Reposted by Faux BrummellTim Morton @timmorton2.bsky.social · 17hThis is what the #ClimateCrisis looks like in Bangkok www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comBangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakesWith 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia 011
Faux Brummell @shodanalexm.bsky.social · 16hWhatever you think of the argument presented here, the BTL comments are instructive. In large part they set aside housing policy issues in favour of fueling an anti-immigration binfire. I usually enjoy FT comments because you get plenty of intelligent & thoughtful contributions. But here, wowsers! 000
Faux Brummell @shodanalexm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Is this actually newsworthy? "Costs company some money lo try to work out why the product it created with little regard for safety keeps doing irresponsible and disruptive things" 000
Reposted by Faux BrummellMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football. 2684085928
Reposted by Faux BrummellSam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026On my growing gloom about booksspectator.comThe real reason kids are giving up readingEven popular books are getting shorter and easier to read: their sentences are shorter, their paragraphs are shorter 81311
Reposted by Faux BrummellTHE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026NEW Stewart Lee column The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles. The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say - seems beyond us www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le... 12400152
Reposted by Faux BrummellBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We underestimate how much MAGA hostility and policy insanity comes from the fact that Trump people literally do not understand how things work 1322838
Reposted by Faux BrummellMatt Severn @mattsevern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is so true and also, we are a free country not a centrally planned economy, the government shouldn’t be dictating what people study or what jobs they have afterwards. Let people live their own lives! 094
Reposted by Faux BrummellRachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I am STILL redrafting my paper on AI safety and yesterday I wrote a small section on why long and boring documents are a safety risk - tbh it seems more likely to me that the way AI will expedite the end of the world is because the important point got buried at the end of page 72 and no one read it 510116
Faux Brummell @shodanalexm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Oh I see it's "emails from random universities around the world asking me to say nice things about them for the QS rankings" season again. Seems to start earlier every year. 010
Reposted by Faux BrummellTony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The BBC would then interview an expert asking 'does the attacker have a point? Should the state be whacking Tanita over the head instead?' 65817
Faux Brummell @shodanalexm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That Braverman tweet is very odd. If she actually believes that then it mainly suggests that she has a very tortured relationship with her own identity and that she has no idea about the history of England. The number of people who can point to centuries of "pure" English ancestry must be tiny. 000
Reposted by Faux BrummellGravekeeper Failure 🪦 @ptrtlrwrts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Me when Ed Davey announces another brainless economic policy: 0203
Reposted by Faux BrummellLiam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country. 261491236
Reposted by Faux BrummellDianne Bancroft @diannebancroft.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is a helpful thread bsky.app/profile/asho... 092
Reposted by Faux BrummellJay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026genuinely is shabana mahmood alive? do we have a home secretary? are there laws? is this the purge from the movie the purge? is crime now legal? can we shit on the street? can we ransack an m&s? is this just a fucking free for all? 28523
Reposted by Faux BrummellResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 22/09/2026The gap between rates of Local Housing Allowance and prevailing private rents is close to a record high. Read how the government can fix it 👇️ buff.ly/tmfEAWh 085
Reposted by Faux BrummellStephen Hunsaker @hunsaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Local Housing Allowance, the cap on housing support that helps 1.9 million low-income private renting families, has been frozen since April 2024. Rents haven't. The gap between rents and support hits a record this October. Our new spotlight shows why the Budget should end the freeze 🧵 11516
Reposted by Faux BrummellHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0... 813540
Reposted by Faux BrummellTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We're so lucky that British politicians foresaw this risk in 2010 so didn't take that path. Oh wait.... 710338
Reposted by Faux BrummellJohn Barnes @slowcookedgoose.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Quick, someone call the RNLI....oh. 0116
Reposted by Faux BrummellRoger Burrows @rogerjburrows.bsky.social · 20/09/2026www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comAlgorithmic risk and social housing access in EnglandAcross England’s housing system, decisions about access to a home are increasingly mediated by algorithmic risk profiling and, in a small minority of cases, open banking. Social housing is often im... 001
