First “For You” tweet in X when I open it after a month or so - last time I tried it I had a tweet from Tommy Robinson instead

Not a serious social media platform

#Vaccination #Musk #X

I log into X for the first time in a few months, and what do I see at the top of my notifications?

(and no, I don't follow him)

Reminder of what the #Brexit referendum question was:

"Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?

1) Remain a member of the European Union
2) Leave the European Union"

- no mention of dynamic alignment etc etc etc
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-facts/wh...

Remarkable graph of immigration into the UK over the years before & after the Brexit vote:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This spammer seems to have some issues with their software set-up...

The power of well-crated html:

"What makes this piece so effective is its plain language and its information density. This density is a real strength of hypertext that is often overlooked and taken for granted. Only 110 words in that paragraph but it contains 27 links"

kottke.org/24/11/the-po...

On left:

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,149,812!

Climate deniers outside St Pancras station in London this evening…

So we now have queues for tourists to take pictures of each other next to a red phone box with Parliament behind them…..

Yes, visible here:

“I’m proud of being British in the way that I see Britain, modern& multicultural. I’m not proud of the fantasy that Brexiteers&right-wing politicians are trying to create”
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/02/10/im-proud-of-the-britain-brexiteers-and-right-wing-politicians-seem-to-hate/

“We turned the Caribbean into industrial sugar plantations with the enslaved. On top of that, we still go there and poach their health workers. On top of that, we didn’t give them money [when Britain left] to set up proper health systems. A lot of that is clearly our fault”