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Is the Trump movement fascistic? Some thoughts on how we distinguish the form and substance of fascism, and whether it's the right question at all. ⬇️

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I mean, I've been to Reading, and I liked it, but...

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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🚨…WE ARE BEING TOLD THE FRONT LINE OF THE INSURRECTION HAS MOVED TO THE HOME DEPOT PAINT AISLE. MARINES SUBDUED ONE DIY HOMEOWNER WHO WAS BROWSING CEILING PRIMERS AND TWO SUSPECTED CRAFTERS CARRYING A SUSPICIOUSLY LARGE NUMBER OF BEHR PAINT SWATCHES…SUPPORT DRONES REMAIN STUCK IN THE GARDEN SECTION…

submitted 18 hours ago • 74 comments

is the entire thing a weird troll? fascinated by some of the choices on display there - this one is ideal if the message you want to send is "I fucked the groom, and I'll try to do it again tonight if you're not careful"

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The New Yorker diaereses are out of control.

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I think truth social just crashed lmfao

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“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

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We've profiled so many rotters on Origin Story that we thought we'd end season 7 with a good man. In part one we talk about his personality, his ideas, his friends and enemies, and how he led the civil rights movement in the decade between Montgomery and Selma.

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There used to be a suggestion for startups to just ship something “manual” to test the market before investing in building it. I guess someone took the advice too far (into investment and all) and released just Actually Indians.

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Back in the Twitter glory days I had a long-running thread where I was attempting to taste and rate every single sandwich available on the Tesco meal deal. Sadly Elon had to come along and ruin that, so I'm left with no other choice: I'm starting again. On here. Let's go ...

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So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

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yeah several of my Moroccan relatives have wanted to come visit me over the years and it's just never ended up being feasible, despite all of them being very middle-class and in reasonably well-paid professions - it really sucks!

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Zelenskyy just mocking Putin now: “The ‘office’ of our operation on Russian territory was located directly next to an FSB headquarters in one of their regions.”

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

This is true.

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Super interesting thread. Well worth reading in its entirety if you’re interested in how work works and different organisations work differently.

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Watched a parent explain messenger pigeons to a very young child and the kid's mind was BLOWN. Like...birds? Trained birds? Trained birds that delivered messages????? And these were pigeons...like PIGEON-pigeons???????! Like that pigeon right there? C'MERE PIGEON!!!!!!!

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BITD if someone needed a giant prop for a photoshoot there was no CGing it into existence. We built gigantic snowglobes, toothbrushes, VHS cassettes, pound coins, cheeses, sweets, Oscar statues and remote controls...

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“Is this a dagger I see before me?” Weight: 3 Damage: 11 +2 bonus against kings of Scotland

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I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.

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It’s the 623rd anniversary of Satan manifesting himself in... er, Chelmsford. Obviously, this is true. It says so in Thomas Walsingham’s Historia Anglicana: “Diabolica species apparuit in Estsexia apud Danbury”

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"Protecting women".

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Good morning #Stockport - we're open 1-7pm this bank holiday Sunday if you fancy a pint & a pizza.

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Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

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This guy is Reform’s new councillor for Stretton in Staffordshire. This is what you get with that party - all they’re interested in is making libs cry. They’re too weak and pathetic to do the hard yards. Imagine what a Reform government would be like.

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Thinking in layers for product managers: - time orchestration multiple possibilities while delivering in the present - dual-track thinking delivery with cadences discovery in the background buff.ly/4Kyj96u #productmanagement

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"Katwala's paradox of racism" In a demonstrably less prejudiced society (attitudes shifted, esp across generations), I am in receipt of much more racism Minorities in 2020s have more equal opps than ever before - esp at very top - yet an increasingly unequal experience of more equal opportunities

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Good GRIEF.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

What even IS a Tottenham Hotspur?

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Happy Murderbot day, everybody.

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This’ll do.

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Reminds me of that John Finnemore sketch: "Mulligan's ice lollies. They're not poison!"

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