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“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · Dec 27

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White

"He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum."

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British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read - London Daily

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 26m

On November 15, 1988, at a businessmen's breakfast in East Lynn, Massachusetts, senator John Kerry made a joke about president-elect George H. W. Bush and his running mate, saying

"if Bush is shot, the Secret Service has orders to shoot Dan Quayle."

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 1h

Anything to stop the man-baby throwing his toys out of the pram, again, but it is genuinely pathetic that world leaders have to pay this fake homage to trump just to stop him having a temper tantrum and doing something dangerous, costly and stupid.

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 4h

newspaper front page titled "MISSING BRAIN" featuring a picture of Donald Trump and a human brain. The text humorously suggests that a worldwide hunt has been launched for Trump's brain after it "escaped from his head" and caused him to say "crazy stuff" about tariffs.
The headline reads "HUNT FOR LEADER OF FREE WORLD'S ERRANT CEREBRUM."
The main text is a mock article about a "worldwide hunt" for Donald Trump's "tiny brain."
The article claims the brain escaped after Trump made "crazy" statements about tariffs.
The poster states the brain was last seen "sparking a global trade war" and "accusing baffled Britain of being 'out of line'."

AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 4h

In the Face of Power by opsan

The image is a political cartoon titled "In the Face of Power.
" It depicts four different approaches to confronting armed authority:
Appeal: A group of civilians, including women and children, offers flowers to a line of armed soldiers.
Disarm: A group of cartoon characters, including a yellow chick, a blue bunny, and a tiger, stands in front of the soldiers.
Record: A crowd of people holds up phones and cameras to film the soldiers.
Reflect: A line of people holds up mirrors to the soldiers, reflecting their own image back at them.

AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 15h

Kid "Dumb as a" Rock

AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 15h

a group of chickens are standing in a row with their eyes closed

ALT: a group of chickens are standing in a row with their eyes closed

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 18h

two cartoon characters are sitting next to each other and one of them is saying " uh no they 're saying "

Alt: The image shows a famous scene from the television show The Simpsons, specifically from the episode "A Star Is Burns". The characters are Waylon Smithers and Mr. Burns. Mr. Burns believes the audience is booing him, but Smithers corrects him, saying, "Uh, no, they're saying 'Boo-urns! Boo-urns!'".

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 22h

'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley

Sceptics are privately - and some now publicly - asking whether the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be, at least in part, the result of what they call "financial engineering".

A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley

Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 1d

F#ck those in MSM calling it a snub to trump that he didn’t get the prize

It might be hard for the gutless media to understand but just because trump says he wants something it doesn’t mean he deserves it or should get it.

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AlanR @alan2210.bsky.social · 1d

The White House statement is embarrassing, classless and pathetic.