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For all the moaning about boomers, in the US boomers swung to Biden in 2024 and it was Gen X where Trump posted his best results. The dynamics here are very different. I don't suspect the 'we cut winter fuel allowance' guys are gonna gain over 65 votes, but I'd still watch Gen X like a hawk
December 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For all the moaning about boomers, in the US boomers swung to Biden in 2024 and it was Gen X where Trump posted his best results. The dynamics here are very different. I don't suspect the 'we cut winter fuel allowance' guys are gonna gain over 65 votes, but I'd still watch Gen X like a hawk
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please study this man's brain in a lab
December 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
please study this man's brain in a lab
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it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
December 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.
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When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
When I was at an Oxford college whose library for some reason has a copy of Reeves’ BA thesis, I was separately approached by two different people asking for help to get hold of it. The obsession with taking down her intellectual credentials is revealing - and absolutely mental.
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Popped over to the other place to check on someone and chanced on these. Got me thinking. I’m old enough not to be bothered by angry strangers. But exposure to faceless hate on social media must be very disturbing for young people who don’t have the tools or perspective. It worries me.
December 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Popped over to the other place to check on someone and chanced on these. Got me thinking. I’m old enough not to be bothered by angry strangers. But exposure to faceless hate on social media must be very disturbing for young people who don’t have the tools or perspective. It worries me.
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There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
November 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There is an extraordinary sense of entitlement behind the belief that there ought to be political party that aligns 100% with your own opinions.
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If you told me we’d be five up on City 13 games in with Øde, Havertz, Madueke, Martinelli, Gyok, Saka, and Gabriel all having missed decent chunks of time I’d think I was being lied to. I’m as emotional as they come but I don’t understand the headloss today. Team was shit and still got a point.
November 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
If you told me we’d be five up on City 13 games in with Øde, Havertz, Madueke, Martinelli, Gyok, Saka, and Gabriel all having missed decent chunks of time I’d think I was being lied to. I’m as emotional as they come but I don’t understand the headloss today. Team was shit and still got a point.
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I wish we had not succumbed to a Szobo wonder goal, had not coughed up the lead late to Sunderland, and taken advantage of the extra man today.
I am also keenly aware that wishing this all had happened is setting the bar at near-perfection.
That’s sort of at the edge of barely reasonable.
I am also keenly aware that wishing this all had happened is setting the bar at near-perfection.
That’s sort of at the edge of barely reasonable.
November 30, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I wish we had not succumbed to a Szobo wonder goal, had not coughed up the lead late to Sunderland, and taken advantage of the extra man today.
I am also keenly aware that wishing this all had happened is setting the bar at near-perfection.
That’s sort of at the edge of barely reasonable.
I am also keenly aware that wishing this all had happened is setting the bar at near-perfection.
That’s sort of at the edge of barely reasonable.
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Arsenal have played many of their toughest Premier League fixtures already.
Five points clear having been to Newcastle, United, Liverpool and Chelsea. Could be a lot worse
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Arsenal have played many of their toughest Premier League fixtures already.
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Missed the last 20 due to a car ride. My take is that’s a good point. At even strength we looked in a bit of trouble. The red card bought us a point.
Need our CBs back but also good to get that game out of our system and that pairing can only improve if called on again.
Up 5.
Pretty darn good.
Need our CBs back but also good to get that game out of our system and that pairing can only improve if called on again.
Up 5.
Pretty darn good.
November 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Missed the last 20 due to a car ride. My take is that’s a good point. At even strength we looked in a bit of trouble. The red card bought us a point.
Need our CBs back but also good to get that game out of our system and that pairing can only improve if called on again.
Up 5.
Pretty darn good.
Need our CBs back but also good to get that game out of our system and that pairing can only improve if called on again.
Up 5.
Pretty darn good.
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I'll take that. No Saliba, no Gabriel, no Odegaard to start or a striker.
We weren't at our best. We didn't lose. Been a big week with a lot of energy and emotion expended.
Bring on Brentford.
We weren't at our best. We didn't lose. Been a big week with a lot of energy and emotion expended.
Bring on Brentford.
November 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I'll take that. No Saliba, no Gabriel, no Odegaard to start or a striker.
We weren't at our best. We didn't lose. Been a big week with a lot of energy and emotion expended.
Bring on Brentford.
We weren't at our best. We didn't lose. Been a big week with a lot of energy and emotion expended.
Bring on Brentford.
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AFC playing the 2nd place team on the road w/o 1st choice CBs. 1st choice R8 on bench due to prior injury. 1st choice LW out injured. 1st and 2nd choice strikers either out or on the bench returning from injury.
Jonathan Wilson giddily teeing up a story on our mentality, if things don’t go right.
Jonathan Wilson giddily teeing up a story on our mentality, if things don’t go right.
