Carsten Timmermann

ctimmermann.bsky.social

18 October 2026 11:53

Just catching up on the week's events: so it's now a statement of fact to say that the Democratic Unionist Party was led by a child rapist. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Rachel Greenham

strangenoises.org

18 October 2026 11:52

the counterpoint to that is that it seems everyone knows AI isn't very good at the stuff they're very knowledgeable about, but still somehow think it's good at everything else.

alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social

18 October 2026 11:49

Israeli settler militants have attacked EU diplomats, a French mayor and the archbishop of Cambrai in the occupied West Bank, injuring three people, in the latest violent attempt to prevent Palestinians from harvesting olives on their own land www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... #BenjaminNetanyahu

Farrukh

implausibleblog.bsky.social

18 October 2026 11:47

Left: Conservative Helen Whately criticised Labour for 174,000 young people unemployed under Labour, suggesting they have the policies to fix it Right: But under the Conservatives, there were 872,000 young people unemployed, because of, wait for it, Conservative policy

Prem Sikka

premnsikka.bsky.social

18 October 2026 11:46

Bank of England governor walks out of IMF summit in protest against Russia. Sanctimonious tokenism. UK trades and its Crown Dependencies & Overseas Territories trade with Russia. EU buys uranium from Russia. US buying Russian diesel. Sanctions undermined from within. Need different strategies