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Alison
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All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and each one in their time plays many parts.
Febyuree
February 2, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.
January 31, 2026 at 5:29 AM
I signed up to the AI skills hub. It seems to consist mainly of:

- free courses linked to commercial products
- free courses that are not about AI
- paid courses by commercial or academic providers

I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 AM
So my son is not a programmer, but he is interested in old 8-bit video games, and the other day he taught himself a little bit of Lua in a couple of hours, and made one - maybe Catacomb Abyss? - anyway, then he tried using an AI to generate the same thing, mainly to check his handiwork...
January 30, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.
January 28, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Look at this - an amazing graph if it's true. Prototaxites has a completely different carbon absorption spectrum from all other known forms of life?? (Other points in the graph are from the same early-Devonian shale deposit). Can't judge if this is real but it is from legit published research.
January 28, 2026 at 9:41 AM
I've posted about Prototaxites before. Massive fungus that loomed over the early Earth. But new research released literally in the last few days is saying they might be some other unknown form of life... amazing. I hope they are aliens.

youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...
Life, but not as we know it... the Prototaxites mystery deepens again!
YouTube video by Life Through Time
youtube.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Yes. We used to say these things almost verbatim 'they are stitching up candidate selection', 'he doesn't care about building relationships', but this was fringe extremism until now it's too late to undo the damage, it's mainstream discourse.
Isn’t it fun how we always reliably go from “that is a deranged conspiracy that merely proves you are an intolerable extremist, who must be hounded” to “yes, of course this whole thing was an idiotic stitch-up, so what?” without any of the lads ever having been wrong about anything? Rafa, here.
January 28, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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40 years.
January 28, 2026 at 6:53 AM
What was your favourite song growing up?

'Bits and Pieces' by the Dave Clarke Five because they stamped their feet. Me and my brother used to laugh our heads off and stamp our feet on the floorboards in my nan's hallway. I can now imagine the impact on the adults in earshot.
What was your first favourite song growing up?

Answers suggest the question implies pop rather than, say, "The Wheels on the Bus".

So from January 1979:

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury and the Blockheads.

My pal Trevor and I belted it out it in the playground of Risley Lower Grammar.
I Have A Dream by ABBA
January 28, 2026 at 7:48 AM
Can't sleep and rain is lashing down outside
January 27, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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And this was done by the working class of Minnesota.
Border Patrol is pulling out of Minneapolis. Bovino is ending his punitive tour of blue cities. Calls for Noem's resignation are mounting, even in conservative media. Senate Democrats are dug in now on refusing to fund DHS and ICE. "Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position.

They are losing.
January 27, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Probably the moment the Labour Party died. Idiots.
Starmer defends Labour decision to bar Burnham from byelection
Run for parliament by Greater Manchester mayor would ‘divert resources’, says prime minister
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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🚨Ladbrokes have the Greens as the favourite to win Gorton and Denton by-election
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live,
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air,
Till Slave and Despot be but things that were.

—Robert Burns, “Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac”
#BurnsNight #C18 #poem
January 25, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Tell me your pet's name in a gif
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 AM
First class
WILLIAM TELL: if evil Albert of Hapsburg insists I use a weapon to knock this apple off my son's head, I will -- but should I throw my pike? Or aim my crossbow?

MAINWARING (rushing in): don't pike him, Tell!
January 21, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.
January 20, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Just read another thread about how nobody uses a phone in their dreams. Last one I remember I was lost in endless meandering backstreets, and I used Google maps to find my way out.
January 19, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Is this real? If so, he definitely has dementia and there's nobody that cares for him enough to stop this.
mad king moment

from the PBS Newshour correspondent
January 19, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Tippi Hedren by Genevieve Naylor, 1954

She began her career as a teenaged department store model in Minneapolis, & signed with Eileen Ford when she turned 20 & moved to New York. She's 24 here.
January 19, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I had lunch with a tech guy yesterday - his company wants to do community outreach, my college wants industry engagement - win/win. I was a bit scared when coversation turned to AI, but he spontaneously said all the same things I have been ranting about for years. I was so relieved.
January 17, 2026 at 7:46 AM