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From a prisoner at Camp Bucca during the US war in Iraq in 2005 to a state guest at the Elysee in Paris as Syria's leader in 2025.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Why is the government acting like a keyboard warrior on some third-rate forum? They have the keys to government, they should be governing.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Labour will do anything for change apart from the things that will actually change things

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Russia is a land of mystery, the wonders of Ermitage, the enigma of beautiful women, tantalising Westerners with its boundless puzzle of Russian soul. But perhaps more importantly, Russia is this.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

when populists win, they represent a historical shift in the country when liberals win, they now have to deliver

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

just one more administrative burden bro. I promise bro Just one more means test and it'll fix everything bro. bro. Just one more administrative burden. One more means test and we can fix this whole problem bro. Bro cmon just give me one more administrative burden I promise. bro

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

Two points that need repeating - a) Trump's election is indicative of a profound failure of American society itself, that it's cultural and political institutions are incapable of addressing b) all of his senior staff are despicably evil human beings because they know what he is.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Alas poor lorryick

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking about this more and man I really think disagreeing with Nancy is an incredible red flag for anti-social behavior. De-atomizing society requires people be both willing to talk to strangers and receptive to strangers talking to them. And it’s so easy to practice this in your daily life.

submitted 10 days ago • 121 comments

So, happy 55th anniversary to perhaps the finest of all newspaper headlines mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day...

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Good morning. Here is a love song to the filth we left behind. And the desperate crushing sadness of becoming more sensible iandunt.substack.com/p/a-love-son...

submitted 13 days ago • 87 comments

Why do I sense another pump and dump lol

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

It's actually extremely difficult to predict what housing prices will do. Always a lot of factors there.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely agree.

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

The American practice of bringing aces back home so they could be instructors for new pilots is a seemingly simple idea that has massive repercussions for force generation and overall force quality

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Retirement isn’t an epilogue — it’s a rewrite. I’ve been learning the hard way that freedom isn’t about doing everything — but choosing what matters. My essay on life after investment banking in @financialtimes.com Weekend Magazine is up on the website. www.ft.com/content/1c64...

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

Tbh, a Morrowind remake that mimicked the sketch book sketch book art style Michael Kirkbride made at the time would immensely rule.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Impunity for popular politicians creates a perverse incentive to enter or stay in politics in order to evade the law (think Berlusconi, think Trump...).

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

so I do absolutely, entirely agree with this but it also does feel like the logical endpoint of treating university as "a thing you have to do for three years otherwise you won't get a job" - if you're not making a case for why a uni education is useful, don't expect people to actually respect it

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I dislike these threads of causation because even if this skincare company or Zoe Quinn had never existed, the forces that created those particular backlashes would have found something and someone else to hate.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments