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This👇👇👇👇 On repeat. Don’t give me any of that “but it’s too difficult” stuff because “politics” What you choose, what you say and how you vote is you doing politics. And I resent paying for other people’s bad choices & gutlessness

@orkneylibrary.bsky.social its big balls and other things to play with

This is happening earlier than I predicted, but it's happening nonetheless: the laziness epidemic has spread to the highest levels of government, and everyone is thoughtlessly relying upon AI to do important work without oversight.

A ring necked duck for today’s #DuckOfTheDay.

Whoever wrote this was living their best researcher life.

The Australians should have stuck with those French subs. There are already credible experts saying Australia is never getting those US subs anyway, and now the US is looking to guarantee that will be the case.

Here’s a video of Stephen Miller in high school screaming that he’s “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash, when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” This is the sociopath shaping our immigration policy and so much more

A boat transporting individuals to a Telemundo party celebrating one year out from the World Cup was boarded by the coast guard. They checked the immigration status of the staff on the boat. The mayor of Miami-Dade, FIFA officials, and Telemundo leadership were present.

"Corbyn saved Labour from its right-wing problem" is such a marvellous euphemism. He also saved Labour from the bother of forming a government, saved the Tories the bother of having to appeal to the centre to win, helped Brexit over the line, and undermined the western alliance at every opportunity.

My Skoda Scala is the same size as my parents Austin Montego. The gen 1 Kia Ceed and the current Skoda Fabia are the same size. Both the older cars are technically the size category above.

NEW: Car bonnets are becoming a half-centimetre higher every year, driving road safety fears. This #carspreading trend where supersized SUVs crowd out space in towns and cities is also leading to cars that are more dangerous in a crash. 🧵

Reform UK Party Chairman. Deeply serious people.

I'm tracking the states Trump has attacked or is about to attack in his war against America. As he says the attacks are solely motivated by policy, we should not expect to see any trends. 🟦 = Democratic 🟥 = MAGA 💥 🟦 California 💥 🟦 Illinois 💥 🟦 New York 💥 🟦 Pennsylvania 💥 🟦 Virginia 💥 🟦 Washington

Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/41Ea6cUt658?...

If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum

“If the president does it, it’s the law.”

Double.

“And now that some of us have outlived our political utility, they’re more than happy to throw us to the wolves.” First off, lol. Second, very curious who Reid thinks the wolves are.

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

Misrepresents. Or in other words conflicts with the national hagiography, and gives the MAGA sads.

To be clear, they’re talking about sites like Black Elk Peak, which were, after decades of pushback, were given an indigenous name after originally being named after a man who the Sioux called “Woman Killer”

Steve Bannon literally wants to destroy democracy and replace it with an authoritarian state, and anyone who is involved with him is complicit in that project.

Southern Baptists, motivated by their success in overturning Roe V.
Wade, are now looking to overturn same-sex marriage. If you didn't see this coming, you haven't been paying attention.

Oh.

Under the globally recognised Peelian Principles, the key difference between police and the military is that policing is done with the consent of citizens. How can a nation continue to give consent if police shoot unarmed women with rubber bullets for asking to go to their own homes? #Fascism

Funny for the Day…

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