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Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

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Once I asked a Czech historian why he chose history when couldn't publish freely earlier in his career. He said he was a medievalist. Censors didn't care what he wrote. It was all pre-capitalist. I study finance, so maybe I shouldn't worry about patriotic history now. Not sure that's true, though. 🧵

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

This ought to be top of the UK government's thinking re Palantir's role in the NHS. The dependency risk is not theoretical under Trump 2.0

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 2 days ago • 494 comments

“Europe and the rest of the world should have simply prepared for the US becoming an ally of Russia” is a fun take from people living in the county that elected Trump

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This is like when Greeks started calling it Greek coffee in response to Turkey invading Cyprus

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I feel second-hand embarrassment for Jonathan Ferro

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Bessent hasn't just drunk the Kool-aid. He's been taking it intravenously.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Movies you’ve watched more than six times, using only gifs

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Scoop --> Trump-Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for combating Alzheimer's, sources tell me. They predict big setbacks to fighting dementias. This cause was once championed by Republicans. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

submitted 4 days ago • 179 comments

"You should tweet that Badenoch is a woke liberal."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Negotiations going well I see *ZELENSKIY CANCELS PLAN TO VISIT SAUDI ARABIA ON WEDNESDAY

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Show me two people with insane beef.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Well, this is one the great (terrible) parables of our (terrible) time. Jewish American shoots Israeli tourists, believing them to be Palestinian. Jewish victims post "Death to Arabs" on social media, believing attack to be antisemitic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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How it started | How it’s going.

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Kalyvas is obviously right on this and I should just let it go. But for any Greek speaker who was moderately online when Syriza was in government, to call him a “buttoned-down scholar” who wouldn’t normally tweet something like this is hilarious.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

i just think it’s so funny that there’s folks who think this administration will build more nuclear power plants and that it would be a good thing done well enough

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

why have they adopted an aesthetic of knowing evil?

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

one of the strangest things about the trump administration is the aesthetic of self-conscious evil

submitted 10 days ago • 101 comments

It’s only when you use knock off Lego or Duplo that you realise maybe engineering trillions of little bricks with next to no tolerance for error is tricky, huh

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

“I want a slice of bread but also I will howl with rage if you start slicing the bread” - my two year old

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

I shouted out (whoo-hoo) "Who killed the Kennedy's?" (whoo-hoo) When after all (whoo-hoo) They killed you and me (whoo-hoo)

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

What a prick

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Bro my leftist intellectuals are claiming the BLS is fake. My man we're going to lose the most comprehensive source of economic data on Earth. Bro how are we supposed to do a command economy like this

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

BBG: *TRUMP SAYS TODAY IS THE BIG ONE: RECIPROCAL TARIFFS Ok grandpa

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

StoRe oF vALuE

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Dead bodies are decomposing on the streets of Goma. The UN has described “immense human suffering” and a death toll nearing 3,000, following a Rwanda-backed offensive. Arsenal’s sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda has become impossible to justify. www.telegraph.co.uk/football/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

If you're blowing a whistle, would you trust Bezos to protect your anonymity?

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

he's still going. cc: @katie0martin.ft.com

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Calling DOGE is a “cost-cutting team” is like calling the guillotine a “weight loss device.” Why is anyone still playing along with this charade?

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

You can torch as many regulations and planning rules as you like, but if the UK government can't raise the money for these kinds of projects and they're not profitable enough for the private sector they still won't happen. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

When you're dealing with nukemen, always check, is the rule. And indeed, this looks kind of like BS...

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Could be the first empire to collapse because people didn't laugh at someone's jokes on social media

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Arsenal FC is promoting a murderous regime - and making money from it. Time to ditch the "VISIT RWANDA" partnership, which should never have been struck to start with, and bin those shirts. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Grim as fuck

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

People like Rubio are far worse than Trump in many ways, because they still have at least some purchase on reality and they go along with it all anyway, because they love power and they have no moral core. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/05/p...

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CORPORATE DEI WEBINAR: If you meet someone from East Asia, you should avoid asking "So which kind are you?" JACUZZI DEALERSHIP OWNER: Well, that's it. Time to start the Fourth Reich.

submitted 17 days ago • 79 comments