Is there a kind of analytical mind virus affecting everyone, wherefrom the painful swelling of thhw significance of today's votes? Yes, Reform have made substantial gains. Not defending any seats means losing them is impossible, so every seat is a net gain.

If this time travel experiment works, I should be able to go from here and now and reappea—

When you see Kid Rock addressing a press conference to talk about the Strait of Hormuz and you think, "Jeez, they really can't get anyone more qualified to carry water for them," understand that Randy Barnett is a more subtle iteration of the same phenomenon.

this photo of kid rock giving a speech at the pentagon about the strait of hormuz has really solidified in my mind that the united states is the least intelligent place on earth.

I would absolutely love Arron Banks to go down Butetown and tell the first black bloke he sees that he's not really Welsh. The stumpy little bastard would be coming back in three separate buckets.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

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This is the untold story of higher education. Everything only works because staff do more work than they can really be expected to do.

Absolute dereliction of duty by an MP: a major employer and driving force of local and national economy is not their ‘industrial focus’. Apparently the educating and training of doctors, nurses, teachers, lawyers, scientists, engineers, researchers…IS. NOT. THEIR. INUDSTRIAL. FOCUS.

Also slightly amused at 'A normal job doesn't require you to hang around on site for hours to do a basically mindless task' given that this describes soooo many normal jobs.

If you can't get through a working day without a drink then I'm not sure you should be doing that job, regardless of what it is. This country has such a weird relationship with alcohol. Old boys' club nonsense that should have died out long ago.

"MPs are, to a man, simply gagging for smack at all times, and the only thing holding them back from shooting up at work is the fact that it's illegal."

I made a Derrida chat bot, and DerridaBot told me "There is nothing outside the LLM"

I’ve posted it before, but it feels evergreen The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

Labour MPs being like I haven’t heard of anchor institutions, I will pretend that all the non-graduates in my constituency do not work for universities or the businesses that support them (including hospitality, housing, healthcare) and instead still work in heavy industry

I'd be embarrassed by my team if I were a Chelsea fan. Sanchez couldn't stop smiling at his bullshit post-match. Shameful

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

wheezing

He honestly thinks we're stupid.

Anton Lesser >>>>>> Roger Moore

Next government of Israel will be just as racist towards Palestinians in the 1967 and 1948 territories alike and will have no 48er party in coalition

"You made the President do this to himself, didn't you?"

The overwhelming majority of the victims of political violence in this country don't have a secret service detail to protect them, and the majority of that violence is caused by the guy who does.

This is even more staged than the campaign 'shooting'—into which Trump personally closed the investigation because that is totally normal

In the interview she also says she wrote most of the script for the evening.

5/ THIS -- this doesn't need any commentary at all does it?

4/ All smiles & laughter at highly unusual presser. Less than 1hr after shooting? NO ONE looks shook. They aappear as if they just got by with something big bc they did! Trump pumps ballroom repeatedly and 0 talk of an investigation Trump seems to already know everything about assassin and incident

3/ Trump has already pointed to the incident as justification for the controversial White House ballroom he’s building on the grounds where the East Wing used to be. MAGA folks all parroting this 🦜

2/ Purposely lax security

🧵 Like Butler PA, there is obvious proof it was a staged all over the place including right here (WATCH) "performed" is a most accurate description.

Grateful that Starmer thinks freedom of the press is sacrosanct though. The 129 journalists murdered in Gaza in 2025 alone (single highest total since the CPJ was established, must feel very reassured (Reposted, because my fat thumb put the wrong year!)

I cannot believe Trump arranged his own assassination attempt AGAIN

Got to love a Speaker who gets so irate at a liar being called a liar, but not at the House being lied to in the first place. Standards must be maintained!

Wonder if Eddie Howe reads John Donne

We were assured that they had 'learned their lesson'. Then they did it again in 2003. The US / UK attack on Iraq in 2003 involved massive deliberate and collateral damage to civilian infrastructure. They continued to degrade it during the subsequent occupation.

On the specific question of targeting civilian infrastructure, the US mercilessly targeted civilian infrastructure when it attacked Iraq in 1990-91.

one thing though that I can tell you all for certain is that there is no way, none at all, to wipe out an entire civilisation so that they can never return. that’s simply not how humanity and civilisation works. horrible people keep trying and they have never once succeeded.

But here’s the thing: killing begets killing & genocide more genocide. Israel & US (under Democrats) partnered to wipe out Palestinians using these same “radical” justifications, so why are we shocked they’re doing the same to Iran under this monster?

"A riot is the language of the unheard." as Martin Luther King Jr. said.

I don't know what the British government can do to stop US planes flying from US based to commit war crimes over Iran - but whatever it can do it should do. Of course it would probably mean violent confrontation with Trump and Hegseth threatening reprisals. Nonetheless...

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

“The tension revolves around where to draw the line between military and civilian targets, such as water desalination plants, which could be considered targets because military forces also need water to drink.” The ridiculous logic used to justify practicing total war.

I thought the government of every other country on Earth basically thought it was GOOD actually to kidnap bad presidents and their wives and children out of their beds to try them for crimes against humanity in a completely different country

Easter weekend gave me time to reflect on the great works of a humble Carpenter.

"What's your favourite book of the Bible, Robert?" "Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of the Bible"

Robert Jenrick launches campaign against use of psalm oil

It’s Akira Kurosawa’s birthday. The older I get, the more I think about this quote: ‘I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.’

Okay, class! Who can identify whether this is stupidity or maliciousness? Show of hands! Ah, yes, you at the back. What’s that? The intention is irrelevant when the result is the same? Gold star!