LillyLyle/Count Melancholia

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The two greatest challenges facing humanity right now are reversing climate change & halting the spread of fascism. Wgb-er

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I need to crowdsource summat. I was watching a YT video on the 1980s punk scene last night. I think they were in Bristol, UK. Among many others I saw this one guy who gave me a strong sense of 'being somebody', or like somebody, I recognised. Maybe an actor? A musician? A comedian? But I just haven't been able to place who he reminded me of and its driving me crazy

Any thoughts?

#whoisthis

Elon #Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/10/elon-musk-x-not-face-action-uk-government-posts-inciting-violence-belfast #ofcom is worse than useless, it is actively dangerous to the UK
Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast

Any official reprimand will come from regulator Ofcom, but not for at least two months

The Guardian
‘Hands Off Our #NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service - https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-protests-nhs-conference-uk/ "Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for #Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances."
‘Hands Off Our NHS’: Anti-Palantir Protests Break Out in UK Over Deal With National Health Service

Crowding the gates of a major health care conference, protesters called for Palantir to be booted out of the UK’s National Health Service over privacy concerns and political grievances.

WIRED
"Dad, what was a 'slow news day'?"

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Modern ministers are resigned to powerlessness

It is only by ending their jobs that they appear to have any wider influence

My Weekly Constitutional at Prospect, on ministers and their resignation letters

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/73823/starmer-government-minister-resignations-powerlessness

Musk’s Starlink hooked rural customers. Then came the price increases.

The billionaire’s satellite internet service is a lifeline to many, but some users who face price hikes say Starlink has amassed too much power.

The Washington Post
David Hockney 1937-2026
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Where Musk Is King https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html?smid=tw-share
Opinion | SpaceX’s I.P.O. Will Help Fulfill Elon Musk’s Political Vision of America

The SpaceX I.P.O. will enable its founder to build — and scale — his peculiar vision of society.

The New York Times

Sometimes I look at the people on both sides of the "AI" debate hawking sponsorships, getting major book deals, and doing the youtube roadshow and wonder if I'd have had an easier time financially if I had gone down that road

Probably not. It'd have driven me bonkers

This is whom Bari Weiss just hired as a global correspondent for CBS.
From 2020; h/t @oliverdarcy
Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51797316?utm_campaign=bilton-s-60-seance&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=www.status.news
Trevor Phillips suspended from Labour over Islamophobia allegations

The former chief of the UK's equality watchdog faces a probe and could be expelled from the party.