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It’s always the celebrities you expect.

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“They are living in fantasy land. We’re probably going to have flying taxis before we have autonomous ones in London.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Only because of all the novels it stole.

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1146 comments

William Golding - Practical Pedagogy Exercise (Lord of the Flies). #GCSE #Literature

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Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 hours ago • 61 comments

I genuinely don’t know how else to explain Americans seeing the federal government invade California and turn around to say “Gosh I hope those protesters stop being violent” other than a completely and totally brainwashed society

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Make America Cool Again

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This is like an artwork exploring the meaning of a gate.

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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I completely disagree. Being called “woke” is a f**king badge of honour. It’s the biggest compliment going. If people are so morally hollow that they turn basic human kindness into an insult then good luck to them. But woke is one of the few good things we’ve got going. So, woke it is.

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In London, you don’t just find stability and certainty.   You find a city which stands strong as a bastion against hate.   And a city which shines bright as a beacon of hope, progress and possibility.

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Social media creating two media universes: one in which you drive yourself into, at best, a lowkey depression being continually served videos of atrocities, one in which you are so under-informed that you vote for someone pledging to deport 20mn people and then go 'wait, he wants to deport people?'

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Dear USA Deploying troops against civilians will not go well. Yours Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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It's pretty much textbook. Stephen Miller's been waiting his whole life to do this.

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Have pre-ordered. Augustus used to drink at my local, became obsessed with him (and subsequently Gwen) after walking past his framed signature for years. There's a brilliant documentary about them from 1975 - Augustus and Gwen: The Fire and the Fountain - on iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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The Cybertruck is arguably the most visible actual tangible object to come out of SV since the iPhone and that’s a pretty good illustration of where 20 years of uninhibited tech brain has taken us.

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#NowPlaying Shaun Ryder, man. Always there. Love him. www.last.fm/user/Guerril...

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I miss what Twitter was. Too much of my adult life - work, friends, partners - has been bound up in it not to. But that Twitter doesn't exist any more. Twitter doesn't exist any more, and X is a hellhole and even if I could put up with that it'd suck because most people I want to talk to are here.

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Brad Dourif is living his best life.

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Agree. Lately everything Trump does is described as a "distraction." Sending troops to LA is a distraction from the Musk/Trump feud, Musk/Trump feud is a distraction from budget bill, etc. I don't think he puts that much thought into it, he's just a stupid fascist motherfucker who does crazy shit.

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Trump is obviously a fascist. Time to stop avoiding the term.

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“Anybody who thinks LLMs are a direct route to the sort [of] AGI that could fundamentally transform society for the good is kidding themselves.” Someone better tell Starmer. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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I don’t know what y’all are talking about, I found out just this morning that AI solved a complex problem by insisting I wrote a book that doesn’t exist in 2006 that people are now recommending to each other

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After years of platforming Farage way beyond his importance this can only fail. Reform voters will never trust the BBC no matter how hard she tries to appease them. It will annoy even more all those centrist listeners who are already on the brink to switch it off. Genuinely don’t get it.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

reupping this for no reason at all as people get mad at me for just the darndest things on this site and accuse me of not actually thinking through my positions (I do put some thought into what i say, believe it or not), here's my reasoning as to why you should bring a walkie to a protest (thread):

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Lime scooters. A win for urban micro-mobility.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

submitted 2 days ago • 154 comments

The president exists in a dystopian fantasy world with no connection to reality

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Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

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The two universal pundit truths are that (1) you have a civic obligation to let random freaks hurl racism and abuse at you for the sake of "discourse" and (2) you must never be rude to pundits themselves because they are more important than you and don't have to put up with that.

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Obviously I don't like what will replace them, but if the Conservatives do go extinct it will be the most thoroughly deserved extinction since smallpox

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It’s 2025. Jared Leto is starring in a Tron sequel, Kevin Spacey won an award at Cannes, Ezra Miller, Shia LaBoeuf, and James Franco all walked the Cannes red carpet, Garrison Keillor and Ryan Adams are touring, Louis CK won a Grammy… Tell me again that “cancel culture” exists

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"BBC on the ground as National Guard set up in Los Angeles" You'd think it was guerrilla warfare not a few hundred peaceful protesters trying to make their voices heard. The Beeb, man. Diminishing in real-time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

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"The new machines, manned by unskilled laborers, actually produced inferior castings at a higher cost than the earlier process. After 3 years of use the machines were, in fact, abandoned, but by that time they had served their purpose--the destruction of the union."💥

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“The pretty good federal government we had just four months ago has been degraded, and it may take decades to restore it.” More: www.rollingstone.com/p/trump-dest...

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taps paragraph from Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obituary

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Why aren’t journalists digging into this thoroughly? Just gets worse.

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Fuck this guy. Seriously. Fuck him (and his podcast - I cannot bear to even hear him talk about books after all this).

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