Nic Jones

[Nik D @nikidoog]

Happy Birthday to Virginia Plain. Single released on this day in 1972 by Roxy Music.

[Eli McCann @EliMcCann]

I am begging everyone to stop outsourcing your brain to robots. Life is worth living only because we feel and control every part of it. Please don't give away your agency.

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Beily. He was miraculously found alive under rubble 29 days after the Venezuela earthquakes. He has since been reunited with his 11-year-old human Victoria and is expected to make a full recovery. 14/10 for all

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

The inside of my brain when someone starts explaining rules of a card game

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Farage made fools of a lot of journalists — as Johnson did — but what makes Neil especially hard to forgive is that he sought to ridicule and disparage brave journalists such as Carole who a decade ago and since were subjecting him to legitimate scrutiny as Neil brown-nosed.

[Emma Scott @EmmaScott]

"Which professional athlete do you find the most inspiring?"

me:

[ABC News @ABC]

A massive kangaroo stood guard on a sidewalk in the Australian city of Lake Macquarie, recently posted viral footage shows. https://t.co/g8f7PuutZi

[WeRateDogs @dog_rates]

This is Penny. She came up with her own trick. Really hopes you like it, and will repeat it as many times as necessary until you acknowledge that you do. 14/10

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

[Jesse Tinsley @JesseTinsley]

Imagine telling someone in 1999…

The year is 2026.

The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.

The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.

Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.

People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.

The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.

Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.

AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.

The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.

You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.

People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.

The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.

And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.

[Milli Hill @millihill]

This headline from @Independent
clearly blames the mother for this tragedy. In fact, the father was in charge of the toddler at the time.
https://t.co/Ys7X8DIgDY

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

I believe this is called self-owning

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Nic Jones @n_j_b]

@Intolerablist30 @kevintumlinson @newstart_2024 Can you hear yourself? You’re talking to someone who has told you they wanted to have kids but are unable to have them. You may have ‘skin in the game’ but you clearly don’t have much empathy.

[Sam @SamCKx]

The issue isn't Starmer, per se, it's the fact that we all now know, whoever is PM, unless it's some far right leader with friendly tax policies for the ultra wealthy, they will be met by a barage of misinformation and relentless online attacks: accusations they support p**dophiles & r*pists, that they jail 12,000 innocent people every year for tweeting; and all the usual misleading, manipulative BS designed to exploit people's emotions.

This won't stop until they have installed the party they want. A party that will be focussed purely on optimising the affairs of its wealthy backers, and not on the working people and families of Britain.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

It used to be a serious matter to get rid of a prime minister between elections unless they were ill (Eden, Wilson and Churchill), decided to go because they were defeated in parliament (May), in a referendum (Cameron), lied to the House (Johnson) or were responsible for a disaster (Truss). Or had served over a decade (Thatcher and Blair). But for not being charismatic?

[Kylen Mills @KylenMills]

The beautiful game does it again. Scenes in Boston have been unbelievable as Scots & Americans unite, including a viral friendship formed after a shocking bagpipe wake up call in suburban Boston. The joy of Tartan Army is a great example for us all. ❤️⚽️
#scotland #usa🇺🇸 #boston #worldcup

[Boston Police Dept. @bostonpolice]

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[Del GM 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GM1872_]

This is class 😂😂😂 boy will be sinking pints before the end of his shift https://t.co/ksX2VQjkz9