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You can be diplomatic without affording POTUS the privilege of a full state visit. You can work with someone without fawning over them. A full state visit when we’ve cut the aid budget and when welfare and health are being told to do more with less is hideous.

submitted 29 minutes ago • 1 comment

Fuck off. Their terms and reigns can’t end soon enough.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

No wonder "friends of Wes" want to lock out the membership from voting for Labour's leader. He's not as popular as he thinks he is.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The arrogance and irony of someone who is paid handsomely to have an opinion to talk about ‘genuine contribution’.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Given their desire to be perceived as saviours, maybe send the Trumps and the Musks up a la Bruce Willis in Armageddon to blow it up. Earth saved in more ways than one.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck this guy. Fuck all the snivelling apologists for the far right. Toadying little creeps trying to ingratiate themselves to the big bully boys.

submitted 23 days ago • 57 comments

Still bemused by the fact that members of the US President’s cabinet and government departments aren’t elected representatives.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Three years ago, Judith Butler predicted in a Guardian interview that “gender-critical” feminists would not be part of the fight against fascism. This caused a massive “GC” backlash, prompting The Guardian to censor the interview. And yet here they now are, definitively proving Butler correct.

submitted 27 days ago • 35 comments

He did the salute. A distinction of whether it was genuine, a troll or both doesn’t matter. As for letting him off the hook, the press and government in this country has done so eagerly for at least half a year. Your industry hasn’t done its job, our representatives haven’t either.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Mercury is where it deserves to be but I’m sorry, Neptune and Uranus below Venus? Also, Mars is too high.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

1/🧵 I have reviewed the House of Lords amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill by Ralph Palmer and James Arbuthnot, which were endorsed by Sex Matters. The amendments would enable hate groups to operate a discrimination-on-demand service, which is dangerous and incompatible with the ECHR.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Look, it is acceptable to believe that both Corbyn and Starmer are cunts.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

At some point "let's talk about men's mental health" stopped being about veterans killing themselves due to PTSD and became about "you should fuck this incel so he doesn't go on a killing spree" and I'm just not going to seriously engage with that. As a man.

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

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We haven’t seen it. No, we can’t look it up, our phones are all dead. You’ve got it right there on your phone? I’m sorry we’ve all lost our glasses. They’re on our faces right now? No these are our decorative non-prescription ones.

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I can detect the glee of political journalists via this.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I think a large part of why we are where we are, are political journalists and the commentariat treating what they cover as a real-time soap opera rather than something that has tangible impacts on every single person.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be so horribly pessimistic but I’m not convinced that we’ll see out the century. As such, food and men shall be my focus going forward.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Wish my natural balding would hurry up. I’m tired of shaving my head.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

remember there is a non-zero chance that one of the more important reasons that genAI is being pushed quite so aggressively is that the techbros read a stupid thought experiment from a forum post in 2010 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_...

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

It is Farage. He has shown time and again that he’ll take money from any source he can. It is pure and simply a grift, because as you point out, it has no teeth or legal standing. I genuinely don’t know why journalists attribute a public-mindedness to him that he has never expressed.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

2025: the year I embrace the fact that I’m generally a horny person. And that I should walk more.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

X is full of fascists; BlueSky is full of earnest London-centric centrists who like the other place, have an immense sense of self-importance.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I see BlueSky is being very earnest and twee today.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Discourse around Palace of Westminster: A pointless upper chamber. Large parts of parliamentary work don’t take place in it. It can’t fit all MPs in the Commons chamber. Essentially a glorified state theatre.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

I say let them suffer their agonising stomach/intestinal pains in silence.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

My own email to the organisers of the Oxford Literary Festival. #BoycottOLF #TransRightsAreHumanRights

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

I agree that our system helps breed cynicism but let’s also not pretend that the Greens aren’t like the other parties, where they purport to stand for one thing and then when in control do another. It’s a media and politics problem.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

Would be a shame if a bunch of authors were to pull out due to having some principles, idk

submitted 61 days ago • 9 comments