Yep, 'sociopathic greed' sounds about right for people like Musk and Thiel. As does 'sociopathic' in general. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Oh, that’s a nice surprise - my article, featuring the fabulous @deevybee.bsky.social, is included on the list. Thank you to the wonderful editors for all their support 🤩

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

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Ah, but they live in a post-logic world. And by using logic, we all amplify their ideas.

I’ve just donated to Wikipedia - with attacks on free speech and truth increasing, and the web awash in AI slop built on stolen work, it feels more important than ever to support one of our greatest resources. Please send a few coins if you can donate.wikimedia.org

For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Well. 'Birds of a feather' etc.

Word. And is it too much to ask that the urban foxes organise a special (s)hit squad to go and take a large dump on Nigel Farage's doorstep?

New in PN: Trumpers are *still* scheming to overturn the 2020 election "Trump’s conspiracy theories, threats, & endless lawsuits aren’t simply about proving non-existent fraud in 2020. They’re part of an *actual* sprawling plan to sow doubt in future elections — specifically, ones Republicans lose"

A great example of how the @nytimes.com centers white Americans and Trump supporters in its anecdotal political coverage. You never see stories like this about Black Democrats whose cities are cracked in Republican gerrymandering to give them Republican elected officials.

So I am doing this, and there is nothing like quoting Austen to remind you of your deficiencies as a writer. Oh well, at least there will be some decent prose on my blog for once, just not mine.

Did CBS just forget to pull the episode from Canadian rebroadcasters or had they already signed the rights away in some way that they couldn’t revoke?

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

As our big, flagship access policy this is pretty rubbish tbh: a very short walk, no new access or footpaths. Nice but... ...yeah, hardly a right to roam replacement is it? Small beer is being kind

Captain Bone Spurs hates our active military personnel and Veterans because he personally received five draft deferrals based on the diagnosis of a doctor who owed Trump's father money. Trump is a draft dodger and calls military personnel who died in combat "SUCKERS & LOSERS".

Twas the net before Christmas I sat down to doomscroll Not a creature was stirring Not even a troll When out on the roof There arose such a clatter I checked all the boards To see what was the chatter I could have gone out To see what I could see But I got bored Please finish this with ChatGbt

A country that had begun to make progress in believing women is regressing. In this environment, it becomes more and more difficult for victims to come forward, which means that the people committing crimes against them are going to get away with it. Again. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Two of the four signers of this letter to CBS News staff — Weiss and Rubenstein — are conservative oped writers who have done little, if any, actual news reporting in their careers. It’d be like having a sophomore biology major telling a cardiologist how to do a heart transplant.

To Prez, this remains one of best community notes of all time. To prove we can’t be beaten this idiot tweets a picture of 5 of our warships, 4 of which had been sunk. The remaining is probably now out of action. I am surrounded by idiocy

Good point. Donnie Dumbpf**k only exercises 'the awesomenest power of the tremendous US military' to bomb countries that have no meaningful capacity to retaliate.

Dyson is an interior designer turned sales and marketing guy. He got lucky with a poorly performing but quirky vacuum cleaner design. He was very pro-EU until his vacuum cleaners were given poor efficiency ratings.

This will piss the right wingers off, but I’d say this chap is far more a patriot that the wankers painting roundabouts and hanging flags. What a legend!

Only 34 years ago, yet we have become so complacent

They call everyone else snowflakes, but they're one long blizzard of self-loathing and everything triggers them. Strange and inadequate people.

Andy squarely nailing the self- serving 'blue skies!' bullshit of James 'made in Malaysia' Dyson.

Trouble is, all these US de-regulators grew up in a world where’s there’s a button saying ‘Game Over. Try Again.’

Thread.🧵 Super-rich people are all about being, and staying, super-rich. In all other respects they are reliably detatched from reality. The world currently offers multiple examples.

His name is Cockney Rhyming Slang, surely? “You’re talking a load of Harrison Pitt mate”.

What a surprise. Not. Fascists always fetishize military might. And a man like Trump,in whom cruelty and cowardice live together, needs to show off for his followers. Like a Roman Emperor offering games, blood, and the deaths of gladiators & prisoners.

We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.

My only and best higher ed idea is that Britain needs to find a way to offer university courses to retirees

Trump and his supporters hate free speech. Trump and the PayPal Mafia pose the biggest threat to free speech in the West

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Happy Belated Birthday to Anthony Fauci! Without truth, Democracy falls apart. For Christmas I want 1. #NIH & CDC to use evidence based science 2. RFK Jr Impeached 3. MAHA dismantled 4.To not politicize science 🧪 We can't give up & get discouraged. Do not accept the normalization of untruths.

Tell 'em there's an enemy. (Or enemies). Point them to who to hate. Position yourself relentlessly as the voice of their hatred and the agent of their vengeance. Worked for Hitler.

A (non-militant) republican here, but that was a fine King’s Speech. If we are to have a monarchy that is what they should say.

Sad and predictable but also interesting and revealing to see the angry reaction from the populist right to the King's Speech. They're reading it as a call for tolerance of diversity, approval for multi-faith, multi-cultural UK, and supportive of Ukraine. Which I think it was & intentionally so. 1/3

Vance defended the administration’s vile immigration policies in a way that fundamentally degraded his own family: people he is bound by vows—which should be sacred to a Christian—to love and protect. trib.al/GXBqMJ7

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

When Trump rants about "free speech," what he really means is that he wants to censor anyone who points out his lies. European (and others) who publish factual information about hate groups to counteract their propaganda are being banned from entering the USA. In the US, he is attacking news orgs.

Na' then.

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

The blatant selling of pardons is perhaps the clearest instance of criminal conduct authorized by SCOTUS. Pardons are a quintessential "official act." So, even when Trump takes a bribe to issue one, he is presumably above the criminal law.

I can't express how glad I am, that my parents were too intelligent to let themselves be talked into exorcizing the autism out of me with literal fucking BLEACH. These are the same bad actors who say vaccines cause autism, by the way. They do not have your best interests in mind.

Leadership isn't a gala with billionaires at Mar-a-Lago; it’s a surprise visit to a children’s hospital. Remember which one actually served the people.

DO YOU KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE WHEN JAZZ MUSICIANS DECIDE *NOT* TO SHOW UP FOR A GIG?