Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 52mAndy Burnham said he inherited his grandmother's drive, and I empathised. I inherited my mum and dad's drive, and we had to make it bigger to fit the Land Rover. 020
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 3hThese men shouldn't be in charge of the tombola at a village fete 000
Reposted by CasmilusLiam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026For my London-based or adjacent followers, I'm speaking at an event marking the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street next Tuesday evening. I'll be reflecting on the history of antisemitism and state racism among other things. Tickets are free!bisa.bbk.ac.ukThe Battle of Cable Street ninety years on: the struggle against fascism and antisemitism, then and now | Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism 01916
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 4hPlot twist: the diesel thieves are American fraudsters who were planning a huge scam to fly back home in a USAF transport while pretending to be returning CIA officers and then flog the fuel in Ohio. 250
Reposted by CasmilusShane Glackin @eltorosolo.bsky.social · 6hIn case people are not fully across the Fairford story: What appears to have happened is that five men from London went to a small country village in the middle of the night to siphon fuel for resale. In small country villages, people notice things, especially at 1am. A farmer called the police. 35035
Reposted by CasmilusMichelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 8hWoman frees a koala who had gotten tangled in a net: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil... 913103541
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 8hDo any British people understand the latest wave of 2nd tier American political squabbling? It's just gibberish now, they might as well be talking about baseball. 100
Reposted by CasmilusGary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 8hLong overdue www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukMet Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPSThe force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72 people. 1279
Reposted by CasmilusJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 8hI accidentally spent £17,700 on 400 subscriptions to the LRB for Home Office staff and now the Life in the UK test is asking applicants to rank Derek Jarman films from most to least emotionally resonant? 123660
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 8hI had a higher opinion of Danny Kruger when I had him mixed up with Patrick Mercer. He was a diminished figure once I realised he was a separate one. 120
Reposted by Casmilushookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 9hWitchcraft is not consolatory hokum. It doesn't offer tepid answers to hard questions and even harsher circumstances. It offers us relationships with the land, its spirits and ourselves. Relationships may be rough and require work, but they get us through. – #EmilyCBanting #WitchSky 324939
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 10hNothing is working in London while Andy and the Westminster crew are all away. 020
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 11hWhy bother changing the name from "AI" if you don't call it "HAL"? 040
Reposted by CasmilusTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 12hTrumpy.politico.euFamily first: Le Pen clan tightens its grip as Bardella hits troubleFrance’s far-right leader is surrounding herself with family and longtime loyalists as her party president faces a damaging new controversy. 092
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 13hIf you were going to do an ethically and aesthetically dubious AI recreation of a classic film star, surely it has to be Brigitte Helm in "Metropolis" costume. What the hell is wrong with these kids today, do they even learn anything at college 030
Reposted by CasmilusAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 19hI'm honored to deliver the 2027 Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh. Across 6 lectures, On Science, Technology, and Social Values, I will work through the claim that what we build and how we put it to use carry commitments about who counts and what matters in collective life cahss.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... 010625
Reposted by CasmilusTyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 23hjohnson talking about trust, honesty, and transparency with a straight face while multiple people behind him low key trip on various drugs 3427
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 23hKeeping himself to himself discontinuednotes.com/2026/09/29/t...discontinuednotes.comThe Killer InsideThis last month we finally got to the end of Prodigal Son, a series that ran 2019-21 and we took nearly as long to get to the end of it, starting early last year. As there aren’t many series … 122
Reposted by CasmilusBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026And Owens helped lead a study that showed that Instacart was using surveillance data to jack up prices by 20% or more based on inferences about your willingness and ability to pay (after the study was published, Instacart promised they'd stop doing it): pluralistic.net/2025/12/11/n...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Instacart reaches into your pocket and lops a third off your dollars (11 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1172
Reposted by CasmilusBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026Owens helped coin the term "the age of recoupment," to describe this current moment in which companies that chased all their competitors out of the market with predatory pricing are now jacking up prices, knowing they're the only game in town: pluralistic.net/2024/07/24/g...pluralistic.netPluralistic: FTC vs surveillance pricing (24 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1183
Reposted by CasmilusBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 29/09/2026It was Katie Wells, a Groundwork fellow, who co-authored the report describing how the apps nurses use to get shiftwork collude with data-brokers to find out how much money nurses owe on their credit cards, so they can pay the most desperate nurses lower wages: pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/l...pluralistic.netPluralistic: Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app (17 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 34418
Reposted by CasmilusBrian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social @briandunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026On this day in 1940, two Avro Anson training airplanes collide in mid-air over Brocklesby, New South Wales, and become stuck together leaving the lower plane's engines running. The pilot of the upper plane manages to make a successful forced landing. All four crewmen survive. 2234
Reposted by CasmilusJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible stuff. 12587149
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Why is the government going after pensioners?" Because they're easier to outrun? 120
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When we were watching the Royal Wedding of 1981 on TV, my gran declared: "The Yanks must be green with envy at all this." In the same way, I expect the American Left are contorted with desire and admiration for the spectacle of UK Labour politics in 2026. 010
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"The Triple Lock" is the title of the 3-parter that starts the new Doctor Who season. On the planet Gerontios, everyone is preserved in old age because of the power of the triple crystal, but the Doctor has to find a way to stop it draining all energy from neighbouring planet Gen-Zee. 020
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The next Half Man Half Biscuit album has just written itself. "Oi Burnham, What About Us" is a fully conceptual work, a symphonic exploration of being a Northern indie band never referenced by Andy Burnham. 140
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is not going to be a tense thriller with Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt. It might yet be a heartwarming British film with Bill Nighy. Richard Curtis has been put on standby. 031
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The only justification for doing a TV drama about Daniel Thomas is that Paddy Considine is a perfect fit to play him. 010
Reposted by CasmilusAndrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world. 92151778
Reposted by CasmilusThe Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 29/09/2026The Fairford incident is dominating the news cycle - and the right-wing. Over the past 48 hours we’ve seen speculation, insinuation and implication attempt turn a serious story about security into one about immigration. This is a long one. Make some tea.bearlypolitics.co.ukA Dissection: The Fairford FannywobbleHow the right-wing commentariat turned an ongoing investigation into a migrant story before the facts were known. 1513264
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So disappointed Burnham missed the chance to do a backref to the Kinnock speech. 221
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The money I had in the 90s isn't there now, so I spend some other money. 020
Reposted by CasmilusIndy @indy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Labour's (and indeed many "independent commentators") inability to trace the roots of our current situation to past actions means we are doomed to keep repeating those foolish actions. 1133
Reposted by CasmilusRob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Now reading: The Assassin (1928) by Liam O’Flaherty I read The Informer (1925) by him last year and absolutely loved it, and so far this is just as good An intimate portrait of a hitman on the streets of Dublin, inspired by real events - the assassination of Kevin O'Higgins a year before #booksky 4193
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A few artisan contrarians will continue to hand-craft their articles in the old way, pretending to have heard something at a dinner party that proves autism is a made-up thing, etc. But editors will realise it doesn't matter whether LLMs can think or feel, they can still write for the Telegraph. 051
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A sign of how fast AI is advancing: an LLM has just submitted an article to Unherd, "Why Blowing Up The World Is Good Not Bad, Actually". This adds the entire staffs of Spiked and The Spectator to the pile of jobs destroyed by AI. 040
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Do you want to blow up the world?" "Yes. Oh fuck, I mean no." [Man with biro writes: 'FAIL'] 020
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I think this is correct, in the same way it was correct that most purchasers of 1980s home computers weren't really interested in writing BASIC programs. They want the tech to be implemented in ready-made tools by someone else. 110
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026We already knew this, but Nigel has reminded us again that he really doesn't have the finely-tuned judgement necessary to be in charge of the Home Office paperclip budget. 030
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A Kind Of Magic discontinuednotes.com/2026/09/28/e...discontinuednotes.comEldritch PalmsLike thousands of other people, I’ve been listening to the new album by The Belbury Poly. Fans of Mark Fisher might say this is the ideal moment for a new burst of hauntology, since we now ha… 110
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Listening to the new Belbury Poly album and frankly I think we can hear the central ideological confusion of the Burnham project from its variable orientation of 1983 electro funk. 010
Reposted by CasmilusBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the Washington Post's tradition of having conservative columnists so boring that nobody even hate-reads them continues 1797085
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Two parts of the government support opposing policies on an issue". - not unusual and why we need as PM someone who is (1) able to be on top of the issue, and (2) capable of making a decision how it should go. Nothing has ever suggested Farage would be any better than Starmer, quite likely worse. 120
Reposted by CasmilusAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The average length of Roman-Persian wars was 7-15 years. The average length of Ottoman-Persian wars was 5-10 years. Forever wars are not the exception, they're the norm. 412033
Reposted by CasmilusBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Final point on this. There’s nothing new to HO wanting lower numbers and HMT wanting higher numbers. Was ever thus (eg May vs Osborne). What is more surprising is that Mahmood never gets asked about this and the relative silence of Govt ministers (other than Rayner) on positive side of immigration. 66321
Casmilus @casmilus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There are 3 lessons of modern history. 1. That thing didn't happen because of the reason you were told. 2. That thing everyone thought was everywhere was actually in decline much earlier and was on the brink of disappearing. 3. Apart from actual monsters, generally "bad" leaders are quite good. 210
