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Well I'd like to thank JD Vance and Donald Trump for making perhaps the strongest case for rejoining the EU that I've seen in 9 years.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

How lucky it was for the world that America then had a president who understood the powerful symbolism of a democratic statesman living in a war zone dressing in a way appropriate to an existential struggle for freedom on the frontier of western civilisation. Now, not so much.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Every single one of the Trump supporters sounds like a domestic abuser. "You should've let him hit you, you shouldn't have complained in public, you're never grateful, you never say thank you."

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

A good piece. Trump is a bully and a jackboot licker, and the sooner everyone else accepts there's nothing but that to be expected from the US govt for the foreseeable, the better.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Europe can defend Ukraine without the US - and it must iandunt.substack.com/p/europe-can...

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

Zelenskyy is my hero. A true anti-fascist. A man with more bravery and dignity in his other finger then most of his detractors will encounter in their lifetime

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

these chowderheads forget that Zelensky before he took ion this job was probably the single most popular comedian in his country, dude could roast Glenn like the last turkey of the year in his sleep, this answer was actually him holding back and he still wrecked this dunce

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

What a fabulous post. Read, hope, act. And be the person "who refused to surrender his convictions, renounce his Americanism, and bend the pregnant hinges of the knee to a filthy, drunken moron who mounted a tinsel throne"

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100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 15 days ago • 114 comments

There'll be no deal about Ukraine without Ukraine. America has no ability to enforce it, any more than it has the right to enforce it. If it attempts to insist on one, it will be one of the most shameful moments in its history. And one of the most humiliating.

submitted 21 days ago • 72 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 22 days ago • 272 comments

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

I'm in print!

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

Flagrant anti British discrimination on a US app, this cannot stand.

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

I tell you what, there's a reason nobody writes poems about England in February

submitted 28 days ago • 16 comments

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.

submitted 30 days ago • 145 comments

I can’t i just … i can’t www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...

submitted 33 days ago • 32 comments

I am so so late to this game, but after A Day, and while it is cold and damp and generally grim outside, I am currently swaddled in fleece lined leggings and the most ridiculously oversized fuzzy 'wearable blanket' hoody, and how have I survived without these things until now? This is marvelous!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.

submitted 52 days ago • 103 comments

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

Washington is full of rule-following valedictorians who were inspired by the West Wing and did Model UN and moot court and studied their heroes and who believe in using government to help people. That's nice, but you need to learn how to swing on the illiterate bullies who steal lunch money.

submitted 36 days ago • 246 comments

Name 5 of your personal cult classics (movies you rewatch regularly and love to death, regardless of box office stats) Top Secret! Constantine The Wedding Date Practical Magic How to Steal a Million

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I hereby propose that pockets in dresses be referred to as "frockets".

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

funny how the most popular takeaway from this is "oh no, I'm old" and not "yeah, this music's timeless"

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

I don't have £11k just lying around needing spending. BUT IF I DID. I would totally be buying this 1984 reg Landrover Series III (with less than 25k miles?!) that I just found on Autotrader. The irony of looking to replace my 25yr old car with a 40yr old one isn't lost on me. But I waaaaaaant it.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Gonna say it was autism when I karate chop a Nazi.

submitted 44 days ago • 641 comments

恭喜發財! 身體健康! Happy year of the snake!🧧🐍🎉🥰

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Fucking stay there

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

EXCELLENT NEWS

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The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration. It’s fucking brilliant.

submitted 48 days ago • 93 comments

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

submitted 48 days ago • 195 comments

Just had a flashback to a half overheard at the market. "I'm thinking about trying a bubble waffle. Because I like bubble tea. So I think I'd like a bubble waffle". "Different bubbles entirely. Like, not even close." "But then why are they both called bubble?" "Translation's a bitch, babe."

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Watched a 5min video on youtube about a 16yo girl playing in a boys league. And got a little teary eyed. Because her Dad is the one who bought her her goalie pads. And my Dad...didn't discourage me. But he also never came to a single game I played. Because he "had no interest in women's sports".

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment