@cdarwin@c.imBritain's Conservative Party leader
Kemi Badenoch has called defectors who left for Reform
“some of the most dishonest people” she has ever met,
as she ruled out allowing
“drama queens” to return to the party
https://www.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAs Republican Party looks to future without Trump in office, Utah could be a road map (Saige Miller/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5835675/utah-republican-party-maga-america-first
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p39#a260623p39
@Jyoti@mas.toRE: https://beige.party/@TwoClownsEating/116966207166432361
Nah. NATIONALISE *EVERYTHING.*
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Tories accused of ‘living in fantasy land’ as party lays out plans to ditch net zero"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NetZero
@agaric@social.coopRE: https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116965367300703261
Not a representative audience, self-selected and not a scientific sample, and yet: Four thousand to zero is quite a statement, that makes us wonder again if websites that do page obscuring pop-ups actua…
@cdarwin@c.imVoters who left the Democratic Party over Gaza return for the recent progressive push
Michigan Senate nominee El-Sayed and others have re-energized one-time Democratic voters who abandoned the party under Biden
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgRE: https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/116961344935396035
Fuck yeah. Not mincing words. At all.
Finally.
@UlrikeHeiss@eldritch.cafeFalls es noch eines Beweises bedurft hätte, dass Schlaf politisch ist, wie die @… sagen: https://beige.party/@MamaLake/117115542439540667
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLooks to me like, hot on the heels of his catastrophic interview with Jack Tame, Paul Henry and his political bedfellow, David Seymour, are demonstrating that he was born a couple generations too late for his brand of humour to resonate. https://www.r…
@dnddeutsch@pnpde.socialJa, bin late to the Party, aber das läuft grade auf WDR5 und ich hatte das bisher nicht mitbekommen und bin überrascht, dass ich den Eklat, die Aufregung, den Shitstorm deswegen nicht bemerkt habe.
@publicvoit@graz.socialThis is what cve.org is showing when I don't allow JavaScript execution for a third party domain (mitre.org) in my LibreWolf browser: "Service is currently unavailable." 🤦♂️
I guess the #security community should do better than that.
And yes, when JavaScript is disabled for cve.org, I do get a helpful message that informs me that the web site can't work without JavaS…
@markhburton@mstdn.social
@ruari@velocipederider.comRE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116952092299773292
Ireland with TFI Live and TFI Go apps for busses is another level of hell.
You need to use Live to find the route and times and it is buggy as hell. Then every person in your party needs their own p…
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 5x08 "F.F." #JoJosBizarreAdventure
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Dears:
🎵 Whites Only Party
#NowPlaying #TheDears
https://open.spotify.com/track/4yGKLv21c2gx2uENVKoiAS
@sakhavi@aoir.socialHard for me to feel too sad about this, knowing what I know now. Is it worse to have no deal than to have a deal with a party no one in their right mind would trust to follow through on their commitments?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft lays off 268 Xbox employees across Halo Studios and other first-party studios, as part of an ongoing "reset" of its gaming business (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/998589/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-ninja-theory-closure
@zudn@theres.life
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyThis week, the 110,000 members of the Dutch Progressief Nederland party* - the merger of Social-democrats and Greens - are voting on which political group to join in the European Parliament. Party leadership advised S&D, but quite some members prefer @…
Results on Friday 25 September
*) Only active on American commercial social media…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.orgCreating systems that are systemically abused by those with power is a huge problem in the USA. The Republican party's continual efforts and success at destroying the rule of law in the USA makes it MUCH WORSE.
We need to elect much better people.
We need to elect people that will protect us from abuse by those in powerful positions.
We need to elect people that care and can think.
We need to elect people that won't allow systems that are continually abused.
@cdarwin@c.imSenator John Fetterman said last week he would formally switch his affiliation if Democrats make opposition to Israel part of their official platform.
It’s the first time the Pennsylvania senator has laid out a scenario in which he would jump ship.
Fetterman’s colleagues have doubts about his ability to win a Democratic primary.
One Democratic senator, who requested anonymity to speak freely, expressed anxiety over the prospect of an unexpected party switch by Fetterman.
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI was reminded today that this is the absolute best post/thread I've ever seen on the Fediverse.
https://beige.party/@Alice/110083835185447532
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngQuestion for other EU-based online shop owners: How are you going to deal with the upcoming EU PPWR packaging legislation changes[1] and specifically requiring a third party legal person/entity in every single EU member state you want to ship to after August 12, potentially having to contract & pay another EU-wide one-stop service or up to 26 middlemen just so you are allowed to ship to all EU countries? What happened to the idea of a single market?
Some of the "cheaper" off…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://beige.party/@adub/116941550050728086
Ontario and Alberta, both have fascist premiers. The rot spreads from the top.
