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Wonder how perceptions would change if state 'benefits' were renamed 'support'.

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BREAKING: Mark Carney Just Declared Canada's Independence from U.S. Militarism In HUGE Announcement open.substack.com/pub/deanblun... BIG BIG

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

I never realised that electric car batteries had an afterlife and the use to which they could be put. In this video you will see they can store solar energy and power a home. Life expectancy 25 years?! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q44-...

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As ever, the Quakers’ slow careful work enables them to speak with clarity and humanity

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Quite a thing - as any student of judicial politics will tell you - for a letter to be signed both by former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption and by former appeal judge Stephen Sedley. They are about as far apart in their judicial outlooks as possible. lawyersletter.uk#signatories

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After a speech slamming migrants, the PM is rebuked by 15 bishops and religious leaders. You can’t play the statesman in Brussels one day and stoke fear at home the next. The two stories won’t co-exist. This and more from @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

I don’t want to live in a world where somebody drives a car into a crowd of people who just want to celebrate their football team. And I don’t want to live in a world where the police have to specify that person is white & British to stop hotels & mosques being firebombed.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

For those who sacrificed all, and the ones who will never forget them.

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They are burning kids alive in schools. The evil is unimaginable and our government is an accomplice.

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"Unless we fill the magic box with Elton John songs it won't be able to diagnose cancer." The AI "industry"doesn't need anything produced by the creative industry. All the potential applications of AI are ones that utilise databases of facts.

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This Olmert article needs to be reprinted and discussed in German media if it hasn’t already - many people who have already made these exact critiques in Germany have been persecuted for doing so.

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Almost interchangeable quotes.

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I think Frances Ryan and I have the same set of thoughts. Terrible poverty is a political choice, for countries with as much wealth as we have. Glad of the many Politicians who are challenging this awful situation. @francesryan.bsky.social

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We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

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17 years on, the Tories still paint the £45 billion bailout of RBS as a once in a lifetime economic disaster that proves Gordon Brown was a terrible PM. Brexit costs just as much every 19 months. Tories spent last week demanding we keep it. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

An apology to Keir Starmer:

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How can Labour see this and decide that Reform is their main (perhaps only) threat?

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This is just so embarrassing 🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

As a philosophy major who adored symbolic logic courses, this may be my favorite cartoon ever.

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

Possibly my favourite Strong Message Here title so far: The Island of Strangers and the Manacled Gimp of Brussels. In which I question why Keir Starmer has started tweeting in the voice of Danny Dyer. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I can't even. How about removing the cap not because of how it plays politically but because it will bring tens of thousands of children out of poverty? Fucking hell. Winning power should be about helping people not running scared of losing power.

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

This is well worth reading.

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I would probably find Kneecap very annoying. But I am rather glad they are there.

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crimes are wrong and bad and loads more people shouldn't do this

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Outside my old school in Odense in Denmark. No fences at all. Very relaxed.

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Reuters confirm that the photo of alleged white genocide in South Africa showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Earlier in the week, I binged listened to both episodes of this after a stressful day. A beautiful story well told and skillfully adapted for radio with just two voices. I totally forgot it was fiction. 140 memorable minutes well spent. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Lady Hale gets it: "There's nothing in that judgment that says that you can’t have gender neutral loos" www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Enjoyed listening to this podcast about a tall, fat, vain leader who betrayed everyone, blamed others for his failures, manipulated the media, facilitated the rise of the far right, and listened to the advice of a notably stupid son. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

On June 3rd, 2016, Michael Gove told Sky news that Brexit was: An opportunity "to take back control from unelected, unaccountable elites...." and to "fire them." That's Lord Gove to you plebs...

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

I see two Israelis are murdered in the US and we get wall to wall media coverage. Meanwhile, dozens of Palestinians are murdered and we get a passing comment. wtf.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Yet another example of the BBC's "report the 'controversy', not the facts" approach. Are white South Africans actually being persecuted? We given lots of opinions, hard facts not so much. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

I sent this to ~ 20 people in DMs with no context More than half of them responded with things like "Wow that sounds horrific do you know if she survived?" or wtf Nobody immediately called it out as AI-generated

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

Traffic backed up in the bike lane again while the car lanes sit empty. Someone should look into why we keep building car lanes.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Don't talk about what might happen, ramp up manufacture and fight back. For countries that claim to have Ukraine's back it sure takes a lot to do anything.

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"This government wants to move us closer to the European Union but is scared of having the conversation." @anandmenon.bsky.social (@ukandeu.bsky.social) on how Keir Starmer's government is approaching ties with the EU. Watch in full: bit.ly/44R4dhK

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I am in Berlin on holiday and took a 4 hour history walking tour yesterday. Everything the guide said about the rise of fascism in Germany has a parallel to the actions we're seeing...ahem...closer to home. Absolutely terrifying, I am more concerned than ever. History repeating.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

submitted 7 days ago • 223 comments

BREAKING: The IDF has explained it fired at Irish diplomats in the West Bank because it thought they were Palestinian civilians. How the fuck am I supposed to parody this shit? I quit 😭😭😭

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

This is—it bears repeating—ethnic cleansing and a war crime. It feels utterly pointless to say, and roughly equivalent to screaming into the void, but the United States should not be supporting or providing any aid to a state that has ethnic cleansing as a policy position.

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments