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Graffiti in ladies' toilet, London Waterloo station.
December 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Graffiti in ladies' toilet, London Waterloo station.
Wonderful thread.
I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.
December 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Wonderful thread.
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I think about this tweet every day
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I think about this tweet every day
I fear this happening in my constituency, where Lib Dems have traditionally been the local opposition to the Tories, but where I fear Reform will poll strongly. Both Lib Dems and Greens fielded strong candidates in 2024.
A split in the progressive vote lets in Reform
Right-turn in Sussex by-election: a sign of things to come? | Rick Dillon
@sussexbylines.co.uk
Right-turn in Sussex by-election: a sign of things to come? | Rick Dillon
@sussexbylines.co.uk
A split in the progressive vote lets in Reform
Right-turn in Sussex by-election: a sign of things to come?
sussexbylines.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I fear this happening in my constituency, where Lib Dems have traditionally been the local opposition to the Tories, but where I fear Reform will poll strongly. Both Lib Dems and Greens fielded strong candidates in 2024.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Still can't quite believe that "I only said 'gas the Jews' in a non-hurtful way" was the strategy Nigel Farage opted to go for
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I've worked in this area of law/policy long enough to see most of what was announced yesterday tried before/reheated/varied. Defining Family Life? Done repeatedly, notably in 2012 by Theresa May. Appeal Reforms? How far back do you want to go! Temporary Status for refugees? We already do it.
Coverage of the refugee proposals demonstrates why we have such a broken political system. Endless focus on left-wing anger and right-wing support. Basically nothing on whether the reforms will work. They will not, which is why we'll still be here having the same debate in three years.
November 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I've worked in this area of law/policy long enough to see most of what was announced yesterday tried before/reheated/varied. Defining Family Life? Done repeatedly, notably in 2012 by Theresa May. Appeal Reforms? How far back do you want to go! Temporary Status for refugees? We already do it.
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Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Scientists find hidden antibiotic 100x stronger against deadly superbugs
A team of scientists discovered a hidden antibiotic 100 times stronger than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA. The molecule had been overlooked for decades in a familiar bacterium. It…
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Uh
this is
enormous
this is
enormous
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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Q: "What did Watson and Crick discover?"
A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Q: "What did Watson and Crick discover?"
A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."
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…They should ask themselves why so many young (45 and under) people are so unhappy with the economy/politics and convinced that capitalism isn’t working for them. Because in the main- it isn’t.
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
…They should ask themselves why so many young (45 and under) people are so unhappy with the economy/politics and convinced that capitalism isn’t working for them. Because in the main- it isn’t.
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The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia
Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...
www.wsj.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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DLMayfield:
"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:
They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.
The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."
"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:
They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.
The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."
October 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
DLMayfield:
"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:
They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.
The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."
"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:
They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.
The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."
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🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov
bylinetimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
📈 Since the election of our new leadership team, our membership has doubled, now sitting at more than 140,000.
And this is just the beginning: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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People are starting to acknowledge that the (AI) emperor has no clothes.
"Research has shown that, inside some companies, workers begin to see their colleagues who use generative AI as less creative, even less trustworthy."
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
People are starting to acknowledge that the (AI) emperor has no clothes.
Fascinating thread on building a protest movement:
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Fascinating thread on building a protest movement:
And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.
October 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.
All these people choosing hope!
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since Zack Polanski took over last month
The Greens in England and Wales have more than 100,000 members for the first time, the party has announced, a near-50% rise since Zack Polanski took over as leader last month.
It puts them on a potential course to overtake the Conservatives and comes little more than a week after the Greens announced they had moved past the Liberal Democrats in membership numbers, getting to 83,500. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
All these people choosing hope!
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Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:
Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.
October 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:
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The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection
bsky.app/profile/jame...
bsky.app/profile/jame...
*gasp*
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection
bsky.app/profile/jame...
bsky.app/profile/jame...
You know how Trump (partly) blamed the 2020 election loss on the voting machines, and the company that made the machines took legal action to force them to retract the allegation? Is the same thing going to happen with Tylenol?
September 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
You know how Trump (partly) blamed the 2020 election loss on the voting machines, and the company that made the machines took legal action to force them to retract the allegation? Is the same thing going to happen with Tylenol?
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Linguistics.
September 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Linguistics.