This reminds me of that famous Neil Postman blurb about the difference between Orwell and Huxley and how Huxley thought our own undoing would be a love of technologies that don't require us to think. We're being actively encouraged not to read or think for ourselves and everyone is like GREAT 👍

Racist views were something agreed to be shameful. For the people pushing racist views today, the reluctance to call them out is a tremendous boon. Even as social media brings them together, it demonstrates to them that they can be bolder without consequence. That’s why they’re now more explicit /4

It's been more & more dismaying seeing journalists and commentators parrot the "legitimate concerns" line that the Starmer government has themselves adopted. The economic situation hasn't suddenly deteriorated over this year, however, the media normalisation has massively snowballed.

Calling the female journalist "slag" is really the cherry on top of the "protect women and girls" cake.

Hey @bestforbritain.org just FYI the 'your name' placeholder in that iframe is not editable. I checked out the html and the it's in is set to content editable="false" so that needs editing so people can enter their names!

I had the same thought so did the math based on chatGPT estimating that an elite competitive eater with a 15 year long career will eat roughly 11,000 hot dogs.
(11,000*30) = 330,000 mins
330,000/1,400 = 235 days
Seems worth it, honestly
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If a podcast doesn't do it for you, it's so easy to just unsubscribe & move on. The fact that he needed you to witness his unhappiness screams lonely bloke with no friends desperate to feel seen. Which is obviously not your emotional baggage to have to carry 🚮 Bye, Felicia!

The Great Gatsby. It was and still is some of the most beautiful prose I'd ever read and it also clearly demonstrates what a con the American Dream is; how elites are forever playing by completely different rules. It means so much to me I even got a tattoo inspired by it 🤓

Every time I visit Paris I squeeze in a trip to one of the locations mentioned in A Moveable Feast; definitely recommend revisiting as a tourism guide!

This is who is protecting you now, America.