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Everyone in the world can see that Trump was being racist about Khan, except his own party leader.
He's every craven "suck up, piss down" line-manager you've ever hated. And somehow he's Prime Minister.
He's every craven "suck up, piss down" line-manager you've ever hated. And somehow he's Prime Minister.
Asked repeatedly about Donald Trump calling Sadiq Khan "disgusting" and suggesting that he was only elected because of immigrants, Keir Starmer's spokesman says only that the PM has a "strong relationship" with the President which has "yielded positive results for this country"
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Everyone in the world can see that Trump was being racist about Khan, except his own party leader.
He's every craven "suck up, piss down" line-manager you've ever hated. And somehow he's Prime Minister.
He's every craven "suck up, piss down" line-manager you've ever hated. And somehow he's Prime Minister.
This is a fantastic piece. The Register helped make me the computer person I am today.
In one of the lead features from Issue 26, Tamlin Magee remembers his father, Michael Magee, the man who brought Tantra to the UK.
www.the-fence.com/father-of-li...
www.the-fence.com/father-of-li...
Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, His Name Chaos
The Arcane Magical Order of the Knights of Shambhala
www.the-fence.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This is a fantastic piece. The Register helped make me the computer person I am today.
well there's my earworm for the next month/year sorted
All I Want For Christmas Is You (BRLLNT Edit), by BRLLNT
from the album Christmas Pack
brllnt.bandcamp.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
well there's my earworm for the next month/year sorted
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If JKR is willing to destroy every women's and girls' organisation and institution in this country in her crusade against trans rights, make her fucking do it. Call her bluff. Full juridicial kamikaze. Show everyone how much these ghouls really care about women's and girls' spaces.
All these statements being made with "utmost regret and sadness" fundamentally don't change the fact that these organisations are all folding to appease one vexatious bigot because she has infinite money, instead of doing the right thing and sticking by their guns and ignoring the Supreme Court.
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
If JKR is willing to destroy every women's and girls' organisation and institution in this country in her crusade against trans rights, make her fucking do it. Call her bluff. Full juridicial kamikaze. Show everyone how much these ghouls really care about women's and girls' spaces.
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
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What more is there to say on this topic
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Thames Water half-year profit leaps to nearly £400m after it raises bills by third
Revenues jumped 40% to nearly £2bn after debt-ridden utility hiked water bills sharply in April
Thames Water has reported a leap in half-year profits to £386m after bills rose by nearly a third, even as it warned it faced huge funding uncertainties that could result in a rapid collapse into government control.
Britain’s biggest water company on Wednesday said it had swung into profit for the six months to September, after losing £230m in the same period in 2024. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
What more is there to say on this topic
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Personally I love it when economists come out and admit that profit comes from exploitation.
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Personally I love it when economists come out and admit that profit comes from exploitation.
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This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
December 1, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad
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Labour party today:
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Labour party today:
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
- Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine
- Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects
- Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases
That’s just today
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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Andy Burnham: fucking useless
Burnham on Mahmood’s immigration plans…
Tell me again how his ‘radical realism’ is going to save the Labour Party?
Tell me again how his ‘radical realism’ is going to save the Labour Party?
November 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Andy Burnham: fucking useless
Yep I was trying to find this today and it's very tricky
Does anyone else remember Starmer's statement that "whatever the government decides to do, we will support it" during COVID? Seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. I can't find it on a google search but I do see a "some results may have been removed under data protection law" notification.
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Yep I was trying to find this today and it's very tricky
What was Starmer saying about it
Who could possibly have predicted Boris would be an unsuitable PM during Covid?
November 21, 2025 at 6:22 AM
What was Starmer saying about it
Literally received my first entirely copilot generated mail in work today. It was wrong or irrelevant and we got sheepish reply from the person when we tore it's response to shreds. What a fucking waste of everyone's time that was.
Not the biggest takeaway here but it’s clear that ChatGPT is basically eroding critical thinking skills for upper/middle management types
Suncoast Searchlight's four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.
by @andrewdeck.bsky.social
by @andrewdeck.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Literally received my first entirely copilot generated mail in work today. It was wrong or irrelevant and we got sheepish reply from the person when we tore it's response to shreds. What a fucking waste of everyone's time that was.
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Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.
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Even setting aside that AI is bullshit, I do wish Microsoft (and Apple tbh) would realise the ideal "OS experience" is to launch software and get out of the way. If they think an "agentic AI researcher" would be useful, fine, stick it in the Microsoft Store for $30 and see if the market agrees.
Microsoft is turning Windows 11 into an "agentic OS." It's starting with AI agents on the taskbar, as well as some underlying changes to the Windows platform. Microsoft is betting on these changes for the future of Windows. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/821948/...
Microsoft is turning Windows into an ‘agentic OS,’ starting with the taskbar
AI agents are coming to the Windows taskbar.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Even setting aside that AI is bullshit, I do wish Microsoft (and Apple tbh) would realise the ideal "OS experience" is to launch software and get out of the way. If they think an "agentic AI researcher" would be useful, fine, stick it in the Microsoft Store for $30 and see if the market agrees.
Was out playing records until late last night and got pissed but switched to alcohol free and gluten free beer at about midnight and I feel great even after 3 hours sleep?
Feel like I've cracked a code.
Feel like I've cracked a code.
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Was out playing records until late last night and got pissed but switched to alcohol free and gluten free beer at about midnight and I feel great even after 3 hours sleep?
Feel like I've cracked a code.
Feel like I've cracked a code.
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Bristol people who like a dance, me and my mates are at The Plough tonight playing music til late. Come and say hello.
Bang To Rights With The Boogie Truckers
Find tickets & information for Bang To Rights With The Boogie Truckers. happening at The Plough Inn, Bristol, EN on Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 09:00 am GMT. Register or Buy Tickets, Price information.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Bristol people who like a dance, me and my mates are at The Plough tonight playing music til late. Come and say hello.
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Turns out you CAN tax the rich after all, and all the people who've spent the last few decades telling us it's impossible and/or counterproductive were just straight-up lying.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Turns out you CAN tax the rich after all, and all the people who've spent the last few decades telling us it's impossible and/or counterproductive were just straight-up lying.
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Same energy?
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Same energy?
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Wes Streeting looks like Pinocchio if, instead of becoming a real boy, he’d turned into an Assistant Manager at a branch of Currys.
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Wes Streeting looks like Pinocchio if, instead of becoming a real boy, he’d turned into an Assistant Manager at a branch of Currys.
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The fact that Larry Summers was so proud of his "tee-hee I said something naughty and got away with it" that he bragged about it to Jeffrey Epstein gives us the synthesis of pedocon theory and everyone-is-twelve theory
November 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The fact that Larry Summers was so proud of his "tee-hee I said something naughty and got away with it" that he bragged about it to Jeffrey Epstein gives us the synthesis of pedocon theory and everyone-is-twelve theory