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"Hate crimes are happening more frequently. More openly. More boldly. That is not an accident. That is what happens when society tolerates dehumanisation and calls it debate."
December 22, 2025 at 7:07 AM
"Hate crimes are happening more frequently. More openly. More boldly. That is not an accident. That is what happens when society tolerates dehumanisation and calls it debate."
I mean, he might, he's terminally online and got a lot of downtime drinking his meals through a straw
Jake Paul won't see your mean skeets about him, but your friends who got beaten up by a professional boxer will.
December 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I mean, he might, he's terminally online and got a lot of downtime drinking his meals through a straw
I've made the same point before, but I trust the BBC will also be referring to Kemi Badenoch as 'a biological Nigerian who identifies as British', a distinction of equal importance to the same political forces this guidance is designed to empower
EXCLUSIVE
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
The BBC has circulated leaked guidance telling journalists to describe trans women as “biological males”.
Clarity should not come at the cost of dignity. #bbc #humanrights #journalism #transparency #transrights
December 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I've made the same point before, but I trust the BBC will also be referring to Kemi Badenoch as 'a biological Nigerian who identifies as British', a distinction of equal importance to the same political forces this guidance is designed to empower
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Our existence breaks the rules of their narrow little world where ‘everyone is a boy or a girl and it’s easy to tell!’
They would rather torture us into fitting the boxes they made rather than learn to accept someone different.
They would rather torture us into fitting the boxes they made rather than learn to accept someone different.
December 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Our existence breaks the rules of their narrow little world where ‘everyone is a boy or a girl and it’s easy to tell!’
They would rather torture us into fitting the boxes they made rather than learn to accept someone different.
They would rather torture us into fitting the boxes they made rather than learn to accept someone different.
More than once recently Important Professional People™ have mistaken me for being smart and well-informed when what I actually am is a reader of Ed Zitron who can paraphrase without the swear words
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December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
More than once recently Important Professional People™ have mistaken me for being smart and well-informed when what I actually am is a reader of Ed Zitron who can paraphrase without the swear words
I am comforted by just how badly the announcement of the Commonwealth Games no longer being on free-to-air TV is bombing
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I am comforted by just how badly the announcement of the Commonwealth Games no longer being on free-to-air TV is bombing
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Imagine Scooby Doo saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". It would be terrible. In fact, I don't think that Scooby Doo should read any war poems out loud. He can respect the fallen in other ways.
December 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Imagine Scooby Doo saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". It would be terrible. In fact, I don't think that Scooby Doo should read any war poems out loud. He can respect the fallen in other ways.
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.
December 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
If your cost-benefit model tells you it isn't worth investing in a tram or light rail system for an urban area with a population of well over 1m, like Leeds-Bradford, your model is wrong and should be thrown in the bin.
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btw the fact that labour won't actually be treating this 660% surge as a real thing is how you know their ban on palestine action is politically motivated authoritarianism.
if pa were an actual terror threat then a surge of 660% would have the entire political and media class panicked.
if pa were an actual terror threat then a surge of 660% would have the entire political and media class panicked.
i can't believe terrorism has surged by 660% since labour came to power.
Terror arrests surge by 660% due to Palestine Action ban
December 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
btw the fact that labour won't actually be treating this 660% surge as a real thing is how you know their ban on palestine action is politically motivated authoritarianism.
if pa were an actual terror threat then a surge of 660% would have the entire political and media class panicked.
if pa were an actual terror threat then a surge of 660% would have the entire political and media class panicked.
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The is a taxi driver in Ballaghadereen called Abdul. But locals call him Abdul Abhaile.
(“ag dul abhaile”is Irish for “going home”)
(“ag dul abhaile”is Irish for “going home”)
December 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The is a taxi driver in Ballaghadereen called Abdul. But locals call him Abdul Abhaile.
(“ag dul abhaile”is Irish for “going home”)
(“ag dul abhaile”is Irish for “going home”)
What an incredibly cursed post, I think to myself, hitting reskeet in exactly the time of a neuron firing
guy who does the "i like my coffee like i like my women" spiel to order a flat white
December 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What an incredibly cursed post, I think to myself, hitting reskeet in exactly the time of a neuron firing
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guy who does the "i like my coffee like i like my women" spiel to order a flat white
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
guy who does the "i like my coffee like i like my women" spiel to order a flat white
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By "violence", they mean supporting a cause they disagree with, just like how by "censorship" they mean expressing disagreement. It's co-opting the language of civilility to disguise their authoritarianism.
