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Opsimath, betwixt fascinating rock and smart looking hard place. #OUFC
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Fun fact: The Daily Mail spent years stealing mine (and other bloggers) photos and running them with the caption: "Copyright: Internet" (So while I'm pro this sort of thing, let's not pretend the papers are acting in anything other than self-interest)

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The Guardian taking the money for this ad while making a deal with OpenAI

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I do think that people keeping their jobs when all they do is fuck up massively is an underated factor in people losing trust in journalism

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

I see the algorithms are at it again.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Lovely pub lunch, but I was confused as to whether this was a memorial, if they were barred, or if this was the lobster tank equivalent in a Korean restaurant. Sorry, if there's a hell I'm almost certainly going there anyway.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I've escaped for a little while, to be by the sea in the gloaming, and listen to the Oystercatchers on the flats in the Bay.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

My new favourite insult (via Felicity Cloake

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Afrikaners. Famously the indigenous population of South Africa.

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

there's missing the point and then there's being overseas from the point

submitted 15 days ago • 21 comments

They did, but as they sound surprised they clearly didn't study Weinmar German history. The Rule of Law isn't coming back until you find a way to remove this lot from power. The Rule of Law won't do that now.

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I know some of you are deeply worried about AI taking over, but be reassured that M$ Copilot is fighting back, with this zinger based on 2 pages of simple headed sectioned text.

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Oops 😬

submitted 18 days ago • 1042 comments

Points to whoever in Dog Man got Gervais to voice a fish giving a Soliloquy about how noone likes him but he doesn't understand why. #Dogman

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NOT TO GET POLITICAL but it’s objectively hilarious that Buzz Aldrin is the only MAGA who doesn’t think we faked the moon landing

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Wait, I've found 2025 in breakfast form. £4.19

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I was expecting to be disappointed, but then WS enters the chat. Imagine putting your worst person in charge of your best asset.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Ceci n'est pas une Vale Park

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Being a bake-off dickhead.

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When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 23 days ago • 1308 comments

A reminder that when fascism sinks its claws into the Republic, the resistance leaders who emerge won't be the ones you've heard of. It will be people like the National Cathedral's Bishop Mariann Budde and the FBI's James Dennehy. Not House and Senate Democrats.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

We’ve never seen such division in this country, and I suspect that there’s multiplication, addition and subtraction happening, too. MATH MUST BE STOPPED

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

Huge if true

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When I finished high school in Brussels in 1999, the vast majority of students from my year, who came from all over Europe, especially those with really good exam results, wanted to go to university in only one country: The UK.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

28th January 2025 08.19

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

Bloody hell. Why are the #DWP so evil?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

increasingly convinced that they're going to Liz Truss the economy, but in a system that is incapable of removing the Truss.

submitted 29 days ago • 49 comments

This could be us but you keep mumbling about your dignity.

submitted 29 days ago • 17 comments

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

submitted 30 days ago • 277 comments

How your e-mail finds me

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Deafening silence from Farage (rhymes with garage) teeny tiny Tommeh et al. How surprising 😑

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Reading Orwell years ago I would laugh and know people couldn’t possibly be that stupid again. Well now I’m crying, thanks so much guys.

submitted 30 days ago • 17 comments

This is why you don't design curricula around "jobs of the future". We can't predict the future but we do know what general skills and knowledge will be valuable whatever job you do.

submitted 31 days ago • 94 comments

Recently learned there is a high end jet service exclusively for flying pets and their owners across the Atlantic, and boy, do I have an idea for a solid, 2/5 action film.

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

#oufc best Greg Leigh side eye ever.

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Top Tip: Deflect any criticism by adding "...like a FOX!" after it. E.g. "Oh yeah? Grossly incompetent like a FOX!"

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