Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13hEvery now and then, when people say stupid things about socialism, I have to roll out these lines from Arthur Lewis, on what socialists want. 1218267
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialStan Kelly @kartoonistkelly.bsky.social · 17hNew York State declares a “Measles Emergency”* (*Latest Fad) Thankfully, help is on it’s way ... @theonion.com @governor.ny.gov 1137757
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 12/12/2025FINALLY GOT IT! I've taken well over 100,000 pelican pictures, maybe 200,000. Over 20,000 the past month alone. Today, I snagged "The One That Got Away" In my infinite optimism, I give you, a very rare: Fish success story. 🪶 772429598
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialJacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I wrote a sonnet about SF people increasingly conflating RSI with foom. 1216
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialUnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.northsky.social · 04/10/2026My GP recommends swimming for my back. I want to go. There are 2 communal changing rooms. Labour say I should use the mens. I am a visibly female woman with a GRC. If I use the mens there's a serious risk of me being confronted and worse. So where do I go? I don't. I'm segregated from society. 726880
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Yeah it's definitely more Lib Dem coded. Greggs for Tories might be.... Bill's? 000
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...prospect.orgThe City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American ProspectIn Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation. 192236792
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It has basically reinvented software engineering. 010
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If you are a software engineer claude code is basically a massive producticity enhancer you can use to do tons of things. Results may vary in other domains. 010
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That could change if the BBC and 80% of Britain's newspaper spend the next 5 years doing for Restore what they did for Reform 010
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18181431773
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just playing with Opus 5.5 for the first time and said to myself "let's see if this one it has that dog" thanks to @colin-fraser.net for the new addition to LLM vocab 000
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.social✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026fish are friends 363572993
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 29/09/2026To be fair, Great Britain is sort of on the outskirts of Manchester 000
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034097
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What does this even mean? Why wait? They have a huge majority? How many people will die, or go bankrupt in that time?? 46512
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I just saw a film about the AI-enabled apocalypse. Only it's not science fiction. It's not even in the future. It's in the present. The film is called NAZA. See it. @theguardian.com @us.theguardian.com youtu.be/98xLCdc7t7Eyoutu.beApocalypse is hereYouTube video by Naomi Klein 12420150
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guardian reports Rayner's continued defence of migrants care workers from in Cabinet. Seems to have won that argument for care workers with No 10 + Home Office Big unknown: will anyone protect 250k non-care workers (chefs, vets, architects) from being thrown out www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comAngela Rayner stands by attack on care worker visa reforms ahead of Labour conferenceHousing secretary says Home Office moved goalposts with ‘disruptive’ change to permanent residence rules 16365116
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 26/09/2026What earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slept in the lap of social labor?centralbylines.co.ukM&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed foodOne jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint 611226
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialSid Lowe @sidlowe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Did you guess it? I don’t know how! Heeeeere’s Lamine. The boy’s a bit special www.theguardian.com/football/202...theguardian.comLamine Yamal: ‘Football is mechanised but players like me have that special spark’The Spain and Barcelona wonderkid has won the World Cup and European Championship but tells Sid Lowe there are no limits for his career 1297
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBrian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 24/09/2026I wrote about British hatstheringer.comEight Burning Questions About the Fight to Ban British Guard HatsAn extremely important deep dive into one of the world’s most pressing problems: the big, fuzzy hats at Buckingham Palace 1110614
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialBertha Mason @thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Two tier policing. Victoria Thomas Bowen, who chucked a milkshake at Farage, was given a 13-week jail sentence, suspended for 12 months; had to pay him £150 compensation; had to complete 120 hours of unpaid work and pay £450 in court costs. It was nowhere near the level of violence of this assault. 8236126
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Canola oil is literally just rapeseed oil? Is this some MAHA anti seed oil thing? 270
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Much gratitude to Usman for his kind words. He's a fantastic writer himself, one I've read as a fellow South Asian (our governments & ethnonationalists may hate each other, but the people of our countries are joined by history and culture) for a long time now. I'm so excited for his debut novel:penguinrandomhouse.comA Dark and Narrow House by Usman T. Malik: 9798217043910 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books"Some writers go a step past, into the darkness, but that step past is just a starting point for Usman T. Malik . . . Follow his voice. If you dare." —Stephen Graham Jones, bestselling author of... 17331
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli 5256191274
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 24/09/20264 coffees (a giant pourover and a double shot espresso drink, so I'm counting this as 4 standard units of caffeine 260
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026#TBT to this from 2012 in honour of Michael Gove starring as an invasion-battling leader in Sky's new show The Wargame. If you don't know what or who this comic is about... just count yourself lucky and scroll on, no worries. 29532101
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not Swansea (that's in south Wales), Bangor or Anglesey in the North are the most Welsh / British parts of Wales / Britain 050
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They also made him sleep on the floor of a holding cell. With the bullet in his back. And no pain medication. They also failed to provide medical care after they shot him. People need to go to prison for this. 381819678
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think it's more an 'assimilation into Englishness is good' argument, which was settled consensus till very recently 0120
ronit-b.bsky.social @ronit-b.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Computer goes "beep boop number crunch the answer is 'I think and feel the answer is not only an integer, it's around 9'" The nested quotation is what's confusing 120
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position 4031410315
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Look, if this isn't a crime we've failed. 923246
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW BRAIN DROPPEDmed.stanford.eduHuman brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research findsStanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more. 232600780
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845992954
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty 3035891147
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialMusa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The Left absolutely smoked the AfD in Berlin my goodness 😭😭 my heart! 1945589
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Oh I see you think this has nothing to do with you 7646169
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialNathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Apparently more than one outlet has been doing the bizarre "interview AI generated actor Tilly Norwood" thing and on Piers Morgan it glitches out and starts speaking Chinese. I promise its much, much funnier than it sounds. 3429985
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Dan's bang on, here. I've seen almost no international criticism, outcry or expressions of solidarity over Erdoğan's latest brutal crackdown on Turkey's LGBTQ community 313298
Reposted by @ronit-b.bsky.socialPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 354163144192
![[Opening scene is WESTMINSTER, LONDON. Over Downing Street a huge ALIEN SPACECRAFT hovers, silent, still, filling the whole sky a la Independence Day].
[Cut to INSIDE 10 DOWNING STREET. The (then) prime Minister DAVID CAMERON is looking out of his office window at the ship.]
VOICE FROM OFF-SCENE, BEHIND CAMERON:
Prime Minister…
CAMERON [addressing the person behind him, still keeping his eyes fixed ahead in dread at the spaceship]:
Yes?
[We see the speaker is MICHAEL GOVE, then Education Secretary]:
GOVE:
Let me do it.
CAMERON:
For God's sake, Michael, you're the Education Secretary! You've never flown a fighter plane in your life!
GOVE:
But I know I could do it, David. I could fly a fighter plane into the big space- ship...
...and shoot all the aliens.
CAMERON:
But you have no military training!
GOVE:
David
I haven't told you this, but...
I used to be a journalist. For The Times.
[Cameron reacts, turning to look at Gove with awe and respect, as if only now truly seeing him for the first time].
GOVE:
I wrote two articles about planes, David.
I've got strong opinions about aliens.
I know I can do this job.
[Cut to a title card panel]:
AND SO:
[Then cut again to Cameron on the roof of Number 10, watching a Michael Gove pilot a fighter jet up towards the spacecraft, and then completely miss it, careering towards Earth, as Cameron buries his face in his hands].
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