Jon Thomson

Thursday is a paid holiday. Because Flavor Flav said so.

As an aside, I hope whoever came up with this strapline for the poster *specifically for London Transport* got to take the rest of the day off.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/4BlW1Uh

The reason the BL has empty desks is that the cyberattack has reduced people’s access abilities and pushed researchers away from the institution. (Not helped by their mad ebook-only policies around new book acquisitions, etc). If only the UK had a culture secretary.

If the UK and France can't or won't hold the line against a Victor Orban Secretary-General bid, they should give up their Permanent Seats on the Security Council. No shame in no longer being globally relevant, but if it really has gotten that bad it would be humiliating to keep pretending.

The challenge for the UK and France will be using their veto to block this, because it will heighten the debate about whether either of them should still be UNSC members. By tradition, they almost never use their veto these days, and def not against the US, but Orban as UNSG is intolerable.

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Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.

I'm sure Microsoft offering voluntary exit to a quarter of its workforce is not a sign of anything bad

I absolutely love the photos in this. www.londoncentric.media/p/oxford-str...

It’s a lovely segment. The last one on the show. A propmaker brings the stuff he made for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with his late wife. It’s rather glorious. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

He destroyed his country, maybe they want him to destroy the UN as well?

The BBC’s constant tendency to play down or ignore the true nature of the far right is a major contributor to its growth

France is looking ungovernable. And it’s going to get worse - as.ft.com/r/10c61c6b-9...

some of the hysteria here seems to ignore the fact that this is *optional*? if it looks like it will damage local tourism, mayors can just... not do it! they can change their minds!

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

If this story is half true then a Democrat run House is going to have a field day.

In England, no women aged 20 to 24 died of cervical cancer between 2020 and 2024, according to a study published in The Lancet. Researchers link it to the HPV vaccine.

holy shit this is actually brilliant

As someone who runs a small business and for some reason pays my taxes…. Today’s “red tape” cut to company paperwork makes no real difference to me or my ability/desire to expand. As someone who investigates small business high street tax evasion… great news for candy stores and scam dropshippers!

Good to see this picking up traction outside AJ - this guy pretty clearly belongs in prison, and Tory politicians who have supported him should be asked to comment on it.

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan

Nottingham hospitals has declared a critical incident today with 200 patients in A&E and 100 waiting to be seen:

tl;dr This is an absolutely ginormous fuckup and the responsible parties should never be allowed to act as a certificate authority again.

This is the equivalent of using 1234 for your password, except your password secures literally all global e-commerce and is normally supposed to be chosen at random and be this big: 31832700169735930486659207037706679099202979016310284783875258586013626900837880493447041982236493707568989247759544

How much blood do we think is on Musk's hands at this point?

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

*Boring historian voice* “welcome to the Long Pandemic Era”

Trump oligarch Mark Zuckerberg has suspended the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of the national day of action.

No. British people in their 70s and 80s did not fight in the Second World War. If you’re 89 you were born in 1937. You might just barely remember the blitz.

Zelenskyy says Starlink restrictions REMAIN in Ukraine, crippling interceptor drones and military operations. He says Ukraine has evidence the restrictions are DELIBERATE after testing Starlink systems in the EU, where they worked perfectly at speeds that cause connections to fail inside Ukraine.

Yes, we definitely need to cut welfare costs.

This is like something from a crime novel. Criminals bought lots of the very secure USB-like Ledger devices which are used for password storage, added their own password reading components and then put them back into circulation. They then hacked them all in one go www.ft.com/content/70f6...

(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter. @reuters.com 🇺🇦 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Oh yeah I'm supposed to link to the newsletter to drive traffic and stuff that's how social promo works, bollocks, lots of news in here: www.londoncentric.media/p/prince-cha...

The Prince Charles Cinema Secures its Future The Prince Charles Cinema is thrilled to announce that we have signed a new 25-year lease with no break clause, ensuring our projectors will keep rolling for years to come. #YouSavedthePCC

Then there are the private lawyers these guys’ families hire. A past Korean prime minister’s grandson is of one of Cornell’s accused—Winston Lee. Lee’s lawyer, Teny Geragos, helped clear Diddy on sex trafficking charges. Her dad, also a lawyer, kept Chris Brown out if jail for beating Rihanna.

A Reform councillor has been recorded calling for King Charles to be decapitated because he “is a Muslim”, while another one said of Asian people: “drag out of their homes, stick them on planes and **** them off to Pakistan.” It’s part of an undercover investigation by ITV Exposure

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads