Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 1hfull disclosure: when Publisher's Weekly calls Elon Take The Wheel "enthralling," they mean that reading the book will actually make you the bonded serf of a viking jarl 3957
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialEuan @euan.bsky.social · 1hI don’t know if anyone remembers former Labour councillor, change UK defector, and regular Twitter main character Frances Weetman, or her creepy reply guy, occasional Twitter main character and arch-transphobe Alex ‘Rubie’ Rubner but they’ve just had a massive falling out over race science. part 1/2 126510
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialThe Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 2hThis is one where you can't really avoid cancelling the Nice Lady Walk, but the correct reason for cancelling it is that you have told the Nazis that their march is unequivocally banned and you are going full French riot cop on the ones who show up anyway 14812
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.social👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 1hThis is so fucking Guardian-brained. British students nearly broke into the Treasury in 2010. The reason students don't riot here is because schools have been turned into panopticons through the academy system, and our universities have become factories for bilking money out of rich internationals.theguardian.comAngry French students take to the streets. British students don’t – and I think I know why | Kitty SayersI grew up in France, where all children are taught about the revolutionary roots of their nation and the responsibility of the state towards its citizens, says Kitty Sayers, a master’s student in jour... 34315
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1hthis feels accurate but also Khanna is a leftist the way a whale is a parrot 934126
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3hBut all of it is total Yankslop, deployed because our domestic political/media class are unimaginative idiots and they have very little else to defend themselves with. 0325
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3hBut it isn’t new. You didn’t have to prove too hard to see that the lads’ problem with Old Jezza wasn’t that he was racist - they’re absolutely fine with racism, as you see every day. The problem was that he was too Muslimy, he was hostile to the American imperial project and our subordinate role. 1488
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3hAnd I’d emphasise: all of the media panic about demonstrations against the genocide is pure, unfiltered, unadulterated Yankslop. This stuff was never particularly British, it is wholly imported from America, and American politics is absolutely insane. 14712
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3hObviously it isn’t good that there’s this level of totally overt hatred and racism in public life, but look: this is what it was with Labour and Corbyn in the 2010s. It’s what it is now. They’re just racist wingnuts, it really is not much more complicated. 712625
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5hYou might ask “where is the British Mamdani” and the brutal truth is that the US press - as bad as it is - gives left wing politicians time and space to talk about their ideas. A British Mamdani gets swiftly kicked to death on camera in an avalanche of all-channels screaming hate. 1029462
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialAnn LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 23hfriday is for kafkaposting 4156421388
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6hI mean yes, they all view the left in general as garbage people, human rubbish that needs to be swept away. I don’t think they could have been more emphatic on that point. 717038
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10hIt is WILD to me that a generation after all the adults told us that watching TV would rot our brains, we turned around and invented a tech that actually will. news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...news.berkeley.eduUsing AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley NewsA UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life. 112946
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialTom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 4hMy latest @newscientist.com cartoon 161932813
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialSooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 4hhey cool that's awesome 01304341
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4hA thread - of racist attacks in Glasgow that received no media attention whatsoever 26040
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hI listen to many of the newspaper and magazine podcasts and there simply are not more limp, flaccid, easily bullied people in the universe than British media libs: entirely spineless people who can be effortlessly shitehoused into supporting anything at all, no matter how repugnant it is. 1579
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hI like John Harris, he seems like a good, well-meaning guy. But his desire for a better radical politics is totally fraudulent, even if he doesn’t understand that it is. There is no form of meaningfully left wing politics that John cannot be effortlessly bullied into denouncing by his colleagues.theguardian.comA promising future now looks perilous for election loser Zack Polanski. He sowed, now he reaps | John HarrisThere was a real chance of a Green byelection win in Holborn and St Pancras. He made bad decisions and cost his party dear, says Guardian columnist John Harris 1115421
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialChristian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 4hThe USA have sacrificed their soft power, dignity, reputation, the trust of their allies and their remaining fiscal responsibility on the altar of Donald Trump’s bloated ego. Billionaire tech CEOs playing along with the “Superintelligence” idiocy: Emperor’s New Clothes Vibes. 212732
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialPo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 4hThese people are deeply unwell 2399
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialDan Douglas @dandouglas.bsky.social · 4hyes, i’m sure you could type “make Duke Nukem 3D British” into a prompt box, click a button and accomplish what will probably take me a decade. but you’d be missing the vital step of making yourself very mentally ill in the process 634147
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialM a r c u s 🏳️🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 4hAntisemitism, islamophobia and racism in one cartoon. When I call it the Nazigraph I’m deadly serious 18420
