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A frood who really knows where his towel is. 🚶🏻
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December 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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And people will tell me there isn't a issue with antisemitism on the left
Comments below this are genuinely unhinged
Hard to explain how scared Jewish people are right now
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
December 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
And people will tell me there isn't a issue with antisemitism on the left
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Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.
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The President personally designing battleships because he wants them to look badass is not doing much to challenge the "everyone is 12 now" theory of American governance.
December 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The President personally designing battleships because he wants them to look badass is not doing much to challenge the "everyone is 12 now" theory of American governance.
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Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
December 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
A real Good Samaritan
One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry
merry christmas xx
merry christmas xx
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Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
December 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”
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How would you motivate people to study foreign languages?
This German caller has the ultimate, definitive answer.
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This German caller has the ultimate, definitive answer.
[I love this so much 💙]
December 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
How would you motivate people to study foreign languages?
This German caller has the ultimate, definitive answer.
[I love this so much 💙]
This German caller has the ultimate, definitive answer.
[I love this so much 💙]
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I mean you’d have to hike it *a lot* to make having a baby be the cheaper option
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
China to hike tax on condoms in attempt to boost falling birth rate
From 1 January, contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – part of a carrot-and-stick approach by the government to increase births
China is set to impose a value-added tax (VAT) on condoms and other contraceptives for the first time in three decades, as the country tries to boost its birthrate and modernise its tax laws.
From 1 January, condoms and contraceptives will be subject to a 13% VAT rate – a tax from which the goods have been exempt since China introduced nationwide VAT in 1993. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I mean you’d have to hike it *a lot* to make having a baby be the cheaper option
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me: this meeting could have been an email!
judge: again, that's not how this works
judge: again, that's not how this works
December 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
me: this meeting could have been an email!
judge: again, that's not how this works
judge: again, that's not how this works
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I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
December 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.
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This post.
Coming from a country where things actually don't work (Johannesburg, South Africa), it really is quite amazing how much councils do get done, thanklessly, whilst their always being a cohort complaining, and moaning and fucking petitions.
Coming from a country where things actually don't work (Johannesburg, South Africa), it really is quite amazing how much councils do get done, thanklessly, whilst their always being a cohort complaining, and moaning and fucking petitions.
Regular every day nice thing post:
My local council is doing a really good job of keeping the gutters & streets clear of leaves ahead of what’s likely to be a wet & windy winter; thus preventing flooding everywhere in a flood prone area.
Reigate & Banstead area.
My local council is doing a really good job of keeping the gutters & streets clear of leaves ahead of what’s likely to be a wet & windy winter; thus preventing flooding everywhere in a flood prone area.
Reigate & Banstead area.
December 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This post.
Coming from a country where things actually don't work (Johannesburg, South Africa), it really is quite amazing how much councils do get done, thanklessly, whilst their always being a cohort complaining, and moaning and fucking petitions.
Coming from a country where things actually don't work (Johannesburg, South Africa), it really is quite amazing how much councils do get done, thanklessly, whilst their always being a cohort complaining, and moaning and fucking petitions.
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Excellent piece - and shows quite clearly why the new immigration policies are the political equivilent of punching yourself in the face to fix a spot.
Maybe solving one 'problem' but creating a dozen others in doing so. Idiocy.
Maybe solving one 'problem' but creating a dozen others in doing so. Idiocy.
New post just out:
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Overshoot"
Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration.
What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Overshoot
What happens to politics, and the country, as net migration collapses?
open.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Excellent piece - and shows quite clearly why the new immigration policies are the political equivilent of punching yourself in the face to fix a spot.
Maybe solving one 'problem' but creating a dozen others in doing so. Idiocy.
Maybe solving one 'problem' but creating a dozen others in doing so. Idiocy.
Really good read this.
Lays out the arguments for clearly and well and is careful and nuanced.
Lays out the arguments for clearly and well and is careful and nuanced.
itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... ICYMI write about why trying to reduce immigration actually exacerbates the problems it claims to cure. Sometimes the electorate doesn't know what it wants!
It Could Be Said #81 How I Lost Faith In Immigration Restrictionism
Will writes about his strange new respect for mass immigration
itcouldbesaid.substack.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Really good read this.
Lays out the arguments for clearly and well and is careful and nuanced.
Lays out the arguments for clearly and well and is careful and nuanced.
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boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
December 15, 2025 at 9:34 AM
boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.
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When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 AM
When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.
I mean I’m 50 and this is still most of my problems
So much of parenting a child under the age of about two and a half is trying to explain to them that, whatever they are furious about, they actually did to themself
December 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I mean I’m 50 and this is still most of my problems
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Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
December 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel
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dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”
Ok great. Guess we will have to take the personal reassurance of a guy responsible for a 250 page forum argument about whether or not his jacket fitted that Trump does not seek to subvert Western democracy
December 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”
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Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
December 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.
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Like essentially this is just ‘it is wrong that I need to have a job and be accountable for doing that job well’ and everything else is ideological window dressing.
December 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Like essentially this is just ‘it is wrong that I need to have a job and be accountable for doing that job well’ and everything else is ideological window dressing.
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I can *smell* the interior of this house 🤢
December 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I can *smell* the interior of this house 🤢
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I honestly feel like I’m going mad.
It’s like everyone suddenly decided that racism is totally fine, just so long as my side does it.
“They’re all gutter racists, but we’re nuanced and principled analysts of political issues *but only in relation to this very specific ethnic group*”
It’s like everyone suddenly decided that racism is totally fine, just so long as my side does it.
“They’re all gutter racists, but we’re nuanced and principled analysts of political issues *but only in relation to this very specific ethnic group*”
December 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I honestly feel like I’m going mad.
It’s like everyone suddenly decided that racism is totally fine, just so long as my side does it.
“They’re all gutter racists, but we’re nuanced and principled analysts of political issues *but only in relation to this very specific ethnic group*”
It’s like everyone suddenly decided that racism is totally fine, just so long as my side does it.
“They’re all gutter racists, but we’re nuanced and principled analysts of political issues *but only in relation to this very specific ethnic group*”
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Can we just stop and reflect on how fucking terrifying it is that “mainstream” conservatism is just straight up normalising anti-semitism and the Nazi holocaust now?
Six million people were murdered!
Synagogues still get attacked.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Six million people were murdered!
Synagogues still get attacked.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Can we just stop and reflect on how fucking terrifying it is that “mainstream” conservatism is just straight up normalising anti-semitism and the Nazi holocaust now?
Six million people were murdered!
Synagogues still get attacked.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?
Six million people were murdered!
Synagogues still get attacked.
What the fuck is wrong with you people?