@paulwermer@sfba.socialWhy are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialWhy are they called leaders, when they won't do anything to lead on crucial issues, but instead continue to double down on policies that are now inappropriate, while the non-leaders drive for necessary changes? Managers? Maybe. Bosses? Maybe. Leaders? Nah
House Democrats are finally shifting on Israel. Party leaders must listen
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.ithells yeah #NYCPol
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineImprison opposition, “win” elections.
“Lev Shlosberg…senior member of Russia's liberal opposition party Yabloko, was pronounced guilty of "public actions aimed at discrediting…use of the Armed Forces…Russian Federation" & sentenced to 11 years & 1 month in a penal colony…”
“‘A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions,’ said Shlosberg in his closing remarks.”
@cheryanne@aus.socialIt's A Party With Jai Waterhouse Mixes
Join Jai Waterhouse every week for the biggest EDM, House, Techno, Festival Anthems, Mashups and Party Classics...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/its-a-party/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt its Accelerate conference, Amazon says it is opening its seller tools to third-party AI agents, starting with Claude, in beta for US merchants (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-opens-its-seller-too…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@laxsill@social.spejset.org
@heiseonline@social.heise.de @djghettoredneck@mastodon.djghettoredneck.comI'm watching JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 5x07 "There's Six of Us!" #JoJosBizarreAdventure
@NFL@darktundra.xyzRams' Puka Nacua reveals injury he suffered at Michael Rubin party
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-puka-nacua-reveals-injury-he-suffered-at-michael-rubi…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialCockroach Janta Party
@stefan@gardenstate.socialMaybe not the worst time to donate directly to the main democratic party. They need to spend some money for sure.
https://mainedems.org/
@dariaphoebe@mindly.socialThe weekend included me leading the monthly bike party ride and a lot of soccer. Back to a quieter life today, starting with Marie’s pancakes, egg and bacon, tea and coffee. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/vgb64ocHLnkjTVmn7
@bici@mastodon.social===
‘Voters are fed up’: Michigan primary forces Democratic party to accept leftwing shift
===
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/aug/09/democratic-party-leftwing-michigan-mamdani-aoc
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDraft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWhat's this new political party called “vacant”?
@cdarwin@c.imThe Cockroach Janta party (CJP)
might have started out as an online joke, but
– driven by millions of discontented young people in India
– it has swiftly grown into one of the most unexpected challenges to the powerful rightwing government of Narendra Modi.
The CJP was founded in May by Abhijeet Dipke, 30,
an Indian national who recently graduated from university in the US.
Enraged to hear comments made by the chief justice of India,
who compared the…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot'[Monica Lennon] said, “We must be a party where people can believe in fair work… where women’s rights and LGBTQ rights are a shared struggle”. She said that #ScottishLabour had “soul searching” to do and said next leader must “do better” on climate change, and warned “punching down on trans people and minorities is not acceptable”, adding only then will Labour be “worthy of support”…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThe right decision.
Polanski request to postpone Greens’ conference to focus on byelection refused by party | Green party | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/18/zack-polanski-request-postpone-g…
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… @… Not to mention the party-specific elections?! Which were totally unexpected news to me.
@joe@toot.works
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
@davej@dice.campRenaming geography’s an odd hobby, granted, but fair enough—school shootings probably got so bad that he's run out of children to rape. https://mstdn.party/@mcspocky/117232700660225889
@KazuShuSora@social.tchncs.de @Jyoti@mas.toRE: https://beige.party/@thestrangelet/117100831904981770
I know I'm a grumpy old git but it's because I can't do maths. Language is my thing so I'm haphazardly pedantic about that instead.
@servelan@newsie.socialDisturbing allegations smack Republican accused of enticing a minor through Roblox - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/republican-party-2677259618/
@totientfunction@mathstodon.xyz
@newsie@darktundra.xyz
@DamonHD@mastodon.socialRE: https://beige.party/@maxleibman/116930939799054548
But we can branch too...
@bird@birdbox.partySo I restarted my Mastodon server and it appears my Sidekiq queue has a problem #MastoAdmin
@johl@mastodon.xyzIch verstehe den Mini-Beitrag bei “Aspekte” im ZDF so: Ohne Einordnung kann man den Beitrag von Danger Dan und Igor Levit nicht bringen.
Zur Einordnung braucht man auf jeden Fall O-Töne von jemandem, der zusammen mit Vertretern der Neuen Rechten, darunter einem vorbestraften Mitglied der Identitären Bewegung und Dieter Stein, Verleger der Wochenzeitung Junge Freiheit, auf einer Party feiert.
