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Instant nightmare sci-fi story about people celebrating surviving a nuclear blast only to find themselves toppling down a cliff and trapped door down in rising seawater.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nuclear bunker in East Yorkshire at mercy of sea after collapsing
The brick building, on the East Yorkshire coast, is now sitting at the foot of a collapsed cliff.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Instant nightmare sci-fi story about people celebrating surviving a nuclear blast only to find themselves toppling down a cliff and trapped door down in rising seawater.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Can't imagine what the Trump administration would want with this data that required an executive order for US control of Tiktok..
🚨This is the new TikTok Privacy Policy I found on Reddit. Read it & pass this on. Looks like they can pull from USER CONTENT race, religious beliefs, mental/physical health diagnosis, sex life, status as transgender, citizenship/immigration status & more personal info.
January 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Can't imagine what the Trump administration would want with this data that required an executive order for US control of Tiktok..
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British education in a nutshell
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
British education in a nutshell
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The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
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A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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cool name why’s it called that
January 19, 2026 at 2:25 PM
cool name why’s it called that
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As Pratchett said:
January 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
As Pratchett said:
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TV/podcast pitch - Marvel's What If multiverse series but what would happen if Vince Clarke never left Depeche Mode, Stephen Tintin Duffy never got replaced by Simon LeBon, etc
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
TV/podcast pitch - Marvel's What If multiverse series but what would happen if Vince Clarke never left Depeche Mode, Stephen Tintin Duffy never got replaced by Simon LeBon, etc
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So that’s our wingnut MPs and our horrific, utterly poisonous newspapers now sending the message loud and clear: if anyone at all defies us on our crackpot hate campaigns, we will *fucking end you*. Let’s see how this works out for the lads, and let a thousand Beergates bloom.
West Midlands police chief steps down after row over Maccabi Tel Aviv fans ban
Craig Guildford’s retirement comes after inquiry found force used ‘exaggerated and untrue’ intelligence to justify ban
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:12 PM
So that’s our wingnut MPs and our horrific, utterly poisonous newspapers now sending the message loud and clear: if anyone at all defies us on our crackpot hate campaigns, we will *fucking end you*. Let’s see how this works out for the lads, and let a thousand Beergates bloom.
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Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
January 15, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
“A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles”
BELGIAN WHISTLES
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Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Neil Coyle, MP for Bermondsey & Old Southwark, didn't mess about in a letter to Farage explaining Parliamentary procedure...
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If you cared about teenagers' mental health, you'd be campaigning for more skate-parks and cycle-paths, subsidised music courses and access to sports-centres, rather than moaning about smartphones.
January 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
If you cared about teenagers' mental health, you'd be campaigning for more skate-parks and cycle-paths, subsidised music courses and access to sports-centres, rather than moaning about smartphones.
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This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
January 12, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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I wonder how many people who voted NEW NEW Labour at last election expected what we have now got. Even some of their MPs seem to have been taken by surprise
January 12, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I wonder how many people who voted NEW NEW Labour at last election expected what we have now got. Even some of their MPs seem to have been taken by surprise
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The creation of CSAM on X is unrelated to whether children use the site or not. So what Badenoch appears to be arguing is that only adults should be allowed to look at CSAM. She’s also implying that that it’s rather judgy and illiberal of the govt to “not like” a CSAM generator
Kemi going to bat for the non-consensual, violent, child porn app formerly known as X.
January 12, 2026 at 9:02 PM
The creation of CSAM on X is unrelated to whether children use the site or not. So what Badenoch appears to be arguing is that only adults should be allowed to look at CSAM. She’s also implying that that it’s rather judgy and illiberal of the govt to “not like” a CSAM generator
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spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 PM
spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
January 8, 2026 at 6:11 PM
If you see this, post a vampire that isn't Dracula.
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If AI can only create pictures based on libraries that have been deliberately fed into it, how is Elon Musk's Grok generating child abuse images, and why aren't the police storming the offices and seizing their computers?
January 8, 2026 at 6:14 PM
If AI can only create pictures based on libraries that have been deliberately fed into it, how is Elon Musk's Grok generating child abuse images, and why aren't the police storming the offices and seizing their computers?
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Like, I appreciate this is all quite tricky, but it doesn’t feel like the big smart strategy brains are directing things, does it.
January 7, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Like, I appreciate this is all quite tricky, but it doesn’t feel like the big smart strategy brains are directing things, does it.
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So we’re helping America to seize a Russian oil tanker and are facilitating the flow of US weapons to be used on civilians in the Gaza Strip, in the hope that America will support us against Russia and we can convince them to not invade Greenland? Have I got that right
January 7, 2026 at 7:04 PM
So we’re helping America to seize a Russian oil tanker and are facilitating the flow of US weapons to be used on civilians in the Gaza Strip, in the hope that America will support us against Russia and we can convince them to not invade Greenland? Have I got that right
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On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action.
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
January 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action.
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.
Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.
When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?
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The "appear in Sherlock and not being a transphobic piece of shit" challenge.
Martin Freeman the actor who played Bilbo Baggins and was in The Office with other famous transphobe Ricky Gervais donated to Graham Linehan's legal fund to be let off bullying a trans child and threatening trans people with violence.
Also generally a piece of shit.
thedirect.com/article/mart...
Also generally a piece of shit.
thedirect.com/article/mart...
January 7, 2026 at 9:42 PM
The "appear in Sherlock and not being a transphobic piece of shit" challenge.
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Elon Musk in June 2025 tweeting that Trump is a peadophile vs Elon Musk in January 2026 having to pretend Grok isn't a peadophile robot that he literally owns and has to pay millions per day for.
January 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Elon Musk in June 2025 tweeting that Trump is a peadophile vs Elon Musk in January 2026 having to pretend Grok isn't a peadophile robot that he literally owns and has to pay millions per day for.
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Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.
Even if nobody wants to take action against Musk for building a CSAM generator, there are people using it who are based in the UK and those prompts are absolutely something that would get you on the sex offender's register. Absolutely no justification not to try to identify and prosecute users.
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.