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Time zones + war + social media isn’t good really is it. The waking up people are full of energy and alarmed at the same time as the going to sleep people are exhausted and upset.

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In a free society, it should be no business of the PM who appears at music festivals. But then, the job of politicians isn't to uphold a free society, but to punch down whilst sucking up to those in power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

well, that hasn't made picking the correct religion any easier, has it

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

ad: hot girls are in your area! [calls a hot girl] hot girl: hot isn't it. very muggy. we could do with a bit of rain really. it's going to be like this all week apparently

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

WE CAN MAKE THE INTERNET FUN AGAIN THAT IS WITHIN OUR POWER MAKE A WEBSITE PUT ALL YOUR DUMB SHIT ON IT SHARE IT

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there is an enormous gulf between 'air strikes on Iran' and 'attempting to invade and occupy Iran' and one shouldn't be conflated with the other, especially since the consequences of the first will likely be bad enough by themselves.

submitted 16 hours ago • 23 comments

“Takes on Iran, sir. Thousands of ‘em”.

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What a time to be alive. The president of the United States doing battle damage assessment via sketchy OSINT accounts. I had blocked this particular account some time ago.

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

the Parliamentarian dropped a list of stuff that isn't eligible for reconciliation and this is the first time i'm hearing that they're trying to steal the Smithsonian's space shuttle this is (irrationally) the most upset i've been in a while

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 20 hours ago • 558 comments

Please Don’t Bring Your Whole Self To Work, We Literally Pay You And Have Policies So You Don’t Do That Day is today, and every day.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

I will be curious to see what legal authority the administration cites for this unauthorized act of war. Crazy stretch of the facts to fit some existing AUMF or just Article 2 Section LEEROY JENKINS

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

Unexpectedly formal

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

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!)

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

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.

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

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?

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 1 day ago • 96 comments

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...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

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...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

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.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

"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?"

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

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...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

british fan chat

submitted 39 days ago • 31 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

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?

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments