Severin Carrell

Help me with something, UK Bluesky? Can anyone please explain why we cannot see Alex Gibney’s Musk documentary in any UK cinemas? (The BFI screening notwithstanding). Obrigado 🤷🏽‍♂️👋🏾

AOC Tidies Up In Case Federal Agents Stop By For Raid

'In the 1960s, Britain's higher education sector underwent a revolution as the number of universities more than doubled and access to degree courses was widened - and as part of that revolution, the University of Bradford, which is now celebrating its 60th anniversary, was founded.'

The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report published in October. n.pr/4BDLa8y

Jonathan Powell’s The New Machiavelli may be the shrewdest of the New Labour era memoirs, but *hands down* the best Trotsky reference belongs to Jack Straw. ✍️ www.linestotake.com/p/fit-for-pu...

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Statement from Overseas Press Club of America: opcofamerica.org/pressfreedom...

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

"Virtually every news organization has at least one Meta business account." buff.ly/DjxUV6U

Netflix to lay off about 1,000 employees in biggest cuts since 2022

The family of the 23-year-old man with a history of mental illness asked people, including the U.S. president, to stop posting footage of the mauling that led to his death. trib.al/Dkn4bb1

Make a war film rubbish Apparently Now

It’s Christmas at Sainsbury’s in Edinburgh - Bonne Maman at 0.7p per kilo Hurry while stocks last…

RESIDENTS: “Please do something about the parking round here, it’s a tragedy waiting to happen” COUNCIL: “Aye, leave it with us” ~~~ one year later, there are double yellow lines and everyone has parking tickets ~~~ RESIDENTS: “NO NOT THAT”

Nicolas Cage says he’s “probably not” working with Amazon again after refusing to sign AI waiver for “Spider-Noir”: ‘I am not an AI-friendly actor’

who amongst us could have predicted this etc etc

More fire, more crime, more death and a globally important ecosystem driven ever more rapidly towards a point of no return. That’s the prospect for the Amazon rainforest if Flávio Bolsonaro wins Brazil’s election My take www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This is a small thing, but it was very cool and classy of BBC’s cop drama Blue Light to use Bulbs, a classic from Van Morrison’s under-rated Veedon Fleece, as it’s curtain-fall soundtrack. I like.

Meta, TikTok, X challenge UK watchdog over online safety data demands reut.rs/47AtuN7

The AI minister has used AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company to test public opinion on AI and other issues The model is trained on data from real-life focus groups

Those Pro-Trump TV ads? Funded with money approved for Customs & Border Protection, per official & GOP senator. Susan Collins says it's from the big beautiful bill, not appropriations. Wise move? Jim Justice: "Well, if that's exactly what happened, probably not." www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

I'm going to tell you a story and then, at the end, I'm going to ask you if anyone happens to have the niche knowledge I need to help... The story begins, as so many of my stories do, in an ancient church in the middle of a city. But it's not now. And it's not hundreds of years ago. It's the 1960's

Nine white men and one white woman?

Having led a campaign for proper continuous segregated bike lanes on Leith Walk a long time ago, it's very pleasing to read this. Build bike lanes and they will come... Who knew? www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

There will effectively be no TV coverage of Trump's UN visit or other presidential events, though I imagine smaller networks may take the White House's own feed. This is a very big deal and one only possible because of solidarity from the whole pool. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Wow. A big deal and I am impressed with Fox and CBS for sticking with the pack here

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

The fact that very few highly educated people support Donald Trump shows just how biased our educational system has become.

🌤️  Good morning Edinburgh. It’s the 1,000th edition! The headlines: Uni staff plan 5-week walkout, culture groups win 25% funding boost, Leith Walk has more bikes than cars + 135 artists open their homes ⏰ Read more in Edinburgh’s ad-free local newsletter: www.edinburghminute.com/the-edinburg...

From a @robertshrimsley.bsky.social column on how mega-donors obscure the wider threats to British democracy www.ft.com/content/f270...

Great news. Boots has opened theirs too 🎄🤶😢

Carrots were originally purple, white, yellow, and red. The orange carrots we know today became popular after Dutch farmers selectively bred them in the 16th–17th centuries. Original post

It is Friday 11 September Argos has “officially opened” its Christmas shop Three months and 14 days before Christmas

Chatting just now with local Kent winegrower at farmer's market. This year's grapes are "smaller than peas" - not going to bother to harvest. What did he think of politicians saying 'hey enjoy your English sparkling wine thanks to climate change'? "Fucking morons."

On the JLP / Reform polling scandal - and the papers that are implicated: "The polls are not presented as something specially created for this one (fake) rich family. How many other polls were published in similar circumstances, but involving real [secret funders] rather than fake ones?"

No arrests. When environmentalists block roads to protest about climate change, they are prosecuted and jailed. When masked fascists do it to promote race hate, they are allowed to go home without a fuss. How about that for two-tier policing?

Investigations launched into polling firm at centre of Reform UK allegations

RIP 1.5

It's not often you can pinpoint real, positive change a journalist has caused. But as Turkmeni sources state, @dpcarrington.bsky.social's persistent and probing coverage of this issue has been critical to a change of policy, with massive implications. Big congrats www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Man, 41, dies after large sign falls at Christian festival in West Sussex

Police Scotland 101 service labelled “radically unfit for purpose” amid two-hour waits MORE than 40% of callers to Police Scotland’s non-emergency 101 line are abandoning their calls due to severe delays, a residents' association has warned....

Statement from the Guardian NUJ chapel on the death of professor Jason Arday

using the original work and labour of human experts - i.e. Claude is a parasite

Aaargh astroNOMICAL

People with Meta glasses can look directly at it. You’ll be totally fine. Have a good old gawk