Olivia Rodrigo brought my age down quite a lot then
December 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Olivia Rodrigo brought my age down quite a lot then
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
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"...and everyone had an opinion, Stew. For years and years and years the people would come from all over just to have an opinion on whether or not Die Hard was a Christmas film, Stew. It became so much of a British tradition Reform UK put up Die Hard flags on every lamp post from 1st of December" x
December 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"...and everyone had an opinion, Stew. For years and years and years the people would come from all over just to have an opinion on whether or not Die Hard was a Christmas film, Stew. It became so much of a British tradition Reform UK put up Die Hard flags on every lamp post from 1st of December" x
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Zaphod Beeblebrox presidency
one thing that receives almost no attention is that the only reason he ran for president again is because he had to to avoid prosecution for a litany of crimes, the whole plan was: 1). Take shelter in SCOTUS-granted immunity. 2). Loot.
trump is the president in the sense that he holds the office but he very clearly isn't the president in the sense that he has basically relieved himself of its duties
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Zaphod Beeblebrox presidency
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OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI
OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI
Thrive will use the AI-maker's tech in its managed services and accounting businesess
Scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. OpenAI says that it has taken an undisclosed ownership stake in Thrive Holdings, the management-focused offshoot of private equity heavyweight Thrive Capital, which itself is a major investor in the ChatGPT maker.…
dlvr.it
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
OpenAI money-go-round sees it invest in company that invested in OpenAI
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This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
This is a wonderful thread. Scholarship, creativity, a portrait of a generation.
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Shame is the underrated, old skool emotion of the 21st century. When we don't feel it anymore, social restraint and social order fall apart.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Shame is the underrated, old skool emotion of the 21st century. When we don't feel it anymore, social restraint and social order fall apart.
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Keep seeing people upset about the “Mansion Tax” potentially ruining their retirement, there’s actually a very simple solution for you: you need to stop getting lattes from Starbucks, cancel your Netflix subscription and gym membership, oh and stop having avocados.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
November 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Keep seeing people upset about the “Mansion Tax” potentially ruining their retirement, there’s actually a very simple solution for you: you need to stop getting lattes from Starbucks, cancel your Netflix subscription and gym membership, oh and stop having avocados.
Hope this helps x
Hope this helps x
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it's what he would have wanted
November 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
it's what he would have wanted
This is, I think, is the key. Compared to the previous generation, the current lot are terrible in so many ways. But this is the main one. But how on earth is there a route back?
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
![I confess that I always had difficulty with interpreting the Biblical precept to love our neighbours “as ourselves” until I read some of the words of C.S. Lewis. He pointed out that we don't exactly love ourselves when we fall below the standards and beliefs we have accepted. Indeed we might even hate ourselves for some unworthy deed.
None of this, of course, tells us exactly what kind of political and social institutions we should have. On this point, Christians will very often genuinely disagree, though it is a mark of Christian manners that they will do so with courtesy and mutual respect. [Applause] What is certain, however, is that any set of social and economic arrangements which is not founded on the acceptance of individual responsibility will do nothing but harm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xbnsfdtxoothg654ujxe3p25/bafkreicrdgbtvm54qnmttwe6crhxwt4be5v3izjmqtnvlxmaljwg5wolai@jpeg)
November 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This is, I think, is the key. Compared to the previous generation, the current lot are terrible in so many ways. But this is the main one. But how on earth is there a route back?
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We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
November 28, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:
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If you’re a nerd, you’ll see this and think: amazing.
Good take, well done. But then look at the third post in the thread for the behind-the-scenes detail in how they were made. Someone put in the *work*.
Good take, well done. But then look at the third post in the thread for the behind-the-scenes detail in how they were made. Someone put in the *work*.
November 29, 2025 at 10:36 AM
If you’re a nerd, you’ll see this and think: amazing.
Good take, well done. But then look at the third post in the thread for the behind-the-scenes detail in how they were made. Someone put in the *work*.
Good take, well done. But then look at the third post in the thread for the behind-the-scenes detail in how they were made. Someone put in the *work*.
Great thread about the poor rich people
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Great thread about the poor rich people
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Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.
PM describes net migration of 205k as "a step in the right direction". His govt has no public position on a sustainable level of immigration is, nor any known process to decide what, why & how. Starmer is now implying he wants it significantly lower
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Net migration drop ‘step in the right direction’ – Starmer
Net migration peaked at a record 944,000 in the year to March 2023 but has fallen sharply since then.
www.standard.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Abysmal, mindless, utterly zombified. You can't even call it policymaking because that implies a degree of thought which simply isn't present. Pretty soon they might actually hit Cameron's 'tens of thousands' target and then they'll shit themselves with horror at the consequences.
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I don't care whether this is real, it's beautiful anyway.
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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The bloke that utterly effed the education system, campaigned for Brexit and bought a bill to try and ban public bodies from boycotting Israel is doing what now….?
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The bloke that utterly effed the education system, campaigned for Brexit and bought a bill to try and ban public bodies from boycotting Israel is doing what now….?
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We Need To Talk About Kevin (1990)
December 1, 2024 at 2:31 AM
We Need To Talk About Kevin (1990)
BBC needs to grow a pair and get a grip
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
BBC needs to grow a pair and get a grip
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Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
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Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just a jaw-dropping paragraph in Trevor Phillips's column for The Times.
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
This is a policy that, by his own account, has left parents of a particular race too frightened to walk their children to school.
And that's the example he chooses of the "vigour" we "need".
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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The key is to keep the pressure on. Don’t let him ride this out.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
It was years ago.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not in a hurtful way.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not with intent.
Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?
Not genuine abuse.
😮🫣😬😱 ~AA
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The key is to keep the pressure on. Don’t let him ride this out.
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My favourite part is that they repeatedly underestimated public compliance and willingness to pull together.
Such cuntery. To think we were as bad as them. And to kill us in our tens of thousands with their cynicism.
Such cuntery. To think we were as bad as them. And to kill us in our tens of thousands with their cynicism.
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My favourite part is that they repeatedly underestimated public compliance and willingness to pull together.
Such cuntery. To think we were as bad as them. And to kill us in our tens of thousands with their cynicism.
Such cuntery. To think we were as bad as them. And to kill us in our tens of thousands with their cynicism.
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks