az
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not really all that interesting of a person
not really all that interesting of a person
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Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
December 10, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.
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I’m normally wary of “Abolish X, Y, and Z” politics, but I do think “Abolish the Home Office” is a rare case where that instinct is correct and realistic
Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.
December 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m normally wary of “Abolish X, Y, and Z” politics, but I do think “Abolish the Home Office” is a rare case where that instinct is correct and realistic
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Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US
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If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.
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You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
December 9, 2025 at 8:27 AM
You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…
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There’s nothing more representative of the elite impunity that has caused at least 700,000 excess deaths in the first year of Trump 2(USAID cuts) than the claim that it’s not the job of people who shape popular beliefs to shape popular beliefs.
The answer is no, it's not the job of journalists to never criticise the left in case it drives Joe Lonsdale to be more sexist. You could just as easily argue that leftwing over-reach caused that and it would be better if it had been inhibited by more scrutiny. Reality is more complex than either.
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
There’s nothing more representative of the elite impunity that has caused at least 700,000 excess deaths in the first year of Trump 2(USAID cuts) than the claim that it’s not the job of people who shape popular beliefs to shape popular beliefs.
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honestly very funny to me that the primary actual use case for copilot is as a coding assistant, which strikes me as a very lucrative product with an enthusiastic user base, but microsoft is super thirsty for ..... this for whatever reason
AI is marketed to people who can't get their way out of a jam in an '80s sitcom
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
honestly very funny to me that the primary actual use case for copilot is as a coding assistant, which strikes me as a very lucrative product with an enthusiastic user base, but microsoft is super thirsty for ..... this for whatever reason
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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The problem for Starmer is that the Greens are a damn sight shrewder than the Corbynites in emphasising the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking
FWIW, the NATO line worked on Corbyn which is why I suspect that Starmer thinks that it will work on Polanski.
Ahh a low-salience issue and then a vote for Bart is a vote for anarchy. You can see the political geniuses behind the present disaster at work.
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The problem for Starmer is that the Greens are a damn sight shrewder than the Corbynites in emphasising the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking
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Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off
Sydney Sweeney Shares Emotional Response to Controversial American Eagle Jeans Ad: 'I'm Against Hate' (Exclusive)
Sydney Sweeney addressed her controversial American Eagle denim campaign, which featured the slogan "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans," in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE. See her response.
people.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off
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“You see the transgenders were simply fooled into thinking they had a place in our society they should simply have realised they are an unwanted underclass and stayed in the closet those poor fools”
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM
“You see the transgenders were simply fooled into thinking they had a place in our society they should simply have realised they are an unwanted underclass and stayed in the closet those poor fools”
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people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true
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Critical support to uhh Fine Gael. Look forward to UK nutters screeching that they’re woke lefties
“The sheer nonsense of it”…
“The sheer nonsense of it”…
December 5, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Critical support to uhh Fine Gael. Look forward to UK nutters screeching that they’re woke lefties
“The sheer nonsense of it”…
“The sheer nonsense of it”…
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cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
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I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
December 5, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.
It’s pretty funny how the moment even a pliant media does even the barest scrutiny, he just falls over
I can't believe how badly Farage is fucking the Woz Racist at School stuff because I honestly didn't think this was news to anyone.
December 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
It’s pretty funny how the moment even a pliant media does even the barest scrutiny, he just falls over
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stupid cyberpunk
December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
stupid cyberpunk
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If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
RTÉ to boycott Eurovision Song Contest over Israel
Ireland will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast by RTÉ, after the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part...
www.rte.ie
December 4, 2025 at 6:19 PM
If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza.
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity.
www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
they're putting in overtime lmao. cousin kept sending me shit
Somali twitter is incredible rn
December 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
they're putting in overtime lmao. cousin kept sending me shit
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I know a lot of the UK equivalent and
a) they've been *really* bad on trans rights, unfortunately
b) they are absolutely up in arms over the government's pandering to the right on racism.
a) they've been *really* bad on trans rights, unfortunately
b) they are absolutely up in arms over the government's pandering to the right on racism.
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I know a lot of the UK equivalent and
a) they've been *really* bad on trans rights, unfortunately
b) they are absolutely up in arms over the government's pandering to the right on racism.
a) they've been *really* bad on trans rights, unfortunately
b) they are absolutely up in arms over the government's pandering to the right on racism.
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For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
Tom Emmer pushes racist lies on Fox: "80% of the crimes being committed in the Twin Cities and Minnesota are being committed by Somalis"
December 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.
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If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.
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Think this is a good example of my theory that "the most risk averse interpretation of regulation" often matters far more than what regulation actually says.
The Women's Institute has been forced into excluding trans women too
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
"Not doing so would leave us at risk of costly legal challenge and potential regulatory action from the Charity Commission. We have a public duty to ensure our charity is not in breach of the law."
www.thewi.org.uk/media-centre...
Press Releases
www.thewi.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Think this is a good example of my theory that "the most risk averse interpretation of regulation" often matters far more than what regulation actually says.