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Video games for adults.
January 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Video games for adults.
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Lots of possibilities.
January 12, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Lots of possibilities.
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In both this intervention and the piece I posted earlier on re realists and idealists in Government, the tone is very similar. You people with your values and ethics are all children. We, the grown ups, don't bother with all that. We are clever.
Ok, what does your ultimate society look like?
Ok, what does your ultimate society look like?
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 AM
In both this intervention and the piece I posted earlier on re realists and idealists in Government, the tone is very similar. You people with your values and ethics are all children. We, the grown ups, don't bother with all that. We are clever.
Ok, what does your ultimate society look like?
Ok, what does your ultimate society look like?
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I’ve never come across this immensely stylish WW2 information poster before. It looks almost like a frame from ‘The Third Man’.
January 6, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I’ve never come across this immensely stylish WW2 information poster before. It looks almost like a frame from ‘The Third Man’.
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Lately I've been thinking about these 1983 Iron Maiden lyrics way more often than I should
January 4, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Lately I've been thinking about these 1983 Iron Maiden lyrics way more often than I should
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Kidnapping a head of state is not ‘audacious’ if you are the world’s most powerful military. It is not bold or brilliant. It is something within your capacity to do but that should not be done
January 4, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Kidnapping a head of state is not ‘audacious’ if you are the world’s most powerful military. It is not bold or brilliant. It is something within your capacity to do but that should not be done
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The thing about being a "lifelong advocate of international law" is you have to have the courage to speak up when it’s broken
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The thing about being a "lifelong advocate of international law" is you have to have the courage to speak up when it’s broken
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Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
January 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Trump just said what it is all about.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
The sooner the world sheds its addiction to fossil fuels, the better. The alternatives are available, plentiful and cheaper.
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Exactly so.
Denial is a reasonable and understandable response to the traumatic and irrational, but that phase must be over now.
Do it carefully, do it diplomatically, but do it.
Denial is a reasonable and understandable response to the traumatic and irrational, but that phase must be over now.
Do it carefully, do it diplomatically, but do it.
After having slept through all of the wake up calls so far, maybe this one will jolt Europe out of its state of denial? Instead of wasting time on bootlicking, Europe needs to turbo boost its integration and de-risk from the US asap.
January 3, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Exactly so.
Denial is a reasonable and understandable response to the traumatic and irrational, but that phase must be over now.
Do it carefully, do it diplomatically, but do it.
Denial is a reasonable and understandable response to the traumatic and irrational, but that phase must be over now.
Do it carefully, do it diplomatically, but do it.
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Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid
January 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Controversial take but I agree that if you have even center left politics you should be barefoot wearing a barrel with suspenders. You should have a wallet with a single moth and nothing else in it. You should be slicing up a single bean paper thin and eating it slowly on a trash can lid
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship
December 29, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
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Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."
Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Along with the racist fake grievance of "apologizing for being white," there's also the fact that a bunch of white folks seem to believe (and/or are willing to suggest) that even acknowledging systemic advantages they get for being white is the equivalent of being "forced to apologize."
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The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
December 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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A relative moved back to the UK with their US partner, and neither of them could believe the level of service provided by the NHS
Medicare for 65+ and those who qualify (which isn't free) is nothing like NHS provision, and basic health insurance in the USA is $450–$680 PER MONTH
It's jaw dropping
Medicare for 65+ and those who qualify (which isn't free) is nothing like NHS provision, and basic health insurance in the USA is $450–$680 PER MONTH
It's jaw dropping
The UK is very different from Medicare. In Medicare you can mostly go to a specialist of your choice. Not in the UK
This is how most UHC works. Will Americans be ok with this change to Medicare ?
Referrals for specialist care - NHS share.google/X84C9oCy1rE1...
This is how most UHC works. Will Americans be ok with this change to Medicare ?
Referrals for specialist care - NHS share.google/X84C9oCy1rE1...
December 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
A relative moved back to the UK with their US partner, and neither of them could believe the level of service provided by the NHS
Medicare for 65+ and those who qualify (which isn't free) is nothing like NHS provision, and basic health insurance in the USA is $450–$680 PER MONTH
It's jaw dropping
Medicare for 65+ and those who qualify (which isn't free) is nothing like NHS provision, and basic health insurance in the USA is $450–$680 PER MONTH
It's jaw dropping
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Again - the "borders are open for everyone" claim is a repeated RW lie (whether it concerns the US, the UK or the EU)
Who among us will ever forget where we were and what we were doing when we learned that undocumented migrants to the United States were taking all the atom-splitting jobs
December 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Again - the "borders are open for everyone" claim is a repeated RW lie (whether it concerns the US, the UK or the EU)
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
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a grinch is the offspring of a who and a sneetch. and like a mule, is genetically sterile
December 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
a grinch is the offspring of a who and a sneetch. and like a mule, is genetically sterile
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Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Important context here: when Peter Thiel and David Sacks began their war on diversity as undergrads at Stanford, thirty years ago, the very first tactic they adopted was to normalize slurs that had already been stigmatized out of mainstream society. This return of these hateful terms was a key goal.
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Also, "some people" are bigots ...
Just because you wrap your bigotry in the cloak of religion, it doesn't make you any less of a bigot.
It does mean, however, you're missing the central message of Christianity ...
Just because you wrap your bigotry in the cloak of religion, it doesn't make you any less of a bigot.
It does mean, however, you're missing the central message of Christianity ...
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Also, "some people" are bigots ...
Just because you wrap your bigotry in the cloak of religion, it doesn't make you any less of a bigot.
It does mean, however, you're missing the central message of Christianity ...
Just because you wrap your bigotry in the cloak of religion, it doesn't make you any less of a bigot.
It does mean, however, you're missing the central message of Christianity ...