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dRac
@d-rac.bsky.social
· Jul 9
If your response to having your methods called into question is to immediately scream about how your beliefs are being questioned, you are a child and can (indeed should) be ignored completely.
Something stupid doesn't become not stupid because you were thinking good thoughts whilst doing it.
Something stupid doesn't become not stupid because you were thinking good thoughts whilst doing it.
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Honestly low key becoming the best PM we never had.
Also basically the only MP of any party with an actual serious and coherent industrial policy
Also basically the only MP of any party with an actual serious and coherent industrial policy
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Honestly low key becoming the best PM we never had.
Also basically the only MP of any party with an actual serious and coherent industrial policy
Also basically the only MP of any party with an actual serious and coherent industrial policy
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He listens to whoever the last person he spoke to is and we rarely try simply being that person
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
He listens to whoever the last person he spoke to is and we rarely try simply being that person
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NEWS! President Trump urges journalists not to embarrass his guests by mentioning the murders they have committed
President Trump urges journalists not to embarrass his guests by mentioning the murders they have committed
In a bold reimagining of diplomatic etiquette, President Donald Trump has advised journalists to show “basic manners” by refraining from bringing up any murders his distinguished guests may or may …
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November 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEWS! President Trump urges journalists not to embarrass his guests by mentioning the murders they have committed
@danneidle.bsky.social What's your view on replacing (either in full or in part) income tax with a land value tax?
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
@danneidle.bsky.social What's your view on replacing (either in full or in part) income tax with a land value tax?
The comparisons between McSweeney and Campbell are missing the point. We hated Campbell because his job was to be hated. He took the flak for all the bad shit of New Labour so Blair could take the credit for the good stuff. He had a job and he did it.
We hate McSweeney because he's incompetent.
We hate McSweeney because he's incompetent.
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The comparisons between McSweeney and Campbell are missing the point. We hated Campbell because his job was to be hated. He took the flak for all the bad shit of New Labour so Blair could take the credit for the good stuff. He had a job and he did it.
We hate McSweeney because he's incompetent.
We hate McSweeney because he's incompetent.
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in this week's newsletter! I offer to you the Superhero Movie Theory of why both Labour and the Tories have become unable to govern: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/all-my-hob...
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
in this week's newsletter! I offer to you the Superhero Movie Theory of why both Labour and the Tories have become unable to govern: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/all-my-hob...
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
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The corruption never ends
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
The corruption never ends
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They should do one called Thatcher's Hero and the can's got a photo of General Pinochet
November 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
They should do one called Thatcher's Hero and the can's got a photo of General Pinochet
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.
One thing the NYC mayoral race underscored for me is how easily the phrase "I don't feel safe" can be weaponized. It's an argument I would hesitate ever to use again, even for a good cause. I hope we can all agree that we have the right to BE safe. Maybe we should leave it at that.
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I have been screaming this to the heavens for years and it’s lovely to see more people noticing: BEING safe is a right, FEELING safe is between you and your therapist. And the demand to FEEL safe is constantly weaponized to deprive other people of their real, actual safety.
Believing in astrology is such an underrated red flag and litmus test of a person.
November 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Believing in astrology is such an underrated red flag and litmus test of a person.
If this means we're going to start getting to the loopy end of Skunk works again then I will take a sliver of happiness from this
Hegseth: "Let me say that again. We need to increase acquisition risk in order to decrease operational risk ... An 85% solution in the hands of our armed forces today is infinitely better than an unachievable 100% solution endlessly undergoing testing."
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If this means we're going to start getting to the loopy end of Skunk works again then I will take a sliver of happiness from this
Zohran is the guy we all thought and hoped Obama was
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Zohran is the guy we all thought and hoped Obama was
I think the last era of GTA we could have had a London revisit was the San Andreas era. They abandoned the stylised parody in favour of trying to be serious, and with it the ability of having someone walk across Shepherds Bush (I assume now called Milkmaid's Bush) with an RPG over their shoulder.
"You needed guns, you needed these larger-than-life characters. " Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser on why the Grand Theft Auto series has never returned to London. https://bit.ly/47B9Vnw
November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I think the last era of GTA we could have had a London revisit was the San Andreas era. They abandoned the stylised parody in favour of trying to be serious, and with it the ability of having someone walk across Shepherds Bush (I assume now called Milkmaid's Bush) with an RPG over their shoulder.
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.
Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
🧵
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Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.
You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!
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Hot take:
Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.
It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!
Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.
It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!
October 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hot take:
Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.
It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!
Analytic philosophy is *not* obsessed with word meaning. Correct word meaning is crucial to any discussion! 90% of pointless argument is because nobody defined the meaning of a word or the purpose of an endeavor.
It's like claiming mathematicians are obsessed with symbol meaning. Fah!
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If I sound bitter, it is because of the sheer lack of seriousness of Trump and his cronies over both Gaza and Ukraine. A whole diplomacy based on stupidity, delivered by unexperienced and partial wannabes like Kushner and Witkoff.
October 22, 2025 at 8:38 AM
If I sound bitter, it is because of the sheer lack of seriousness of Trump and his cronies over both Gaza and Ukraine. A whole diplomacy based on stupidity, delivered by unexperienced and partial wannabes like Kushner and Witkoff.
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The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
October 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)
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OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
OTD in 2016 Gorbachev stated quite categorically that he never received a promise by NATO not to admit new members to the alliance.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
He said the idea that Russia was betrayed is a myth. Which triggers my trolls.
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