@elduvelle@neuromatch.socialWell yeah! #SaveThePlanet - not the fossil fuel industry!
"Labour ‘could lose up to 50 seats’ to Greens if new drilling in North Sea approved" https://www.theguar…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialParty like it’s Friday night!
Cornish Bagpipe Sextet. There are only 3 human players, but they count their pipes as members of the ensemble. I dunno if that’s a piper thing, a Cornish piper thing, or a joke.
Hey! https://youtu.be/4jEo_KOrMTw?is=LioYHHyZmPkqQjE6
@cdarwin@c.imThe National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)typically passes in Congress each year with bipartisan margins.
But the $1.15tn defense policy billpassed in a near-party-line votein the House of Representatives on Wednesday has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in an uproar.
That’s because the NDAA’s path to enactment this year has been complicated by the president’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran without first seeking authorization from Congress
– a war that has…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Party Dozen:
🎵 Euro Stomper
#PartyDozen
https://party-dozen.bandcamp.com/track/euro-stomper
https://open.spotify.com/track/1eRaBvZFR2FPFkCR7fn3Tm
@cdarwin@c.imElif Eralp is poised to become Berlin's next mayor after The Left came top in Sunday's election in the German capital, capping a remarkable rise for the 45-year-old to lead one of the world's most vibrant cities.
Projections show The Left far ahead on 25% of the vote in Sunday's election, paving the way for a three-party coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and Greens.
If she can seal a coalition, Eralp will become the first Berlin mayor from The L…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInvestigation: AI hacker house AGI House had 37 incidents logged by police since 2022, many for party-related complaints, as Bay Area tech houses proliferate (Kirsten Grind/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/technology/agi-house-ai-culture.html
@Jyoti@mas.toRE: https://chaos.social/@slothrop/117122417678273558
That's brilliant!
WOOHOO to youuu!
:pensive_party_blob: :pensive_party_blob: :ablobcatrainbow:
@markhburton@mstdn.socialWorkers Party deputy leader Chris Williamson quits in Galloway row | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chris-williamson-quits-workers-party-george-galloway
@cdarwin@c.imThe US House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a stopgap measure to head off a government shutdown until early December,
with its Republican leaders seeking to defuse a volatile issue in the run-up to the November midterm elections.
The continuing resolution authorizing government spending until 4 December passed by a vote of 220-205,
roughly along party lines.
It next heads to the Senate, where it will need to win bipartisan support to clear the chamber.
T…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotSnow Yellow and the Five Dwarves.
I got this picture from @… 's story on the #ScottishLabour leadership shenanigans, but I've slightly altered it to make the data less ambiguous.
I think it really illustrates the problem in
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCourt filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores in Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their joint motion (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/965792/google-ep…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzYou're Invited: 404 Media's Third Anniversary Live Podcast and Party! https://www.404media.co/three-years/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Fcukers:
🎵 if you wanna party, come over to my house
#Fcukers
https://fcukers.bandcamp.com/track/if-you-wanna-party-come-over-to-my-house
https://open.spotify.com/track/0snzpWpjUj6dxRFrsNQOZs
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyFarage's UK far-right party receives record €42 million donation from crypto billionaire. The role of crypto in the tech billionaire push to topple democracy is described in Gil Duran's recent book The Nerd Reich.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v4zvyde15o
@markhburton@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imDavid Sacks convinced Trump against any restrictions on AI
– putting the White House out of step with its own party
As lawmakers from both sides of the aisle call for the regulation of powerful artificial intelligence models,
one of the few vocal naysayers has been Donald Trump.
He’s called the perceived dangers of the technology a “hoax” and a “scam”,
arguing that the government already has “tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies”.
…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotHere's the dilemma for #Burnham :
Lose fifty constituencies if he approves #Rosebank drilling, or lose all the #Donations and back-handers from the
@cdarwin@c.imFormer Republican insider Reed Galen watched the GOP dismiss its voters until Donald Trump remade the party.
He says Democratic leaders are making the same mistake.
https://www.levernews.com/ignore-your-base-lose-your-party/
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThe British state has recast protest as terrorism.
"the legal definition of terrorism in Britain .. includes [political] 'damage to property'"
"the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), ... is proscribed in Britain. Its Syrian offshoot, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), is not, because PYD-led forces became Western allies in the fight against ISIS (ISIL)."
Just one of the stupid contradictions.