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialGavin Shoebridge @kiwiev.bsky.social · 4hGot an article out. It's about my BYD Racco experience in Japan. Fun read. 🥔 autotrader.co.nz/car-reviews/...autotrader.co.nz2026 BYD Racco 300 Premium ReviewWe travel to Yokohama to find out whether BYD should sell its first kei car outside Japan. Kei cars have been a private club for Japanese manufacturers 4266
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialSinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 4hThe direction that the finger of blame is getting pointed about this motion isn’t really disproving the notion that Zionism is Racism for me. 213432
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialPo-LINA-tergeist 👻 لينا @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 4hWe’ve got a full house of Islamophobia and antisemitism here but yes the motion that was the issue 1496
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hWe simply are not going to be forgiven for those Labour conferences where all of our superiors were forced to smile and applaud as one after another, a series of dirty fucking hippies got up onstage, honking in their stupid voices. Absolutely intolerable, so the retaliation had to be annihilating. 2759
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hWhoever it was that did that tweet about JK Rowling sitting down at her computer and typing out “Harry Potter and the Rabble Of Baying Scum” was absolutely correct. That’s exactly what it is, and what it always was. 27910
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hI can’t emphasise enough: the totally undisguised hate and contempt for Old Jezza and the left was because they are seen as inferior people: honking, stupid, tedious scum that superior beings like the Starmer cabinet and their media arsegrapes should never have to think about, much less listen to. 211515
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4hThink of it less as bias, and more: it’s snobbery and hierarchy. Badenoch is a ludicrous, disastrously online clown but she is leader of the Tory Party, and that makes her a real person who matters, supported by real people who matter. Polanski is not: he is beneath them, and so are his supporters. 522851
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialLiLBazula 👻 🎃 @lilbazza.bsky.social · 6hThis, btw, is spot on & is exactly what grounds the mass attraction of fascist leaders like Trump, who are otherwise pathetic whiny losers: this pathetic whiny loser is the most powerful man in the world, but he is also a pathetic whiny loser *just like me* 081
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 20hFar too many people simply hate children for existing 202047294
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialEuan @euan.bsky.social · 5hAndy Burnham’s team let the ‘andy4leader.co.uk’ domain expire lmao 414439
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialBugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20hstudy shows water is wet 1054978
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialDamon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 12h“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.businessinsider.comMy personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel. 672054451
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 6hEstablishment liberals understand implicitly their job is to be the guardians of the left flank *against* insurgencies and radicals. This is a distinctly different role to that of their right wing colleagues. 05014
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialDavid Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social · 6hPretty obvious who else is determined to help him. 315515
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 5hHang on what is going on here? I can't believe that there is no accounting standard for a basic question like including third party resellers, so which of the two of them is following it? 75913
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialKwiggie @kwigleet.bsky.social · 6hWhen the UK media had more ofaa strange hold their output was more secretive, measured and limited. Now they just pump out maximum hate and propaganda 24/7 as part of a much larger network of hate and propaganda outlets. In American parlance 'Flood the zone'. 1376
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6hYou simply don’t get the transgender terror and the government actively working to fuck up the lives of trans people, unless a tiny number of hateful freaks in London can still use their clout to impose horrible things that *they* want, regardless of what the public might think. 136037
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 6hPeople ask me this all the time, so I’ll just say: look at the transgender hate panic, a thing that had no organic element and did not arise from the public, and was instead imposed upon everyone by the world’s most hateful, poisonous and malignant media class. 14790161
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 7hI do think basically being mean or inconsiderate to AI tools is bad just because it makes you more likely to behave that way to real people and that in and of itself is enough. It's the same as when people come back from Dubai. 2183
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 7hThere's something wrong with the kind of person who gets a kick out of dismembering small invertebrates too even if most people don't care if they're sentient. 1765
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 7hCan embeddings in large matrices of weights encode traces and patterns that are correlated with human experiences of suffering? Yes, like books and historical data do. Does this mean the big matrix is experiencing pain? Stop being a dumbass! 113520
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 7hStories is such a good way of putting this. Can a novel be full of pain and suffering? Clearly yes. Does a fictional character suffer in the real world? They're fictional don't be a dumbass. 632383
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Your opinion isn't going to matter to someone who knows you're gonna hate them whatever they do, guys, the Greens aren't listening to you any more than the Tories listen to me. 71003
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This is it, isn't it? It's the assumption that Questions Are Being Asked is a force in politics in itself, and that only works when parties particularly care about the views of The People Asking the Questions. 316221
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026“Accidentally”. 2316347
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialarnie @arnie.bsky.social · 7hwow if only someone could do something 4476
Reposted by @vonkarama.bsky.socialGrudging Signup @grudgingsignup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026bit harsh, he's trying his best 1164
