Luke Parks
@lukeparks.bsky.social
History buff & inactivist. All opinions mine and not those of my employer.
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Stupidity is the flip-side of nasty.
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Stupidity is the flip-side of nasty.
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Those Gen Z bastards with their ‘rights’ & selfish obsession with a healthy work-life balance
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
November 16, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Those Gen Z bastards with their ‘rights’ & selfish obsession with a healthy work-life balance
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
www.msn.com/en-gb/money/...
If the government can ignore these things if they find them convenient, in what way are they rights?
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
If the government can ignore these things if they find them convenient, in what way are they rights?
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Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.
They can seriously fuck right off with this ghoulish uncanny valley shit.
November 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
They can seriously fuck right off with this ghoulish uncanny valley shit.
Oh great - après moi le déluge is now official government policy.
What is truly pathetic about Labour is that this is all they have got. They have failed so spectacularly already, despite a whacking great majority, to even attempt to govern positively that all they have is punching down on marginalised groups and saying "oh but Reform will be worse".
November 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Oh great - après moi le déluge is now official government policy.
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Offering to voluntarily turn yourself into the modern equivalent of a banana republic is a look.
Pretty disconcerting how, ever since she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, this one appears to have devoted her entire time to making pretty demonic statements to rooms full of very rich and predatory Americans
November 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Offering to voluntarily turn yourself into the modern equivalent of a banana republic is a look.
1. How is reducing the thresholds for paying income tax not raising tax?
2. Doesn't reducing the threshold for paying basic rate absolutely clobber low earners in particular?
2. Doesn't reducing the threshold for paying basic rate absolutely clobber low earners in particular?
November 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
1. How is reducing the thresholds for paying income tax not raising tax?
2. Doesn't reducing the threshold for paying basic rate absolutely clobber low earners in particular?
2. Doesn't reducing the threshold for paying basic rate absolutely clobber low earners in particular?
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Thanks - I really needed a laugh.
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thanks - I really needed a laugh.
Also because, à la Richard III and countless others through history, our culture still likes to ascribe bodily deviations from the average to some kind of moral failing.
And from a historical point of view: I think this is such a tempting story, both because many of us want simple answers to complex questions – some kind of “scientific” reason why Hitler did what he did – and because it’s about willies
November 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Also because, à la Richard III and countless others through history, our culture still likes to ascribe bodily deviations from the average to some kind of moral failing.
Also all the journos who went to considerable trouble to finish him off ten years ago and then he becomes PM anyway.
Just imagine the Krakatoa of enraged, flailing bullshit we would get, if it looked like Ed was going to thrash Streeting in a leadership election.
November 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Also all the journos who went to considerable trouble to finish him off ten years ago and then he becomes PM anyway.
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I am obliged to report that when the No 10 spokesman gave this part of the statement there was a brief but heartfelt outbreak of laughter from journalists, one of whom later asked if the PM might thus be interested in a bridge he had to sell.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I am obliged to report that when the No 10 spokesman gave this part of the statement there was a brief but heartfelt outbreak of laughter from journalists, one of whom later asked if the PM might thus be interested in a bridge he had to sell.
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A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.
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Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025.
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025.
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
It's the eternal problem of the Labour right - to them, winning a general election is the end rather than the beginning.
This man won one of the largest majorities in UK electoral history, is a white guy who was a prosecutor and prior to the election was beloved by basically all sections of the press. The fact he's been unable to use any of this to achieve anything is incredible.
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It's the eternal problem of the Labour right - to them, winning a general election is the end rather than the beginning.
Good to see people step up to raise the next generation of emotionally stunted sociopaths.
Tech brains broken part 1000000000 (this lady is a partner at Andreessen apparently)
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Good to see people step up to raise the next generation of emotionally stunted sociopaths.
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
Pour encourager les autres.
Judges set to decide fate of police chief constable guilty of contempt of court
Judges set to decide fate of police chief constable guilty of contempt of court
Exclusive: Ivan Balhatchet, Northamptonshire’s chief constable, could face up to two years in jail or a fine for repeated failure to obey rulings
A police chief constable has been found guilty of contempt of court with judges set to consider whether he should be punished by imprisonment or a fine.
The court of appeal ruled on Tuesday that Northamptonshire police were in contempt and had been “willfully disobedient” for repeatedly failing to obey rulings to hand over video to a woman who complained she had been wrongly arrested by three officers. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Pour encourager les autres.
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Operation Save Big Dog, right on cue
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Operation Save Big Dog, right on cue
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
Also the facile notion that there are only two sides.
Can I just say, as I've seen a few posts along these lines, it's a logical fallacy to suggest that because you're criticised by both sides you must be being neutral or impartial.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Also the facile notion that there are only two sides.
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Can I just say, as I've seen a few posts along these lines, it's a logical fallacy to suggest that because you're criticised by both sides you must be being neutral or impartial.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Can I just say, as I've seen a few posts along these lines, it's a logical fallacy to suggest that because you're criticised by both sides you must be being neutral or impartial.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.
One (or both) sides may be criticising unfairly or in bad faith. Indeed, they very often are.
Please don't do this.