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It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 AM
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
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"a lot of the people we are seeing [with malnutrition] are carers. By the time they've taken care of everyone else, they have nothing left to feed themselves"
Carers in England get £83 a week for "at least" 35 hours of work.
Carers in England get £83 a week for "at least" 35 hours of work.
Rise in number of people in the UK facing hunger, says charity
More than 14.1 million people experienced food insecurity last year, warns the Trussell Trust.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"a lot of the people we are seeing [with malnutrition] are carers. By the time they've taken care of everyone else, they have nothing left to feed themselves"
Carers in England get £83 a week for "at least" 35 hours of work.
Carers in England get £83 a week for "at least" 35 hours of work.
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To quote: ‘Dr Sarah Ruggins, the current outright record holder for riding from John o’ Groats to Land’s End and back.’
She declined the award also
road.cc/content/news...
She declined the award also
road.cc/content/news...
Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of trans women
Cycling UK say the decision was made following legal advice but that the rule change "doesn't alter our commitment to transgender and non-binary people"
road.cc
November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
To quote: ‘Dr Sarah Ruggins, the current outright record holder for riding from John o’ Groats to Land’s End and back.’
She declined the award also
road.cc/content/news...
She declined the award also
road.cc/content/news...
big issue in the 2020 election was that young people's votes are overwhelmingly concentrated in towns and cities, and so proportionally worth less because an urban leftwing candidate winning by 80-90% has half as much power in FPTP as a two rural rightwing candidates winning on 45% each.
The Greens are winning the support of around half of 18 to 24 year olds.
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
Reform are on 5%. So much for young people's turn to the right!
And the Young Greens now have 40,000 members - the biggest youth and students wing in British politics
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
big issue in the 2020 election was that young people's votes are overwhelmingly concentrated in towns and cities, and so proportionally worth less because an urban leftwing candidate winning by 80-90% has half as much power in FPTP as a two rural rightwing candidates winning on 45% each.
I got one of these kind of emails at work once, from someone who wanted to know how to parlay their "research" into the Illuminati into a PhD, and it looked exactly like this description. I am very fascinated by the idea that the the disordered thinking and the presentation style are connected.
The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I got one of these kind of emails at work once, from someone who wanted to know how to parlay their "research" into the Illuminati into a PhD, and it looked exactly like this description. I am very fascinated by the idea that the the disordered thinking and the presentation style are connected.
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One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
One of the things that the “immigration debate” in the UK really reveals is how little people actually know about how other people live. So much of immigration policy fails to work, even on its own terms, because it’s trying to solve problems that mostly exist in peoples heads
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why can they not just fix it
![[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point].
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CUSTOMER:
Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered
2
McDONALDS EMPLOYEE:
Number 187?
CUSTOMER:
Yes
3
CUSTOMER:
Maybe I pressed the wrong thing?
I just ordered one strawberry milkshake.
4
EMPLOYEE:
Oh - yeah sorry
5
EMPLOYEE:
The milkshake machine’s not working.
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EMPLOYEE:
The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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CUSTOMER:
Is that a new flavour?
EMPLOYEE:
Yeah
8
[We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter]
EMPLOYEE:
If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage.
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[Customer looks inside the cup]
10
[Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup]
CUSTOMER:
So there is
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CUSTOMER:
Is that something people want, then?
EMPLOYEE:
No! No, not at all.
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EMPLOYEE:
It just keeps happening when we press banana.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
why can they not just fix it
this is genuinely common sense and the bare minimum required by GDPR!
The only place where anyone's physical sexual characteristics should be officially documented are their medical records where that's relevant to their care. Not on birth certificates, not on driving licences, not on passports, not on government ID of any kind
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 18, 2025 at 5:12 PM
this is genuinely common sense and the bare minimum required by GDPR!
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In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
November 18, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In 2014, 87% of asylum claims were processed within 6 months.
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
At the start of 2017, that figure was still 70%.
By late 2018 it was 26%.
Smoking. Gun.
migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...
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The only way you could believe implementing cruel racist policies will "unite the country" is if a) you don't count non-white people as part of the country and b) you think every white person in the country is cruel and racist
Is that what counts as patriotism these days?
Is that what counts as patriotism these days?
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The only way you could believe implementing cruel racist policies will "unite the country" is if a) you don't count non-white people as part of the country and b) you think every white person in the country is cruel and racist
Is that what counts as patriotism these days?
Is that what counts as patriotism these days?
I am -- slightly irritated by the responses to this. People fleeing war *do* leave their children behind, if they believe they will be safer with relatives than crossing through dangerous routes. Some families send women and children ahead, some send men ahead, some send children, some send adults.
