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Oof, just watched the first episode of S3 of shrinking, think the Paul storyline might cut too close to the bone this season

At least we didn't all lose our minds and inflict ten years of the Tories on ourselves in order to eventually try and sneak a watered down version of the 2019 Labour manifesto back in and hope nobody notices and asks awkward questions.

A suggested statement for Andy Burnham.

What a bonkers statistic as.ft.com/r/3b0a9bd3-a...

Hard to overstate the consternation, and indeed anger, around this. Brian Cox: "These devastating and irreversible cuts are a legacy from a series of hasty and ill-considered decisions taken by UKRI, overseen by a government department that no longer exists."

Earlier this year UKRI launched a funding call to invest £40M in ONE AI lab. www.ukri.org/opportunity/... For some unknown reason they decided to fund TWO AI labs at the cost of £60M. An extra £20M. Just found. That's the equivalent of 7 more years of Jodrell Bank. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-la...

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Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

Little known to many, on the 10th June, the government released the interim report on ADHD and neurodiversity services in the UK. It came out to very little fanfare. Why? Because it doesn't match the government & the press narrative on "an epidemic of neurodiversity diagnoses".

Oh fuck off wordle

Did you know the PlayStation buttons were meant to represent this? They definitely missed that mark 😆 If you don't know me, I'm Peebs. I work in the gaming industry and share retro and contemporary games here, and I definitely should have known this years ago #VideoGames #RetroGaming #PlayStation

Endlessly fascinated by the way the owners of this house down my street have left it fully furnished while ripping the entire front off it to renovate. It looks like we’re living in the fucking Blitz

Octopus mug. Just listed. Hand-built stoneware. Surly.etsy.com

I would REALLY like to see the cat road collisions petition actually get somewhere this time. Two weeks left to get it over the 100k line so ministers can't just shrug and go "nah that's just for dogs" as they have previously. Please sign and share:

Matthew Lillard criticized the industry for prioritizing celebrities over voice actors in animation: “The ability to carry a film, as the lead of a film with only a voice, is a power very few people have. The idea that they keep hiring crappy celebrities to carry huge films is killing us.”

If we’d done net zero 16 years ago when interest rates were 0.0001% we’d be insulated from fossil fuel spikes from wars but those of us suggesting this at the time were “looney left LGBT Islamofascists”

Next month! I'm doing my intro comedy writing course again! Learn where to get inspiration and how to hone your ideas. And its on a Sunday this time, which seems to work best for people :) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-c...

Author of this thinks nobody reads Pratchett any more because most of his readers have blocked her.

This guy's really going to raw-dog a two-year Mars mission

I was responsible for this (it was literally my idea while I was Product Manager for Media Playout at the BBC) and it is still my proudest achievement ever

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Reform don't actually want to govern.

UK: "So long as it's not a trans teen, we're all fine with it - do whatever you like."

This is really grim, and depressing that I guessed one of them was going to be the only one who's named. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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There’s a brutal truth here about how the british press unified to side with foreign genocidal white supremacists against the domestic anti-racist movement and it cannot ever be acknowledged, for reasons that should be pretty clear.

Labour HQ: what do you want from us?! Potential Labour voters: well, voting reform for one... Labour HQ: we're ALREADY voting Reform FFS, nothing pleases you people

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

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crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house