Reposted by Faux BrummellCarrie Ghose @carrieghose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is the format I prefer, and this is the best explanation I've seen of the Skynet freak out: 0113
Reposted by Faux BrummellSteve Chambers @planningtransport.co.uk · 20/09/2026Like someone has sat down to think of a bad policy Labour might announce and work out ways to make it even worse. 1194
Reposted by Faux BrummellJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has. 651942447
Reposted by Faux BrummellMax Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 19/09/2026WOW As reported by @libertyhq.bsky.social, five police forces; Leicestershire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire, under the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU), are to stop using Palantir's nectar. Huge news. libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/pal...libertyinvestigates.org.ukRevealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool - Liberty InvestigatesPalantir’s UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot 316640
Reposted by Faux BrummellTechnology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"Are you selling me a solution or a dependency?" is a question I think more people should ask. 4639401077
Reposted by Faux BrummellWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comWhat is LinkedIn?The rise of mindful slop 1616555
Reposted by Faux BrummellTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026And yet she can't persuade her own colleagues and government to get the eff off X 🙄 1021751
Reposted by Faux BrummellJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428101169
Reposted by Faux BrummellSteve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s unsustainable for the population of the world to spend their Friday nights trying to work out if the US president is invading Greenland, is so stupid he’s been re-sold an existing deal, has hallucinated an entirely new treaty, or has become confused and misunderstood events. 24010
Reposted by Faux BrummellJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...404media.co‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions." 401523709
Reposted by Faux BrummellJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 18/09/2026It is incredibly important that political violence does not succeed. The far-right mob that shut down Portsmouth wanted this outcome. If the state wishes to avoid more of these actions, it needs to make sure this RNLI branch reopens *immediately*, or as close to that as humanly possible. 411206369
Reposted by Faux BrummellThe Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Seriously it’s so fucked up that Donald Trump is just out here with a sledgehammer pounding away at load bearing supports for how the world works on a day to day basis and some media elites are still like “the real danger is woke.” 515428
Reposted by Faux BrummellSimon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This week's post: Racism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns' mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/09/raci... The encouragement of violence against opponents by senior Reform politicians suggests they have the potential to become a fascist party. Perhaps we should call Reform proto-fascists.mainlymacro.blogspot.comRacism and xenophobia are not 'legitimate concerns'.During the 2010 election campaign, Prime Minister Gordon Brown was questioned by a member of the public about immigration. Shortly afterwa... 35727
Reposted by Faux BrummellSam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Finally made the panopticon described in Foucault's great work Don't Make the Panopticon 3219
Reposted by Faux BrummellJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have. 1525238
Reposted by Faux BrummellJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026What on earth is happening? 23833121339
Reposted by Faux BrummellSir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"I want nothing in return for my £36m. It's a philanthropic gift to the country!" Also... 412052
Reposted by Faux BrummellSteven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It is motivated by the idea that if you’re not with us, you’re against us, which means that once they’ve dealt with the refugees they’re coming for you. 24110
Reposted by Faux BrummellAmanda Forsyth @pedaltrill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Faintly astonished this evening to hear on the Radio 3 bulletin at 6pm the RNLI referred to as 'traitors' - with no-one asked to explain that it is impossible for a charity to remain such if its purpose is traitorous. Hate speech on the Beeb is not what we need. 173
Reposted by Faux BrummellRick @flipchartrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026“The BBC lost its reporting sea-legs with Brexit.” Excellent thread. 39524
Faux Brummell @shodanalexm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It feels like these sorts of stories - of Russian provocateurs seeking to foment societal division - ought to be bigger news ... 020
Reposted by Faux BrummellLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I mean, seriously. A lot of liberal Britain, minorities, and I would expect the majority of people of conservative temperament who want order and respect institutions are feeling abandoned by politicians and the media. I know I am. 26815