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And as Alex says, this is easily fixable by any government which wasn’t happy with institutionalising this bigotry across the country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
And as Alex says, this is easily fixable by any government which wasn’t happy with institutionalising this bigotry across the country.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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give greta thunberg a gundam
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
give greta thunberg a gundam
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Mad to do this sort of campaigning when you’re the pitch hitter for the government’s transphobia
Streeting: “When I look at our main opponents at the next general election, I don't see a battle between left & right, I see a battle between right & wrong. I see a battle between progressives & reactionaries. I see a battle between patriots & nationalists. I see a battle between hope over hate.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Mad to do this sort of campaigning when you’re the pitch hitter for the government’s transphobia
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
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I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.
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London is full of cults that prey on mums in the name of “wellness” offering a crock of shit that includes homeopathy, reiki for infertility, and cranial osteopathy for newborns.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
August 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
London is full of cults that prey on mums in the name of “wellness” offering a crock of shit that includes homeopathy, reiki for infertility, and cranial osteopathy for newborns.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
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anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
July 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
"There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers." - William S Buroughs
My column this week: how if you want to understand the forces shaping politics, both at an electoral and ideological level, you have to understand videogames:
If you don’t understand Nintendo Switch 2, you won’t understand the modern world
No savvy politician can get away with treating gaming as if it were a passing fad
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers." - William S Buroughs
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HISTORY MATTERS. Thanks to a recent acquisition, we now have primary source evidence that Wally Bear's father really isn't wearing pants, and it isn't just an artifact of the NES' palette limitations. We could never have unearthed this without the support of generous donors just like you.
June 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
HISTORY MATTERS. Thanks to a recent acquisition, we now have primary source evidence that Wally Bear's father really isn't wearing pants, and it isn't just an artifact of the NES' palette limitations. We could never have unearthed this without the support of generous donors just like you.
If there was a team whose job it was to go around different local authorities and organisations swapping out spinning hard drives for SSDs it would probably be the biggest productivity boost to the British state in 20 years.
So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
June 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If there was a team whose job it was to go around different local authorities and organisations swapping out spinning hard drives for SSDs it would probably be the biggest productivity boost to the British state in 20 years.
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doing a MAGA Great Leap Forward where i set up a 5nm lithography process in my backyard
May 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
doing a MAGA Great Leap Forward where i set up a 5nm lithography process in my backyard
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Mental Health Units have a bed shortage crisis and it means more and more vulnerable people - including children - are being sent to prison “as a place of safety.”
Rebecca Wilks looks at this overlooked injustice and what needs to change @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
Rebecca Wilks looks at this overlooked injustice and what needs to change @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
"They’re just waiting for her to die": How austerity turns mental health patients into prisoners
As mental health crises spiral, many like Lucy find themselves caught in a broken system where prison is seen as the only place of safety
national.thelead.uk
May 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Mental Health Units have a bed shortage crisis and it means more and more vulnerable people - including children - are being sent to prison “as a place of safety.”
Rebecca Wilks looks at this overlooked injustice and what needs to change @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
Rebecca Wilks looks at this overlooked injustice and what needs to change @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/theyre-jus...
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ancient sumerian stand up comedian: who heckles from beneath me? do you not see how high my ziggurat is? the gods look upon me!
(realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
(realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
May 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
ancient sumerian stand up comedian: who heckles from beneath me? do you not see how high my ziggurat is? the gods look upon me!
(realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
(realizing that comedy comes from shared humility) but they look at me with disdain
One of those stats that shouldn't be unbelievable because this is all in living memory, and yet!
Like how in the 60s there were only a few dozen heroin addicts in the UK, and we know this because it was prescribed by GPs. Then the war on drugs came along, and, well....
Like how in the 60s there were only a few dozen heroin addicts in the UK, and we know this because it was prescribed by GPs. Then the war on drugs came along, and, well....
May 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
One of those stats that shouldn't be unbelievable because this is all in living memory, and yet!
Like how in the 60s there were only a few dozen heroin addicts in the UK, and we know this because it was prescribed by GPs. Then the war on drugs came along, and, well....
Like how in the 60s there were only a few dozen heroin addicts in the UK, and we know this because it was prescribed by GPs. Then the war on drugs came along, and, well....
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Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".
April 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Explosive response of the British Medical Association to the Supreme Court's "biologically nonsensical" ruling: "We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine".
Twin Peak: The Return (2017)
people only become left handed if the mirror baby crawls out when nobody is looking and pushes the normal baby into the mirror dimension. it’s a sign of bad parenting
April 27, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Twin Peak: The Return (2017)
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Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.
April 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Guys, you're still trying to replace FDR. I told you we can't do it, and we can't do it. Now, what we might be able to do is re-create him. Re-create him in the aggregate.
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