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And all of this, too. 👇

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Absolutely sickens me that vinegar is man-made and not naturally occurring. Spent my life assuming that there were natural springs of it that we were mining but instead it turns out some freak has been concocting it this whole time.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

I didn't want to talk about Kneecap this week, but here we are. On what we choose to be horrified by, and what those choices say about us. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Labour. I dunno, but if you’re too fash for decent people and can’t convince the fash that you’re fash enough for them, maybe you’re not gonna win many elections. Maybe just actually stand for something and stop trying to chase everyone’s vote because you’re clearly really shit at that.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

“Labour…pointed out that the Tony Blair Institute works for the government of Saudi Arabia”

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

I am genuinely sad for these silly people that seem so obsessed with what’s happening in the toilet next to them. I’m not an especially smart person but one thing I know about people who REALLY know how to live their life is that they haven’t the time to waste trying to tell you how to live yours.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

The political economy of England's media rewards publishing wild but confident claims about the EU. It leads to a state of affairs where the UK media is engaged in a kind of permanent strategic disinformation operation against the inhabitants of the UK.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I usually have no skin in the game because I am not a politician who pretends to care about football. But my little nephews do and their late mom did too. So today - Up the Villa!

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Sometimes when I'm bored I think about how much the guitarist in Hard-Fi didn't want to be in Hard-Fi.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Wish this pose wasn't just used for weight-loss articles. You never see 'Dad Of Two Shot' then this

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Easter

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 22 days ago • 288 comments

I so badly want to sing “There’s microplastics found in every single human testicle” to the tune of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

getting a bit tiring to think "ah yay, the worst people you know are having a great day" several times a week, every single week

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy idea for Labour: why not just enact policies you actually believe in, rather than attempt 4D political chess.

submitted 29 days ago • 14 comments

The specific shame of somebody trying the door when you're in a bathroom. I'm in here. I'm in here and I'm sorry that I am. Would that I could flush myself and my miserable little life away.

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Just seen a headline saying that disability benefits provide more to the economy than they cost and I just wish decisions could be made not because they appease some spurious spreadsheet but simply because it is the right thing to do.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

Pundits are - in vain - looking to economics and politics when trying to explain Trump's behavior. But, in reality, the central place to look if we want to understand Trump and his policies is this: The psychology of dominance. 🧵(1/5)

submitted 33 days ago • 123 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 35 days ago • 314 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 36 days ago • 1137 comments

The primal/carnivore diet bros have found their new god

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

This country's demented - literally wandering about with our arse hanging oot our troosers and holes in our stocking soles but here's yer King playing a carrot flute with his big sausage digits.

submitted 38 days ago • 3 comments

Not making time to watch the actual programme everyone’s talking about but seemingly having time to absorb a twitter conspiracy about it is the most Kemi Badenoch response I ever heard

submitted 41 days ago • 41 comments

Bluesky feels like when you go to the pub but aren’t drinking

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

QUALITY THREAD, especially the “code red” halfway down.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Again I ask, what is the substantive difference between a right wing reactionary government and a centrist government obsessed with mollycoddling right wing reactionary opinion?

submitted 46 days ago • 6 comments

I'd favour selling the Falklands @aidthompsin.bsky.social

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

These people are too Corbyn-brained to realise Labour lost much of the red wall over Brexit. And, frankly, too simple to understand electoral nihilism from people whose lives are bad and getting worse.

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

And here's that interview www.humanism.scot/2025/03/20/h...

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

If Putin is on any sort of disability benefits he's in trouble

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

The paperback of my very cool and funny and dark and touching novel LEADING MAN is out 17 April and I can’t describe how much a preorder or two would mean to me! uk.bookshop.org/a/1243/97807...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

People have been born, lived long lives and died in the gap between Newcastle winning trophies. Including Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered on the orders of its current owner. Football, it’s a funny old game.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

I'm one subscriber off 500! Tip the scales for me? jimallthetime.substack.com/8a75187b

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

I am so bored of your fucking cat.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Thinking about how Enron’s solvency was based entirely around its stock price and how its stock declining led to the triggering of many hitherto unthinkable consequences tied to the myriad Byzantine financial structures the company was involved in, for no reason

submitted 63 days ago • 4 comments

Michael Young coined the phrase "meritocracy" as satire, and then he fathered Toby Young in case people didn't get the joke.

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

Please, I fucking beg you, stop saying Trumpcession, you sound like a fucking maniac.

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

the biggest strength of the global far right is the utter timidity and fecklessness of the small-l liberal establishment in almost every country

submitted 64 days ago • 26 comments

new saddest six word story just dropped

submitted 66 days ago • 129 comments

I insist that you tell your friends about me

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Me: “You can find me on Pinteresque” Them: “you mean Pinterest?” Me: … Them: … Me: … Them: … Me: …no

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

submitted 73 days ago • 233 comments