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Product Manager at Smoothwall. Into edtech, Leeds United, conservation, photography. Try not to anger the cat. He/him. https://x.com/thomasnewton on "the other place"
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I’m shocked, stunned, astonished etc.

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When people said Full Bush was in this year, I didn’t think they meant they wanted the US to invade a Middle Eastern nation falsely claiming they had weapons of mass distruction

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Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

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Anyone know if the Hot Tug ever got an engine, or was it a by hand job?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I once remarked to a guy in a lift in idaho that the people who just got off were acting strangely. Apparently it's because he was country singer lyle lovett, and they all recognised him, but I didn't.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

AI really has ruined Google. I just did a search for articles about Canadian wildcats with interesting jobs. But none of the lynx work.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

If👏 Creativity👏 Has👏 No👏 Value👏 In👏 Society👏 Then👏 Why👏 Are👏 So👏 Many👏 People👏 Going👏 To👏 So👏 Much👏 Trouble👏 To👏 Steal👏 It👏

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

Amazing how Dim Sum people are.

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

Trump vs Harvard: It's the fascism, stupid iandunt.substack.com/p/trump-vs-h...

submitted 25 days ago • 15 comments

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

submitted 26 days ago • 227 comments

Yesterday we said goodbye to the best cat. We had a great decade together, and I will miss her every day. RIP Pank.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

It's one of the Seven Golden Wonders of the Ancient World

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

submitted 43 days ago • 49 comments

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-...

submitted 42 days ago • 297 comments

great job Gavin

submitted 45 days ago • 70 comments

Woke Pope?

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

also you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes

submitted 49 days ago • 415 comments

Quite the payoff

submitted 50 days ago • 84 comments

💯

submitted 50 days ago • 138 comments

I was sitting here eating lunch when I realized: cottage cheese is not actually, in reality, a cheese. It's just a curd to me.

submitted 52 days ago • 385 comments

The average developer has 2 friends

submitted 52 days ago • 16 comments

You receive a call on your phone. The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraudulent payment. "Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right? The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank." 🧵 1/4

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Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

submitted 53 days ago • 302 comments

This is excellent - & jaw dropping: martinrobbins.substack.com/p/i-visit-br... HT @ukcivilservant.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments