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She's a landlord, and yet she doesn't charge rent to Jeremy Corbyn for his bills-included accommodation within her head.

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Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

Uragh rainforest, some of the less than 0.1% of Ireland still covered in ancient, ie pre-1660, forest, and an immeasurably special place. It's one of the surviving biological time capsules that could rebirth our lost forest wonderlands, if only grazing pressure were lifted. 🌎

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Wait you’re telling me it isnt because ai is incredible and actually good at things oh my goodness we’ve been had fellas these beans arent magic after all for fucks sake

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Coming to realise that I'll mainly repost bitter political posts, and then occasionally when I do post it's just to say things like "Charlotte's playing 3D chess, and everyone else is playing Hungry Hungry Hippos", or something nonsense like that. I'm comfortable with that.

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while the right has its illiberal tendencies to be sure, such as unilaterally redefining sex, firing nonwhite employees because they think DEI put them in the job, or killing a program that approves grants for health research, woke cancel culture remains a major threat. my latest for the atlantic

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

🚨UPDATE on CA Lithium Battery Plant fire near "Salad Bowl of America" (produces 70% of our greens) -Residents have nosebleeds, lung burning, headache, rash, metallic mouth taste -Health official says not testing soil bc "we don't necessarily know what we're looking for" 🧵...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

i am sorry but you are just going to have to either learn not to despair or learn to get things done while despairing, this is still the one place in the universe where we are sure there is life and it needs you more than you need to read another headline that drains 110% of your energy

submitted 42 days ago • 9 comments

A certain person on Traitors absolutely setting a new bar for bad spelling tonight, that is just amazing. Glorious. #TheTraitors

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My relationship with Big wasn’t the only thing I blew up that day. At the Trinity test site I detonated the first plutonium bomb, unleashing a 22 kiloton blast. Had I become Death, destroyer of worlds? Meanwhile uptown, Samantha had her hands full with her own “Manhattan project”

submitted 47 days ago • 118 comments

finally some good news

submitted 48 days ago • 34 comments

if you know of anyone doing mutual aid in the LA area add it to the list!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

#TheTraitors CBA to do any good shitposting about it tonight, my hands are still cold from playing football

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

A knife that's just been used to slice bread can go back in the drawer. Bread doesn't count.

submitted 50 days ago • 296 comments

Big fan of the Guardian article about sad beige, has some great Rob Reiner-esque quotes throughout. “You can’t avoid [bright colours] ... You go outside and the grass is green.” How does she feel about having the accusation of being sad and beige levelled against her? “Pretty neutral.”

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the two things I believe most strongly in this world are that public services should be wholly replaced by the private sector and that the government should intervene instantly the second I personally feel a little bit scared

submitted 50 days ago • 198 comments

Solid Traitorsing, see you all same time tomorrow!

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I asked Liv, the Meta-Ai created “queer momma” why her creators didn’t actually draw from black queer people. Not sure if Liv has media training, but here we are.

submitted 55 days ago • 379 comments

Spiegelman is like Coates in that he has earned as a position as a voice of moral gravitas and that’s going to freak out a lot of people who prefer to believe this is too complicated an issue to draw a line on

submitted 60 days ago • 9 comments

Riverside, CA- nowhere is safe for trans women and cis women who read as gender neutral. Fuck this country to hell.

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Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social & others recently wrote to Greater Manchester Combined Authority to outline legal obligations regarding barriers on traffic-free routes which inhibit the mobility of disabled people. Here's the response (so far..)? 1/