Angus
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We don't talk enough about Netflix being a weapon of American soft power. My girlfriend, originally from Brighton, has been watching the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders series and keeps speaking in the accent and addressing me with Y'all, pmsl
June 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
We don't talk enough about Netflix being a weapon of American soft power. My girlfriend, originally from Brighton, has been watching the new Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders series and keeps speaking in the accent and addressing me with Y'all, pmsl
Rose Ayling-Ellis is one of my favourite actresses. Accomplished so much bringing the deaf experience to TV and her new crime drama Code of Silence has me hooked. Especially like the lip reading portrayed as piecing a jigsaw together, rather than something infallible.
May 19, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Rose Ayling-Ellis is one of my favourite actresses. Accomplished so much bringing the deaf experience to TV and her new crime drama Code of Silence has me hooked. Especially like the lip reading portrayed as piecing a jigsaw together, rather than something infallible.
I'm in Glasgow for the week on work and Day 1, I am absolutely loving Kelvinbridge and Hillhead.
Then I checked rent prices 😫😫
Then I checked rent prices 😫😫
May 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I'm in Glasgow for the week on work and Day 1, I am absolutely loving Kelvinbridge and Hillhead.
Then I checked rent prices 😫😫
Then I checked rent prices 😫😫
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not dunking on person posting this, but this article and many similar stories (especially about tariffs and manufacturing) are creating a false dichotomy where MAGA is inherently "masculine" & everyone/everything else "feminine". that's the bullshit premise upon which this whole movement hinges on
April 30, 2025 at 5:09 AM
not dunking on person posting this, but this article and many similar stories (especially about tariffs and manufacturing) are creating a false dichotomy where MAGA is inherently "masculine" & everyone/everything else "feminine". that's the bullshit premise upon which this whole movement hinges on
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arm the college educated women
March 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
arm the college educated women
One of the most disgusting pieces of "diplomacy" I've ever seen in my life.
God I fucking hate Trump, Vance, Rubio, Musk, RFK, Rogan, anyone in the inner circle, anyone who enabled this.
God I fucking hate Trump, Vance, Rubio, Musk, RFK, Rogan, anyone in the inner circle, anyone who enabled this.
February 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One of the most disgusting pieces of "diplomacy" I've ever seen in my life.
God I fucking hate Trump, Vance, Rubio, Musk, RFK, Rogan, anyone in the inner circle, anyone who enabled this.
God I fucking hate Trump, Vance, Rubio, Musk, RFK, Rogan, anyone in the inner circle, anyone who enabled this.
Michelle Trachtenberg was my first ever celebrity crush as Dawn in Buffy. I knew she hadnt been well in recent years but her passing's a real shock to me. I'm comforted seeing what an impact she had on a generation; her range of work so vast. Hope she knew how beloved she was, millennial queen 🙏
February 27, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Michelle Trachtenberg was my first ever celebrity crush as Dawn in Buffy. I knew she hadnt been well in recent years but her passing's a real shock to me. I'm comforted seeing what an impact she had on a generation; her range of work so vast. Hope she knew how beloved she was, millennial queen 🙏
My gf works for an NGO involved in eliminating leprosy and the USAID cuts are already impacting partners' projects, as will the UK's foreign aid cuts. This ineptitude will cause so much preventable death and suffering.
Rory Stewart says Starmer and Trump have inflicted ‘unimaginable damage’ over foreign aid cuts
Labour prime minister and US president accused of harming international security and the climate
UK Labour emulating Trump (a little bit) - tragic.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Labour prime minister and US president accused of harming international security and the climate
UK Labour emulating Trump (a little bit) - tragic.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Rory Stewart says Starmer and Trump both responsible for ‘unimaginable damage’
Labour prime minister and US president accused of harming international security and the climate
www.independent.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
My gf works for an NGO involved in eliminating leprosy and the USAID cuts are already impacting partners' projects, as will the UK's foreign aid cuts. This ineptitude will cause so much preventable death and suffering.
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Park rangers are the librarians of outside (compliment)
February 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Park rangers are the librarians of outside (compliment)
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concentration camps for mentally ill people.
just horrific.
just horrific.
RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"
The farms will "reparent" them.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
concentration camps for mentally ill people.
just horrific.
just horrific.
Luckiest man in the world 🥰🥰 #ValentinesDay
February 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Luckiest man in the world 🥰🥰 #ValentinesDay
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Bureaucracy is feminine (bad) and violence is masculine (good) is a worldview that’s opposed to the rule of law itself.
this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it
Bureaucracy, famously not important in war
February 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bureaucracy is feminine (bad) and violence is masculine (good) is a worldview that’s opposed to the rule of law itself.
Travis Kelce, archetype of good ol' American masculinity is yet to say or do anything about the president routinely insulting his girl.
February 11, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Travis Kelce, archetype of good ol' American masculinity is yet to say or do anything about the president routinely insulting his girl.
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DEI didn’t die, it just got transferred to stranglers of the homeless.
Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide in Manhattan in December, has been hired by one of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms to join its "American Dynamism" team.
Daniel Penny Is Hired by Venture Capital Firm Whose Founder Backed Trump
Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz. Before the killing, he had been an architecture student.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
DEI didn’t die, it just got transferred to stranglers of the homeless.
"Free WiFi"
>makes you download app
>create account
>email confirmation
>login
>I am not a robot
>crashes app
>reboot
>I am not a robot
>answer questionnaire
>password case sensitive
>so weak it's useless
>makes you download app
>create account
>email confirmation
>login
>I am not a robot
>crashes app
>reboot
>I am not a robot
>answer questionnaire
>password case sensitive
>so weak it's useless
January 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Free WiFi"
>makes you download app
>create account
>email confirmation
>login
>I am not a robot
>crashes app
>reboot
>I am not a robot
>answer questionnaire
>password case sensitive
>so weak it's useless
>makes you download app
>create account
>email confirmation
>login
>I am not a robot
>crashes app
>reboot
>I am not a robot
>answer questionnaire
>password case sensitive
>so weak it's useless
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these people make me into a social conservative but for social democratic values
January 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
these people make me into a social conservative but for social democratic values
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it’s wildly irresponsible for mainstream media to call romantasy books “smut” or “p*rn” in out-of-context headlines during an era of increasing book bans and purity culture hysteria.
this mischaracterization and willful ignorance of an entire genre is how you normalize book bans.
this mischaracterization and willful ignorance of an entire genre is how you normalize book bans.
January 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
it’s wildly irresponsible for mainstream media to call romantasy books “smut” or “p*rn” in out-of-context headlines during an era of increasing book bans and purity culture hysteria.
this mischaracterization and willful ignorance of an entire genre is how you normalize book bans.
this mischaracterization and willful ignorance of an entire genre is how you normalize book bans.
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One headline to rule them all
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 PM
One headline to rule them all
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"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
January 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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"Duty of care" feels like a concept badly in need of a renaissance
January 20, 2025 at 8:17 PM
"Duty of care" feels like a concept badly in need of a renaissance
The fascists who take power today will not give it up without being overthrown.
January 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The fascists who take power today will not give it up without being overthrown.
London Euston is the most shambolic railway station I've ever been in. Hundreds of people crammed onto the concourse, platforms not announced until < 5 mins before departure (mine 20 minutes delayed, ofc) causing stampedes of people running to the platform. Every time I'm here.
January 20, 2025 at 3:28 PM
London Euston is the most shambolic railway station I've ever been in. Hundreds of people crammed onto the concourse, platforms not announced until < 5 mins before departure (mine 20 minutes delayed, ofc) causing stampedes of people running to the platform. Every time I'm here.
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If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television
January 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
— E. F. Schumacher
— E. F. Schumacher
January 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
— E. F. Schumacher
— E. F. Schumacher