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playing Russian roulette and feeling relaxed because my opponent is putting *more* bullets in the cylinder: "HAHA! surely that decision will hurt his chances!"
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
playing Russian roulette and feeling relaxed because my opponent is putting *more* bullets in the cylinder: "HAHA! surely that decision will hurt his chances!"
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I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'm 51 years of age, and for all my adult life, the one constant in politics is 'we need to talk about immigration'. Could we try just try shutting the fuck up about it, actually?
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Slowly expanding the range of targets for extrajudicial strikes just on the other side of the border then suddenly using operational momentum to shift to lethal strikes on the American side of the line
October 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
September 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
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Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
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People in Britain are almost uniquely witless about all of this because Britain is where elites & the state structure most successfully smuggled their concessions to change through a myth of unchanging England, with a huge emphasis on maintaining pseudo historical aesthetics. This is why we..
June 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
People in Britain are almost uniquely witless about all of this because Britain is where elites & the state structure most successfully smuggled their concessions to change through a myth of unchanging England, with a huge emphasis on maintaining pseudo historical aesthetics. This is why we..
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You can actually see the brain cells turning over
This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.
April 26, 2025 at 7:38 AM
You can actually see the brain cells turning over
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Guys I’ve invented a proverb and on consideration it’s mildly problematic
April 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Guys I’ve invented a proverb and on consideration it’s mildly problematic
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A short thread with some thoughts on the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou, which we went to see last night.
Great artwork, but I'd love to see a "counter-narrative" commissioned for the same exhibition, because to my mind they left out everything that's most interesting about the theme.
Great artwork, but I'd love to see a "counter-narrative" commissioned for the same exhibition, because to my mind they left out everything that's most interesting about the theme.
So lots of great artwork (though not much photography, which surprised me), but the narrative framing was problematic in predictable ways. The inclusion of Black Americans allowed them to dilute the question of colonialism and French racism in ways the French often do.
April 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
A short thread with some thoughts on the Paris Noir exhibition at the Pompidou, which we went to see last night.
Great artwork, but I'd love to see a "counter-narrative" commissioned for the same exhibition, because to my mind they left out everything that's most interesting about the theme.
Great artwork, but I'd love to see a "counter-narrative" commissioned for the same exhibition, because to my mind they left out everything that's most interesting about the theme.
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It’s called “Good Friday” because “Crucifixion Friday” didn’t test well with focus groups
April 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It’s called “Good Friday” because “Crucifixion Friday” didn’t test well with focus groups
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Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...
"They Cannot Tolerate Challenges to Wealth and Power" | George Monbiot | BBC Politics Live #shorts
YouTube video by Just Stop Oil
www.youtube.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...
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if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women.
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Trans women arrested on Britain’s railways to be strip-searched by male officers
British Transport Police amends policy in light of supreme court’s landmark ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
if I understand correctly, the campaigners wanted (in their words) to stop trans women officers with a gender recognition certificate searching women.
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
and, in response, the police have decided to allow male officers to search trans women.
not sustainable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Trump and Musk are already killing people around the world in the most senseless and cruel ways possible.
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years.
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Trump and Musk are already killing people around the world in the most senseless and cruel ways possible.
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A new youth mobility scheme with the EU would boost economic growth and provide exciting opportunities for young people.
At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
Sadiq Khan: Here’s one thing to get us closer to Europe – and a post-Trump bump
A new youth mobility scheme will bring the UK and the EU some much needed connection – and a shot in the arm for business, too, writes London Mayor Sadiq Khan
www.independent.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A new youth mobility scheme with the EU would boost economic growth and provide exciting opportunities for young people.
At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
At a time of so much global uncertainty deepening our partnership with EU partners is a win-win for our growth and prosperity.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump...
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These are kids who will never pay taxes, despite huge wealth. They’ll never hold a job daddy didn’t get them. They’ll buy their own MLB team. They’ll never go on a date with someone non-rich. They’ll never clean their own toilet.
We have to recognise the ultra-rich are doing this to their children.
We have to recognise the ultra-rich are doing this to their children.
RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is
April 17, 2025 at 9:38 AM
These are kids who will never pay taxes, despite huge wealth. They’ll never hold a job daddy didn’t get them. They’ll buy their own MLB team. They’ll never go on a date with someone non-rich. They’ll never clean their own toilet.
We have to recognise the ultra-rich are doing this to their children.
We have to recognise the ultra-rich are doing this to their children.
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🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray
I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.
Here's what he got wrong... 🧵
I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.
Here's what he got wrong... 🧵
April 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
🚨Some major errors & misleading claims from experienced presenter Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4 Today, when discussing British Steel with Treasury Minister James Murray
I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.
Here's what he got wrong... 🧵
I hope these are corrected on tomorrow's programme, and Robinson sticks to the facts in future.
Here's what he got wrong... 🧵
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let's send J-Lo down the Mariana Trench next
April 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
let's send J-Lo down the Mariana Trench next
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@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org reminds people of this on a regular basis.
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is...
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is...
April 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org reminds people of this on a regular basis.
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is...
www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-is...
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I found the most incredible graph on the other site
April 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I found the most incredible graph on the other site
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Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
April 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"
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To generalise, I find that people on the centre left are acutely, even excessively, aware of forces they don't like on the left while too many people on the centre right are oblivious to threats from the right until it's far too late and they have to write essays about how dumb they've been
When David Brooks joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won, Brooks writes.
I Should Have Seen This Coming
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April 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
To generalise, I find that people on the centre left are acutely, even excessively, aware of forces they don't like on the left while too many people on the centre right are oblivious to threats from the right until it's far too late and they have to write essays about how dumb they've been
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