If you think of Trump as an absolute monarch, with no distinction between his personal wealth and power and that of the United States, things start to make a bit more sense. He's like a crap Louis XIV.

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Failing to anticipate people would use your image generation bot to make consentless-pornography should be criminal incompetence.

Failing to include safeguards against it should be criminal negligence.

Failing to shut it down once (a) and (b) became obvious should be criminal distribution.

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope you have good food, good presents and good laughs.

SEE YOU JANUARY 8. This trailer gives a very small taste of what’s coming… probably the end of my career lol

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Nigel Farage lashed out at questions over his tax affairs when we asked him about not paying stamp duty on his Clacton pad.

I Second This Statement…. Looking guilty as hell! 🔥🔥

The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize.

They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.

Your door could be next.

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"Lithuania, when we were occupied in 1945, we had sustainable peace. There was no front line. Nobody was
shooting. But there was no Lithuania." @glandsbergis.bsky.social

What a shame.
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"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

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I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

I’ve been reluctant to start a Substack, because I like being commissioned, I like being edited, and I especially like to be paid.

But I couldn’t face hawking this one around to weary editors, for reasons that you may understand if you read it.

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