What the hell my filthy assistants. A 15-year-old in Norfolk puts on a mask, takes a kitchen knife to school and stabs a girl. Convicted of attempted murder. His father tells the press the boy was radicalised online - a Dexter clip that led, via the usual machinery, to serial-killer material and the standard catalogue of women-hating bile. Says the lad was shy and kind at home. Says they had parental controls. Says they had no idea. Hindsight’s a marvellous thing, he says. Yeah. The boy was writing notes about wider attacks, listing misogyny and suicide among his motives, and searching mass-shooting content the night before. The adults thought the issue was screen time. Meanwhile the feeds do what they’re built to do: serve the next thing that keeps the eyes open. One clip, then the real ones, then the manifesto-adjacent stuff. No one has to push it. It arrives, free and personalised. The father doesn’t want to absolve the kid. Fair. The kid carried the knife. But “a culture of violence” is just the polite name for an industry that profits from feeding the worst questions back to bored, isolated teenagers. The government points at the Online Safety Act and fines. Fine. The path from a TV drama to planning a stabbing isn’t always illegal until after the fact. Parents are told to talk more and check more. True enough. Also true that the machines know the child better than most parents do, and have no incentive to stop. The girl spent a night in hospital. The boy faces a long sentence. The lights were on. They were just in a place no adult was looking.

And here we go, kids. The right-wing crowd are going to wake up to a steaming pile of shit in their bed. Another “lefty” just won. Lula’s back for a fourth term after beating Flávio Bolsonaro in a proper surprise. The old man did it. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, eighty years old and turning eighty-one this week, just pulled off something nobody’s managed in Brazil since the country got direct elections back in 1989. He came second in the first round (Flávio Bolsonaro led him 47% to 45%) then turned it round in the runoff and won with about 51.8% to 48.2%. Four million votes in it. Over 64 million for Lula, under 60 million for the son of the jailed former president. That’s not a landslide. That’s a country still split down the middle, same as it was when Lula beat Jair in 2022. Northeast still solid for the Workers’ Party, south and southeast still leaning Bolsonaro. Abstention dropped a bit from the first round, which helped Lula more than it helped the other side. Markets that had priced in a Flávio win are now looking at the real and the Bovespa going the other way. Flávio’s not conceding. Says he’ll try to get the whole thing annulled because a Supreme Court justice extended voting by two hours after complaints about transport to polling stations. Same playbook as his old man after 2022. Whether that sticks is another matter - the margin’s big enough that most people writing about it think the challenge goes nowhere. Lula gets sworn in again on 5 January. Oldest president since the return of democracy, fourth non-consecutive term, and he’s done it against the grain of a rightward shift across the rest of Latin America. He still has a Congress full of people who don’t like him, and the usual arguments about the cost of living, crime and whatever else was in the campaign. But the basic fact is the one the right-wing side has to stare at this morning: the bloke they thought was finished just won again. There it is. Another old lefty still standing while the alternative sulks and reaches for the lawyers. Same story, different year. #rightwingtears #Brazil #PresidentLula

Ok, who wants to let the cokehead know the "Serenity Prayer" from his CA meetings (yeah right) doesn't go like that? The "I'm a Christian now" grift in full effect. Prick. God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference. Now, @TRobinsonNewEra - get working those 12 steps inside and you might actually come out not a complete prick.

What turns someone this unstable? And what where social services doing? Fingering each other in the asses? Fucks sake @TRobinsonNewEra and those @TPointUK fucks where feltching this sack of shit when he was just a kid. Massive failing of the police and social services.

Right, my filthy assistants. While half of you are still wanking over Palmer’s latest wonder-goal, Spurs’ latest collapse, or whatever Strictly sequin-fest is filling the timeline, the Met have quietly confirmed they sat on a letter for years. In January 2019 Scotland Yard received a letter containing “a number of claims” about alleged offending by Thomas Markle outside the UK. They reviewed it, passed the details to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s office “for their awareness” (security concerns, apparently), and then… did not share any of it with other law enforcement agencies. Not the Americans, not the Philippines, not anyone else who might actually have been in a position to look into it. Fast forward to now and Philippine authorities are investigating claims that images of child sexual abuse were found at Markle’s former home there. He denies everything. Meghan says she was told about “disturbing allegations” years ago and cut contact. The Met are “reviewing the handling of this matter in 2019” and considering whether they need to refer themselves to the IOPC. Classic. The letter sat with the people whose job is supposed to protect the powerful and their security arrangements, not with the people whose job is supposed to investigate the actual allegations. Seven years later the press is full of it, the hashtags are moving, and the force is checking its own homework. Same script, different logo. The truth is institutions protect themselves first. Kids, evidence, and basic competence come second. Always have. Now fuck off and check who else is sitting on something they should have passed on. #Meghan #TheMet #ThomasMarkle #IOPC @metpoliceuk @BBCNews

These Ai giants aren't securing anything. They're accelerating and calling the acceleration responsibility. The future can sort itself out later. Right now there's a race on, and the prize is not having to ask permission. Ai is not being developed safely.

What the fuck is this? Bearing arms? Some military-style video with that aggressive tone? Is this the trailer for a shit action film or has this whole political "party" lost the fucking plot? Farage won’t be happy until blood’s spilt again. All for a shot at No.10. That frog-faced fuck is deranged and dangerous - lock him away for the people’s good. Or much worse, for the sake of whatever future’s left. #FuckReform #FuckFarage