[Tubby Isaacs]

It kind of reminded me a bit of the porn restrictions where the answer to VPN's was to ban them by one MP.

Me too. I wanted to know who else did this. I couldn't see that anyone else did.

Jess's experience on VAWG isn't on tech. Nor is George Monbiot's who's posted his usual anti-Starmer "corporate tech puppet" stuff.

[Tubby Isaacs]

But that would mean putting country and party before self-interest!!

If only one of them was 72 years old and had recent form for racially insensitive political gaffes....

[Tubby Isaacs]

Andy Burnham will push to become PM before Labour conference, allies say
Autumn conference in Liverpool targeted for victorious homecoming but Reform UK to fight hard in byelection

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... conference

Literally one person says this, anonymously. Another quoted straight afterwards says he isn't thinking about this, but about the by-election. And someone else says he might like to go for it earlier.

This stuff is leading the news at this paper. It's barely Kuenssberg standard. There's actually no news in this story. The story was earlier that Burnham was running in the by-election. This adds nothing. Couldn't something about policy have been written instead?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Again Jess Phillips is someone I have supported and admired for years, she has done fantastic and vital work defending women and girls but this magic solution is moronic. Hopefully some time on the backbenches will enable her to reflect and she'll return more thoughtful and wiser.

I admire her too, but her expertise here is not in tech. It sounds like drug companies targeting the Health Secretary with promises of wonder drugs, which we'd be very suspicious of. I don't know what the procedure with tech is. Who signs it off? Whose job would it be to say "actually this isn't great"? A lot is made of Starmer have shady tech advisors with conflicts of interest. Maybe it was them and on this occasion they gave good advice.

[Spoonman]

Literally one person says this, anonymously.

That's at least one person getting way ahead of themselves.

[davidjay]

Again Jess Phillips is someone I have supported and admired for years, she has done fantastic and vital work defending women and girls but this magic solution is moronic. Hopefully some time on the backbenches will enable her to reflect and she'll return more thoughtful and wiser.

I don't think Jess could ever do thoughtful and wise.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bloody Starmer. This is quite the take from Peston. Perhaps he and his mates overreacted.

Anyway, there was a report from Laurie Magnus.

https://bsky.app/profile/coriandersoap. ... xh2j6mpc2d

[Boiler]

That's only visible to folks with a Bluesky account, Tubbs - any chance of a preçis?

[Killer Whale]

Here you are:

[Tubby Isaacs]

Cheers.

I should learn how to do that.

[Boiler]

Here you are:

I like the reply from "Amazon" - how very true.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I like the reply from "Amazon" - how very true.

You want to see gymnastics from a journo? Here's Sam Coates. You'll not be surprised that he's not sheepish when he has to admit it's not "Labour propaganda' but a photo from the Press Association.

Quite the thing to get upset about in the first place, even it had been true. Government releases nice picture of PM at a factory. More news as we get it.

[Boiler]

I've just discovered that moths have made a right mess of a woollen blanket covering a table in the tip I call my home. Right now I'm harbouring the same thoughts towards journos as I am towards those moths Jesus, worra cunt.

From that BSky thread, two posts caught my eye:

Screenshot 2026-05-16 at 13-52-24 Post by @did plc nxb36xbu3fmz476orupk4p6q — Bluesky.png (36.63 KiB) Viewed 43 times

How very fucking true. Still, you've to do something with useless civil servants: Soylent Green isn't an option (yet).

Screenshot 2026-05-16 at 13-56-00 Post by @did plc nxb36xbu3fmz476orupk4p6q — Bluesky.png (287.57 KiB) Viewed 43 times

Someone obviously left the gates open not just at the cunt farm, but at Downing Street too. Can you imagine the furore if Starmer took the same approach to these individuals as Trump?

"Sam Coates, Sky N-"

"I'm not speaking to you, you're a horrible person. Next."