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Hear, hear!

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Out for some Czech pivo (beer) with my Czech man. 🇨🇿

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It’s immensely fun watching the inevitable unfold, I find.

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I am absolutely horrified by the scenes in Liverpool. My thoughts are with everybody affected. Liverpool will always hold a special place in my heart — it is a city of unique strength, spirit and unity. Tonight and always, you’ll never walk alone.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Wow!

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This is deeply disgusting. Wearing his pathetic campaign hat to the West Point graduation.

submitted 13 days ago • 2200 comments

My heart bleeds. ‘I don’t know what we’ll do when disposable vapes are banned.’ Buy a reusable one? Maybe?

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Immigrants and trans people ARE NOT the source of your woes. They are vulnerable and heavily marginalised groups in dire need of our compassion and love. We must do better, or we risk destroying ourselves with our hatred.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck off, Starmer. You can piss all the way off with this right-wing appeasement. You’re wrong. Do better.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

@susiedent.com I find myself inexplicably viscerally irritated by the word “flavourful”; I feel a primal urge to correct it to “flavoursome.” Is the former ever proper?

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I will not explain the context, but I just said in conversation “what’s a bit of cronyism among friends?” I’m unapologetically cackling at myself.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve just resigned my Labour Party membership and am in the process of writing a letter to my local MP explaining why. In summary, though: inaction, marginalisation, beige centrism, and a profound unwillingness to defend that which we all must hold dearest… democracy itself.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

The slow march into global fascism is well underway. Marching along demonstrates astonishing complacency. Keir Starmer’s insidious brand of passive leadership fills me with a similar dread to that which Reform brings me, of late. We need some energy from the left, not viciously vanilla ignorance.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Reform’s outstanding performance in today’s Local Elections in the UK is evidence, if evidence was needed, of the authoritarian sickness gripping the world. Fascism will be our downfall, and the time for silent complacency is far behind us.

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This new thing that media companies are doing, where they say “accept all cookies, or pay to reject,” is quite clearly unethical. It positions privacy— a fundamental right— as something attainable only by those wealthy enough to pay for it. It’s quite gross, really.

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Yesterday, by popular demand, I purchased a filter coffee machine for my office to have alongside our Nespresso machine. We've been spending far too much on pods that actually don't make particularly good coffee. I've got to say, though, @techconnectify.bsky.social made me do it.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

The solution to right-wing populism is not left-wing populism... pass it on.

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Pierre Poilievre managed to go thru all that — years of campaigning on the public dime; the most important election in modern Canadian history; losing a historic lead in the polls with historic speed; losing his own riding — ALL without actually proving that he could pass the normal security check.

submitted 38 days ago • 40 comments

Cars are very cool, but I think perhaps we should roll back some of the things that make them so cool, like the fact that a single headlight assembly for my car costs /over a thousand dollars/. No wonder cars are so expensive to insure now!

submitted 38 days ago • 357 comments

When the moment came, Harvard didn’t hedge or flinch—it stood up. A reminder that integrity isn’t complicated, it’s just rare.

submitted 43 days ago • 612 comments

Transphobes who are obsessed with determining if strangers are transgender are called “transvestigators.” When you see that word, you know that someone is obsessed with other people’s genitals. We used to call such people “perverts.”

submitted 43 days ago • 69 comments

#TransWomenAreWomen 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

You are a coward, Bridget Phillipson. Any big, burly, muscular trans men out there? Your instructions couldn’t be clearer.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Shut down the youth clubs. Sell off the playing fields. Put up "no ball games" signs. Make public places hostile to teenagers. Then: "Young people, eh? Always indoors looking at their phones."

submitted 48 days ago • 88 comments

Today in the news: “The Supreme Court gave transphobes legal permission to be systemically transphobic, and now they’re using it.” Also in the news: “Water, wet.”

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

It feels pertinent today to reiterate my long-held view: TERFs... trans people are not your enemy! Perverts are. Trans people ≠ perverts. Everyone ought to take issue with perverts, but marginalising trans people just because a tiny minority may be a risk makes no sense. Trans women are women. 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Google: “You will have this marketing email because we’ve decided it’s mandatory!” Oh, the joy of trying to unsubscribe. Mandatory spam is a new one, though.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

We are way past impeachment time

submitted 53 days ago • 1121 comments

I’m not someone who gets particularly hung up on people mispronouncing words. Language is fluid and varies by locality. However, this one thoroughly grinds my gears… It’s nuclear, from nucleus, as in the nucleus of an atom. IT IS NOT “NUCULAR”! New-klee-ar, not new-kyu-lar. Arghhh! 😅

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

This, America, is what you could have had. Remember that for the next few years; Lord knows the rest of us will.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, ok, I think I understand... so the ECHR is good now?

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CNN: Stock market plummets MSNBC: Stock market craters Highlights for Children: Stock market down big FOX News:

submitted 64 days ago • 807 comments

My oven is a pretty standard thing but it has this feature called "rapid preheat" where it will run both the broil and the bake elements together until it's within 50° of your target. This feature is approximately 700X more useful and interesting than having it connected to the internet.

submitted 64 days ago • 217 comments

“Reciprocal” tariffs are the new “clean coal.” (they aren’t reciprocal, and it isn’t clean)

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

I hadn't considered this angle, but it's not a bad point.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

As I've mentioned before, I'm a volunteer Emergency Responder at St John Ambulance. I'm also the Deputy County Commissioner for Northumbria and Durham. St John Ambulance is a very old and complex organisation, owned by its even older and more complex parent, the Order of St John.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Trump has the perfect get-out-of-jail-free card: “I know nothing about it”

submitted 66 days ago • 48 comments

In today’s episode of the right wing caring about the issues that really matter…

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Even if there is extensive benefit fraud happening in the UK— which is not in itself a given— it pales in comparison to the extent of the tax avoidance and “wealth management” schemes the ultra-wealthy indulge in.

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Gosh, I hope AOC is president one day soon. She’s not radical; she’s reasonable. I think at this point, if the American right calls someone a “radical leftist Marxist,” we can hear “kind, human person with a modicum of empathy.”

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Jesus. Still think he’s joking?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, because DOGE is working so well in the USA.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

When did this become a normal ratio of shorts to long-form videos, YouTube?

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In a shocking turn of events, many of the people who said they wanted "free speech" actually just wanted to be the ones in charge of which speech is free.

submitted 89 days ago • 250 comments

It's official: The lunatics are now running the asylum.

submitted 88 days ago • 2144 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 89 days ago • 247 comments