🤔Could it be? Reform quietly shelving a vote-winning policy the moment former Tory Robert Jenrick becomes Treasurer? The party that cosplays as “for the people” is bankrolled by & takes their orders from the same kind of profiteers who’ve run our water system into the ground.

Does every political party have people with humiliation fetishes that just *love* to go out on the broadcast rounds the day after a by-election to brag about how proud they are to have lost it? "Yes actually we cracked open the champagne at 5am when we found out that 5 people had voted for us"

It actually must be quite sad to be someone who can't take sincere and candid art and just enjoy it. That there must be subtle messaging or restraint in something in order for it to be provocative or worthwhile to engage with whatsoever... Anyway guess I'm gonna get into Bruce Springsteen!

The "collapse of liberal democracy" is simply the result of "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor". People don't trust institutions, because they're the middle men systematically keeping this status quo in place.

What's it going to take to get twitter banned in the UK? If you made an AI webapp that didn't stop users from making deepfake child sexual abuse images, it would surely not last? Just please put it in the bin and set it on fire, good job to the MPs standing up for this cause

The thing is, I actually hadn't heard of elf on a shelf

When I tell people I work at a magnet factory, I usually have to explain that we do complex engineering and it's actually quite technical and difficult But to be fair this morning I am trying to pick up paperclips with magnets we're trying to make rn, so, maybe my whole career is a joke, actually

"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors. So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.

The electorate aren't whiney babies, they're struggling. Just because Reeves has done the most notable actual tax hike since the 70s doesn't make up for the half century of trickle up economics that preceded it. What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?

Details aside, I never really understood why there's a need to just assume history is inevitably cyclical. New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.

Some kind of effort should be made to reconnect schoolchildren with the practise of farming - mainly animals. It's the worst example of how the modern world has babied us and detached us from reality, and it's been done without computer or internet technology.

All aboard the merry-go-round, yet again, for the ride of conflating the Israeli govt. with Jewish civilians everywhere, and for conflating condemnation of anti-semitism as somehow needing to be balanced with the actions of the Israeli state. This is exactly what the terrorist would have wanted.

I would wager that if you were to poll Brits, you would find that they vastly underestimate the number of CCTV cameras in the country, and wouldn't know we're on of the most surveilled countries in the world

I wonder if any of my calls have indeed been used for training and monitoring purposes

Profoundly depressing that foreign social media platforms that are clearly damaging British society are not banned because successive govts would rather avoid irritating Facebook users than provide space for a regulatable British tech firm to plug the gap left behind by banning it

I always love it when people get up on their high horse about this, because I do know lots of people who were Tories for decades and are now Reform and let me tell you, getting to know them is a highly instructive and helpful experience with many useful lessons. Give me a minute here.

Just summarises how corporate our mostly private university sector has become now, I wonder how much these consultants made off of students and the taxpayer

Booted up Akinator to escape to the past, but there is just no running from the present

This conversation about a wealth tax is ludicrous. Look at what happened to the countries that use one. You don't see any rich people in *checks notes* Switzerland and Norway now do you!

Bluesky, define: "post-autism"

Seems as though you have a fan @tomnicholas.bsky.social

Science journalism in mainstream media outlets strikes again

1/3 There are two truths about the IDF that feel almost paradoxical, which is why discourse is a mess The IDF have killed countless innocent Palestinians, protect violent settlers, and have raised Gaza to rubble The existence of the IDF has meant Jews in the Israel & MENA haven’t been wiped out

Why does MSM keep asking what she thinks lmao, she's not a Road Dahl character, she's an infantile lunatic

I personally feel very sceptical about people no longer caring about "whether the artist is human or not" People already consume content due to WHO is making it, even if you can find better quality content doing the same thing, but made be lesser known people

This cat is my favourite guy

Have the done some silly maths again and just banned people coming from the 12 countries with the fewest people coming to the US to maximise political capital with minimal real consequences?

Great grassroots campaign to help the survivors of one of the most brutal prisons to ever exist, Assad's Sednaya in Syria. Please consider donating to support those who were brave enough to stand up and ask for freedom in the face of brutal persecution: tasharuky.com/en/p/219

Japan was fun

I think there's a divide between people who think posting is fun and people who think it's praxis and if you think posting is a way to make real change, and not a way to shoot the shit with your online friends, it's a great way to drive yourself insane and act like an asshole

Knew I'd forget something for my holiday Bloody forgot to rinse Tesco for the heavily reduced Easter products to eat on the flight didn't I

Labour try to win this guy's vote challenge (impossible) youtube.com/shorts/NO46F...

The rights we take for granted – eight-hour days, weekends and safe workplaces – were won by workers of the past, who organised and fought for them. This #InternationalWorkersDay, join a union and stand up for a better future for all workers. www.tuc.org.uk/join-a-union

Renewables? Nah. Just focus on unproven technologies instead to solve the crisis that needed solving yesterday. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Genuine question for the women out there - to whatever extent that you are attracted to after Olly Murs (whether it's less or more than before Olly Murs), how much of that is a more nebulous "it's attractive that he's evidently driven and hard working" rather than actually liking his physique?

I'm throwing you out of this town smug druggler

don't want to beef with the specific person who posted this but don't understand why so many people are reluctant to understand that, actually, to quite a lot of people, the idea of just staying at home alone all week fucking sucks? wanting to leave the house and talk to people is normal!

Biggest brain thing I've ever done in my life

ITT

Mad cognitive dissonance in the replies. Don't we all know that people use LLMs for rudimentary tasks? Have any of these people spoken to programmers? I've literally never used one myself, but it can't be completely useless and scarily powerful, wasteful and dangerous technology at the same time.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

You can tell I play Marth

Since more melee players are moving here I guess it's time to start posting clips Massively underused respawn mixup to catch ppl lazily going to top plat

Tbf he did immediately say after that "I'm really sorry, who could have known? Maybe if someone out there had yelled at me on Blue Sky about this I would have known. But no-one did. Except every day. In all caps." So naïve or not he's at least humble!

Mad contrast with the US govt., where corrupt figures actively manipulate the stock market and make billions in the process with complete impunity

“The right wing’s war on men consists of inducing insatiable demands in them—for love, respect, money, muscles—and then robbing them of any ability to even partially fill those demands” www.liberalcurrents.com/adolescence-...

"Losing money costs you nothing" Quotes are finished, nothing will top this youtu.be/zBflZLStKQg?...

Have had multiple interactions in recent days with older people complaining that we all stay inside too much But how can we save for a house if we keep going out and spending our money on museum exhibits and avocados?