politic against tyranny, there is no guarantee that a second dose will work, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

"The US was thoroughly exposed for a full term after the 2016 election...that severe infection did not cultivate enough immunity in the body politic to prevent a second term that is already proving more virulent."
This is what's causing distrust of America right now. They voted for this. Twice.

Wireless Festival cancelled after government stops Kanye West entering UK The rapper, due to headline the London festival in July, has been criticised for a series of antisemitic and pro-Nazi comments.

Good.