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submitted 1 day ago • 77 comments

I can explain this one: they got diddled and fleeced by the most repellent cynics in British politics, who used them like a flunky then dropped the second they were no longer useful. They are too self-important to now even recognise that they got conned and fucked silly, let alone to admit it.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

I cannot imagine a situation in which I could tell a student in good conscience that not-writing something, or indeed not-reading something, was a better use of their resources than writing or reading it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

"school closures during covid": That was Trump. "paralysis on women's sports": Its a moral panic being whipped up to allow for more attacks on LGBTQ+ people. "candidates running on late-term abortions": No one did this. Matt is lying.

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

Tesla has been selling "Full Self-Driving" for more than eight years now, and is only just hiring people to start working on the problem of "what if your only non-redundant sensor is obstructed by mud, or ice, or bird shit" I am so, so tired of this fucking clown show www.tesla.com/careers/sear...

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

my depressing but actual answer for this is, like a lot of republican policy, when you tell a normal person this they look at you like you have absolutely lost your mind and think you’re making it up.

submitted 5 hours ago • 22 comments

Trans people in Wes Streeting's constituency: 909 Wes Streeting's majority in his constituency: 528 (Sources www.ons.gov.uk/datasets/TS0... and www.bbc.co.uk/news/electio...).

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

The best response to Abundance talk is a single tweet from Ruairi Wood, RIP brother.

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

Somehow seems that despite all the big success stories of politics over the last three decades, we're averse to concluding "people who appear to believe in something sincerely are popular, being the kind of person perceived as someone who would say anything to get elected is unpopular"

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

This was a common talking point twenty years ago, that they were on the verge of being excluded from the family of nations because of their constant, deliberate, calculated human rights abuses. We should ask how come 17 years later, we were at “Israel must be allowed a bit of democide, as a treat”.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Does Barro think labor unions in New York City were weaker in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s when the city was building things more easily? Is that the argument?

submitted 5 hours ago • 35 comments

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submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Even if "white British" will be a minority in the UK in 40 years - so what? Seriously, so what? What is so terrible about that? Make people spell out their horrors. Make them spell out the things they are supposedly not allowed to say. Make them own it.

submitted 14 hours ago • 213 comments

for all that yglesias likes to brand himself as listening to data and objective evidence, this is pure vibes-based analysis from what people yell at him about online

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

People like this have it exactly backwards. Corbyn wasn't on a pedestal. We simply knew he was the best chance we'd had in ages to break the hold of the current lot, the means testing, repellent, bombs and briefcases freaks. And we lost, you all won, well done. Everyone happy now, are they?

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Corbyn hero worship is a myth peddled by people who couldn't stomach leftist policy.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Remember that Hind Rajab was killed in January 2024.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

British police: congratulations on getting a headline that looks like a United States police headline

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The perverse thing about this wave of people who think LLMs are sentient is that it's purely a result of the marketing of these products and credulous journalists boosting all of the most outlandish, bullshit claims (and fake "fears" that LLMs could become Skynet etc) by "AI" CEOs/investors.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

the difference between this and all the “brave anti-woke academic speaking out despite the risks” is that (a) she’s actually risking something, and (b) she’s actually saying something that’s correct

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

"Ms. Rachel sparked controversy last month when a 3-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her legs in an airstrike danced and sang in one of her videos." How can anybody write this and not feel insane, lol.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

this is who you're being mean to, if u even care

submitted 418 days ago • 8 comments

we’re reaching insane levels of caring about meaningless shit

submitted 7 hours ago • 248 comments

Just a lasty before the bus, goodnight people.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

This was Badenoch's best outing at PMQs. Answering her question about the two-child limit by suggesting she was pro-Moscow and pro-Hamas was shockingly poor, even by his low rhetorical standards.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

He’s only ever been richly rewarded for that behaviour, so why would he ever stop

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Well, on the precedent of the Chilcot Inquiry, we can look forward to some answers in about, oh, twelve years… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

RIP Edmund White--from his excellent 1979 call for solidarity between gays and "drags" (transvestites and transsexuals) "By placing drags in a respected position within the movement, gays will have elevated and defended what straight society most despises in all homosexuals."

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

NEW: Lifting the two-child limit and the benefit cap will immediately lift 400,000 children out of poverty, and 950,000 children will be living in less deep poverty.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

This is the thing about e.g. inventing roaring terrors of treasonous Marxist/Islamist subversion for your personal political gain: there is no “just the tip” form of far right conspiracism. You can’t just switch it off once you’ve used it to get your important and clout back.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Yes, and the problem here is that everyone knew very well they were gross breaches of humanitarian law, but made out like they didn’t. And that makes it very awkward indeed to now draw attention to them by - say - cutting off military aid or imposing sanctions.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Representatives from Labour Friends of Israel are there this week, shaking hands and doing photo ops with the president

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Let me cut to the core of our message: Fuck you, pay me.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

There are some very smart cis people writing about the right wing influence from US on UK and I am begging them to stop ignoring what is happening to trans people. They are not coming. They are here.

submitted 15 hours ago • 12 comments

Banality of evil, innit? She's just following orders. And when someone actually points out the implications of what she's doing, she has them dragged into court for harassing her with the truth.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

You’ll recall that crimes as serious as e.g. “Asking the Prime Minister what exactly his planned airstrikes on Syria would achieve, and then not voting for them because he couldn’t explain” were said to be a disgusting betrayal, tantamount to collaborating in mass murder of the innocent.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

This is fine as a general critique, but the one thing it doesn't mention is that those parts of the UK's defence policy that are not dictated by Washington are largely dictated by Fleet Street. Hence the madness. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Can we decide whether we’re worried about and trying to prevent repeats of last summer’s fash rioting, attacking members of the public, arson and attacking the cops, or whether we are actively trying to incite them? Because it seems like both MPs and media outlets are deeply confused about this.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

i just reordered my 2-a-day inhaler and it costs me like £11 a month for all my prescriptions. this is so insane

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

40 years to acclimatise, you whiny fucks

submitted 16 hours ago • 10 comments

a fun ourobouros is that AI detection software is going to become even more popular, but then generative AI will be trained on the methods used for AI detection, so the AI detection will have to be updated, so the generative AI will retrain itself to keep up, so the detection algorithms will update,

submitted 15 hours ago • 8 comments