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OK, since the "Globalize the Intifada" thing is coming up again, and I've seen Mamdani's comments on it, I'm going to try to explain why the "it's no big deal and nobody should find it threatening" approach is a bad one and should be rejected by people of good faith (which, IMO, includes Mamdani!)

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So can most fanfiction writers and no one's giving them a billion dollars an hour

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Social Media really did doom us by driving elites crazy. Marc Andreseen became convinced the social contract had broken down and that there was no point trying to be a socially responsible wealthy person because there was no philanthropy he could do that would make people stop yelling at him online.

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One of the funnier running subplots of the Trump era is that he hasn't won a Nobel Peace Prize, and it really eats at him.

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This needs to go under every single corporate announcement or advertisement about some bullshit “AI” feature they added.

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Forgot that I got a picture of this the other day, the charger rental you can only rent chargers from if your phone is already charged. I hate this thing so much

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Local, middle-aged woman outside the Europa Hotel in Belfast just now: "It's called 28 Years Later but I don't know what it's about - is it the Good Friday Agreement?

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Facebook tells me that ten years ago today I was moaning about this. Today is forecast for 33. In England.

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this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

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The Terrorism Act has a potentially very broad definition of "terrorism" that has only been tenable by governments not exploiting every last nook and cranny of that definition This looks like the government exploiting every last nook and cranny of that definition www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.

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when it comes to countries that gave up nuclear weapons or pursuing nuclear weapons, it's a mixed bag South Africa: clearly good - there's no threat to SA that nuclear weapons might deter, big diplomatic/moral/soft power win

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Props to AP for rightfully highlighting in their headline that Trump's can-kicking has no clear legal basis. Other outlets should follow suit. apnews.com/article/t...

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I don’t know these homeowners, but I know we could be friends. 😊 #dogsofBlueSky

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Campbell's Soup, tin cans and tariffs. Here's the story of the unexpected economic chain reaction that links the closure of a blast furnace in Wales with one of the most iconic American products in history... open.substack.com/pub/edconway...

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I’m sorry grammar check, you’re a monster. ‘Opaquer’ is an absolutely horrible word and I will stick to ‘more opaque’. Draw as many angry wavy lines as you like, I’m ignoring you.

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I can see we're going to have to start calling it the New York Sherlock Holmes Times

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one thing Americans might miss because of wankers like Goodhart is that the UK is an overwhelmingly white country as a whole. 83 percent of the population are white! 76 percent of that is 'white British' What sparks the panic is that London is highly multicultural and the pundits all live there.

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Never forget that #SesameStreet once did a sketch based on Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal, which involved a Swedish fisherman counting seals until he found the seventh one.

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"I hear you're thinking of being on the same side as Nigel Farage. Have you considered being on an even worse side than Nigel Farage?"

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I think Gunn is bang on here. This practice of jumping off the cliff and writing the screenplay on the way down is a recipe for disaster. It's also why so many movies have become 2+ hours. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Mingus in literary mode. I'm not a great Henry James fan myself, but each to their own.

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I once handled a medieval manuscript that smelled unusually of horses, which contributed to my discovery that it was a traveling notebook of sorts. Digital surrogates are wonderful but you can miss a lot if you don’t experience the manuscript in person.

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british fan chat

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I wore a name tag in the Army and had a badge and ID booklet when I was in, erm, the US Secret Service and always produced it on request

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the accompanying piece to this is that the FT crew came here and set up with a picnic lunch and while i'm sure it was harder than this from the inside it seemed like they were fully integrated by the end of the week. so: skill issue

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biplane visibility day

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Mad SF idea (free for the taking): you know how wombats shit cubes of poop? I posit that interstellar hyperwombats shit tesseract-shaped turds. In which case, how do you stack them?

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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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we need a video game where an axe-wielding Gritty fights Philadelphia's enemies - ICE, robots, people from New Jersey, the Dallas Cowboys.

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I appreciate that Carney has decided that he can just call Trump an idiot publicly as long and get away with it if he's even slightly clever about it lol

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Anyone who views politics in terms of sexual dominance and submission is fundamentally reactionary, even if they have leftist aesthetics.

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Carswell has changed enormously. Defected to Ukip tactically in 2014 as a pro-migration libertarian who wanted to keep Farage's "nativism" out of the 2016 referendum campaign, arguing Leave must ditch Powellism to win Now in Mississippi as a pro-AfD advocate of racist deportations of legal migrants

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The first leg of HS2 will finally open in about 2041, mocked by AI-powered reactionary columnists who deliver their takes in pill form. It'll immediately be popular, over capacity and we'll ask why we didn't do the job properly first time. Sadly WW5 will then break out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

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My story on a new report (by @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social @markpackuk.bsky.social) claiming almost £2m given to candidates in the 2024 general election has “essentially disappeared” from the public’s view of British political campaign finance. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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My bus to work has got greenfly. And they appear to be looking out of the window.

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Thoughts and prayers to anyone who has to count this. What a mess of an electoral system.

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This is the last thing the BBC needs

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3D animation did not kill the traditionally animated feature film, THIS did. in 2D animation, you need that rigid pipeline and solid leadership to finalize things before moving on. 3D got huge because it allowed more wiggle room, but that's not 3D's fault if you miss 2D features, T H I S is why

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Israel has also issued a Tehran 'evacuation order' - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... just a reminder that these do not in any way prevent indiscriminate or disproportionate bombing from being a war crime!

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For non-UK readers it's woth adding some context: if you are British, it is physically impossible to not help pick up smeone else's papers if they drop them. See also: the compulsion to say, "Sorry!" even when someone else has bumped into you.

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If the administration wants to join the attack against Iran, it should make its case to Congress and request an AUMF. There is no imminent threat of the kind that would justify bypassing Congress.

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I was arguing to friends the other day that people have confused Trump’s disdain for liberal interventionism with disdain for interventionism writ large

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Thanks to NPR for explaining that due to the ancient, mysterious culture of Persia, Iranians "don't like to be attacked" npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

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