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Zelenskyy stayed in Kyiv while Russia was bombing the city and sending in hit squads to kill him. J.D. Vance fled to an undisclosed location because some peaceful protesters yelled at him while he was on vacation. This is why I believe victory over these people is still possible.

submitted 19 hours ago • 88 comments

The whole suit thing is a sideshow. He could have shown up in white tie and they’d have done the same thing. Still, a few thoughts: The man’s wearing what he wears to fight a war. It’s a damn uniform with his country’s crest on it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 10 comments

Re-watching Ted Lasso with my wife and I get why some people didn't like it. The drama is a bit too contrived, with too much American schmaltz and positivity for me in places. But its core is about kindness, forgiveness, growth and friendship, especially among men. That's in short supply at the mo.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Or "How a planted question by QAnon weirdo Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend may have fuelled Oval Office spat". Come on BBC, you can do better than this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Fascinating to watch the British press, so proud of eventually standing up to Hitler, pretend Starmer's arm-touching diplomacy bullshit is the way out of this. Zelensky, and anyone with a reasonable grasp of history, already knows how it ends with shills like Trump and Vance. Bought and paid for.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

No more US Worldcons while this policy is in place. It's probably too late for @seattlein2025.org , but @laworldcon.bsky.social should consider whether it's possible to move to an alternate location outside the US. Certainly going forward we shouldn't seat any more US Worldcons.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

'Golden Do Me' is also the title of Trump's Russian sex tape. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Get vaccinated. Get your kids vaccinated. apnews.com/article/meas...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Zelensky is perhaps the defining figure of our age. Brave, ingenious, pragmatic and defined by his convictions. They hate him because he kills fascists.

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

You know, they never stop at one group. Never. They come for one, they (eventually) come for all. They start with the smallest because they know the others will go about their business, thinking it will never happen to them. We should all be thinking about this. Because they will get to you.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I find this VHI ad so creepy. It's like the start of a horror movie, all shit-eating smiles till you press the wrong button in the lift and end up on the organ-harvesting level.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Farage says the UK needs more industry, for which it needs more workers. But not brown, non-Christian workers. It's obviously racist, but it's also fucking daft. Even if you could force good, white, British, Christian women to have more kids tomorrow, it's effect on industry would be 25 years away.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

That's nothing. I've been breathing in carbon dioxide for 50 years. What's more, I breathe in more every year than I did the one before.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Without wishing to sound like a conspiracy nut, I can't help thinking of a James Smythe novel (Cold Water?). My memory is the pirates in the book were very deliberately directed and funded by utterly opaque forces from one superpower or another. There is an embarrassment of potential motives here.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"So why on earth is our 'liberal' media credulously giving Republicans the benefit of the doubt on this? Treating their obsession with DEI as anything other than what it is? Anti-Black racism. The new N-word. A three-letter slur that seeks to, once again, mainstream bigotry and discrimination."

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I breathed my own carbon dioxide having a cup of tea this morning

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Frankly it’s embarrassing how much George Orwell’s “1984” gets wrong about 1984. The publisher should update it to be more accurate, e.g. “Winston heard ‘Eat It’ by Weird Al Yankovic playing on the radio. ‘I’d hate to be Michael Jackson right now!’ he said to Big Brother”

submitted 22 days ago • 138 comments

In a small village deep in the English countryside, Jesus McJesusface finally hears the call of History.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

That's Musk done then.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It begins. If we pre-book tickets now, could we skip the next three months of 'news' stories, social posts, documentary series and folk songs about the stunts in Mission: Impossible? You wouldn't even have to go to the movie, Tom still gets paid and thinks of the hours you'd save.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Even if they would simply stop at one minority - and they never do, their hunger for cruelty is never sated - it would be morally inexcusable to abandon that one minority. We fight as we would want to be fought for, no matter who is under that threat.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

What a damaged little loser Musk is, trying to fix 50-year-old damage from the neglect of one bigot dad by spending all that time and money to please another. Time to grow up

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It's going to get really weird if Trump and Musk become the ultimate justification for the 2nd Amendment.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"We're going to do some genocide Marge. If we don't come back, avenge our deaths."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

That sounds pretty good about now. www.independent.co.uk/tech/univers...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Let me just gloss this, on Trump’s trade war, because it’s making people unhappy.

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

So, if federal agencies like the NTSB are now being compelled to ONLY release public information via Ex-Twitter, that means Ex-twitter is state media and an official channel of the Federal government, and can be sued for censorship. Have at it, lawyers. There's billions to take from the man.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

This sounds far less flattering if you say it with an Irish accent

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I've just been on the BBC World Service talking about space colonisation. A strange, nerve-wracking but ultimately enjoyable start to the day!

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

"Dress right with Eva Braun"; "Imelda Marcos make-up tips"; "Quick tips to be Ceausescu-chic"

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

How about restoring the level of central funding, which was cut in absolute terms by 40% by the Tories?

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Ooh, the odometer is about to roll over. Still some way behind the cesspit of X, but not bad.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments