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If laughter is the best medicine my jokes are placebos. Middling in the Midlands (UK)
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If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you ask the new Grok (via grok.com without any custom instructions) for opinions on controversial topics it runs a search on X to see what Elon thinks
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I know this sounds like a joke but it's not. This genuinely happens: x.com/jeremyphowar...
I find myself going there out of habit because I haven’t properly curated my follow list over here. It’s horrible though.
But I came here specially to tell you that you must watch Strange Darling as soon as possible. It’s amazing.
But I came here specially to tell you that you must watch Strange Darling as soon as possible. It’s amazing.
July 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I find myself going there out of habit because I haven’t properly curated my follow list over here. It’s horrible though.
But I came here specially to tell you that you must watch Strange Darling as soon as possible. It’s amazing.
But I came here specially to tell you that you must watch Strange Darling as soon as possible. It’s amazing.
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If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.
May 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
If you have a Reform councillor now, monitor their attendance at council meetings. Let everyone know all the times they can’t be bothered to show up, which will be a hell of a lot if their dear leader is anything to go by.
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Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.
The only question is how long it takes.
The only question is how long it takes.
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Few things certain anymore. But expect over the next four years almost every one of the US’s ‘allies’ will end up saying something very similar.
The only question is how long it takes.
The only question is how long it takes.
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Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
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Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
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“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife
“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
“MY WIFE DOESN’T KNOW” I text to my wife
You’re playing 9 dimensional chess. Of course if you kep your phone and didn’t go looking for it you could be playing minesweeper
March 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
You’re playing 9 dimensional chess. Of course if you kep your phone and didn’t go looking for it you could be playing minesweeper
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Look, these messages could mean anything.
March 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Look, these messages could mean anything.
I’m pretty sure they have been discussing this for a long time behind the scenes
March 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I’m pretty sure they have been discussing this for a long time behind the scenes
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If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
March 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
If you can “sneak onto” a signal chat, prolly shouldn’t have used signal right?
I didn’t say everyone. I was obviously referring to the PM. And while I would, in some ways, quite like it if he came out and stated the obvious security issues political realities mean otherwise.
It’s why I’m not PM.
It’s why I’m not PM.
March 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I didn’t say everyone. I was obviously referring to the PM. And while I would, in some ways, quite like it if he came out and stated the obvious security issues political realities mean otherwise.
It’s why I’m not PM.
It’s why I’m not PM.
Don’t be silly Ed. Of course he knows the risks but he also can’t say it publicly.
March 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Don’t be silly Ed. Of course he knows the risks but he also can’t say it publicly.
Well as a registered Democrat at least he lowered the average threat level to democracy of the group
March 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Well as a registered Democrat at least he lowered the average threat level to democracy of the group
I never thought I would watch a show where the removal of kidney stones over a couple of episodes would be so gripping
March 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I never thought I would watch a show where the removal of kidney stones over a couple of episodes would be so gripping
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I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.
March 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I had to check they really used children at school desks as props for Trump dismantling the Department of Education.
I’m only on season 2 but it’s brilliant
March 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I’m only on season 2 but it’s brilliant
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I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to
March 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I like how he implies that previously people only liked Tesla because they were programmed to
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It’s important to note we don’t have a lot of information on exactly what happened here. But the petty, small America depicted here — intolerant of dissent and swollen with entitlement to be free of it — is very much Trumpist America, so it’s credible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
U.S. Denied Entry to French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says
The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It’s important to note we don’t have a lot of information on exactly what happened here. But the petty, small America depicted here — intolerant of dissent and swollen with entitlement to be free of it — is very much Trumpist America, so it’s credible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
I don’t think Elon believes his children are real
March 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I don’t think Elon believes his children are real
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Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
Leavitt: "Secretary Rubio reserves the right to revoke the visa of Mahmoud Khali. Under the immigration and nationality act, the secretary of state has the right to revoke a green card or a visa for individuals who are adversarial to the foreign policy and national security interests of the USA."
March 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”
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We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
March 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
We can upload 3 minute videos now.
YOU KNOW THE RULE
YOU KNOW THE RULE
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This is criminal behavior.
March 11, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This is criminal behavior.
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On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.
March 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
On the upside, tiny violin stocks are booming.