Myriad Freckles
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I’ve been waiting for Virginia Company ideas to be revived for some time. I thought Musk would get it done first, though. How bloody depressing.
November 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I’ve been waiting for Virginia Company ideas to be revived for some time. I thought Musk would get it done first, though. How bloody depressing.
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"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"There is not a free speech crisis in the UK. Keir Starmer has not shut down GB News," Ruskin says. Farage seems "most at home with the autocrats and dictators of this world", he adds. If he's serious about the Online Safety Act, he should be in parliament, he says, not here.
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Absolutely. What on earth did they expect would happen to sick leave and disability benefits with 1) an ongoing severe new respiratory disease 2) long Covid and 3) huge numbers of people dealing with the fallout of the Covid years, with the young most badly affected?
August 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Absolutely. What on earth did they expect would happen to sick leave and disability benefits with 1) an ongoing severe new respiratory disease 2) long Covid and 3) huge numbers of people dealing with the fallout of the Covid years, with the young most badly affected?
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said the person responsible for an unwanted sexual experience was a boy they knew or were friends with.
So while he’s looking out for evil foreigners it’s more likely to be someone his daughters know that pose a threat . But then he isn’t really interested in the complexity or
So while he’s looking out for evil foreigners it’s more likely to be someone his daughters know that pose a threat . But then he isn’t really interested in the complexity or
August 14, 2025 at 6:25 PM
said the person responsible for an unwanted sexual experience was a boy they knew or were friends with.
So while he’s looking out for evil foreigners it’s more likely to be someone his daughters know that pose a threat . But then he isn’t really interested in the complexity or
So while he’s looking out for evil foreigners it’s more likely to be someone his daughters know that pose a threat . But then he isn’t really interested in the complexity or
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According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, US, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.
August 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, US, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.
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This how we can reclaim the conversation from women-hating freaks and Social Darwinists iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
This how we can reclaim the conversation from women-hating freaks and Social Darwinists iandunt.substack.com/p/how-to-be-...
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Good stuff from Starmer today, but it's not enough inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
July 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Good stuff from Starmer today, but it's not enough inews.co.uk/opinion/star...
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The answer was the whole apparatus of footnoting, peer-review, showing data & reproducing findings.
The idea wasn't that *I* could check it, but that anyone competent cd. The science *might* still be wrong,but there was no rational reason to prefer my own judgment.
But all that's now under assault
The idea wasn't that *I* could check it, but that anyone competent cd. The science *might* still be wrong,but there was no rational reason to prefer my own judgment.
But all that's now under assault
July 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The answer was the whole apparatus of footnoting, peer-review, showing data & reproducing findings.
The idea wasn't that *I* could check it, but that anyone competent cd. The science *might* still be wrong,but there was no rational reason to prefer my own judgment.
But all that's now under assault
The idea wasn't that *I* could check it, but that anyone competent cd. The science *might* still be wrong,but there was no rational reason to prefer my own judgment.
But all that's now under assault
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They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
July 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
They've managed to criminalise legitimate protest and undermine anti-terror laws in one move. They should be goddamned ashamed of themselves.
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I’ve been saying this for years: heatwaves aren’t ice creams and smiling suns. They’re collapsing infrastructure, wildfires, pets begging for mercy, and preventable deaths...
Media picture editors need to do better and use 'climate-impactful' images.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Media picture editors need to do better and use 'climate-impactful' images.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Why do we pretend heatwaves are fun – and ignore the brutal, burning reality? | Zoe Williams
The heatwave media formula is still extravagantly weird: all stock photos of ice-creams and suns with their hats on. It is time we recognised this extreme weather for exactly what it is, writes Zoe Wi...
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June 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I’ve been saying this for years: heatwaves aren’t ice creams and smiling suns. They’re collapsing infrastructure, wildfires, pets begging for mercy, and preventable deaths...
Media picture editors need to do better and use 'climate-impactful' images.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Media picture editors need to do better and use 'climate-impactful' images.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I think this is a terrifying descent into authoritarianism, with profound consequences for protest across the board and democractic engagement generally. I wish I could say I was shocked a Labour Government is doing it.
June 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I think this is a terrifying descent into authoritarianism, with profound consequences for protest across the board and democractic engagement generally. I wish I could say I was shocked a Labour Government is doing it.
