Sirprised

80% of the Reform UK political donations came from individuals or companies based abroad. Some might not be legal. People not permanently resident in the UK or paying taxes subverting UK politics. What have they been promised in return? Political donations are bribes, must be banned.

Psssttttt..... Burnham hasn't removed the standard charges. He has just added them to the Unit Price. It will save an earth shattering 86p a week for some.

The errors caused by AI in processing asylum claims have been shown to be far higher than the Home Office's claims, somewhere around a quarter. For many people that can be a life of death decision. AI has no place determining that for people. www.wired.com/story/uk-hom...

The holographic doc has spoken y’all

Three-quarters of the responses to the 2023 UK govt consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated. 90,835 of the 118,756 responses were by bots. Corporations have a new tool for subverting polices and public opinion; to increase profits, spread addiction, health hazards.

As of today... Andy Burnham has been PM twice as long as Liz Truss was... something to ponder

Now this is a lot more cheerful day for the #StarTrek family. Happy birthday! I think he's got one or two more series of Trek in him, and I'd love to see those appearances. (Stargate, too, y'know.) And if Mr. Picardo gets to advertise The Planetary Society, too, I wouldn't complain.

Nasty bug

HSBC quarterly pre-tax profits surge 32% to $9.6bn (£7.14bn). Banks receive bailouts, subsidies, pay measly return to savers, hike charges, rely on the state as lender of the last resort but threaten retaliation if taxed. Must levy windfall tax.

It's ridiculous that CEOs require millions of dollars in compensation when most employees under them are living paycheck to paycheck. So many problems in this world are caused by greed.

NONSENSE JULIAN!! The environmental controls are simply MALFUNCTIONING! Yes, they’re creating dense fog, and yes, it only seems to be happening wherever I’m standing, but that is NO REASON to waste your valuable TIME working on “developing a vampire vaccine” whatever THAT means ha ha ha

Perspective

Rest in Peace Eric Bauza thank you for your contribution to Lower decks ❤️😭😭

Turbolift doors open...

Haven’t seen anyone point out that, for the Ghost Rider announcement, Ryan Gosling was dressed like James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause (a movie where James Dean does not ride a motorcycle), which also means Gosling was dressed as Philip J. Fry.

Insolvency scam The boss of twice-bust business back despite £3m debts. These people gut a company, HMRC and creditors not paid. Then buy assets cheaply from the administrator in pre-packs, and back in business. Gone on for decades. No transparency of administrator dealings. No investigation.

Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds. No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations. archive.ph/lj45s

If you happen to find yourself in London over the next few days, you can spy some of the critters from the Discworld Bestiary in the window of Waterstones Piccadilly 🦀🦋

Absolutely 💯 Agree…..

Decades of hard-won progress erased in a few short years by a handful of politicians & newspaper editors who figured that non-stop screeching about asylum seekers and trans people was the only way to maintain electoral consent for perma-austerity while every part of the state visibly rots.

Andy Burnham has traded our future for Jackdaw Gas Field. Stand with Carla Denyer and the Green Party: only a transition to renewables can save our climate and economy.

This seems like a bad thing to me. Obviously it's bad because it's X but I'm just thinking in terms of microfinancing the worst of humanity

🤨 From Viz 😂

Just a reminder for Elon et al

the creation of a damn

Nigel Farage’s attack on the RNLI and co is a new low even for this bottom-feeder. He wants to prosecute anyone who saves lives of people that he doesn't like. Desperate Farage diverts attention from investigations by pledging laws that can't work. archive.ph/5UYnG/

Which would be great, but doesn't change that he currently presides over a government pushing the most racist and hostile anti-immigration policies in decades. This will play well with some, but does not change that this government is fundamentally anti-immigration. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

Posting this again coz i made it and think its hilarious: