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Build a rocket boys
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A complete, connected, comfortable network of protected bike-lanes is a climate mitigation strategy. It’s a healthy cities strategy. It’s a social equity strategy. It’s an affordability strategy. It’s an economic devt strategy. It’s a smart mobility & space saving strategy.

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November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget.

Welcome. Would lift 350,000 children out of poverty.

Why did Starmer/Reeves follow the Tory policy? Why did 7 MPs have their whip withdrawn for voting against the policy?

What was the point of making children suffer?
Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget
Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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"... it's tumbleweed from the government, even though Musk's behaviour constitutes overt interference in British politics that is corrosive of Labour's position."
Why Won't Labour Take on Elon Musk?
On how many occasions has Elon Musk used Twitter to declare war on Keir Starmer's government? How often has he stoked racism, intervened in ...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I mean, I am pushing fifty myself and I’d have to concede that people my age bear far more responsibility for the fucked state of the country than young people do, even if only because of our failure to prevent it.
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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It’s a problem that will increasingly resolve itself, and I don’t think it’s obvious that our focus should be on aiding the people who are demanding crackdowns, rather than the ones saying people should be left alone to go about their business in peace.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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If old farts have gone mean as fuck and viciously reactionary with age, then it’s not clear to me that young people are to blame for this or that it’s obviously them who should shut the hell up.
November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Example: Rule Britannia being “banned at the Proms” in 2020, when everyone talking about it fully understood there was no choral signing at all for Covid restrictions. That didn’t prevent two weeks of wild terror that patriotism had been proscribed, to avoid offending non-white people.
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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Sure, but it’s worse in Britain rather than better: in America, they historically had Fox News and a newspaper or two as the crackpot media outlets. In Britain, almost every media outlet is a bit Fox News and when there’s a new bullshit outrage, all of them have run with it.
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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It's amazing to see a journalist brag about helping stop the NHS provide care to children.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Oh dear.
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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they should make bodies that work
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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If it was a war on terror, then it doesn’t really look like terror lost
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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one of the biggest contributors to Elon’s loser energy is that he desperately wants to be cool, but doesn’t understand that a big part of being cool is appearing unaffected. he’s one of the most affected men of all time.
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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the prequels are bad movies but at least they are in some way art - confused, badly executed art, but with the kernel of creativity and substance in them. 8 is like that too. 7 and 9 are just voids, a product of a spiritually bankrupt creation process.
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I went to see it in a small screen in Banbury where the mood was exhilarated going in and utterly deflated afterwards. And then just because I couldn’t believe it had actually been as bad as it was I went to see it on a massive screen in London.
I saw Phantom Menace in theaters the weekend it came out and that was the first time I considered a movie could truly suck
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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the "invisible hand" thing is more of an aside, and more of a companion piece to his whole "imagination is the source of empathy" thing from Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Mostly it's "Hey! Hoarding gold is bad economics actually! Having the stuff that gold buys is better, because it does stuff!"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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so The Wealth of Nations is on this list

and while any leftist is going to have major quibbles with Smith,

tWoN is about:
-how buying and selling goods and services is better than hoarding wealth
-how people recognize that treating each other fairly is in their self interest

Elon didn't read it.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Today.
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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this guy really wants me to run for Mayor of London
Beyond the convictions for violence, the fraud, bankruptcy and racism, the man is remarkably stupid
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM