The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

See you later losers.

Some things you don't want to get bigger. Cancer springs to mind, as does business failures, unemployment, homelessness ...

This is high art

Markets update:
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Yeah it shouldn't be on Bleeding Cool to keep this in the public eye, there should be constant media pressure about it. It's not a hard story for them to get behind. bleedingcool.com/comics/briti...

Most crucially, there will be very little, if any, justice for Ukrainians for what they have suffered. Russia gets to act with impunity, Putin gets to play superpower again, and much like past Russian and Soviet atrocities, there is no accountability. (9/n)

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

My confident prediction is by about 2045 the Conservatives are going to campaign vigorously to rejoin the EU and they and the press on the right will constantly criticise the Labour govt of the 2020s/30s for ‘trying to make Brexit work’

Without a hint of self-criticism for enacting it, of course.

Ding ding ding! The Prince Charles Cinema, the only commercial repertory cinema left in London, may be in danger. You can help by signing the petition.
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physics of climate impacts 101:
- Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves)
- Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall)
- Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk)
- Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms)
- Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

This comic gets shared every year with the date changed. It is by Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas Boas (1957-2010).

A climate-sceptic commentator has written this today in a UK newspaper without any apparent pause for reflection or self-doubt:

"I really don’t think we are causing net climate change. However, scientific opinion thinks we are."

And, in doing so, he sums up our era of anti-science misinformation.

Musk really is a gibbering lunatic isn't he. What a fucking embarrassment to the human race.

WHY SHOULD I SUFFER ALONE?

Please sign and repost. If you agree, of course!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...