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Starmer, verily the Ernie Wise of Prime Ministers...

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Into the valley of Death...

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Colonialism. It’s just colonialism, again. They’ve not much imagination. But we’re all now the underclass being looted and made to work for nothing. They’re the “owners” of us. It’s pretty basic, nasty imperial overclass shit.

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Three years ago I got involved in a week long twitter spat with Katherine after pointing out that she had misattributed lines from a Budweiser beer commercial to Winston Churchill. Wouldn't have been the end of days if it hadn't been written on the walls of her school. Not a renowned fact checker.

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“Only YOU could have put on a show like that!”

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'Forever chemical' found in all but one of tested UK rivers. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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[New snack flavours: plutocrat and oligarch]

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[Tomorrow belongs... etc.]

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[wombat found a house above his burrow]

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Buns.

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[bombs hit near a museum, but hey, who cares now?]

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[The only important issue, obvs...]

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm.

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Hm. A crap history of 100 crap history books in 100 crap history books...

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Hm. The "Oligarchs and City bankers" and "Unregistered" sit neatly side by side...

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One will be original. The other will be confected slop. [tea]

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"Astonishingly, the app also records and uploads voice queries, no matter the length. We found one recording that went on for over an hour" futurism.com/meta-ai-emba...

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[Everything post 2023 is AI]

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[heh]

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Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

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Hm.

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Hm. Wait a minute... this is a B&B in Pitlochry.

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Hm. Horace has been badgering me about this, which as he's a hedgehog is slightly confusing, but there are curious similarities.

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[birb. not-birb (lower)]

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[Anything to do with ... is dangerous]

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Hey, do you remember when two US politicians were shot, one murdered, erm, yesterday? Had to do quite a lot of scrolling even on the guardian US to find a mention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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[Succulent tea and buns]

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Hm. Can't do parades, don't even have trains to make them run on time... what sort of fascists are they? Oh, that sort.

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[Hm.]

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And here we are. "He lambasted the university while continuing to draw his salary (a sum he dismissed as too miserly), and for refusing an honorary degree to Margaret Thatcher. When he did appear to do some teaching, [he] became notorious for groping his female students"

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"to which he was appointed in 1985 thanks largely to political support from rightwing Oxford dons. Stone hated Oxford, which he thought (bizarrely) was full of Marxists and out of touch with the real world" [hm, half right]

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But the typical solution: "Cambridge University ... became impatient with his behaviour, but solved the problem of how to deal with him by encouraging him to apply for the professorship of modern history at Oxford ... "

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This hasn't changed tho': "moving to Jesus College in 1971 as director of studies in history ... but he became increasingly undisciplined, neglecting his duties, and spending increasing amounts of time playing poker and drinking himself into oblivion in Soho..."

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A trajectory no longer so commonly encountered: "he embarked on a PhD ... though never completed it, and gained a reputation for brilliance sufficient ... to obtain a research fellowship at Caius in 1965, and two years later an assistant lectureship in Russian history..."

Starmer, verily the Ernie Wise of Prime Ministers...

Into the valley of Death...

Colonialism. It’s just colonialism, again. They’ve not much imagination. But we’re all now the underclass being looted and made to work for nothing. They’re the “owners” of us. It’s pretty basic, nasty imperial overclass shit.

Three years ago I got involved in a week long twitter spat with Katherine after pointing out that she had misattributed lines from a Budweiser beer commercial to Winston Churchill. Wouldn't have been the end of days if it hadn't been written on the walls of her school. Not a renowned fact checker.

“Only YOU could have put on a show like that!”

'Forever chemical' found in all but one of tested UK rivers. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

[New snack flavours: plutocrat and oligarch]

[Tomorrow belongs... etc.]

[wombat found a house above his burrow]

Buns.

[bombs hit near a museum, but hey, who cares now?]

[The only important issue, obvs...]

Hm.

Hm.

Hm.

Hm.

Hm. A crap history of 100 crap history books in 100 crap history books...

Hm. The "Oligarchs and City bankers" and "Unregistered" sit neatly side by side...

One will be original. The other will be confected slop. [tea]

"Astonishingly, the app also records and uploads voice queries, no matter the length. We found one recording that went on for over an hour" futurism.com/meta-ai-emba...

[Everything post 2023 is AI]

[heh]

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Hm.

Hm. Wait a minute... this is a B&B in Pitlochry.

Hm. Horace has been badgering me about this, which as he's a hedgehog is slightly confusing, but there are curious similarities.

[birb. not-birb (lower)]

[Anything to do with ... is dangerous]

Hey, do you remember when two US politicians were shot, one murdered, erm, yesterday? Had to do quite a lot of scrolling even on the guardian US to find a mention. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

[Succulent tea and buns]

Hm. Can't do parades, don't even have trains to make them run on time... what sort of fascists are they? Oh, that sort.

[Hm.]

And here we are. "He lambasted the university while continuing to draw his salary (a sum he dismissed as too miserly), and for refusing an honorary degree to Margaret Thatcher. When he did appear to do some teaching, [he] became notorious for groping his female students"

"to which he was appointed in 1985 thanks largely to political support from rightwing Oxford dons. Stone hated Oxford, which he thought (bizarrely) was full of Marxists and out of touch with the real world" [hm, half right]

But the typical solution: "Cambridge University ... became impatient with his behaviour, but solved the problem of how to deal with him by encouraging him to apply for the professorship of modern history at Oxford ... "

This hasn't changed tho': "moving to Jesus College in 1971 as director of studies in history ... but he became increasingly undisciplined, neglecting his duties, and spending increasing amounts of time playing poker and drinking himself into oblivion in Soho..."

A trajectory no longer so commonly encountered: "he embarked on a PhD ... though never completed it, and gained a reputation for brilliance sufficient ... to obtain a research fellowship at Caius in 1965, and two years later an assistant lectureship in Russian history..."

Morning. Study of a Flying Sparrow, Giovanni da Udine, c.1515.

[Granada TV. Ainsdale Beach, Southport June '71. Wednesday. In the afternoon.]

Revealed: Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI