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Wish I were one of Elon's kids so I'd never see him again

submitted 3 hours ago • 68 comments

Merz just said on German TV that the primary priority of his government will be to ensure that Europe can achieve full strategic independence from the United States in the defence against Russia. Merz was once a die hard Atlanicist. Now, after Trump he is a Gaullist. Extraordinary.

submitted 10 hours ago • 235 comments

Well, the gyres start turning and they don’t stop turning There’s a guy saying words that his bird’s not discerning

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

🎶R.I.P. the social contract R.I.P. the social contract R.I.P. the social contract People doing bad things Without laws

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

So the media could do a better job, but also the people we're talking about are not reading news stories, watching the news, or even documentaries. They get their "news" from Facebook posts or message boards. They believe every urban legend because they don't trust anything that challenges them

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

I would get the history of the witch panics right before posting saccarine dross like this. going-medieval.com/2023/10/20/y...

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

One learning point from this crisis is that Reform are all apparently plastic patriots who would roll over for the first strongman dictator who waxed his moustache in their direction.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Being called out by my choice of reading material.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

After reading the Farseer Trilogy 20 years ago and stopping there, I am now ploughing through the Liveship Traders, happily accompanied by @buckkeepradio.bsky.social , echoing their thoughts across time to me, apparently from Covid times when they were recorded.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

It was never about the economy, it was never about better pay, it was never about healthcare, it was never about returning the country to it’s former glory, it was about license to hate without feeling guilty, without feeling like a bad person.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I’d be interested to know what conversations are going on in European intelligence agencies right now, or if they’ve already quietly withdrawn cooperation with the US.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Everything else going on pales in comparison to the fact that the alliances formed to prevent another world war have been patiently and effectively dismantled, in an information war that Russia has unequivocally won.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

My new mental health strategy.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I wondered why Elon musk was only trying to conceal some of the illegal things he’s doing but leaving most of it in the open, then I remembered that he loves a part-hide.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“Today, DEI has become the new N-word; the new rightwing abstraction deployed by Republicans to conceal their anti-Black racism.” My latest for the Guardian, in which I cite Lee Atwater, and bring lots of receipts. Sorry, but it has to be said:

submitted 12 days ago • 172 comments

GamerGate, the backlash before the backlash, was the origin story to most of the men who now form the shadowy clique behind the alt-right They learned tactics of media manipulation, "reasonable concerns", and radicalisation of young men long before politics caught up, driving out women who resisted

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

More leaders need to learn from Margaret Thatcher. By which I mean: Try to govern in a way that means you won’t need to have special railings around your grave to stop people pissing on it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

They are moving widdershins, counter-clockwise, a motion typically used for banishing, so I believe we are witnessing some sort of bird exorcism ritual, wherein they wish to banish the soul of dead Harris… elsewhere

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

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In light of just catching a terrible episode with Elon in it, who is the actual worst person to have done a guest voice on the Simpsons?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 14 days ago • 142 comments

I really enjoyed Heretic, particularly Hugh Grant pompously mansplaining the monomyth. How has he not played more horror villains? He was great.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If you are stupid please stop explaining things to me

submitted 14 days ago • 42 comments

Today I joined 3 Counties radio where they asked - is immigration the number one issue that politicians should be talking about? I said no. We need to talk about the catastrophic impacts of a stagnant, ageing population WITHOUT immigration

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

submitted 17 days ago • 342 comments

Remember internet forums, when you just hung out somewhere with other fans of something, and there was no shady billionaire who owned it all secretly mining your data and planning a coup d’etat? Remember when the internet was better than all this? Oh god, I’ve become one of those.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

When you combine an autistic sense of hyper empathy, feeling everyone's emotions, with alexithymia, not being able to understand what you are actually feeling, along with a heightened sense of social justice, inability to switch off and need to fix everything, the world is a nightmare at the moment

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

To use the Boris Johnson terminology, DJT is a tireless dead cat generator. Any volume of crime and fraud could be going on in the background but journalists will always be rapt by whatever nonsense he’s spouting today.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.

submitted 18 days ago • 335 comments

Fairplay to the man, if you’re trying to speedrun armageddon, sending the US to annex gaza is a solid strat. Could shave off a few months, easy.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Crows showing us the way, here. Take the enemy's weapons and use them to build your throne

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If I saw a movie where the world’s richest man bought an election, then shut down aid to some of the poorest people in the world, all so that he could cut taxes for the rich, I’d say “this movie is very far-fetched, let’s watch a less silly movie”.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 19 days ago • 212 comments

This is what I think of as a specific kind of ignorance that heavily affects young white guys who work in tech. It says “i don’t know about this, so I assume no one else does either.” It’s new to them, so it must be new to everybody!

submitted 19 days ago • 390 comments