WhatsApp Testing Paid 'Plus' Subscription Tier – Here's What's Included WhatsApp has started testing a paid subscription tier called WhatsApp Plus, which adds a set of personalization options on top of the standard messaging experience, according to WABetaInfo.

Further evidence: www.macrumors.com/2026/04/21/w...

We need to standardise an open messaging platform and we need it now, before the enshittification.

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad i...

Break up the tech monopolies. Do it now: www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.

We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.

Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.

Finally got around to reading @eurogamer.bsky.social’s excellent 25 anniversary piece on Black & White. It’s amazing the ways that game prefigured the future of AI.

Have you played Stitch on Apple Arcade? Wondering as I do my morning daily and am reminded of reading this yesterday…

This government will throw money at any business person who says their dodgy product is going to fix every problem, but ignore actual evidence and experts when it comes to investing in welfare.

Also why, despite 140+ years of campaigning, we still don’t have equal votes in the UK.

And not just Scotland. Do this everywhere. Zero downside.

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

The new feminist thinking is that cis women are just bad at _everything_

Govt minister, Steve Reed, warned last month that donations from Brits overseas could be “so huge, it could change the terms of the political debate.”

But if that's the case for Brits abroad, why not for everyone?

Why should anyone be able to spend millions of pounds to change the terms of debate?

Banning Kanye West from entering the UK over anti-Semitism concerns then posting about it in a self-satisfied way on on the Nazi app owned by the Nazi sympathiser is just a perfect encapsulation of this government

I can’t find any evidence that he was ever a regular Radio 1 host.

Thanks to AI, Google has become perhaps the largest source of misinformation in the world.

This one is just completely made up!

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Why is it not a condition of planning permission that any development larger than a garden shed includes enough green energy generation to power itself?

Can I recommend:

Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising

Diana Wynne Jones' Howl's Moving Castle (also, everything)

Diane Duane's So You Want to Be a Wizard

Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic (also, everything)

Ursula le Guin's The Wizard of Earthsea (also, everything)

The fact that this can be considered a good start shows how absolutely farcical our political funding system is. There’s absolutely no way any party should be taking money that isn’t paid from a UK bank account and traceable to an individual domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.

Any time you see a UK character pretend they're making a reasonable point about north sea drilling, remember:
- Won't help with oil price.
- Only renewables guarantee energy security.
- Renewables happening anyway, they're going to have to accept this at some point.
- That might as well be now.

No shit.

At least I get to repost the greatest headline the Independent has ever run.

Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c... Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money.

So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK?

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

Huge escalation for UK school library censorship. Nearly 200 books targeted in one school, with the excuse of “safeguarding”. A librarian has lost her job & can never work in schools again.

The fate of the books remains to be seen.

@indexoncensorship.org

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

🚨WOW: 365×250=91,250 people per year, assuming the generous British state never stops awarding people on Sundays and holidays either.

There are ~45mln adults in the UK so about 0.2% of the population gets these disability awards per year. That seems negligible, thanks for copying a press release!

Sisyphus pushing that rock up the hill on repeat with text that reads "remember me on this device" over and over.

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Anthony's TV

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.

What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.

How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?

Yesterday, I watched a video by an American living in England and I can't get it out of my head. He was rating the worst biscuits.

Brits: PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR THIS LIST.

The list was as follows:
3. Cadbury Fingers
2. Weetabix (yes, really)
1. Jaffa cakes

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.