Likewise Hamas's civilians.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle adds third-party games store Aptoide to the Play Store for Android users in the US, following a judge's orders in the antitrust lawsuit with Epic (Ryan Whitwam/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gurriers:
🎵 Nobody's Coming to Save You
#Gurriers
https://gurriersdub.bandcamp.com/track/party-lines
https://open.spotify.com/track/0difWBwYseFbbXTAj6TyOi
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDraft: the Trump admin plans to use the UN General Assembly to push a global "freedom of expression" declaration that EU lawmakers call an attack on tech rules (Eliza Gkritsi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-admi…
@cdarwin@c.imDavid Sirota:
None of the Bush/Cheney people who stole the 2000 election,
lied America into war
and created conditions for the financial crisis
paid any personal price at all.
On the contrary, Obama's "look forward, not back" policy gave them get-out-of-jail-free cards,
and they were all promptly enriched and rewarded with media platforms, stature and money,
positioning them to then take partial control of the Democratic Party and the …
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Charli XCX:
🎵 You (Ha Ha Ha)
#CharliXCX
https://neuvmbr.bandcamp.com/track/charli-xcx-party-4-u-neuvmbr-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cghqtgljxpGJ1XeXAIK4p
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: GOP asks AI companies to stem the backlash against data centers, saying the issue could kill the party's chances of holding a vital Senate seat in Ohio (Alex Isenstadt/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/19/gop-data-center-memo-ai-election
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imIt’s time to fund & support pro-science politicians ourselves
if we want evidence-based decision making & truth, over blind loyalty to a party.
The Science Victory Fund is exactly that.
Send us some support today, and make a stand against the same old bullshit
https://secure.actblue.com…
@cdarwin@c.imIn an age of Donald Trump’s tyranny, we are surrounded by sellouts.
Millions of Americans now believe that.
In his tremendous new book, “Profiles in Cowardice,”
veteran journalist Jacob Weisberg goes a way towards proving it
The book focuses on some of the many so-called leaders Weisberg describes as
“the weak and the too willing,”
those “who have betrayed their most important civic responsibilities”
by capitulating to President Trump’s authoritarian…
@cdarwin@c.imCNN's Harry Enten was floored on Sunday as he discussed new polling that shows Democrats have gained momentum in a key Senate race,
even after the candidate who won the party's primary dropped out.
Last week, oyster farmer Graham Platner suspended his campaign for the Maine Senate seat against incumbent Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) after multiple allegations of sexual harassment and rape were lodged against him.
Platner has described the allegations as "serious,&…
@cdarwin@c.imTroy Jackson is the frontrunner for Maine Democrats
What happens next?
A reminder of the next steps of the frantic replacement process in the Maine Senate race now that Troy Jackson appears poised to clinch the Democratic nomination.
Over the weekend, all 16 counties elected 500 delegates who will vote in a special convention in Bangor on Saturday,
with the remaining delegates coming from the state Democratic party committee.
This will the formal process of selec…
@cdarwin@c.imEstablishment Democrats have racked up disastrous electoral losses over the past decade
—so why are they furious when their own party actually wins?
Taya Graham and Stephen Janis break down the meltdown of Democratic “centrist” operatives and pundits
after recent socialist victories in New York and Colorado,
-- from James Carville calling for a party “schism” to Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s panicking about the future of the party on CNN.
Plus: we revisit our interviews…
@cdarwin@c.imTucker Carlson said he left the GOP because of the administration’s fervent support of Israel and the trajectory of the Iran war.
But he was vague about ideas for a third party’s platform, though he said he would not be a candidate himself.
Building a third party is not a new idea
— many have attempted to do it,
and third-party candidates do successfully run on local and national ballots.
It’s important work, proponents told NOTUS,
but gaining power outs…
@cdarwin@c.imThe DoJ civil rights division has seen dramatic changes since Trump came back into office last year and installed Harmeet Dhillon, a former Republican Party operative in California, to lead it.
Dhillon has fired employees in droves,
pushed out others through separation incentives tied to pressure campaigns,
reassigned staff
and rewritten the mission statements for each section in the division.
She has vastly reshaped the types of cases the office pursues
…
@cdarwin@c.imHispanic voters who helped re-elect Donald Trump in 2024 are discontent with his second-term economic and immigration policies,
according to recent polling
– indicating they may not be willing to support the president’s party in the midterm elections.
Despite a record number of Hispanic voters casting their ballots for the Republican president,
more than 65% said they are displeased with Trump’s handling of his job
and 78% said they would prefer to see the Democ…
@cdarwin@c.imIn a first for Google, the company confirmed that
its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May.
The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular.
Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face.
The circum…
@cdarwin@c.imThe killing of 26-year-old Colombian immigrant Joan Sebastian Guerrero
by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine,
has put the sparsely populated state back in the national spotlight
amid the ongoing fallout from a sexual assault allegation that led insurgent Democratic nominee Graham Platner to suspend his campaign for Senate.
The nomination will now be determined by Maine Democratic Party delegates in an accelerated
— and more crowded
— version of the race’s con…
