Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Nigel Farage will only eat tampons with meat in them.

Two greenish-hued comets are swinging through the inner solar system this fall, offering a rare chance to spot them in the coming weeks.

He's posh, though, so he'll be fine.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Thanks

Is there much data on relative vaccination rates in under 18's and uni students?

🤔 Z-propagandist Anastasia Kashevarova announces mass repressions and purges in Russia.

The regime continues to descend into madness and consume itself.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

The way I scrolled until I’d found this

Oh ffs

Wow.

I have only one note worth actually mentioning: (certain subtextual elements and gags aside), there is strong endorsement of overworking, and a not only little examination of, but a highly disingenuous and idealised depiction of, what is a particularly exploitative and damaging industry throughout.

So I finally caught-up with K-pop Demon Hunters, largely out of the need to be able to converse with people when I'm at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social . Despite being cooked from a list of ingredients which are entirely 'not my thing', I can completely appreciate why it's so beloved.

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is going to instantly get really pissy in so many chauvinist directions at the same time.
Which - for those of you who also like to get pissy, in other chauvinist directions - is not the same thing as making an incorrect decision.

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social. Take, for instance, the purchase of PPE equipment during Covid via the so-called VIP lane...

No child is 'evil'. In fact, in contrast, such simplistic essentialism (such as believing anything, including any kind of person can be inherently ‘evil’) is a pathetically childish conception of the world that has no business anywhere near politics.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

One of the things we tend to overlook is just how many of the population of the original colonists were from areas modern eyes consider German (just look at the origins of the food culture), but that the (eventual) administrstion and politics was done primarily in English (and somewhat in French).

Call me old-fashioned, but the first necessary condition for the observation of a ceasefire is to cease firing.

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

God if the outcome of all this is a discovery that a specific type of black mold makes you a weird bigot I'm gonna have a hearty chuckle then fill my pockets with stones and walk into a lake. We are now living in the mold age. The mildew years. The roaring fungis.