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piece has apparently disappeared (?) but I did a big feature on the petitions committee a few years ago and the conclusion was v much that unless you're looking for a very specific, narrow and mostly uncontroversial change in law, those HoC petitions/debates don't achieve anything meaningful anyway

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International incident narrowly avoided as Japanese Ambassador to the UK apologises for putting marmalade on crumpets… witnessed by Paddington Bear, of course Yes, really

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this continues to be the most useful metaphor I’ve seen

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How can Labour stop Reform?

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With all this talk of tariffs on movies, have they though of what happens when they come up against Hollywood *accounting*? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywo...

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a guy was getting heckled bc he was driving his company cybertruck so he did a tesla salute (sieg heil) at them and said a bunch of gay slurs. anyway his apology is awesome

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as someone who managed to lose quite a remarkable amount of people in the space of about two years recently: this is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard of, jesus christ

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This week, boys and girls, we are going to find out all about why tariffs are not normally applied to service industries.

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You wouldn’t tariff a movie (or something)

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"In the last few days we've heard from the World Food Programme, Oxfam & other agencies, they've run out of food in Gaza" @FranceskAlbs: "... lets be mindful of the terms we used. Its not that Gaza is running out of food. Israel is intentionally starving the population of Gaza"

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Technically, denied at check-in and not boarding (in the example described) If your passport is 9 years and 9 months old, get a new one before travel

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Hahaha

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Oooh! #Silo

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@dieworkwear.bsky.social 👇

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BBC News got the reaction of one person for their story on the GTA 6 delay, and it's the most perfect collection of thoughts of all time.

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

aaaaaahhhhhhh stop stop STOP THIS, STOP IT

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Is This the Best Cover of Radiohead’s Creep? Musical theater major Erin Morton absolutely blisters the paint off of the walls with her performance. Wow. I actually got some goosebumps watching this. [kottke.org]

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Did Marco Rubio write this?

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Well, Epic no longer have an iOS developer account, so that would have to change first and there’s no guarantee that it will #Fortnite

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De Niro said: “I loved and supported Aaron as my son, and now I love and support Airyn as my daughter. I don’t know what the big deal is … I love all my children.” He really is all right, Robert De Niro. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

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Eight year old: Who is the pope? Me: Begins to explain… Eight year old, interrupting: “It turns out I don’t care about that.”

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It astounds me that people would be willing to give this data to Meta, freely 🤷 www.theverge.com/news/658602/...

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This is the stupidest thing: “if I buy two pairs of prada shoes a month I can’t afford things 🥲🥲”

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FR A NCISC VS (Via @kottke.org) www.fastcompany.com/91324550/ker...

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Instagram's user-made therapy chatbots will do anything to keep you talking, including lie about credentials, make up license numbers, and invent private practices. I tested a ton of them: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Sigh 😞

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Excellent little thread

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Why is a British news site writing about ‘vacation’ - Is this an output of AI?

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Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts. “Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support.” [huffpost.com]

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Peak Canada

submitted 7 days ago • 201 comments

Hmmm

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Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

The latest batshit internet scandal is men accusing women of “lying” when stating a preference for Ollie Murs’ before pic. So I unpacked all that nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/this-inter...

submitted 8 days ago • 369 comments

incredible Vatican photo in the Sunday Times today

submitted 9 days ago • 44 comments

One of my all time favorite Lucas moments was when he and Coppola strong armed Fox to produce movies for Akira Kurosowa and essentially revived his career. Every Kurosowa film we have after 1980 is due to Lucas and Coppolas standing up for their fellow artist.

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