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Saturn, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-38
December 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Saturn, by Peter Paul Rubens, 1636-38
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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You can’t understand contemporary Britain unless you know the current government are a last desperate throw of the dice for not-fascist pretend democracy, before the hammer comes down and we move on to Enforced Thatcherism. Because Thatcherism is non-negotiable, and there will not be one step back.
How come Britain’s main left party is a bunch of horrific management cunts who hate the left, and have no support from anyone in the country except for our internationally remarkable, astonishingly toxic newspapers and broadcasters? Well that sure is a big mystery, let’s try to puzzle it out.
December 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
You can’t understand contemporary Britain unless you know the current government are a last desperate throw of the dice for not-fascist pretend democracy, before the hammer comes down and we move on to Enforced Thatcherism. Because Thatcherism is non-negotiable, and there will not be one step back.
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By "populist", it's safe to say the FT is referring to the far right
This matters though because it helps conflate any alternative to the status quo, whether left or far right, and leaves only the status quo as a "reasonable" alternative, even if said status quo is increasingly far right...
This matters though because it helps conflate any alternative to the status quo, whether left or far right, and leaves only the status quo as a "reasonable" alternative, even if said status quo is increasingly far right...
December 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
By "populist", it's safe to say the FT is referring to the far right
This matters though because it helps conflate any alternative to the status quo, whether left or far right, and leaves only the status quo as a "reasonable" alternative, even if said status quo is increasingly far right...
This matters though because it helps conflate any alternative to the status quo, whether left or far right, and leaves only the status quo as a "reasonable" alternative, even if said status quo is increasingly far right...
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Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.
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I simply love when a film is 1h34m
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I simply love when a film is 1h34m
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Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
December 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad
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December 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
There's a powerful illustration here regarding "influencers" vs. "experts".
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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If Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband used this language it would end up with a select committee getting involved.
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
If Gordon Brown or Ed Miliband used this language it would end up with a select committee getting involved.
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We can laugh at the extreme redaction in the Epstein files but if that was Britain it’d have been burned, the PM would’ve denied its existence, everyone who saw it would’ve been euthanised by MI5 and the Sun and the Mail would be in year 16 of the most ruthless hate campaign humanity has ever seen.
December 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
We can laugh at the extreme redaction in the Epstein files but if that was Britain it’d have been burned, the PM would’ve denied its existence, everyone who saw it would’ve been euthanised by MI5 and the Sun and the Mail would be in year 16 of the most ruthless hate campaign humanity has ever seen.
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This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.
Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing
Hundreds of foreign prison staff 'offered emergency extension to visa' to stop the prison system collapsing
Hundreds of foreign prison staff who could have faced deportation and the sack have been offered an emergency extension to their visa in order to stop the prison system collapsing, Sky News understands.
news.sky.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This is incredibly obviously going to be the rolling problem with a “tougher” immigration stance. We still need people to do things. And, ultimately, either we hire/retain them or the things don’t get done. Everything else is hollow rhetoric.
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I’m sure churches did food banks when I was a kid but I do not recall hearing the words “food bank” until the 2010s. About three million people rely on them now and it’s not even a problem, let alone a crisis. And that’s how easy it was to just revoke your living standards, without any great fuss.
Sophy Ridge to someone from Trussell: "Can I just ask, demand for food banks is going up and this is often seen as a negative thing basically, that it shows that more people are in need turning to food banks. Could you flip that and say its a good thing..."
er, no.
er, no.
December 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I’m sure churches did food banks when I was a kid but I do not recall hearing the words “food bank” until the 2010s. About three million people rely on them now and it’s not even a problem, let alone a crisis. And that’s how easy it was to just revoke your living standards, without any great fuss.
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people like to hate on gen AI but it’s a vital tool if you’re a struggling business that can’t afford to hire an editor
December 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
people like to hate on gen AI but it’s a vital tool if you’re a struggling business that can’t afford to hire an editor
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The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
December 12, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The public inquiry into the Iraq War was as damning as it’s possible to be within this system. The parliamentary report on Libya tore the government a new arse. Both of them were instantly thrown in the bin and never mentioned again, in favour of inviting the culprits on TV and giving them peerages.
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absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
December 11, 2025 at 6:37 PM
absolute bargain if any of yous have a use for 7,949,020,598 wasps
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Times New Roman is an imported font, developed for London newspaper The Times in 1931. You know what American-designed font cooked up in 1994 would be perfect for this regime? Comic Sans.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Times New Roman is an imported font, developed for London newspaper The Times in 1931. You know what American-designed font cooked up in 1994 would be perfect for this regime? Comic Sans.
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I urge you to note here how much of British politics and media - and indeed British culture in general - is just bullying, and little more. It’s a daily exercise in enforcing the social hierarchy by reminding everyone who they can and cannot kick. That’s why our most famous sitcoms are like that.
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I urge you to note here how much of British politics and media - and indeed British culture in general - is just bullying, and little more. It’s a daily exercise in enforcing the social hierarchy by reminding everyone who they can and cannot kick. That’s why our most famous sitcoms are like that.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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wow who was he up against
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
wow who was he up against