Maxanene
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Sorry I'm late, what did I miss?
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Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.
BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise
January 14, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.
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No desire to defend Starmer *at all*, but I think it’s important to recognise that UKGov is in the tightest diplomatic hole of almost all NATO countries but Denmark here.
Almost every possible move is a potential self-exploding catch-22 for them.
Almost every possible move is a potential self-exploding catch-22 for them.
January 14, 2026 at 9:26 PM
No desire to defend Starmer *at all*, but I think it’s important to recognise that UKGov is in the tightest diplomatic hole of almost all NATO countries but Denmark here.
Almost every possible move is a potential self-exploding catch-22 for them.
Almost every possible move is a potential self-exploding catch-22 for them.
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I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.
Particularly unhappy with the attempt to move discussion off the X illegal abuse image factory to the pre-existing Garda wish to bring in age verification to allow surveillance of all adults and children’s access of *lawful* material.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
These are incomparable issues in terms of seriousness.
January 14, 2026 at 9:35 AM
I find it astonishing that the idea that children should upload selfies to X as part of a state-mandated age verification scheme is still being floated.
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Germany and France joining Denmark and Sweden in Greenland.
Official confirmation of German participation in European troop deployment to Greenland. First Bundeswehr soldiers to arrive tomorrow. 🇪🇺 / NATO solidarity in action.
January 14, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Germany and France joining Denmark and Sweden in Greenland.
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I think it's also really, really important to emphasise that the UK Prime Minister is sounding positive noises about Musk's promises to stop his unprecedented deepfake-child porn factory, given that said factory remains, many hours later, 100% operational.
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I have tested again just now to be sure, as it was still allowing this yesterday, but yes - I am able to edit images of other people, uploaded by other users, into lingerie using a free account. X and Grok make no attempt to block me.
January 14, 2026 at 8:04 PM
I think it's also really, really important to emphasise that the UK Prime Minister is sounding positive noises about Musk's promises to stop his unprecedented deepfake-child porn factory, given that said factory remains, many hours later, 100% operational.
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The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
January 14, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The 'give ice qr codes' thing reminds me of when Sarah Everard was murdered by a real policeman using his real police id to kidnap her, and the police & gvt made out the solution was to have a helpline to check that the person bundling you away was a real policeman (as the murderer was)
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Still see quite serious people saying “Nah, he’d never *actually* invade and occupy Greenland.”
That’s fine if it’s just for diplomacy’s sake.
But the real answer to any question of whether he would actually do something extreme, stupid, ignorant, harmful and beyond the pale is *always* yes.
That’s fine if it’s just for diplomacy’s sake.
But the real answer to any question of whether he would actually do something extreme, stupid, ignorant, harmful and beyond the pale is *always* yes.
January 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Still see quite serious people saying “Nah, he’d never *actually* invade and occupy Greenland.”
That’s fine if it’s just for diplomacy’s sake.
But the real answer to any question of whether he would actually do something extreme, stupid, ignorant, harmful and beyond the pale is *always* yes.
That’s fine if it’s just for diplomacy’s sake.
But the real answer to any question of whether he would actually do something extreme, stupid, ignorant, harmful and beyond the pale is *always* yes.
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oh did crushing the protest encampment and falling inline with the fascist regime to further silence descent not work out?
January 14, 2026 at 1:18 PM
oh did crushing the protest encampment and falling inline with the fascist regime to further silence descent not work out?
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Bring back Tomorrow's World but it's just a single camera shot of a barren nuked wasteland and a tech bro cackling about AI in the windy distance.
January 14, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Bring back Tomorrow's World but it's just a single camera shot of a barren nuked wasteland and a tech bro cackling about AI in the windy distance.
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When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese
Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese
January 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese
Speaking words of wisdom, eat some cheese
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"A country that eats less, drinks less, and gathers less may look healthier on paper. But if it is lonelier, angrier, and more fragmented, it is certainly not well."
Been thinking a lot about how we are talking about health and society so I wrote down some thoughts about what happens when self-care replaces collective care, and why joy, connection, and shared spaces are as essential to a nation’s wellbeing as any diet
zoegrunewald.substack.com/p/when-whats...
zoegrunewald.substack.com/p/when-whats...
