Montreal street poster
#peace

“Whoops, our AI escaped its sandbox and stole most of the world’s billionaires money and redistributed it to good causes. It also wiped your debt.”

That would be the absolute winner

The results of tolerating openly racist and bigoted political parties, and the increasing normalisation of racism and xenophobia in the media: a corrosive effect on our society.
When I was still working in the NHS, we managed to stamp on the few such incidents we encountered where I was. But that was offenders being told to behave and apologise by a middle-aged white male.

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-staff-experiencing-unconscionable-levels-of-racist-abuse-survey-finds-13569575

#Racism #UK #UKPolitics

The Guardian view on funerals: the law must change following Robert Bush's crimes | Editorial

#FuneralIndustry #FuneralReform #RobertBush #ConsumerProtection #UndertakerScandal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/03/the-guardian-view-on-funerals-the-law-must-change-following-robert-bushs-crimes

Word.

#MediaComplicity #AgentsOfGenocide #FreePalestine

Must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky – Hendon Beach, on the south side of Sunderland's coastline, perhaps a little more off the beaten track when compared to its more popular neighbours of Roker and Seaburn, but still worthy of a capture through my camera lens.
This view is from the end of the sea wall/promenade, looks towards Salterfen Rocks.
This is the start of the Durham Heritage Coast, which runs south from here, via Ryhope, Seaham, Dawdon, Hawthorn Hive, Easington, Horden, Blackhall and Crimdon, all the way to Hartlepool Headland.

#sunderland #coast #kingcharlesiiicoastalpath #heritagecoast #EnglandCoastPath #landscape #monochrome #photography

We really are facing the greatest existential threat to humanity for over 900,000 years. But other localised civilisation-ending catastrophes provide us with clues as to what awaits us. We either go in at full speed, blind or we try to apply the brakes by preparing as a nation as best we can for what is (no its, no buts, that option was probably lost decades ago now) to come.

https://bylines.cymru/environment/uk-government-must-come-clean-about-the-climate-emergency/

*sobs* #monday #urgh

#SilentSunday #Yorkshire

This needs to be said in a loop until it sticks.

"What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

- Stefan Rahmstorf, Climatologist.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer

#climate

#London, Thursday: heroic #MetropolitanPolice officers arrested at least 117 terrorists, mostly elderly.

In a sinister escalation, many of the terrorists displayed no sign of their opposition to #genocide or support for #PalestineAction. #MetPol arrested the terrorists for the sickening crime of sitting on the pavement.

Others were arrested for attending court as summoned.

Video by #AmnestyInternational

Reports at https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/30/wrongful-arrests-at-palestine-action-demo-campaigners-say/
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/palestine-action-protest-arrests-westminster-challenge-ban-high-court-b1291865.html

#DefendOurJuries #uklegal

We've moved to (or returned to) a world where wealth has replaced income as the key driver for inequality;

in societies where financial services are politically powerful & influential, the wealthy capture surpluses highly effectively.

John Burn-Murdoch (FT) observes: 'a generation ago it would have taken about 20 years of savings from the average salary to earn your way from the bottom quarter of the UK’s wealth distribution to the top quarter, it now takes 40'!

#inequality #politics

Nothing to celebrate in the third summer of genocide.

Too many lives lost, many more devastated. And it continues.

We must persevere.

Stop the Genocide.
End Occupation.
End Apartheid.

The public discussion on AI is still heated in 2026. What's your take?

Make your voice heard: Are you yes or no when it comes to AI?

If you choose, "Yes AI, but..." complete your thought in the comments.

For fiber artists, a list of signs that a set of instructions is probably llm-slop. The article is by a crochet designer, but the signs are relevant beyond crochet.

#knitting #crochet #FiberArts no advice please

https://www.moderndailyknitting.com/community/how-to-spot-ai-fake-pattern/

Now, I wonder why our government tried so hard to bury this report:
"Britain’s food and water supply, together with its international trade networks, are “almost certain” to be “on a decline and collapse trajectory”

https://www.thenerve.news/p/caroline-lucas-greens-climate-reports-suppressed-food-security

#UK #ClimateCrisis

Cannon Hall, the monsters playground.

#ThickTrunkTuesday

Big Tech won't stop collecting MORE of our BIOMETRIC DATA 😡

Meta, the company behind Facebook, just announced new "Facebook verified" badges. To get the badge, you have to record a short video selfie, which Meta will then check against your existing profile photos to confirm it matches.

This is just another excuse to collect more of our data 😤

Find out how to stop Facebook from collecting your data: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebook-know-about-me

“The trouble emerges when too many people free ride.”

Public goods, unions, vaccination, climate, and a classroom game where the kids understood the commons faster than most adults seem to.

https://nonzerosum.games/socialdilemmas.html

"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone."

--Sara Teasdale