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listen, I can find myself as repelled by a culture of puritanical internet scolding as anyone, but if you think for one second that fascism is on the rise because "woke has gone too far" and not, for example, because of two decades of sustained depression of living standards, then you're a muppet

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I have been so excited since I found out this would be announced today! RIP any ability for me to concentrate: www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

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This is daft. If Frankie was a traitor why on earth would she lie? This "my word against yours" is the inevitable result. Telling the truth would be a much better strategy as she'd be 1 of 4 suspects rather than (as now) 1 of 2. So she is clearly a faithful. #thetraitors #traitors

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Not originally my snark, but when I came across it I was amused: I never expected the Imperial Radch books to predict anything, and yet here we are, legally all the same gender.

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"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

submitted 40 days ago • 52 comments

It's somehow much easier to accept that wonderful people can write terrible things, than it is to accept that terrible people can write wonderful things.

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Alexander: I'm a former diplomat and I worked in conflict zones for years Fozia: I'm a team player and I got off the train first Jack: I like piña coladas and getting caught in the rain #thetraitors

submitted 51 days ago • 12 comments

Not sure you can really be an avant-garde lawyer but I'll take it.

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NEW How the lore of New Year defeated the law of New Year How the English state gave up on insisting the new year started on 25 March By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-lo... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/01/how-...

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

Wondering if anyone else has been affected by any of the issues in Kafka's The Metamorphosis? At the moment I'm just putting out feelers.

submitted 60 days ago • 37 comments

If you are unsure if someone is Scottish or American simply ask them “Where’s Santa Fe?”

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

This is an absolutely wonderful Christmas story. Grab a cocoa and settle in.

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

I make it up pretty much at random.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

I make it up pretty much at random.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

"Not for me, thanks. Do you have any other flavours of nog?"

submitted 83 days ago • 9 comments

Loved the first two in this series. Very much looking forward to diving into the third.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Can't believe there's not been a single coup yet today.

submitted 86 days ago • 33 comments

Talking to the youths in 2023: did you know that "podcast" comes from a pun on "broadcast" plus the Apple iPod, a precursor to the iPhone that only played music Talking to the youths in 2043: did you know that "tweet" comes from a pun on Twitter, a precursor to various shortform social media

submitted 507 days ago • 12 comments

Yoon is now live

submitted 87 days ago • 10 comments

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

submitted 87 days ago • 214 comments

An attempted military coup is currently under way in South Korea on behalf of their embattled conservative President Yoon Suk-Yeol. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Have I had my mind changed on social media? Yes - NOT by arguing with randoms, but by following experts and first hand folks who share what they do, what they think and what's going on. The change isn't binary - I used to think one thing, and suddenly now another - it's slow and additive: Learning.

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If it's got snow it counts as a Christmas movie.

submitted 95 days ago • 924 comments

Netflix - please stop minimising the end credits of movies to suggest something else. Let viewers enjoy the soundtrack and see the cast and crew that worked on the film. We'll exit it ourselves when ready to. #film #filmsky #movies #moviesky

submitted 95 days ago • 1801 comments

At (nearly) 45 there are an amazing number of books/films about which you can say ‘oh yeah, enjoyed that, don’t really remember much about it’. It’s become my main critical view.

submitted 95 days ago • 39 comments

Amazing. This is what sand looks like under a microscope.

submitted 96 days ago • 18 comments

The real secret to the "Mediterranean diet" is eating equal qualities of pasta and antipasto so that they annihilate one another

submitted 99 days ago • 340 comments

We're about a decade in to this weird narrative where apparently centrists will always be driven right by us on the left but are somehow magically never driven left by the far-right.

submitted 102 days ago • 112 comments