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Aspiring Renaissance dude, special interests include education, politics, history, heavy metal, tabletop roleplaying, being a massive nerd in general, and a bit of rugby here and there. Views entirely my own* (subject to conditions)
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Repeating myself from elsewhere - the situation with Iran and the US has been essentially a fuck-up-the-least contest and Iran, despite being up against world-leading fuck-up Donald J Trump, has won comprehensively

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Quite. The right is always setting the ability to speak English well as a test of integration and these children pass with flying colours.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

There's a lot of great quotes in The Expanse. Currently the one I'm thinking about a lot is "war is an inherently unstable combination of intense emotion, politics, and luck"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The hardest rule of Beltway journalism is that Republican public officials have no agency and bear no responsibility for choices fully within their discretion

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

there was a concerted elite effort over the past five years to make America as bigoted as possible, conducted so openly that Chris Rufo was simultaneously tweeting "i am going to be lying about this subject" and being quoted on the precise subject he declared that he was lying about in the NYT

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Still true: *Britain is a success story *Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well *Multiculturalism is popular *Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration *Nostalgia is increasingly weird *Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

my favourite ‘fucking with people’ fact is that every year I’ve lived in england- and that’s like fifteen at this point- the hottest day of the year has been hotter than the hottest day where my sister lives in Kenya

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Because the Turing Test only determines whether the subject is indistinguishable from a human to other humans, and humans anthropomorphise absolutely anything, simple chatbots passed it more or less immediately

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Some of the arguments being made this week in the Telegraph and London Standard about the authors' preferred ethnic makeup of Britain/London would have been considered dubious, antiquarian, and extremist in the 1990s.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Contemplating using BlueSky as a place to mull over my thinking about the DnD campaign I'm running, since none of the players are on here. Man, being responsible for the actions of very nearly an entire society is draining sometimes, y'know?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

submitted 8 days ago • 160 comments

This really is very good, especially the section ‘Do the ECHR-sceptics have a point?’ Best thing I’ve read on the subject for a while.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Think the awkward thing for all will be when the conclusion is that state services were just terrible at, and totally uninterested in, caring for vulnerable young girls from troubled and troublesome backgrounds.

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

More broadly, I think Reform should be pressed to show their hands a bit and make clear what they actually believe on immigration - because at the moment they are carrying together groups who support (a) less than now, (b) pre-90s levels, AND (c) Powellism.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Every individual involved in the manhandling of Senator Padilla needs to be fired, investigated, and, if appropriate, prosecuted.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Here's the problem with Donald Trump. We have no idea whether his 'America First' review of AUKUS will result in the collapse of the alliance, or if we'll simply end up having to pretend it's now called USAUK.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

This is the thing about Labour - they are getting things wrong but also getting other things right, and the reason for that is that they are just pretty raw at governing and went from campaigning to governing in a very short time. Expecting more narrative incoherence like this for the foreseeable

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Brilliant thread! Do take a look. It's bad enough being wise after the event, but it's nuts to think you can be wise before it.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 16 days ago • 171 comments

The fundamental physics rule of the original trilogy is ‘whatever physics create scenes most similar to the Battle of Midway as seen in movies’ there is no hope for consistency here

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

“I’m one of the good guys keeping America safe,” I tell myself as I try to kidnap a six-year-old girl from an elementary school.

submitted 13 days ago • 82 comments

I recently heard a high-profile pundit argue that the Trump movement cannot be Fascistic as -its supporters don't wear uniforms; -Trump dislikes foreign wars; -he hasn't tried to amend the Constitution. It's a dangerously complacent view, that misses the sheer gravity of the current situation. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments