Rodger Kibble

O brave new world, that has such people in it 😕

So it has come to this

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Disconcerting to learn that the "biggest TV show on the planet" is something I've never seen and am barely aware of

This has made my day 😂

With Agnès Varda's 'Cleo from 5 to 7' on BBC Four tonight, and Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' next Saturday, it's almost like the golden days of BBC2's 'World Cinema' have returned. Bravo, BBC. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

ADAM JOHNSON: “The raid on @repilhan’s home has thus far received zero of the above media interventions. No editorials, no opinion columns in the Times, Post, or Journal…” theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...

So it has come to this: JRM as the voice of calm reason 😲

Trump goes full tankie

When Anthropic's software—designed, programmed, prompted, and activated by humans working for Anthropic—does stuff the humans failed to predict, stop saying the software has "gone rogue.” The software does not have agency. Only the humans do.

Reading On Time by @jimalkhalili.bsky.social I realise that the reason head hair goes grey first is that according to general relativity, time runs faster further from the ground (is that right?)

Please make it stop

YCNMIU

O brave new world, that has such people in it 😕

What fresh hell is this

So it has come to this

Here's a funny thing - the "Conference Special" page in the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social doesn't mention the @greenparty.org.uk whose conference took place last weekend I suppose it must have been even less eventful than the Lib Dems?

@inmice.bsky.social

"AI isn't coming for you and probably isn't going to look like the Terminator" so here's a picture of something that's not going to happen Thanks, @newscientist.com

Boris Johnson, one for the "where are they now" files Used to be a big shot iirc

“Pissport to Piddington”

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

Military age young men invading our coastal towns (Lifted from @privateeyenews.bsky.social )

"You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: 'Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags!'"

Jimmy Reid, the one-time Communist activist, trade union organiser and Scottish national treasure, once related that he was reading Catch-22 in hospital and was laughing so much that the nurses took it off him, fearing he could burst his stitches

@secondmentions.com "vitamin C rich fruit"

After the sack of Nineveh in 612 BCE, the clay tablets making up the Epic of Gilgamesh lay scattered on the floors of the royal palaces for nearly 2,500 years

" ... and his name is remembered in no tale; for he himself had forgotten it, and said 'I am the Mouth of Sauron'"

Those left wing agitators at the Financial Times are at it again 🤣

BBC news coverage of Trump's oil deal with the quisling Rodriguez fails to mention any impact on climate change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔴 Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are ‘Unsafe’ Due to Asylum Seekers Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford “are safe” and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals

“We [the Irish] don’t do suave as a personality trait. Pierce Brosnan was a one-off, and no one really knows how it happened. And it seems to have come at the cost of his ability to sing.” Look, I said a mildly witty thing at dinner yesterday, and I want to extend its half-life. Just work with me.

So frustrating to read a non-fiction book without an index. I've noticed journalists are particularly prone to this sin of omission. I'm sure even periodicals used to regularly publish an index to their issues from the past year or so

Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Grateful Dead Rolling Stones Jefferson Starship Country Joe Fairport Convention Waterson/Carthy Terry Riley Sonny Rollins Ravi Shankar Melanie Safka

"Stars and Stripes retains its editorial independence and is congressionally mandated to be governed by First Amendment principles, but it is part of the Pentagon’s Defense Media Activity." Read more at: www.stripes.com/help/miscell... Source - Stars and Stripes

TIL that M John Harrison used to write a Jerry Cornelius strip for the International Times

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels

REVIEW: Hookland Fragments – Volume One by David Southwell tasker.land/2026/08/13/r... CC @hookland.bsky.social

... plus it's the same month in 2002 that Blair is told that a 5 degree rise in average temperatures for south-east England is likely because of climate change:

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

"Maar in 1976 was het ook een warme zomer!" (Vrij naar Noah Karl post op X, maar dan voor NL en dan echt alleen voor de zomers). #Klimaat