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I think there should have been much more response to the leader of the opposition saying:

‘I have nothing in common with the people from the north of the country, the Boko Haram where the Islamism is, those were our ethnic enemies.’

In the past, I suspect more would have been said.

I know Clara Jeffery as the mother jones editor who blocked me on Twitter when I asked what she was going to do about her employee directly calling for me and several other people to be murdered, something she’s never acknowledged 🙂

Early this morning, an autonomous group of New Yorkers reclaimed an F train car, replacing ads with signage reading “A MAN WAS LYNCHED HERE” and Jordan Neely’s name, as a jury deliberates over whether to convict Daniel Penny, Neely’s killer, with his death last May.

Labour is currently running a gruesome 'the Tories support open borders / flooded our borders' campaign.

Where are all the liberal cheerleaders of Keir Starmer, who rightly railed against the Tories' migrant-bashing?

Where's your impassioned anger, your fiery polemics, now?

"did you read the article"
the article:

On Scottish budget day, remember to be very wary of 'record levels' type claims, especially if they don't specify 'real terms'. We've just lived through a period of sky high inflation so you'd better bet that in absolute monetary terms we have record funding for just about all services.

only 1 of my top artists makes an appearance on my top songs list

PS: Allow me to add in this context that it’s really important to recognise too that Labour are not a centre-left party. Some Labour MPs still are, for sure. The party is not though. Centre-right generally but on immigration very clearly hard right and happy to pander to far right talking points.

Why why why can politicians never ever listen? The solution here is to build resilience against anti-immigrant rhetoric and to improve people’s lives in these communities. Labour are doing neither and this is why I maintain they are actively paving the way for a Reform Government.

It is not an overstatement when I say that I could genuinely weep: this is 100% the *exact opposite* of what they need to do: you cannot out-Reform the Reform Party. The only thing this will do is drive more voters to Reform: voters always choose the original. *Every* bit of research shows that. 🧵

What if this kind of place-by-place change was business-as-usual for cities? Just happening constantly. It would save lives & reduce crashes for everyone, improve public health & livability, decrease pollution & climate emissions through increased walkability & much more. HT @pinoyurbanist for image

To explain: the second I switched domains, I was able to go and register my old handle, zitron.bsky.social, as if it was a new account. Anyone could've done that the second I switched to my domain. That's very unsafe!

No really, Bluesky needs a true verification system rather than this domain stuff, it's janky, your old account name doesn't forward to the new one, nobody pretend like this is good

This is a criticism to level at tech companies, which intentionally obfuscated the differences--and branded stuff that is not intelligence as "AI" to begin with--so when you criticize e.g. Google search being filled with inaccurate results they can say "Oh so now you hate curing cancer!!!"

"Andor, as a show, is interested in the structure and form of state power, but it is a show savvy enough to know that it can illustrate that power most effectively by focusing squarely in the middle of its execution."

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Reform cumulatively won over 1,000 votes in 3 council by-elections in working-class Glasgow wards yesterday. On a terrible turnout, they polled between around 13% and 18% and came third in each contest, outpolling the Tories, Greens and Lib Dems. This is a growing worrying trend.

I threatened to do it yesterday, so here it is: andor scenes as dril tweets

this site needs a badge i can pay $8 a month for to trick people into thinking I am a Mod