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Movies, music, politics, tech, football, photos, outdoors.
Pfp: me wearing a giant crown with an arrogant expression.
Banner: a still from the 80s arcade game, Battle Zone.
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snake oil salesman says snake oil is good for whatever ails ya, from rheumatiz to hair frizz!
November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
snake oil salesman says snake oil is good for whatever ails ya, from rheumatiz to hair frizz!
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If the whole point of the Blue Labour project was to tack rightwards in order to prove their 'electability' and 'seriousness' to the Founts of Public Opinion - but now they're still printing screeching op-eds as absurd as any under Corbyn (as we all predicted) - what was the point of the project?
November 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
If the whole point of the Blue Labour project was to tack rightwards in order to prove their 'electability' and 'seriousness' to the Founts of Public Opinion - but now they're still printing screeching op-eds as absurd as any under Corbyn (as we all predicted) - what was the point of the project?
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
This is an argument to put more money into the legal system, employ more people, reopen shut down courts, not to completely destroy the bedrock it is based upon.
Darren Jones is asked about the proposal to scrap trial by jury for all but the most serious crimes.
Jones says he won't comment on leaks but goes on to say there's a huge backlog of cases & a need for timely justice (which is the argument being used to justify these proposals)
Jones says he won't comment on leaks but goes on to say there's a huge backlog of cases & a need for timely justice (which is the argument being used to justify these proposals)
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
This is an argument to put more money into the legal system, employ more people, reopen shut down courts, not to completely destroy the bedrock it is based upon.
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Wow, no doubt it means five years in the slammer for each and every one of them.
November 26, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Wow, no doubt it means five years in the slammer for each and every one of them.
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Make sure Ryanair get more than £100 worth of bad publicity over this. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
Ryanair expects me to take the financial hit for helping others
As a doctor I stepped in to tend to an elderly passenger … but it won’t waive £100 transfer fee to rebook
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Make sure Ryanair get more than £100 worth of bad publicity over this. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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I personally find her remarks about people taking the wrong lessons from holocaust education even more outrageous.
According to her, taking from that the lesson that it's wrong for a powerful party to oppress/murder a weaker party is wrong.
According to her, taking from that the lesson that it's wrong for a powerful party to oppress/murder a weaker party is wrong.
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
I personally find her remarks about people taking the wrong lessons from holocaust education even more outrageous.
According to her, taking from that the lesson that it's wrong for a powerful party to oppress/murder a weaker party is wrong.
According to her, taking from that the lesson that it's wrong for a powerful party to oppress/murder a weaker party is wrong.
Today I'll be testing my vegetarianism by eating a massive roast beef dinner
BREAKING: At least 24 people are dead and 54 wounded after Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began in October, officials say.
Israel launches strikes in Gaza ceasefire's latest test as hospitals say 20 killed
Israel's military says it has launched new airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza, testing the ceasefire that began on October 10.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Today I'll be testing my vegetarianism by eating a massive roast beef dinner
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It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together
Trump on Mamdani: "I think he's gonna surprise some conservative people, actually. And some very liberal people he won't surprise because they already like him."
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together
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Why on earth was Gaspar Noé the director with the invitation, what are they up to in there 💀
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Why on earth was Gaspar Noé the director with the invitation, what are they up to in there 💀
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Imagining someone arranging a private screening of LOVE [3D] for Pope Leo and him just raising a hand and going, "Bring him in."
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Imagining someone arranging a private screening of LOVE [3D] for Pope Leo and him just raising a hand and going, "Bring him in."
I can't help thinking the decent chance that someone like Luigi Mangione walks free is a driver behind this stuff
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
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UK politics live – latest updates
Criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury in order to increase the chances of proceedings collapsing, the courts minister has said, promising to enact radical changes to limit jury trials by the next election.
Drug dealers and career criminals were “laughing in the dock” knowing cases can take years to come to trial, Sarah Sackman told the Guardian, saying inaction would be a road to “chaos and ruin”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I can't help thinking the decent chance that someone like Luigi Mangione walks free is a driver behind this stuff
10 of my comfort films
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Moneyball
The Martian
Battleship
The King
The Big Short
Independence Day
Cast Away
Aliens
Memphis Belle
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Moneyball
The Martian
Battleship
The King
The Big Short
Independence Day
Cast Away
Aliens
Memphis Belle
10 of my comfort films...
