John Shields

"How can we possibly control what happens when this exceedingly dangerous thing does exactly what it's designed to do, and wreaks havoc on society?!?? Thoughts and prayers." Guns, AI, even Tariffs and Fossil Fuels: the world seems hostage to the childlike limitations of an impossibly stupid nation.

The kind of advocacy that many communities should emulate, raising points that many local representatives - everywhere - are well advised to think on. www.youtube.com/shorts/Jil7z...

"The habits of the world's richest person..." Is it ketamine? Is that the habit? www.blinkist.com/magazine/pos...

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This is quite extraordinary. I don't think I have heard a more coherent, articulate and accurate deconstruction & demolition of Nigel Farage's ReformUK, Tory & Restore policy than this. In under 85 seconds! @rafaelbehr.bsky.social is on here folks and worth a follow.

Travel by with a pokice-inspected firearm on LoganAir recently, someone - post security airside - broke in to the locked case. LoganAir are professing this not to be an issue?!

It has taken me months to find a spotlight with a sufficiently narrow beam. But hugely pleased with this!

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There's an office in Moscow where they're betting each other that the next cast to catch the Trumps can/can't be as absurdly easy as the previous one. Yet each time they reel in a fish. The Trump aren't the wolves they're painted as; they're dogs: waive a treat and they sit, stay, fetch, whatever.

🚨Theresa May: "Crypto assets are used by people who want to avoid anybody knowing what they are doing." "And in terms of our democracy and political parties, donations to parties or candidates, we actually want the transparency of knowing who is doing that donation, who is making those donations."

No, Mr Ocado. When I've also ordered guanciale, it should be abundantly clear to the algorithm that Parmigiano Reggiano is *not* an acceptable substitute.

"World's largest metaphor docks in Thailand" youtube.com/shorts/gQhnu...

Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.

A great example of a small local environmental charity, doing the hard yards and - bit by bit, collaborating with communities and other organisations - fundamentally improving a river system. The Deveron, Bogie & Island Rivers Charitable Trust - 25 years old this month. youtu.be/vtHRS_g9mHU?...

"Er, Zesca... How did you get there...?"

Loving that 'benefits' is given quotation marks

"If you aren't building your own bank robbing robot, you're going to be left behind in the new economy."

Are these wildfire alerts going to be going on through the night?

Scotland as always excelling itself in matters celestial observation

Another thing Blade Runner got wrong about the future is the existence of rain.

I’m glad the President has his priorities straight.

Why's that cunt fucking up the moon

Abra pulling off the impressive trick of making it look like she's being eaten

I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet

Zia Yusuf has gone to Ceuta, because what Spain needs most right now is an entitled shit-stirrer wandering around taking selfies.

“I’m glad we live in a country that is deferential to expertise - but at times in the pandemic, that did go too far.” “I’m not sure school closures were a price worth paying.” Lewis on how ‘legitimate questions’ have emerged - and should be asked - about how we handled Covid.

"She's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles," said Donald Trump, in an address this week. There's one award-winning journalist the president is obsessed with, and Jon Sopel reveals how this dates back to Trump's first term in office... www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...

Early morning press conference at the Whitehouse.

My dog has never once so much as glanced at the television, but now seems gripped by Fargo (1996). Maybe it's a good excuse to binge watch Cohen Brothers output. Not sure she's going to be super impressed by humans at the end of it all, dogs not being big on irony. But we'll give it a go.

Trump speaks of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln with Mount Rushmore in the background. “These men could have only been made in the USA,” Trump said. Christ the man's a f*cking idiot. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The USA celebrates its 251st anniversary

The fixed look in Zesca's eyes. A long journey with the children. Like Withnail in the film, she's MAKING TIME

“Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine.”

In celebration of Father's Day I've penned some thoughts for the Hardy Boys: open.substack.com/pub/counselo...

Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

That's £3bn a week for those who like to do their maths on the side of a bus. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Speaking to the surgeon just now, I found out that the new cruciate ligament in my left leg came from an American, aged 18-35. I don't know who he was, or how he died, but it's deeply sobering to think he was at least ten years my junior, and deserved better. I'll raise a glass to him.

Two hours trying to get into my car, and so far all Volvo Assist have contributed is: "Have you tried using the key?" Jfc

Musk really is a leach on society, and the human race really would be quite well served by him just f*cking off to Mars on the first an available rocket.

This really is glorious www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpoh...