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[David Galbraith @daveg]

Plotlines is the latest in a series of tools I've been building around novel ways to represent graphs, recipes and family trees of information. Plotlines analyses more than a thousand stories (novels, movies, plays) and creates a linear representation of a causal graph of events, implicit questions prompted and answered, tension and the causal chain of events. Link in thread.

[Vijesh @vijesh]

@Kevin_Maguire Egypt!

[Niall Paterson @skynewsniall]

Donald Trump has called the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards?

[New Order @neworder]

¡Exprésate!

[Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber]

Whats strange about soccer: It employs absurd mathematical precision to police offsides, a rule that mostly matters in spirit rather than in strict application. (You just don't want cherrypicking) But its extremely casual about timekeeping, whose literal application matters a ton

[Tom McPhail @PensionsMonkey]

This is a shockingly bad decision by the Treasury, petty, vindictive, unnecessary and probably counter-productive

https://t.co/2lXOpl7Mng

[Just me - Thomas @TomSoede]

Open letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Dear Prime Minister,

I am writing as a Labour supporter who is deeply concerned by the growing pressure surrounding your leadership, but also as someone who has developed a genuine admiration for the way you conduct yourself.

What I respect most about you is your seriousness.

You are not a political showman. You do not rely on constant drama, easy slogans or theatrical promises. You come across as disciplined, intelligent, decent and deeply conscious of the responsibility that comes with leading the country.

In an age when politics is increasingly dominated by noise, outrage and personality cults, your calmness is a strength.

Your resilience is also admirable. You have faced relentless criticism, personal attacks and an often hostile media environment, yet you have continued to behave with dignity. You rarely lash out. You do not appear consumed by ego. You keep returning to the work.

That matters to me.

Britain has already endured years of political chaos, revolving-door prime ministers and governments more interested in internal warfare than governing. The country does not need another leadership contest. It needs stability, seriousness and delivery.

You were elected with a mandate to govern. You inherited damaged public services, weak growth, overcrowded prisons, an NHS under enormous pressure and public trust worn down by fourteen years of Conservative government. None of that can be repaired overnight.

I hope you will remain Prime Minister and continue the work until the next general election in 2029.

Labour MPs should understand that removing you now could trigger weeks of division, uncertainty and damaging promises made during a leadership contest. The press would feed on the chaos, financial markets could react, and Nigel Farage and Reform would be handed exactly the political instability they want.

This is not the time for Labour to imitate the Conservative Party.

I also believe your personality is better suited to this difficult period than many people appreciate. You are methodical rather than impulsive, measured rather than reckless, and focused on governing rather than performing.

Those qualities may not always generate exciting headlines, but they are the qualities a serious Prime Minister needs.

Leadership is not only about popularity. It is about character.

It is about remaining calm when others panic, showing discipline when others chase attention, and continuing the difficult work when the noise becomes unbearable.

Please hold the line.

Many Labour supporters still believe in your integrity, your determination and your sense of duty. Britain needs less political theatre and more delivery, and you deserve the opportunity to complete the job the country elected Labour and you to do.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas Soede

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

Tom Tugendhat MP thinks we shouldn’t build safe cycling infrastructure because private companies can’t provide him with a decent phone signal.

No, I don’t know what he’s rambling on about either.

But I do know the country is a mess because of midwits like him.

[Alex Greenland @ajrgd]

Why is this on 3d-bbc•co•uk 😭😭😭 yes, a hyphen, not a dot! Not a subdomain like 3d•bbc•co•uk

When scrolling past this, I even read it as 3d•bbc•co•uk, which is why this domain is especially dangerous.

Domains like this make phishing easier for threat actors — they don't have to try as hard when choosing a domains.

People can't read URLs properly already, but we're constantly told to read the URL. How can we do that with this?

I get that this is an experiment, probably the work of an overachieving employee working in their spare time. It could be developed by a third party. But organisations need to run these sorts of things on a unified microsite domain.

Google does this using withgoogle•com: experiments•withgoogle•com, buildyourfuture•withgoogle•com…

Meta does it with atmeta•com: investor•atmeta•com, datacenters•atmeta•com, communityforums•atmeta•com…

This domain pattern clearly demarcates trust boundaries while unifying your domain estate, because you'll probably forget about 3d-bbc•co•uk in a few years and it will be registered by someone else.

But most importantly, since 3d-bbc•co•uk is legitimate, it gives threat actors confidence to effortlessly register domains like this, to phish users of the BBC and other orgs, and consumers won't bat an eyelid. They won't spot the bad domain. They'll use claims to authority in the bad email to gain misguided trust.

It's a slippery slope. Domains like this weaken trust and our collective defence.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔

If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.

Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚

For You. For Grace. For Ian.

[James Potter (rephonic.com) @jamespotter]

I had a lot of Fable tokens to use up before my weekly reset, so I made this live 3D map of London with Three.js

Every train, bus, boat and plane is real and live right now!

- Tube, bus and riverboat data from TfL
- National Rail trains from Darwin live departure boards
- ADS-B for planes and helicopters
- AIS feed for boats and ships
- Map data from Overture and OpenStreetMap

Trains and buses have no GPS feed, so their positions are inferred from arrival countdowns and departure boards, then animated along the track/route geometry

[Daniel Storey @danielstorey85]

Don't know if this is common knowledge, but the BBC has produced a spoiler-free link to watch World Cup match highlights without knowing the score.

Simply go here:

https://t.co/dg52CjYbN8

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

There is no “but” for the violent thuggery on the streets of Britain. Terrorising families.

[Alex Greenland @ajrgd]

@nikitabier @alxkikalia @kyliem @Safety @ads @XSecurity please see above

[Vijesh @vijesh]

@faisalislam R4 Today at 07:42am covered the aim of these fake videos

[Manav @manav_m12]

Years of FPL rage quits taught me one thing:

You never have all the data you need.

- 17 tabs for team news
- 8 stat pages open
- 3 spreadsheets

And you still captain the guy who gets benched.

Built a fix for World Cup Fantasy using @Tiny_Fish - a skill that gives your AI agent live fantasy data, team news, and picks on demand.

Clone it: https://t.co/JwXCTCXXGH

[Iain Mansfield @IGMansfield]

Calling all policy wonks!

What are the core facts you need to know?

Here are 50 of them: economy, demographics, public services and more.

https://t.co/uDhQRcfpkh

[Matthew Sweet @DrMatthewSweet]

Yesterday @GBNEWS presenters @beverleyturner and @thecoastguy tweeted, variously, that the climate crisis was a hoax to introduce "the digital gulag", that NHS nurses helped to fake Covid and killed patients on govt orders. You're chained to these freaks. Accept the consequences.

[Vijesh @vijesh]

@thsottiaux Annotations in browser in codex app are great. Would be even better if users could annotate previous messages in chat and include the annotated messages into subsequent chat message(s).

[Naz Shah MP @NazShahBfd]

It was the honour of my life to move the Loyal Address -the first Muslim to do so.

This moment belongs to the people of Bradford West. Their trust and faith in me made it possible.

An opportunity of a lifetime. A privilege I owe to Bradford and to Britain.

Full speech 🔽