The Da Vinci Code
Spaceballs
Halloween
Gremlins
Batman (1989)
Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
The Naked Gun (1988)
The Untouchables
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nosferatu (1922)
The Da Vinci Code
Spaceballs
Halloween
Gremlins
Batman (1989)
Little Shop Of Horrors (1986)
The Naked Gun (1988)
The Untouchables
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Nosferatu (1922)
10 of my comfort films...
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
The Room
The Blues Brothers
Fletch
Face/Off
Commando
Southland Tales
Deep Blue Sea
Dazed and Confused
Airplane!
Dawn of the Dead (1979)
The Room
The Blues Brothers
Fletch
Face/Off
Commando
Southland Tales
Deep Blue Sea
Dazed and Confused
Airplane!
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
10 of my comfort films
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Moneyball
The Martian
Battleship
The King
The Big Short
Independence Day
Cast Away
Aliens
Memphis Belle
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Moneyball
The Martian
Battleship
The King
The Big Short
Independence Day
Cast Away
Aliens
Memphis Belle
So these policies you want to follow, they're morally and ethically correct?
No
But they're successful?
Also no
No
But they're successful?
Also no
Please help, the model for my policies, it is dying.
Social Democrats in Denmark suffer sweeping election losses
PM Mette Frederiksen’s centre-left party loses control of Copenhagen for first time in more than 100 years
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So these policies you want to follow, they're morally and ethically correct?
No
But they're successful?
Also no
No
But they're successful?
Also no
"Hey, you look like you're desperately trying to cobble something together to an unreasonable deadline"
November 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"Hey, you look like you're desperately trying to cobble something together to an unreasonable deadline"
I worked for an airline when 9/11 happened. I worked for a bank (Northern Rock as it happens) when the financial system collapsed 2007-8. And now I work for a large tech/software company. Beware the Jonah, I am Real and it is Happening Again
Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.
New @axios: Anthropic lands $15 billion investment from Microsoft, Nvidia
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I worked for an airline when 9/11 happened. I worked for a bank (Northern Rock as it happens) when the financial system collapsed 2007-8. And now I work for a large tech/software company. Beware the Jonah, I am Real and it is Happening Again
Trying to get something done yesterday I'd not worked on before, new tech, new processes (to me), and I was *not* expecting to be beaten late on by GitHub being broken
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Trying to get something done yesterday I'd not worked on before, new tech, new processes (to me), and I was *not* expecting to be beaten late on by GitHub being broken
Tell me we're not bailing out these fuckers again
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Tell me we're not bailing out these fuckers again
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These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
I've been out canvassing quite a lot in London lately. Labour's vote has absolutely evaporated.... it is quite extraordinary to go to places where Labour were on 50-60% of the vote at the last locals and find nobody, or virtually nobody, supporting them.
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
The phrase 'I voted Labour last time, but...
November 18, 2025 at 12:03 PM
These are the voters that Labour strategists have made very clear over a long period of time that they don't want any more, and it's a message that has now been heard
If a building/business's disabled accessibility is temporarily out of order they should be forced to close for everyone
"my least woke opinion is---"
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
That's enough. We've had enough people indulging in the "thrill of a little conservatism", as a treat. Of considering reactionary thought to be a salacious and taboo in a world descending into reactionary mania.
Give me your MOST woke opinions. We're bringing it back.
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If a building/business's disabled accessibility is temporarily out of order they should be forced to close for everyone
There is a direct line from a single issue party that got what it wanted - leaving the EU - to today's Reform, which just chose something else to focus on. They will never stop, no matter how much you cede to them.
Some of the smugest & most hard of thinking aggro centrists are about to get a medical grade order of exactly what they wanted exactly as advertised
November 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
There is a direct line from a single issue party that got what it wanted - leaving the EU - to today's Reform, which just chose something else to focus on. They will never stop, no matter how much you cede to them.
Mahmood is offended by people talking about Tommy Robinson's approval of her like Nixon was offended by people talking about Watergate
Shabana Mahmood asks MPs to stop mentioning Tommy Robinson's name (in relation to his support for her policies) as "he doesn't even think I am English. I find that offensive."
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Mahmood is offended by people talking about Tommy Robinson's approval of her like Nixon was offended by people talking about Watergate
A South American immigrant recently
November 17, 2025 at 9:33 PM
A South American immigrant recently
Well I never. Labour will never live this down.
Nick Timothy, Tory MP most responsible for the Windrush scandal, gives Mahmood his support
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Well I never. Labour will never live this down.