When “what’s good for us” stops meaning "us"
Wellness culture promises control and self-care — but what happens when it starts to hollow out our shared collective lives?
zoegrunewald.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
"A country that eats less, drinks less, and gathers less may look healthier on paper. But if it is lonelier, angrier, and more fragmented, it is certainly not well."
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“Ministers assure the public that Palantir doesn’t have access to “patient-identifiable data”, which might be more reassuring if Palantir were not a company that specialised in joining up different data sources to spot patterns and identify people.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
Can MAGA tech firm Palantir be trusted to run Britain's data?
It's wildly overvalued, politically extreme and puts Trump first – but somehow has £1bn of deals to run Britain's tech infrastructure
www.thenewworld.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
“Ministers assure the public that Palantir doesn’t have access to “patient-identifiable data”, which might be more reassuring if Palantir were not a company that specialised in joining up different data sources to spot patterns and identify people.”
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-c...
When did newsreaders and presenters start pronouncing it 'manDAYtory', what's going on?
January 14, 2026 at 12:34 PM
When did newsreaders and presenters start pronouncing it 'manDAYtory', what's going on?
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A Biscuit based timeline cleanse.
January 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
A Biscuit based timeline cleanse.
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Sport England suspends X account over abuse of women and girls
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Sport England suspends X account over 'abhorrent' output
Public funding agency Sport England suspends its account on Elon Musk's X, claiming it
www.bbc.co.uk
January 13, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Sport England suspends X account over abuse of women and girls
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
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Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.
January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Remember, Scott Adams won't see your posts focusing on his late-career bigotry, but J.K. Rowling might.
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Nigel Farage is trying to frame the Grok Porn issue and Musks lies about grooming gangs on X as an issue of free speech.
Could it be that he wants to defend his own position as being one of the top spreaders of misinformation and lies on X ⁉️
Could it be that he wants to defend his own position as being one of the top spreaders of misinformation and lies on X ⁉️
January 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Nigel Farage is trying to frame the Grok Porn issue and Musks lies about grooming gangs on X as an issue of free speech.
Could it be that he wants to defend his own position as being one of the top spreaders of misinformation and lies on X ⁉️
Could it be that he wants to defend his own position as being one of the top spreaders of misinformation and lies on X ⁉️
So some little shit has been signing my daughter and her friends up for Reform newsletters, using their school email accounts.
January 13, 2026 at 4:25 PM
So some little shit has been signing my daughter and her friends up for Reform newsletters, using their school email accounts.
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Precisely so.
Mandelson should simply retire completely. We should never hear from him again. We don’t need his opinion on anything at all.
"I suspect that almost every women who listened to it said 'Where is your compassion and empathy for the women?'"
Baroness Kennedy responds to Lord Mandelson's latest apology last night, following criticism that he hadn't gone far enough in Sunday's BBC interview.
#Newsnight
Baroness Kennedy responds to Lord Mandelson's latest apology last night, following criticism that he hadn't gone far enough in Sunday's BBC interview.
#Newsnight
January 13, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Precisely so.
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Yeah. It's a sign of a huge collective failure of understanding and an inability to get to the heart of things that so few immediately got 'there is no level of convenience or ease of service that means you ignore the state's most fundamental duties'.
It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here
The least surprising poll finding you'll ever see:
January 13, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Yeah. It's a sign of a huge collective failure of understanding and an inability to get to the heart of things that so few immediately got 'there is no level of convenience or ease of service that means you ignore the state's most fundamental duties'.
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It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here
January 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
It speaks to how broken MPs' media diet is that all parties didn't collectively go "pedophilia bad" at the first possible opportunity here
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I’ve got something to show you. Feat. @brettdomino
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 AM
I’ve got something to show you. Feat. @brettdomino
Rubbing my post Christmas cheese belly like there'll be the bitter patter of tiny feet in spring.
January 13, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Rubbing my post Christmas cheese belly like there'll be the bitter patter of tiny feet in spring.
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'5 million Britons use X as their primary news source' sounds more like a problem for them than anyone else. Let them go back to consulting the seaweed or whatever they did.
January 13, 2026 at 12:54 PM
'5 million Britons use X as their primary news source' sounds more like a problem for them than anyone else. Let them go back to consulting the seaweed or whatever they did.