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If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

You know who's not mad if you put a dent in their car? The French tooth fairy. Shut up

Bradford & Bingley (Deceased)

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Elon Musk gets a lot of hate but, it’s nowhere near enough

Today I am mostly hunting for the source of a small layout shift that occurs when clicking a button that shouldn’t affect the layout on a project that uses Tailwind. Pray for me.

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

One Nation Conservatism. If that Nation was a Lunatic Imperialist Theme Park owned by a Frothing Pervert.

TOP NEWS TODAY 👊 🇺🇦 AFU liberated Pishchane in Pokrovsk direction. ⚡️ AFU destroyed Russian armored column of Russian 155th brigade near Nikolskoye, Kursk region! 🇪🇺 European officials are working to agree on a new major package of military aid to Ukraine, - Bloomberg

Big Finish right now.

From next week our X account will close and be archived. We will be solely on BlueSky where we will continue to promote #history, historical practice and the humanities. Please do join us #Skystorians

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A reminder: Vladimir Putin could end the war in Ukraine right now, just by ordering his soldiers to go home. No need for treaties or negotiations.

Quote of the day: “The road to the authoritarian state is lined with people who advise you not to exaggerate”

I'm not even sure I can eat anymore faces, I'm pretty full of face actually -Leopards right now

I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

I watched Threads for the first time the other night and I’m going to pursue a slightly different talking point here: it’s really fucking good and it has such a specific, British tone, verisimilitude and sensibility that our milquetoast indulgence of American corporatism has all but lost.

It’s the Gulf of Mexico. It’s Twitter. It’s Fascism. It’s an Oligarchy. They’re Nazis. He’s a convicted felon. It was an insurrection. It’s a coup. It’s treason. Words matter. Use the correct ones.

I’d have said making it completely unaffordable for anyone to live in London is more of a risk, but you do you.

It's gas how it never occurs to politicians that working from home only "hollows out" the city centre if people can't afford to live in the city centre.

Eats artisan granola, drinks kombucha, and spends all his money on vinyl because he loves how warm it sounds.

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...

This is genius

Here's another dodgy text doing the rounds. It has a fast-closing deadline, and the threat of missing out on some free money from the Government. It wouldn't be surprising if some people fell for it, but it's from crooks not @DWPgovuk and clicking on the link will be bad for you

I've never been a fan of Apple... it's just not my thing, lots of proprietary parts, computers can't be modified easily or at all sometimes... i just have preferred android over the years. However.... Mad respect to telling DJT to go fuck himself on his demands to get rid of DEI.

ed balls

The Execution of the Doge, by Delacroix, 1825. He was beheaded for attempting a coup d'etat. Apropos of, you know, absolutely nothing at all.

Starting trade wars to make it easier to take over the government was literally the plot to the Star Wars prequels.

Costco - the only company to publicly come out in support of Diversity initiatives despite pressure from the GOP and they just raised the pay for their workers. Stop shopping at Target. Costco to raise hourly pay for most US store workers to over $30 www.reuters.com/business/ret...

He makes himself big

Man with huge commercial property portfolio tells proles to inconvenience themselves to shore up his investments. Proles say “get bent”.

Did you know… Purple isn’t real. It’s a pigment of the imagination! www.snexplores.org/article/colo...