Tim

I've been thinking about alien/ai intelligence and something I've not seen explored much in fiction is a different relationship with time. AI agents are either active or waiting. There's no real sense of time passing. No boredom. Respond immediately or the following week. It's all the same to them.

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

Are you a Labour MP (or office staff for same)? Have you been contacted by GB News & asked about my estimates of how (2024) constituencies voted in the EU referendum? Please remember: that was 10 years ago. Some people die, some turn eighteen—& most importantly, some change their mind!

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

The mobilization itself was already not something I ever expected to see, but to actually win? Hell, to double the winning margin from the 2022 runoff? Genuinely surreal. Maybe child raping billionaires *don't* have to run the world with a shit-eating grin. Maybe that can stop.

Serbia! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Brazil! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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"memememeh voting doesn't change anything, I need to have a candidate that's tailored to my beliefs" NO If your election process sucks, CHANGE YOUR ELECTION PROCESS. If you have no good candidate, BE OR FIND THAT CANDIDATE. NO ONE will fit everyone's hearts and minds. Fight for THE COLLECTIVE.

Serbia, and now Brazil. Is that hope in the air?

seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

Trump’s trade wars have made life harder and more expensive for Mainers. Susan Collins enabled this chaos, voted to confirm the people behind it, and now wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put out the fire.

Still ageing like milk

This is welcome and at least ten years too late. The time to fight is when there’s a battle, and not after the enemy has won total crushing victory and laid waste to the land.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Still one of my favs from the last year

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

T’ruah CEO Rabbi Jill Jacobs and 11 other T’ruah-affiliated American rabbis were detained by the Israeli army Wednesday morning while accompanying Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest in the West Bank.

Mensch. End the occupation.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

“My daughter is a liar worthy of public humiliation decades after the fact” vs “my stepdad was a paedophile and my mum covered for him” is easily the most on-the-nose representation of what the dynamic between “estranged parents” and their kids looks like outside the newspapers and in the real world

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$10 million meant for sick kids ended up funding GOP politics under Moody’s watch. I’ve called on everyone involved in the Hope Florida scandal to resign. I want Ashley Moody in jail for her crime. I won’t stop fighting until there’s real accountability.  #AngieForFlorida

I think it's clarifying when they say it out loud. When we say these people prefer fascism to even minor socialism, even as a necessary corrective to fascist overreach, we're told that's just conspiracism. So, here we are, with them saying it out loud. Pin it.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

X and Meta interfering in Brazilian elections. Starlink siding with Russia. That's just this week. It's not a word I use lightly, but we are at war with the tech oligarchs whether we like it or not.

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Update: about 4 hours later and we still don't have admin access so we still can't post to the No Kings instagram account. This isn't slowing down the the 3,000+ early vote events today. We will drive the biggest early vote in history. But this should be a flashing alarm about what's to come.

“They just kept kicking me & kicking me” Jewish @washingtonpost reporter Heidi Levine clubbed, beaten, robbed by Israeli terrorists in the West Bank Protected by the IDF. Funded by 🇺🇸 tax dollars. What will it take? Will this get coverage? (H/T @infinite_jaz @DistillSocial)

More evidence to the fact, that Trump is driving a deeply-rooted pro-Putin agenda. This is not collateral damage of a confused president, this is this presidency's strategic intent in foreign policy.

If the crock of shit juror ever wanted to step forward, I would love to buy them a beer/coffee/ice cream/whatever! I really believe that the grand jurors who, over multiple days refused to indict despite extraordinary pressure from prosecutors are unsung heroes of this whole mess.

It was hard to miss that half the press had *the time of their fucking lives* mobbing, rioting and putting the boot into the Woke black trendies and bluehaired pansexuals, giving way to deep, bitter resentment that this guy killing himself spoiled their fun. Sneaky and unfair, made them look bad.

This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read.

I have already heard from trans constituents who are avoiding essential NHS screening and treatment for fear of being treated without respect and dignity. Ministers told me: “the revised guidance will support the privacy, dignity and safety of all patients” How exactly does this do that?

I was on the telly.

Imagine how much coverage this would get if Gove were Green - or if she were Black

Have had that horrible experience of being asked to change the briefest paragraph in one of my books so a particular foreign publisher could avoid arrest in that country’s massive LGBTQ+ crackdown. I had to decline and therefore not be published - you don’t negotiate with tyrants - but what a world.

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Sometimes you need to give people who've done something fucking idiotic an excuse to change their mind. ESPECIALLY if you warned them it was fucking idiotic. And if it was an emotive choice. you have to decide whether you value them walking it back over catharsis. Applies in work, love or Brexit.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

well done lads, it's 2026 & you've managed to allow the fucking Sun to position itself as slightly less hostile to people who support LGBT+ rights than The Big Supposedly Gay Dancing Show