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Truly grotesque that the BBC chose to describe the *victim* of Graham Linehan's *crime* for which he was *convicted* in these terms. I can only conclude that this is now standard BBC editorial practice for referring to trans people, regardless of context. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Truly grotesque that the BBC chose to describe the *victim* of Graham Linehan's *crime* for which he was *convicted* in these terms. I can only conclude that this is now standard BBC editorial practice for referring to trans people, regardless of context. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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it is a little funny that the people with the most insider knowledge about big company "AI" efforts are acting as if a crash has already happened and asking for a bailout? if they didn't have a track record of losing their shit for no obvious reason and causing panics could be concerning
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
it is a little funny that the people with the most insider knowledge about big company "AI" efforts are acting as if a crash has already happened and asking for a bailout? if they didn't have a track record of losing their shit for no obvious reason and causing panics could be concerning
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Americans need to understand that BBC News has been functioning like Fox News for about a decade now.
Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history?
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.
BBC censors a lecture removing author’s remarks on Trump that refer to him a the most openly corrupt American president.
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Americans need to understand that BBC News has been functioning like Fox News for about a decade now.
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End the BBC, burn it to the ground
It looks like that BBC page has been updated in the last few minutes, so that's no longer the last sentence. I think part of it has been moved to this paragraph in the middle of the article, and the age is no longer mentioned:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
End the BBC, burn it to the ground
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“A coronation rather than a contest to install him as Labour leader”, you say.
November 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“A coronation rather than a contest to install him as Labour leader”, you say.
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Gotta say, having lived through the 2010-2024 period where Rachel Reeves was one of those opposition politicians that gets treated by the media like some great lost cause, an incredible talent wasted by mediocre rivals, this whole 'I've been underestimated my whole life' bit is ... weird?
“I’ll show the media, I’ll show the Tories, I’ll not let them beat me. I’ll be there on Wednesday, I’ll be there next year & I’ll be back the year after that” - Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back budget @jessicaelgot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rachel Reeves urges Labour MPs to back her make-or-break budget
Chancellor tells parliamentary party they might not like every measure but promises budget will be ‘fair’
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Gotta say, having lived through the 2010-2024 period where Rachel Reeves was one of those opposition politicians that gets treated by the media like some great lost cause, an incredible talent wasted by mediocre rivals, this whole 'I've been underestimated my whole life' bit is ... weird?
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I think the whole "sure, a reader might wonder if our work is corrupt, but you're in the club, Isaac" dodge that Ben is doing here is so despicable as to be high comedy (h/t @karenho.bsky.social for the image and alt text, her thread is here: bsky.app/profile/kare...)
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I think the whole "sure, a reader might wonder if our work is corrupt, but you're in the club, Isaac" dodge that Ben is doing here is so despicable as to be high comedy (h/t @karenho.bsky.social for the image and alt text, her thread is here: bsky.app/profile/kare...)
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This untimely, denied motion was filed by the same six DOJ lawyers as have been on motions in all of these trans care subpoena challenges (the public ones at least).
They were named in my Sunday report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
They were named in my Sunday report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM
This untimely, denied motion was filed by the same six DOJ lawyers as have been on motions in all of these trans care subpoena challenges (the public ones at least).
They were named in my Sunday report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
They were named in my Sunday report at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
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UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
archive.ph/RlXPj
archive.ph/RlXPj
November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
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Even today, Carville claimed "the era of performative woke politics from 2020 to 2024 has left a lasting stain on our brand."
The peak of that was 2020... when we won POTUS and gained 3 Senate seats.
"We lost in 2020 because of woke" is not a sensible argument! We won! But he just breezes over it.
The peak of that was 2020... when we won POTUS and gained 3 Senate seats.
"We lost in 2020 because of woke" is not a sensible argument! We won! But he just breezes over it.
The thing about Carville's piece is that it's a perfect example of the way centrists can't write literally anything without getting in a few jabs at the left/minorities. It's entirely possible to run on "economic rage," sure. There's no need to go, "And remember what some people on Tumblr said??"
November 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Even today, Carville claimed "the era of performative woke politics from 2020 to 2024 has left a lasting stain on our brand."
The peak of that was 2020... when we won POTUS and gained 3 Senate seats.
"We lost in 2020 because of woke" is not a sensible argument! We won! But he just breezes over it.
The peak of that was 2020... when we won POTUS and gained 3 Senate seats.
"We lost in 2020 because of woke" is not a sensible argument! We won! But he just breezes over it.
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Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
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There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
Labour's anti-asylum policies are already fundamentally inhumane and discriminatory. Applying them retrospectively is pure cruelty though. It serves absolutely no purpose. Meanwhile it will increase the costs and bureaucracy of an already dysfunctional Home Office.
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
There always seems to be money for cruelty, doesn’t there…
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I couldn't have come up with this in my wildest parodies of Labour.
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid on.ft.com/3KjmNae
Reeves asks banks to praise her plans as they escape Budget tax raid
Chancellor is under pressure from some Labour MPs to raise levies on business this week
on.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I couldn't have come up with this in my wildest parodies of Labour.
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The airlines literally give you slippers if you spend enough money on your ticket. Wear your damn slippers on a plane.
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Duffy on his demand that air travelers not wear slippers or pajamas: "It honors our country ... don't take your shoes off and put your feet on the chair ahead of you"
November 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The airlines literally give you slippers if you spend enough money on your ticket. Wear your damn slippers on a plane.
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bsky.app/profile/atru...
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People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
November 24, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.
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Hmm, let's see: cruel, not done yet, not done yet, not done yet, fine, not done yet, not as good as tackling the water companies, not done yet, not done yet.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Hmm, let's see: cruel, not done yet, not done yet, not done yet, fine, not done yet, not as good as tackling the water companies, not done yet, not done yet.
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Excuse Me While I Felch
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Excuse Me While I Felch
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
A floozy newsie named Nuzzi got all boozy and told RFK Twosie he could suck something oozy from where she goes number twosie. The mere thought makes me woozy.
by Maureen Dowd
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Ex) maybe now controversial to point out, but before she was fired by billionaires (Pritzker, ackman), Claudine Gay courted them hard
She even renamed Harvard’s graduate school after a billionaire. It’s her one signature accomplishment!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
She even renamed Harvard’s graduate school after a billionaire. It’s her one signature accomplishment!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
Hedge Fund CEO Ken Griffin ’89 Makes $300M Donation to FAS, Harvard to Rename GSAS in His Honor | News | The Harvard Crimson
Billionaire hedge fund CEO and Republican megadonor Kenneth C. Griffin ’89 donated $300 million to Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the University announced Tuesday morning. Harvard will rename...
www.thecrimson.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ex) maybe now controversial to point out, but before she was fired by billionaires (Pritzker, ackman), Claudine Gay courted them hard
She even renamed Harvard’s graduate school after a billionaire. It’s her one signature accomplishment!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
She even renamed Harvard’s graduate school after a billionaire. It’s her one signature accomplishment!
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
it is one thing if *I* have the magic-hilarious-insult-comic-in-the-box (let us pretend it is genuinely funny) but this is a world in which *everyone* has the magic comedian
I love the idea that you’re at a party, standing there with your phone as Grok writes up some appearance-based insult comedy for you. Then you just keep doing it because people will definitely love that.
November 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
it is one thing if *I* have the magic-hilarious-insult-comic-in-the-box (let us pretend it is genuinely funny) but this is a world in which *everyone* has the magic comedian
in Sliding Doors the character played by John Hannah makes his dinners companions piss themselves laughing by doing monty python impressions in 1998 and that is always how I imagine elon musk (no one is actually laughing of course)
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
in Sliding Doors the character played by John Hannah makes his dinners companions piss themselves laughing by doing monty python impressions in 1998 and that is always how I imagine elon musk (no one is actually laughing of course)
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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group
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Yes, Labour are really going to destroy one of the last sectors of the British economy that isn't a property or financial scam, has weirdly strong appeal internationally, and has whole local economies balanced upon it.
Deindustrialisation 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Deindustrialisation 2: Electric Boogaloo.
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Yes, Labour are really going to destroy one of the last sectors of the British economy that isn't a property or financial scam, has weirdly strong appeal internationally, and has whole local economies balanced upon it.
Deindustrialisation 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Deindustrialisation 2: Electric Boogaloo.
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Dogshit policy for cunts again
There are only a handful of sectors where we punch above our weight, higher education and creative industries being two where this government just seems determined to fucking tank them
There are only a handful of sectors where we punch above our weight, higher education and creative industries being two where this government just seems determined to fucking tank them
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Dogshit policy for cunts again
There are only a handful of sectors where we punch above our weight, higher education and creative industries being two where this government just seems determined to fucking tank them
There are only a handful of sectors where we punch above our weight, higher education and creative industries being two where this government just seems determined to fucking tank them
if the greens managed to be the opposition, the BBC would still have guest numbers ranked 1) reform 2) con 3) labour 4) some right wingers who think reform are too woke 5) greens
📊 Estimated seats on latest Lord Ashcroft poll:
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
➡️ REF – 289 (+284)
🟢 GRN – 77 (+73)
🟠 LD – 77 (+5)
🔵 CON – 76 (-45)
🟡 SNP – 45 (+36)
🔴 LAB – 41 (-370)
Based on @LordAPolls poll, 13-17 Nov (+/- vs GE24)
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
if the greens managed to be the opposition, the BBC would still have guest numbers ranked 1) reform 2) con 3) labour 4) some right wingers who think reform are too woke 5) greens