Duncan
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I'm not expecting to grow flowers in a desert. He/him
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RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
November 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
RIP Martin Luther, you would have loved Papal Audience Black Friday deals.
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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
Feyenoord vs Celtic both in home kits when uefa easily could have said it's a clash. Maybe we have our game back
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Feyenoord vs Celtic both in home kits when uefa easily could have said it's a clash. Maybe we have our game back
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Taxes are pretty much the only thing related to personal/family finance they do this little "what if that made someone's life difficult" dance for.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
Benefits cut to the bone? Not interested
Wages eroded by inflation for decades and decades? Nope.
Technology abolished your job? Nope.
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Problem if you're a lifelong large boy some big weight loss later in life just makes you look like you've been seriously ill
November 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Problem if you're a lifelong large boy some big weight loss later in life just makes you look like you've been seriously ill
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“I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us”
Says the straight man who approvingly visited anti-LGBT+ churches, brought anti-LGBT+ lobbyists into the heart of his own government, and still refuses to deliver a conversion-therapy abuse ban
Says the straight man who approvingly visited anti-LGBT+ churches, brought anti-LGBT+ lobbyists into the heart of his own government, and still refuses to deliver a conversion-therapy abuse ban
"[...] the Labour leader said the homophobic attack left him worried for the future of the UK"
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
*clears throat*
I HAVE OPINIONS
metro.co.uk/2025/11/26/k...
Keir Starmer's fury after neice and wife 'beaten by blokes for holding hands'
'I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us.'
metro.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“I thought the days of beating up people because they were gay were well behind us”
Says the straight man who approvingly visited anti-LGBT+ churches, brought anti-LGBT+ lobbyists into the heart of his own government, and still refuses to deliver a conversion-therapy abuse ban
Says the straight man who approvingly visited anti-LGBT+ churches, brought anti-LGBT+ lobbyists into the heart of his own government, and still refuses to deliver a conversion-therapy abuse ban
They'll be forced from their homes (making hundreds of thousands and easily capable of acquiring a replacement) kinda falls on deaf ears when youre of a generation that's forced to move every 1-2 years if you are lucky
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
They'll be forced from their homes (making hundreds of thousands and easily capable of acquiring a replacement) kinda falls on deaf ears when youre of a generation that's forced to move every 1-2 years if you are lucky
Look if your now incredibly valuable house is taxed more than you can afford. You can sell it or do an equity release. I mean the later reduces what your children will inherit but (20 years worth of tax is 2.5% of the value of a 2m property in equity)
November 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Look if your now incredibly valuable house is taxed more than you can afford. You can sell it or do an equity release. I mean the later reduces what your children will inherit but (20 years worth of tax is 2.5% of the value of a 2m property in equity)
The omerta journalists have for each other truly astonishing
November 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The omerta journalists have for each other truly astonishing
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I mean the thing about trying to govern with no political ambitions is that your opponents can just project whatever they want onto it and there's nothing you can really do to stop them
The predictable crushing uniformity of the coverage of this Budget tells you an awful lot about the priorities of those papers, and also why there's actually quite a lot to praise in it bylinetimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I mean the thing about trying to govern with no political ambitions is that your opponents can just project whatever they want onto it and there's nothing you can really do to stop them
You can tell so much about issues when they're only fought against with anecdotes and outliers
November 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
You can tell so much about issues when they're only fought against with anecdotes and outliers
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Surely Sir Keir's greatest achievement in office.
If you want some good news this morning, I showed my three boys the PM doing the six/seven thing and now they have all stopped doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Surely Sir Keir's greatest achievement in office.
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Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
‘I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise
Rachel Reeves’s new council tax surcharge on homes worth £2m or more earns mixed reception in well-heeled London borough
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Every version of this story is some version of ‘well you couldn’t expect me to be able to afford to buy the house I currently own’ and yes that is the point welcome to the housing crisis.
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
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Seems to me the problem is calling anything involving computers and the internet these days 'AI'.
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
November 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Seems to me the problem is calling anything involving computers and the internet these days 'AI'.
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jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
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Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Police say he then turned the epic vulgar roast on himself
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barely stopped thinking about this since i saw it. stream of consciousness like "jeffrey epstein's 87-year-old lawyer... charismatic... argues for lowering the age of consent... reflects where americans actually are... epstein bought him a lexus..." etc
Bari Weiss says she wants to use her new perch at CBS News to “redraw the lines of what falls in the 40 yards of acceptable debate” in American political and cultural life. She says the aim is to sideline voices like Hasan Piker, Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes, and elevate “charismatic”...
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
barely stopped thinking about this since i saw it. stream of consciousness like "jeffrey epstein's 87-year-old lawyer... charismatic... argues for lowering the age of consent... reflects where americans actually are... epstein bought him a lexus..." etc
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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and when deciding what Scotland’s financial needs are did the Chancellor also engage with our elected Scottish Government or just her pal
November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
and when deciding what Scotland’s financial needs are did the Chancellor also engage with our elected Scottish Government or just her pal
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During the Diplock Era in Northern Ireland, while conviction rates were not significantly higher than in jury trials, (51% of cases tried by a magistrate ended in conviction compared to 49%,) a significantly higher proportion (9% as opposed to 6%) of convictions were overturned as unsafe.
Juries are often easily led by the strongest voice in the room. Many ordinary folks are poorly informed.
This is reflected in votes for Brexit, vaccine skepticism or inflated fears of immigration for example.
This is reflected in votes for Brexit, vaccine skepticism or inflated fears of immigration for example.
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
During the Diplock Era in Northern Ireland, while conviction rates were not significantly higher than in jury trials, (51% of cases tried by a magistrate ended in conviction compared to 49%,) a significantly higher proportion (9% as opposed to 6%) of convictions were overturned as unsafe.
So I'm thinking the Bond Markets are ignoring Reeves' I'm the first woman Chancellor respect me shtick
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
So I'm thinking the Bond Markets are ignoring Reeves' I'm the first woman Chancellor respect me shtick
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[completely unironic voice] the greatest generation
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
[completely unironic voice] the greatest generation