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again shout out to the Inbetweeners, where, a) they're played by people in their early 20s who can still pull off looking genuinely teenage (awkward and ugly) and b) absolutely nobody gets laid in the entire series until the movie spin-offs

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

I can't stop thinking about how the "Gender Critical" response to hundreds of leading UK biologists signing a letter saying sex isn't binary or immutable is "I can't believe that school kids know more about biology than these biologists". Can you imagine saying that out loud without thinking?! Mad

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

Again why Rivers of London is a better series. There are no wizards as they basically got blown up in WWII

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Back in the UK for a week, thought I'd look on the NHS app for an appointment thinking I'd humour myself: Had loads of in-person appointments available the same week

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

last names are often about trades so at what point do we see names like James Saas, Taylor Medtech, Lesley Automotive

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

If you are saying care workers are underpaid, then I agree. Not so much “immigrants undercutting” as “doing the jobs you wouldn’t dream of doing unless the wage was a whole lot higher” and you aren’t going to get that wage higher under the current funding model are you, come on.

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

submitted 28 days ago • 72 comments

Just wanted to get this kinda obvious idea down in my own words so I can refer to it. I think a lot of the political dynamic in the contemporary west arises from the interplay of two forces - which basically amount to voters wanting the impossible. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/04/more...

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 44 days ago • 218 comments

its wild how american evangenicalism is basically just a neopagan heresy

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

the official playlist of bluesky, where we are all 38 years old

submitted 62 days ago • 143 comments

Honestly this is just so depressing, like, the most UK politics thing ever for the prime minister to announce 'we will use an accounting trick to get an insufficient increase' and the leader of the opposition to reply with an argument based on their own fantasies and half-understood buzzwords.

submitted 93 days ago • 9 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 96 days ago • 133 comments

i will do it. “have you ever, or have you interacted with anyone who has ever, coded in python?“

submitted 100 days ago • 26 comments

Dear god

submitted 113 days ago • 182 comments

my first day at USAID as one of Musk's implants. my supervisor, basedtaborisky1488, asks me to put together a white paper on whether the janjaweed is woke or antiwoke. i rail four lines of Soviet hovercraft skirt deicer off of a mysterious server installed by a guy in a PLA uniform and get to work.

submitted 116 days ago • 16 comments

One reason why an inquiry into the Southport murders is timely IMV is the gap between MI5's (IMO correct) identification of this problem and the police response to this particular manifestation of it: www.mi5.gov.uk/director-gen...

submitted 129 days ago • 5 comments

man how did tiktok get so good at playing to the whims of autocrats

submitted 130 days ago • 123 comments

My spicy take is, just as most “boomer” discourse is a way of talking about class disparity without actually talking about class disparity, most “Nepo baby” chat is actually middle class on middle class internecine warfare.

submitted 132 days ago • 8 comments

So to reiterate a point I've made before, a major reason people are unable to grasp the scale of China is because Beijing and Shanghai give them a distorted notion because they assume that this is a significant percentage of the Chinese population based on their models of other countries.

submitted 132 days ago • 8 comments

Getting together with my friends to PostHog

submitted 134 days ago • 62 comments

"Peter Thiel, longtime Trump supporter and billionaire master of the universe, published an op-ed in Financial Times that perfectly replicates the experience of being cornered by a sweaty cokehead at an Austin, Texas house party."

submitted 138 days ago • 180 comments

I scream into the void but the void went to yale and starts lecturing me on escalation management

submitted 139 days ago • 36 comments

Imagine bankrolling a radical movement, buying Bond villain hideaways, getting a President elected and then writing the most embarrassingly sixth form oped of all time in the FT. Kudos my friend. Kudos.

submitted 139 days ago • 6 comments

"Preparing food at home?! Stand by your pan! Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires! This message brought to you by the CPSC discourse hijacker bot!"

submitted 144 days ago • 28 comments

what's really ragingly depressing for people in Britain is that you absolutely could not buy a house on £80k in basically any popular places here either but 80k in Britain is a much higher salary than 100k is in the US 🤙

submitted 145 days ago • 23 comments

I regret to inform you that fighting for HM Charles III of Canada may soon be the historically progressive position.

submitted 150 days ago • 2 comments

Gromit……one of THE cinematic divas.

submitted 155 days ago • 1 comment

Tragic that I found this only to know I'll never be able to get it www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Guy sees dog & owner w/ sign "FOR SALE: TALKING DOG - $10". Dog: "please buy me sir, I'm a highly decorated former K9 Navy Seal who has done covert ops in 40 countries" Guy to owner: "that's incredible, why is he only $10?" Owner: "because he's a fucking liar - he's never even left the county!"

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

Anti vaxx is unambiguously the most evil movement of our time. It's people trying to kill children not because of any vision or higher values, just conspiratorial lunatics and their shameless power hungry lickspittles. An orgy of nihilism destroying one of our greatest achievements as a species

submitted 161 days ago • 10 comments

Serious question: how would an M1A2 Abrams tank cope with 10,000 duck sized horses

submitted 164 days ago • 5 comments

Pentagon Wars bros in shambles right now

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

The Telegraph editorial board just postulating as inevitable the success of Trump's economic agenda is an incredible combination of boot-licking and the kind of blind faith more commonly associated with a five year old's view of Daddy.

submitted 165 days ago • 20 comments

There are many things wrong with the House of Commons. But a really important one is that it’s got much, much worse at making and debating laws. Me for @thetimes.com on a big and under-reported issue www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 165 days ago • 12 comments

why doesn't the TfL website show you a live map of which lines are and aren't running anymore! why do they ask you to download an app to see it now! why does everything online keep getting less convenient!!!!!!!!!!!

submitted 165 days ago • 19 comments