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Read it whilst you can…

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

On this day of all days, hear the small and diminishing voice of survivors and not the barking loudspeaker of Elon Musk.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

submitted 47 days ago • 254 comments

“In an illustration of how extremist ideas can rapidly become normal with a little rhetorical resonance from the party’s friends across the Atlantic, the AfD’s national leaders, who used to avoid uttering the word “remigration” are now fully embracing the term” www.politico.eu/article/germ...

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Badenoch was Minister for Children and Families. She never once raised the issue of grooming gangs or met any survivors. But now she implies that Labour MPs are complicit, refuses to defend Jess Phillips and hopes to wreck the child safety bill. All to please Musk. Utterly… unforgivably detestable.

submitted 56 days ago • 56 comments

Thinking of Omar El Akkad's October 25th tweet: "One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this”.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

A short 30 years later, here we are.

submitted 78 days ago • 163 comments

The real luxuries in life.

submitted 82 days ago • 120 comments

Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies

submitted 91 days ago • 568 comments

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submitted 91 days ago • 127 comments

Ireland goes to the polls today in an election where everyone will easily cast a vote which will be counted by independent election officials working free of intimidation to deliver a safe result no-one will challenge and will likely lead to a coalition of mushy centrists who don’t work for Russia.

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

Someone called this mass exodus from Twitter ‘the fall of the Broman Empire’ and I died laughing. 💀

submitted 102 days ago • 1522 comments

💀

submitted 105 days ago • 132 comments

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

submitted 108 days ago • 174 comments

submitted 108 days ago • 6 comments

When Britain Brexited, it tried, very consciously, to pull Ireland out of Europe along with it. It tried to force an open border, with checks then on Irish goods going to Europe. It would have been the slow death of the economy and sovereignty. 🧵 bylinetimes.com/2024/11/15/d...

submitted 110 days ago • 7 comments

Word of the Day, should you need it, is ‘latibulate’, a 17th-century verb meaning to find a corner somewhere and hide in it.

submitted 111 days ago • 473 comments

There are many valid explanations for the success of the far right around the world. But much of it comes down to this: The right has realised that anything is possible, while the left has persuaded itself that nothing is possible.

submitted 110 days ago • 303 comments

This algorithm is a breath of fresh air

submitted 112 days ago • 78 comments