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Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️
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The Ballymena violence has nothing to do with ‘protecting women’. It is racism, pure and simple | Sarah Creighton
Northern Ireland has always seen high levels of violence against women and girls. Blaming migrants is a useful way to distract from that, says political commentator from Northern Ireland Sarah Creight...
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June 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Wrote for @theguardian.com about Ballymena and Northern Ireland's long history of violence against women ⬇️
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Cracking statement from Sandi Toksvig who is standing for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge!
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Statement from Ms Sandi Toksvig
The first known chancellor of Cambridge was Richard of Wetheringsett who served sometime between 1215 and 1232. After that we have had a plethora of other Richards, many Johns and an awful lot of
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May 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Cracking statement from Sandi Toksvig who is standing for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge!
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-un...
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If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate, unrestrained, brutal, and criminal killing of civilians,” [former Prime Minister Olmert] said."
www.huffpost.com/entry/israel...
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'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'
"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.
www.huffpost.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If a former Israeli prime minister can say this, what is stopping European leaders?
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I’m ranting… I’ll say it again: everyone borrows and adapts. Everyone learns by imitation. Sometimes people overstep and sometimes they just pillage but ALL THAT IS DIFFERENT from the training process. This is corporate power using art to make software at scale.
They have to buy the rights.
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They have to buy the rights.
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May 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I’m ranting… I’ll say it again: everyone borrows and adapts. Everyone learns by imitation. Sometimes people overstep and sometimes they just pillage but ALL THAT IS DIFFERENT from the training process. This is corporate power using art to make software at scale.
They have to buy the rights.
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They have to buy the rights.
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Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Starmer doesn't seem to realise that, if you consistently accept the way your opponents frame a question, you'll find it hard to reject the answers that they give.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
If you keep telling voters that Farage is right in his analysis, it will be hard to persuade them that he's wrong in his prescriptions.
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So it's not simply "we need these people, give them visas" it's been tried and has been a disaster. The sector needs a massive monetary and skills injection, serious regulation with the support of overseas workers with an immigration system that compliments and supports/protects migrants.
May 11, 2025 at 10:38 AM
So it's not simply "we need these people, give them visas" it's been tried and has been a disaster. The sector needs a massive monetary and skills injection, serious regulation with the support of overseas workers with an immigration system that compliments and supports/protects migrants.
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Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
May 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around.
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway.
It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing
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Sarkozy and Fillon's convictions - both very much establishment figures - are powerful counter-arguments to the narrative that Le Pen is the victim of establishment/judicial persecution. Ignore the noise
April 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Sarkozy and Fillon's convictions - both very much establishment figures - are powerful counter-arguments to the narrative that Le Pen is the victim of establishment/judicial persecution. Ignore the noise
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If you're in the UK and you're seeing the effects here of Trump's attempts to restore white male supremacism we'd like to hear from you, in complete confidence. goodlaw.social/trjk
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March 27, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you're in the UK and you're seeing the effects here of Trump's attempts to restore white male supremacism we'd like to hear from you, in complete confidence. goodlaw.social/trjk
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It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
Trump at the DOJ: "I believe that CNN and MSNDC, who literally write 97.6% bad about me, are political arms of the Democrat Party. And in my opinion, they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal."
March 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It is legal to criticize the president. It is legal to criticize the president's actions. It is legal to criticize the president's advisors. It is legal and patriotic and the blood of a healthy society to hold those in power accountable, and even to mock them. Remember it.
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I'm sympathetic to the argument there are people who could work but currently don't. But the way to change that is to provide healthcare, support and flexibility. I don't see how yet more punishment beatings for the vulnerable will help, and I think it's a betrayal of social democratic values.
March 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I'm sympathetic to the argument there are people who could work but currently don't. But the way to change that is to provide healthcare, support and flexibility. I don't see how yet more punishment beatings for the vulnerable will help, and I think it's a betrayal of social democratic values.
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I do think it’s hard to sustain a narrative of “America first” when the main beneficiary of your actions is an adversarial foreign state that offers you basically nothing in return.
February 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I do think it’s hard to sustain a narrative of “America first” when the main beneficiary of your actions is an adversarial foreign state that offers you basically nothing in return.