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youtube interface for ‘we’re going to ibiza!’ by the vengaboys, but the upvote button has failed to load in, meaning there is only a downvote button
Thames Water announces hosepipe [sic] affecting 16m people
lain Duncan Smith asks Mahmood to press social media companies to tackle 'violent' language lain Duncan Smith, Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, describes Widdecombe's death as a tragedy and says she was a "force of nature". She embodied something else, he says: "The passion that is necessary in this chamber for us to make our arguments without fear of any other person doing something to us." He says Mahmood needs to press social media companies into tackling the "violent, visceral" language that is being used on social media, which he says is the "root of violence and death". He adds that "we will not accept being shut down, being stopped from our duties, or being silenced in any way, because that is what Ann would have approved of".
Mexico fans fail in bid to wake up England players
lame duck prime minister keir starmer stands behind a lectern ironically proclaiming ‘stronger fairer britain’ while making a speech about how he’s going to yeet fifteen billion pounds out of other budgets to serve up as a bung for the ministry of defence while pointing to his right and making a facial expression that suggests he’s addressing an elephant in the room
Sasha tells the BBC it's been a challenge to manage her diabetes in the heat, while cherry grower Richard says the warmer weather has made fruit picking easier
Keir Starmer announces his resignation as prime minister and leader of Labour Party
‘Signs grow that Starmer will resign as government mood shifts’ followed by two images of middle aged centrists with pretty much identical faces and slightly different shades of Just For Men
Cropping of the above causing it to now read ‘The UK’s third-largest supermarket chain is investing in a bid to arrest a customer’
Prof Sir John Curtice writes: There appears to have been two key foundations to Burnham's success. First, he managed to persuade many of those who voted for the party in 2024 to return to the fola. Polls published last weekend suggest that four in five of those who backed Labour two years ago voted yesterday voted for Burnham. Second, as the polls also anticipated, Burnham seemingly benefited from a squeeze on the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats and the Greens. They won just 3% of the vote between them, down 19 points on 2024.
the god awful ‘pyramid theory of terrorism’ from the department for education but instead of the final stage being ‘attack’ it is now ‘becoming a furry’ and the entire pyramid is now labelled ‘the pyramid theory of becoming a furry’
the haunted piece of rancid gammon we have as a prime minister looks at a camera while his hands, kind of formed into fists, touch together with the thumbs positioned over each other, as if he’s about to do one potato two potato or something idk
‘ Iran's leadership is trying to present its emerging memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the US not as a retreat, but as the result of resistance and victory. That is not an easy argument to make.’
vekic 6-0 7-6 raducanu but formatted to form a 67
‘a tech tycoon and controversial figure: Who is Elon Musk?’
‘Inquest to examine if police response contributed to Henry Nowak death’
BBC: ‘Since Dr No first introduced audiences to 007 in 1962, each era has redefined the character.’
some bbc talking head being incredibly tedious: ‘ A big sigh and a shake of the head from Green MP Hannah Spencer, as the PM answers her question on whether MPs should be allowed to "drink on the job" with an attack on her party leader. Another Westminster custom the new MP is having to get used to...’
A short time ago we heard from former Health Secretary Wes Streeting, who threw his support behind Andy Burnham's Wesminster[sic] bid. It comes a day after Streeting - a potential challenger in any contest for No 10 - penned a near-1,000 word letter announcing his resignation from cabinet. Here are some key excerpts:
Kevin Peachey, cost of living correspondent: ‘ Where were you when the King announced the government would pass laws to enact a previously-announced 10-year strategy to streamline regulation and boost financial services?’
Labour's backbench parliamentary committee blocked from seeing PM, BBC understands Chris Mason Political editor The group asked to see him, as it is their job to represent the views of backbenchers - but No 10 refused. The committee is made up of around half a dozen MPs and some peers, elected by the Parliamentary Labour Party. It usually meets weekly with the prime minister when he is in Westminster.
Starmer plans reboot - but how long will MPs give him?
screenshot of a bbc news rolling coverage post: “The reassuring thing is that people don’t really hate Labour… they hate him.” It's a reference, of course, to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. That quote is the verdict of a Labour MP who is not usually critical of the PM, in an area which went heavily to Reform UK. One of his colleagues said Starmer himself was the main issue on the doorstep, while a left-wing Labour MP tells the BBC the message from Yorkshire voters was: "It’s curtains for Keir." A senior Labour figure also tells me: "Everyone in Wales is saying this is all Starmer’s fault." The party is expected to lose power and come third in the race for the Senedd, or Welsh Parliament. Starmer’s repeated assertion in his interview this morning that he wouldn’t walk away from the job, they say, "had gone down very, very badly" - and had potentially put his leadership in more danger as a result. And I am told Labour’s "red wall" group of MPs – who are largely in seats where Reform is the main challenger – will be meeting on Wednesday to discuss next moves. So far they haven’t been openly critical of the Starmer leadership, but the electoral position looks stark in their Midlands and northern English seats. But who would replace Starmer is far from settled, and those close to Downing Street say he will "hunker down" and resist any attempt to oust him.
the windows 3.x hotdog stand theme
Zack Polanski’s bluesky feed with two reposted quotes of his ‘Protect our Green Spaces, vote Green on Thursday!’ post from two hours ago, which is a 2:27 long video, and one of the posts is a Greens branch saying ‘ We agree - the south coast is beautiful. Vote Green on Thursday for the only party fully dedicated to investing in our environment and communities. No vested interests, no dodgy donors. Local councillors working hard for a better planet’
Prof Tony Travers says the Greens have capitalised on voters' concern with the cost of living. "The Greens don't really talk about the environment now," he says.
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‘ Responding to the government's victory in blocking a Privileges Committee investigation, a No 10 spokesperson says: "This Labour government is delivering for Britain including bringing down energy bills, cutting hospital waiting lists and lifting half a million children out of poverty.’
Starmer again repeats that he was not being informed about the Foreign Office going against the vetting service's recommendations - which he calls a "very serious error of judgement" He adds: "Nothing is going to distract me from delivering for our country."
New charity to remember Queen Elizabeth [II] 100 years since her birth
The concerns about Mythos exceed any previous Al model - however some cyber-security experts have questioned how justified they are, especially given the model has not been tested by the wider industry to see how capable it actually is. The UK's Al Security Institute has been given access to a preview version of it, and has published the only independent report into the model's cyber- security skills. Its researchers noted that it was a powerful tool able to find many security holes in undefended environments, but suggested Mythos was not dramatically better than Claude's predecessor, Opus 4.
‘Starmer to speak after return from Gulf region’, replete with picture of the rakefinder general looking as ham-faced as ever
‘ Reading this makes me glad I went to school in the 70s. We had a proper two course meal prepared on the premises that morning. Not something chucked in an oven or nuked in a microwave or something approaching the mush airlines dish up. Kids deserve better’
‘This conflict will define us for a generation’, says the ham faced premier of Normal Island at the end of a pointless trip to the Gulf, replete with a picture of his sad saggy face gawking at a camera mouth agape as if he’s again forgotten how to enable human mode
Build Faster with AI at IBM Dev Day: Bob Edition
‘No matter how victorious Iran portrays themselves in state media, it is in a very weak position’
more HyperZoo screen recordings. Now, when the guard that's pacing across the prison cells that form the game environment gets to the end of the block, the player character's cellmate visibly runs towards a hole in the adjoining wall, cuing the player into the fact that they can talk to the cellmate.
a finger pointing accusatively at a box of Marks and Spencer Milk and Choco Hazelnut Pillows
the cover flow for Laminar Flow by Roy Orbison, featuring the famously sunglasses-wearing, hair-slicked singer standing, hands vaguely on hips, wearing a shiny black leather jacket open halfway to reveal a disconcertingly clean-shaven chest. He’s wearing a bangle with ‘ROY’ on it and looking unusually misproportioned as if his head has been pasted onto someone else’s body
footage of the game creation system I'm working on. this time, the player is again in a prison cell, and is waiting for a guard that is patrolling past the cells so they can talk through a hole in the wall. the guard is stopping at every cell and looking up and down. as soon as the guard gets to the last cell in the block, the player checks the hole and is rewarded with (a placeholder text dialog saying they've received) a screwdriver.
