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If laughter is the best medicine my jokes are placebos. Middling in the Midlands (UK)
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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
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If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.
May 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.
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Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.
The only question is how long it takes.
The only question is how long it takes.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.
The only question is how long it takes.
The only question is how long it takes.
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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife
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Look, these messages could mean anything.
March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look, these messages could mean anything.
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If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
March 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
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I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.
March 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.
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I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to
March 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to
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It’s important to note we don’t have a lot of information on exactly what happened here. But the petty, small America depicted here — intolerant of dissent and swollen with entitlement to be free of it — is very much Trumpist America, so it’s credible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s important to note we don’t have a lot of information on exactly what happened here. But the petty, small America depicted here — intolerant of dissent and swollen with entitlement to be free of it — is very much Trumpist America, so it’s credible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
Leavitt: "Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khali. Under the immigration and nationality act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the USA."
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
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This is criminal behavior.
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is criminal behavior.
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On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.
March 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.
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Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry.
If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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Huge win! Government announces plan to open up Land Registry
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Today the UK Government has announced plans to open up the Land Registry – which, if delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wale…
whoownsengland.org
March 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry.
If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales.
Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens:
whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h...
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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Reminder: if you predicted half the things happening now (threatening to take Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal; lawless mass firings; complete defiance of Congressional prerogatives; mass pardons of violent supporters) even a couple of years ago, Serious Thinkers would have dismissed you.
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March 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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You can have my handshake buzzer when you pry it from my cold, dead (ZAP!) haha lmao
March 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
You can have my handshake buzzer when you pry it from my cold, dead (ZAP!) haha lmao
This clip regarding historical precedent for the US/ Ukraine situation ie well worth 9 minutes of your time
youtu.be/hn_-OUa2tuk
youtu.be/hn_-OUa2tuk
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow compares MAGA's shift on Ukraine to 1940s U.S. senator on Hitler's payroll
YouTube video by Daniel Hampton
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March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This clip regarding historical precedent for the US/ Ukraine situation ie well worth 9 minutes of your time
youtu.be/hn_-OUa2tuk
youtu.be/hn_-OUa2tuk
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Advice welcome.
- I think this may be a strong example of Twitter failing in a reasonable expectation to provide me with an equal service (Equality Act 2010): the reporting system allowed this + actual staff ignored messages about it.
- The identity of this poster has also now been made public
- I think this may be a strong example of Twitter failing in a reasonable expectation to provide me with an equal service (Equality Act 2010): the reporting system allowed this + actual staff ignored messages about it.
- The identity of this poster has also now been made public
March 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the goal is to make it so unpleasant to work for government that nobody will do it unless they have no other choice. These requirements will keep getting dumber and more arbitrary because that's their purpose.
This morning, HUD instituted a policy of searching bags and putting everyone through a metal detector. By 8 a.m., employees had already been waiting in line for an hour, a HUD source says.
March 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: the goal is to make it so unpleasant to work for government that nobody will do it unless they have no other choice. These requirements will keep getting dumber and more arbitrary because that's their purpose.
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“We mustn't burn bridges with the USA. Because we have so many eggs in the American basket. But what the UK and Europe have to do, is to start moving our eggs out of that f***ing basket - and quickly.” @pimlicat.bsky.social
Midnight Mass Episode:
We recorded a mini round up of a remarkable weekend.
Have a listen to @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss the Lancaster House summit, Mandelson’s missives, and what comes next…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
We recorded a mini round up of a remarkable weekend.
Have a listen to @pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss the Lancaster House summit, Mandelson’s missives, and what comes next…
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...
Midnight Mass: Steel Porcupine
Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · S2, E23 Bonus · 22m
podcasts.apple.com
March 3, 2025 at 8:05 AM
“We mustn't burn bridges with the USA. Because we have so many eggs in the American basket. But what the UK and Europe have to do, is to start moving our eggs out of that f***ing basket - and quickly.” @pimlicat.bsky.social