November 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
AFC playing the 2nd place team on the road w/o 1st choice CBs. 1st choice R8 on bench due to prior injury. 1st choice LW out injured. 1st and 2nd choice strikers either out or on the bench returning from injury.
Jonathan Wilson giddily teeing up a story on our mentality, if things don’t go right.
Jonathan Wilson giddily teeing up a story on our mentality, if things don’t go right.
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Absolutely enraging to read about how the Labour government could have done a fantastic supply side boosting growth unleashing Budget and just didn't have the nerve or insight. And when there's so many journalists and think tankers who could have explained exactly what to do
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Absolutely enraging to read about how the Labour government could have done a fantastic supply side boosting growth unleashing Budget and just didn't have the nerve or insight. And when there's so many journalists and think tankers who could have explained exactly what to do
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You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
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"Brian Brobbey?!"
November 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Brian Brobbey?!"
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We see that in course choices, too: often for the worse (to mount my hobby horse, the real scam in HE is the 'business degree' to an undergrad who would be better served just by getting a maths or history degree).
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
We see that in course choices, too: often for the worse (to mount my hobby horse, the real scam in HE is the 'business degree' to an undergrad who would be better served just by getting a maths or history degree).
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Maybe we should build HS2 in full and increase capacity on the network. It was never just about speed.
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Soon-to-be-axed 7am Manchester-London train will still run – but without passengers
Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel
The good news for rail travel between Manchester and London is that a morning train will continue to link England’s biggest cities in under two hours. The bad news: passengers will no longer be able to get onboard.
The rail regulator has axed one of Britain’s fastest and most lucrative intercity services, the 7am Avanti West Coast from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston, as part of a timetable shake-up that will take effect in mid-December. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Maybe we should build HS2 in full and increase capacity on the network. It was never just about speed.
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Why on earth should you get over this? If you lived in 1920 and knew a Klansman, you should look down on him. If you lived in 1940 and knew a fascist, you should look down on him.
The grand progressive listening tour doesn’t work, these people need censure to change. Proudly hold contempt for them.
The grand progressive listening tour doesn’t work, these people need censure to change. Proudly hold contempt for them.
So one of my political sins that I know I should get over is that I do have the problem of holding Trump's base in contempt and looking down on them, and part of it is that my image of who they are is heavily informed by the one MAGA guy who shows up regularly on my FB feed; I'll call him J.
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Why on earth should you get over this? If you lived in 1920 and knew a Klansman, you should look down on him. If you lived in 1940 and knew a fascist, you should look down on him.
The grand progressive listening tour doesn’t work, these people need censure to change. Proudly hold contempt for them.
The grand progressive listening tour doesn’t work, these people need censure to change. Proudly hold contempt for them.
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"I AM FROM LAKE TITICACA! ARE YOU THREATENING ME? BOMB THE PENTAGON HEHEHEHE YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! FNEEK!"
November 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"I AM FROM LAKE TITICACA! ARE YOU THREATENING ME? BOMB THE PENTAGON HEHEHEHE YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! FNEEK!"
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A lot of people who anointed Liverpool champions in September suddenly don’t think it means anything to be the best team in Europe in November.
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 AM
A lot of people who anointed Liverpool champions in September suddenly don’t think it means anything to be the best team in Europe in November.
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The amount of people who just want to suck all the joy out of football is so aggrivating. Every Arsenal fan is keenly aware that titles aren’t handed out in November. But we’re watching our team blossom into something truly special. So yeah, we’re gonna enjoy it. So kindly fuck off.
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
The amount of people who just want to suck all the joy out of football is so aggrivating. Every Arsenal fan is keenly aware that titles aren’t handed out in November. But we’re watching our team blossom into something truly special. So yeah, we’re gonna enjoy it. So kindly fuck off.
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‘People’ haven’t got the foggiest clue what they’re talking about.
They really don’t.
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They really don’t.
bsky.app/profile/samf...
Fascinating that the cash ISA limit is the most unpopular item in the budget. I would have thought it would be unpopular but not more so than e.g. freezing tax thresholds.
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
‘People’ haven’t got the foggiest clue what they’re talking about.
They really don’t.
bsky.app/profile/samf...
They really don’t.
bsky.app/profile/samf...
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I’m starting to fall in line behind this: bsky.app/profile/anon...
The fact that every single PM this century has been more unpopular than the previous one shows that the electorate is impossible to please. We are simply predisposed to automatically hate every government no matter what. I don't know how that's sustainable long-term.
November 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I’m starting to fall in line behind this: bsky.app/profile/anon...
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The fact that every single PM this century has been more unpopular than the previous one shows that the electorate is impossible to please. We are simply predisposed to automatically hate every government no matter what. I don't know how that's sustainable long-term.
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The fact that every single PM this century has been more unpopular than the previous one shows that the electorate is impossible to please. We are simply predisposed to automatically hate every government no matter what. I don't know how that's sustainable long-term.