December 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
By "violence", they mean supporting a cause they disagree with, just like how by "censorship" they mean expressing disagreement. It's co-opting the language of civilility to disguise their authoritarianism.
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The irony is that the word intifada (lit. "resistance" or "uprising") was specifically chosen by Palestinian activists as an alternative to anything that would imply violence, so it's already a euphemism. But now of course, it's being construed as a call for violence by those who oppose the cause.
Something wildly colonialist about the way we mistranslate words like "intifada" and "jihad", ignore anyone telling us we're wrong, and then arrest people based on our wilfully wrong understanding
Met police and GMP pledge crackdown on ‘intifada’ chants at Gaza war protests
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The irony is that the word intifada (lit. "resistance" or "uprising") was specifically chosen by Palestinian activists as an alternative to anything that would imply violence, so it's already a euphemism. But now of course, it's being construed as a call for violence by those who oppose the cause.
So this is a football club putting out an AI statement to mark the death in a car crash of one of their current players at the age of 21, then
December 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So this is a football club putting out an AI statement to mark the death in a car crash of one of their current players at the age of 21, then
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"No one (who I view as human) has been able to explain this unpopularity to me and my columnist friends, it's so strange"
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
"No one (who I view as human) has been able to explain this unpopularity to me and my columnist friends, it's so strange"
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liberal columnists: everyone despises starmer and nobody really knows why
left/centre/right: here is a litany of reasons, with citation, as to why i hate that fucking guy
liberal columnists: it's inexplicable. he's a decent guy, a human rights lawyer fgs, jus trying to fix 14 years of tory mess
left/centre/right: here is a litany of reasons, with citation, as to why i hate that fucking guy
liberal columnists: it's inexplicable. he's a decent guy, a human rights lawyer fgs, jus trying to fix 14 years of tory mess
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
liberal columnists: everyone despises starmer and nobody really knows why
left/centre/right: here is a litany of reasons, with citation, as to why i hate that fucking guy
liberal columnists: it's inexplicable. he's a decent guy, a human rights lawyer fgs, jus trying to fix 14 years of tory mess
left/centre/right: here is a litany of reasons, with citation, as to why i hate that fucking guy
liberal columnists: it's inexplicable. he's a decent guy, a human rights lawyer fgs, jus trying to fix 14 years of tory mess
I don't want to be the person explaining a joke on Bluesky, but we do all understand that the Jaguar car is literally painted in baffle paint to deter cameras from stealing details because it's pre-production, yes? And we're just doing silly goofs for funsies?
December 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I don't want to be the person explaining a joke on Bluesky, but we do all understand that the Jaguar car is literally painted in baffle paint to deter cameras from stealing details because it's pre-production, yes? And we're just doing silly goofs for funsies?
Although we had gerbils. Kids today don't have gerbils.
I feel like kids now have access to better animals than we did back in the day. Back in the 90s we didn’t know shit about Capybaras
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Although we had gerbils. Kids today don't have gerbils.
Quite apart from anything else, we as a nation are never beating the allegations if we have a thing called a "ladies' pond"
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Quite apart from anything else, we as a nation are never beating the allegations if we have a thing called a "ladies' pond"
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Countries have learned it's bad to declare a war in the same way that prominent people have learned it's bad to be called a bigot- they still want to do the bad thing, but they absolutely do not want the bad label and they'll call it anything else to avoid it
December 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Countries have learned it's bad to declare a war in the same way that prominent people have learned it's bad to be called a bigot- they still want to do the bad thing, but they absolutely do not want the bad label and they'll call it anything else to avoid it
MLM LLM
Oh for fuck's sake, "Socialism AI" was the best they could come up with? When "CheGPT" was sitting right there??
Another datapoint for the argument that we are living through an increasingly ludicrous market bubble
December 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
MLM LLM
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you can't be opposed to the far right and a transphobe.
those two positions conflict.
those two positions conflict.
December 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
you can't be opposed to the far right and a transphobe.
those two positions conflict.
those two positions conflict.
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Though no longer a new development, worth noting it's pretty useless that ESPNcricinfo aren't providing live scoring for a women's ODI between two Full Member nations (for which live streaming is freely available).
An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.
An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Though no longer a new development, worth noting it's pretty useless that ESPNcricinfo aren't providing live scoring for a women's ODI between two Full Member nations (for which live streaming is freely available).
An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.
An empty scorecard simply stating/demanding 'Bet' says it all.