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
I am -- slightly irritated by the responses to this. People fleeing war *do* leave their children behind, if they believe they will be safer with relatives than crossing through dangerous routes. Some families send women and children ahead, some send men ahead, some send children, some send adults.
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Labour's Stella Creasy asks Shabana Mahmood if she will "incarcerate children with their families as part of enforced return, or whether she intends to separate children from their mums and dads"?
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Labour's Stella Creasy asks Shabana Mahmood if she will "incarcerate children with their families as part of enforced return, or whether she intends to separate children from their mums and dads"?
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
Mahmood says she won't separate children, but doesn't say if they will be incarcerated
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Women angry at male violence - as reported in Leeds Other Paper, 45 years ago this month.
#ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
#ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Women angry at male violence - as reported in Leeds Other Paper, 45 years ago this month.
#ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
#ReclaimTheNight #EndViolenceAgainstWomen
every time I accidentally read one of those "six-figure salaries but they don't feel rich" financial advice things, I think the only advice these people need is to widen their social circle.
"The polling of more than 4,000 people suggested that owning a house outright, having more than £1 million in cash savings and earning a six-figure salary were unlikely to make us feel well-off." [Times]
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
every time I accidentally read one of those "six-figure salaries but they don't feel rich" financial advice things, I think the only advice these people need is to widen their social circle.
but I do actually believe this, because as far as I can see there is no other immigration or citizenship policy that doesn’t cause three-year-olds to drown.
We need to push for the most "extreme" versions of things. No immigration rules *at all*, not even a passport check. No citizenship rules. You're here? You're British now.
November 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM
but I do actually believe this, because as far as I can see there is no other immigration or citizenship policy that doesn’t cause three-year-olds to drown.
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
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I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I’ve written another romcom! It’s about two scriptwriters who can’t stop arguing but have to work together to save a TV show. Also there is kissing. I loved writing it and you can pre-order it here! linktr.ee/LoveSceneAnn...
transphobic men are obsessed with the idea that women’s spaces are about us cowering away from male violence and male strength.
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
transphobic men are obsessed with the idea that women’s spaces are about us cowering away from male violence and male strength.
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🚨 BREAKING
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
Today the Scottish Parliament will vote on our motion opposing Rosebank.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
The oil field would release a massive 250 million tonnes of new carbon emissions into our atmosphere, 50 times as much as previously admitted!
We must put people and planet first, not corporate profits.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨 BREAKING
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
The SNP have just blocked our motion, confirming they no longer oppose the Rosebank oil field application.
If Rosebank goes ahead it'll be a grave act of environmental vandalism. This is a huge step backwards for Scotland's climate action.
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I don't expect people whose loved ones have been murdered to have balanced, rational reactions suitable for basing policy and legislation on. I do think it's criminally irresponsible to report their reactions as though they were that, rather than an expression of grief and pain.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I don't expect people whose loved ones have been murdered to have balanced, rational reactions suitable for basing policy and legislation on. I do think it's criminally irresponsible to report their reactions as though they were that, rather than an expression of grief and pain.
general observation: it's been about three months since i cut 7yo's hair short, and I am still surprised every time she's refered to as "he", but it happens about once a week.
November 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
general observation: it's been about three months since i cut 7yo's hair short, and I am still surprised every time she's refered to as "he", but it happens about once a week.
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Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch explaining how Tim Davie the now former BBC Director-General looked her in the eye and said Black staff supporting anti-racism “breached impartiality” www.instagram.com/reel/DQ4fxa6...
I went over hard on my ankle last Thursday, which sucked, but it has been getting increasingly less sore over the last week, so I wasn't worried. Then this morning I did something entirely non-weight-bearing whilst putting on my socks, which jarred it horribly and now it's back to sore. Not fair!
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I went over hard on my ankle last Thursday, which sucked, but it has been getting increasingly less sore over the last week, so I wasn't worried. Then this morning I did something entirely non-weight-bearing whilst putting on my socks, which jarred it horribly and now it's back to sore. Not fair!
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If you actually spent time in LGBT spaces and feminist spaces you were pretty well innoculated to "trans people are a threat to women" nonsense. If you had a theoretical commitment to feminism and LGBT rights but got most of your information from the media, you were incredibly easy game.
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
If you actually spent time in LGBT spaces and feminist spaces you were pretty well innoculated to "trans people are a threat to women" nonsense. If you had a theoretical commitment to feminism and LGBT rights but got most of your information from the media, you were incredibly easy game.
"defended the coup that was prorogation" genuinely glad that Jolyon Maugham mentions this, because it absolutely feels like it's vanished from the public record.
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"defended the coup that was prorogation" genuinely glad that Jolyon Maugham mentions this, because it absolutely feels like it's vanished from the public record.