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Soggy is such a perfect word to describe the current government
It's bad enough having a soggy Labour government returning to its pre-1994 ideas, badly. But the people who believe that they are actually supporting some kind of 'moderate' government really do tick it up a notch.
Starmtroopers are like performance art by the dullest boomers you've ever seen
November 14, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Soggy is such a perfect word to describe the current government
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In light of current reminders about how powerful rich men exploit and assault young women under the safety and guise of various forms of “employment,“ just wanna give a shout out to NYT for this gem last week where we learned about how #metoo *actually* ended harming the workplace. 🙄
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This case really reinforces my concern about the British state and its attitude towards data. Orders being treated as mere requests to be actioned at will. Junior staff members making blanket assertions about IT systems. It is all rather Horizon-like.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This case really reinforces my concern about the British state and its attitude towards data. Orders being treated as mere requests to be actioned at will. Junior staff members making blanket assertions about IT systems. It is all rather Horizon-like.
All the repeated disclaimers in this thread still aren't enough to stop the bsky reply guys
I’m a crank in that, contingent on it actually working, (which is again, yes, a huge very sci-fi if), I would be fine with this. Probably take an expansive vision of harm where robo-PO him from even being around kids, but otherwise, sure. Preventing harm is the only moral rationale for incarceration
imagine John Wayne Gacy, fully integrated into society, followed awkwardly by a robot that looks like the Greendale Human Being and grabs him whenever he lurches towards a young boy
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
All the repeated disclaimers in this thread still aren't enough to stop the bsky reply guys
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Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here’s the same data, but with trust broken down by political views (circles are trust among people on the left, +s the right).
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
It’s not just that the BBC is widely consumed — it also has solid trust on both left & right, whereas trust in the biggest US media brands is hugely polarised.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
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As violence escalated this month in Al Fashir, Sudan, many tried to escape. But leaving the city isn't easy. Bellingcat geolocated an incident in which more than 80 people were killed on their way out of the city. youtube.com/shorts/OJDCN...
The Killings of Those Trying to Escape Al Fashir
YouTube video by Bellingcat
youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
As violence escalated this month in Al Fashir, Sudan, many tried to escape. But leaving the city isn't easy. Bellingcat geolocated an incident in which more than 80 people were killed on their way out of the city. youtube.com/shorts/OJDCN...
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Airline industry lobbyists?
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Airline industry lobbyists?
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Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Perhaps tails needs better messaging.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Abandoning the norms of coin-flipping may also be the key to tails winning.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: It must be indicative of something. Option one, tails is losing on purpose. Two, a spectacular demonstration of tails’ fecklessness.
GUIL: Perhaps tails needs better messaging.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Abandoning the norms of coin-flipping may also be the key to tails winning.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: It must be indicative of something. Option one, tails is losing on purpose. Two, a spectacular demonstration of tails’ fecklessness.
And here I thought the 250th was supposed to be about the American people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...
A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Perhaps tails needs better messaging.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Abandoning the norms of coin-flipping may also be the key to tails winning.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: It must be indicative of something. Option one, tails is losing on purpose. Two, a spectacular demonstration of tails’ fecklessness.
GUIL: Perhaps tails needs better messaging.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: Abandoning the norms of coin-flipping may also be the key to tails winning.
ROS: Heads.
GUIL: It must be indicative of something. Option one, tails is losing on purpose. Two, a spectacular demonstration of tails’ fecklessness.
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My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...
Still can't get over Bovino having the same haircut as Steven Lockjaw
November 9, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Still can't get over Bovino having the same haircut as Steven Lockjaw
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my first day at USAID as one of Musk's implants. my supervisor, basedtaborisky1488, asks me to put together a white paper on whether the janjaweed is woke or antiwoke. i rail four lines of Soviet hovercraft skirt deicer off of a mysterious server installed by a guy in a PLA uniform and get to work.
February 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
my first day at USAID as one of Musk's implants. my supervisor, basedtaborisky1488, asks me to put together a white paper on whether the janjaweed is woke or antiwoke. i rail four lines of Soviet hovercraft skirt deicer off of a mysterious server installed by a guy in a PLA uniform and get to work.
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A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 AM
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
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Not sure this is much better guys!
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Not sure this is much better guys!
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Do #AI-generated videos obey physics laws? We present a simple, fun, and educational experiment that uses physics to distinguish an AI-generated video from a real one, using freely available online tools. Check it out: https://ow.ly/C26950XlcLl
#physicseducation #scienceexperiments
#physicseducation #scienceexperiments
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Do #AI-generated videos obey physics laws? We present a simple, fun, and educational experiment that uses physics to distinguish an AI-generated video from a real one, using freely available online tools. Check it out: https://ow.ly/C26950XlcLl
#physicseducation #scienceexperiments
#physicseducation #scienceexperiments
Me when I boot up EU V
the future of the democratic party is a coalition of the wokest people on tumblr and absolutely dead-eyed pursuers of the national interest and the maximization of GDP
funny that the two groups in the political class who have been the least enthusiastic about trump term 2 are like neocon blob guys and economists
November 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Me when I boot up EU V
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Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
November 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss.
'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.
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There’s a fairly reasonable chance that, if you look around, you’ll spot something purple right now. (I did – it’s a massive pillow.) Purple absolutely definitely exists. You apologise to Alice Walker, right now!
So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
Some notes on the non-existence of purple
The colour light forgot.
jonn.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There’s a fairly reasonable chance that, if you look around, you’ll spot something purple right now. (I did – it’s a massive pillow.) Purple absolutely definitely exists. You apologise to Alice Walker, right now!
So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
So - exactly why is it the internet thinks the colour purple does not exist?
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Careless people
Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)
November 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Careless people