George Potter 🔶

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Something very funny about Trump shattering American power by running out of weapons losing an unpopular war he started for no reason. Like, we all knew this was the final season for the Pax Americana, but that’s a heck of a swerve. Hats off to the writers’ room.

Jack liked the bsky idea because he thought by turning Twitter into a protocol he would be excused from having to do the messy community work that’s the actual hard part of social media - an ethos that almost destroyed bsky in the beginning and still lies at the root of all their bad decisions.

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

The United States was bombing hospitals in Iraq almost ten years ago. What is this imaginary country that people assume this one is that wouldn’t kill innocent people? Everything Israel does, the US has done.

www.hrw.org/news/2016/12...

So is where I feel the need to remind folks that the selective service system still exists.

But in practice, yeah. Super-lazy back-of-the-envelope, holding all of Iran might require c. 600,000 ground troops. (~3x our max Iraq deployment).

But you also need rotations, so 2x or 3x that.

Does feel like quite some overlap between “Mamdani needs to reassure Jews” Dems and “stop whining about Platner’s Nazi tattoo” Dems

Patriotic lectures from someone who makes their money talking down this country hit different when they are delivered from abroad.

Peter Mandelson released from bail conditions Police have decided former minister is not a flight risk, but he remains under investigation

A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide.

The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far.

Meanwhile:

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

@JesseBrown Not seeing this obvious point made elsewhere, so here goes: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers referenced Oct 7th, a day when Jewish men, women and children were brutalized, burned alive, raped and kidnapped, then she immediately said "my heart is with the people of Palestine." This was a heartless and hateful statement. Quote Radheyan Simonpillai @JustSayRad · Mar 4 Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is returning her TFCA award best supporting performance in a Canadian film, following the organization's decision to censor her acceptance speech during Monday night's gala. Here are excerpts from Elle-Máijá's email to the TFCA, shared with permission.

If you subscribe or listen to 'Canadaland' (the biggest "progressive" podcast in the country) please know that it's founder Jesse Brown is actively attacking Indigenous women who speak out against Israel's genocide

Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.

The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.

So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.

"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"

We should never ever forget why they did it

This should terrify everybody - "Shabana Mahmood will consider overhauling medical and legal convention that medical treatment must receive the consent of the individual." [Times]

Surely, SURELY arresting quakers HAS to be a wake up call?
Jesus wept.

As someone who was raised as a registered member of the Religious Society of Friends I do wonder if someone should point out to the Government and the police that arresting Quakers for pursuing peace & nonviolence is only going to encourage Quakers to more fervently pursue peace & nonviolence.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

In Gaza, Israel and Biden normalized war crimes beyond anything we have seen before.

And now, Israel and Trump are using that model against Iranian civilians.

At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

Surprise! The Home Secretary has told another falsehood about her immigration plans

Absolutely right

Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.

They destroy the argument that big tech should be given the country’s creative output for free, and they lay out the case for maintaining and even strengthening existing copyright law to protect creatives from exploitation.

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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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The Rowling Tax - and only women are required to pay it.

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

Honestly the contempt I feel for Dubai 'ex-pats' isn't based on class so much as their willingness to embrace a life of luxury and excess in a society propped up by slavery, exploitation and human rights abuse as though they were living in a JG Ballard novel they refuse to understand

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

They've done multiple replyguy posts to trans reporters defending their awful reporting about trans people, but it looks like they're finally branching out

Reasons a cis women might have Y chromosomes:

- Twin brother
- Gestating a child with a Y chromosome
- Bone marrow transfusion from someone with a Y chromosome
- Being intersex (we know of XY women who have naturally conceived and given birth)

I worked for years on a campaign to end the handcuffing of children in the care system.

This is in breach of the UN convention of the rights of child, and is simply, truly evil, and I don’t use the word lightly.

I'm sure it's a pure coincidence that all the people who Streeting takes 'expert advice' from have an easily discoverable anti-trans bias.