‘Reality for many Israelis is a new state of “perma-war”’
A video of some crude, prototype gameplay (of sorts) from HyperZoo, the game creation system thingy I've been working on. The player character, a cyan cat, picks up a gun from inside its prison cell, leaves, and chases after a green sunglasses-wearing guard aimlessly and slowly shambling away. Eventually the cat catches up to the guard and walks in front of them, only to be pushed out of the way. The cat runs around the guard, then tries to shoot them, but has no ammo and has to go back to the cell to pick some up. The cat then shoots the guard, with no visible effect. Finally, the cat goes and pushes a yellow box Sokoban-style out of a neighbouring cell and uses it to block a fixed gun emplacement further down a corridor, only to then sit in front of another one and allow themself to get shot repeatedly. A game over screen appears.
BBC article: ‘Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a sick note over mental health concerns’
An ‘advertisement’ on tvtropes, but it’s entirely in Farsi. The top has a green-white-red gradient not unlike the colours of the Iranian flag. Below that is the seal of Mossad, then some Farsi, then the silhouette of what looks like a flag-waving crowd, presumably meant to connote a revolution. Below that, in English: ‘Tired of seeing ads? Subscribe!’
‘Despite this, Starmer says he understands that voters are “frustrated” and “impatient for change”. He adds: “I will keep on fighting for those people for as long as I’ve got breath in my body.”’
A final thought that will be part of the conversation in the hours and days after this by election - the suggestion of significant "family voting" as it is known. The group Democracy Volunteers reported what it called "concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton" - which it defines as "where two voters either confer, collude or direct each other on voting". Manchester City Council insisted "no such issues" were reported by its staff at polling stations.
that one sussy af water vending machine from half life 2, with ‘Dr Breen’s Private Reserve’ written on it
‘BBC INDEPTH: Death of the sex drive - and the great debate over whether testosterone can help get it back’. Headline comes with a stock photo of what looks at first glance to be a cisgender heterosexual couple in bed facing away from each other
two ‘Moo Free’ vegan chocolate bars: a blue ‘choccy bar’ featuring a ‘leader’ mascot called Hammy Hamster, and a yellow ‘bunny comb’ bar featuring an ‘invento’ mascot called Mikey Bunny. The shades of blue and yellow are somewhat evocative of the fur colours of Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles ‘Tails’ Prower respectively
Weather today: 70% chance of rain, lows of 6°C, highs of 7°C; this data is arranged in the weather app so as to make the numbers 6 and 7 perilously close to each other in a horizontal line
BBC live news page headline: ‘[Keir] Starmer meets cabinet as ministers warned not to publish their own [Peter] Mandelson messages’
A screenshot of a 2D work-in-progress game where a bright cyan cat, the player character, stands in the middle of a retro-looking and presently extremely empty prison made up of 8 pixel by 8 pixel tiles, and looks towards a small stream of comically oversized bullets that they have just shot towards the far wall. A heads up display at the top of the screen informs us they have 89 ammo remaining.
Information board for the 11:36 CrossCountry service to Edinburgh Waverley, which has been terminated at Newcastle and is cancelled at Morpeth, Berwick, and Edinburgh. A helpful note says this service is formed of 4 coaches, and a diagram below that makes clear that two of them (coaches F and C, of which F is marked as wheelchair-friendly) are very full (red-coloured). The bicycle coach D is nearly full (yellow-coloured), and the only coach to have decent capacity (green-coloured) is first-class coach A. The train is, however, on time.
A screenshot from the MS-DOS point and click adventure game ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’. The player has clicked the ‘Quit’ button on a death screen, causing the game to say ‘Game over player one’ and ‘BE VIGILANT’.
'Stranger Things' Music Supervisor Says Finale Lands a Needle Drop Fans Won't Expect (Exclusive)
BBC News: ‘The King’s message tops Christmas Day TV ratings’
BBC News headline: ‘Venezuela says Trump wants its oil. But is that the real US goal?’
BBC News headline: ‘Life being stressful is not an illness’ - GPs on mental health over-diagnosis