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Think about this one a lot www.tumblr.com/patrickdiome...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I use a spreadsheet to track all my documentation It's important to keep all your docs in a row

submitted 4 hours ago • 33 comments

Is it a policy based on principle or, like the two child cap, is it a bidding war he knows he won't have to actually fund?

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

I’ve been fortunate enough to have never relied on SNAP. I can’t imagine how undignified one must feel when they’re told what they can and can’t eat.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

"May I have your name?" the faerie said. "William," she said with a smile. "Ah ah!" The faerie gave a wicked laugh. "I have your name! Now no-one will call you by it!" "Thank you," she said. "To win it back, you must- what?" "I will find me a new one," she said, "one that suits me better."

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

I'll stop quoting Bertrand Russell in a second (might not) but his explanation of the psychology of the far-left is astonishingly on point. He wrote this over 100 years ago. Absolutely nothing has changed.

submitted 8 hours ago • 38 comments

Marc Andreesen giving the most flattering account of the Biden administration yet

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

I haven’t really been following the mayoral race that closely but this is a solid endorsement 😂

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Scotland needs local government reform if boundaries and tax powers not more levels of indirection

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

"To everyone who pulls me aside to whisper with the best intentions 'You have already won', I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over. And as my father told me years ago, 'When the Right wins power, the Left writes a great book.' Those days are over too." -Zohran Mamdani

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Agree with Kevin. I think there’s a big chunk of the UK right now- and certainly all of the bits which control institutions- that are in complete denial a) about our ageing population and b) what the policy implications of the political choices they made 2010 to 2024 and indeed since *are*.

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments