"I was only involved with the criminal financial part of Epstein's dealings, not the other stuff" will be an interesting position a lot of these guys are going to take.

As people who actually followed up on Iraq realized, 'war for oil' is not only abhorrent but ineffective; from an oil company perspective it's a huge investment into inherently uncertain circumstances

its p funny seeing Trump turn into Dubya 2, both the real and the caricature.

kinda funny how we just kind of hate everyone. only person that isn't net negative can't even really get into parliament lol

Any attack targeted at people just because they are Jewish is as barbaric and evil as any attack on people just because they are Palestinian, or whatever other nationality. I will not accept any justification or relativization for this horrifying act of antisemitism in my mentions. Evil, period.

America and China are more alike than they are different, point 105, I guess. ”Elon Musk is becoming a role model” is a sentence that should have everyone involved quarantined

I hate the online reaction cycle that praises a piece of art a lot and uses it as an example of what’s good about the medium but then the moment it gets awards or enough acclaim or fandom, suddenly we have to talk about how it’s actually not really that good and it’s overrated and always sucked

Starmer: we’re the economically serious party, the grown-ups in the room Also Starmer: we’re happy to hit the economy by up to £10 billion to appease racists.

I’m normally wary of “Abolish X, Y, and Z” politics, but I do think “Abolish the Home Office” is a rare case where that instinct is correct and realistic

Radio 4 and BBC and Channel 4 News and all the papers completely skewing the Peggie story so your average person will have no idea what actually happened. Doesn’t this make you furious? Integrity in journalism is dead, not just in the US

If the reporting on the Peggie decision tells us anything, it should be that the way news gets reported in this country has little to do with truth, and much more to do with narrative - as well as whose heavily spun press release lands on journos desks first.

You’d never know this was what was decided as part of that tribunal ruling…

There’s nothing more representative of the elite impunity that has caused at least 700,000 excess deaths in the first year of Trump 2(USAID cuts) than the claim that it’s not the job of people who shape popular beliefs to shape popular beliefs.

honestly very funny to me that the primary actual use case for copilot is as a coding assistant, which strikes me as a very lucrative product with an enthusiastic user base, but microsoft is super thirsty for ..... this for whatever reason

some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think

The problem for Starmer is that the Greens are a damn sight shrewder than the Corbynites in emphasising the need to develop a post-American European military alliance, which is a more realistic appreciation of current political trends in the US than a lot of Labour and Conservative thinking

Lmaooo when your movies bomb and you see the support Sabrina Carpenter got for telling the WH to fuck off

“You see the transgenders were simply fooled into thinking they had a place in our society they should simply have realised they are an unwanted underclass and stayed in the closet those poor fools”

people made fun of this in 2014 but every last thing about it turned out to be true

Critical support to uhh Fine Gael. Look forward to UK nutters screeching that they’re woke lefties “The sheer nonsense of it”…

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

I buy the Cabaret theory of modern politics: current right wing politics was, once upon a time, a thing elites sold to rubes while merely pretending to believe themselves while they pursued wealth, but now the True Believers are actually in charge and acting on sincerely believed insane nonsense.

It’s pretty funny how the moment even a pliant media does even the barest scrutiny, he just falls over

stupid cyberpunk

If Russia is banned for its war of aggression and atrocities against civilians in Ukraine, Israel should be banned for its genocide in Gaza. This should not be hard for anyone with a shred of moral/intellectual integrity. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

they're putting in overtime lmao. cousin kept sending me shit

I know a lot of the UK equivalent and a) they've been *really* bad on trans rights, unfortunately b) they are absolutely up in arms over the government's pandering to the right on racism.

For anyone who knows anything about genocides and the incitement of genocidal violence, this is the kind of hair-raising stuff you find in transcripts of testimony before special tribunals.

If the Equality Act had never existed, and someone proposed to pass a law banning women’s organisations from choosing to welcome trans people, we’d think it was a pretty extreme proposal. I don’t think it’s less extreme because it’s come about as a result of a new interpretation of an old law.

Think this is a good example of my theory that "the most risk averse interpretation of regulation" often matters far more than what regulation actually says.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

Again: the project is clearly to drive trans women, in particular, out of public life altogether.

I genuinely think this (from: sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...) is going to be lots of people's unironic take on these years. I do think Woke 2 will be a thing, and I don't think this was inevitable but rather the result of very bad strategic choices being made by the right and centrists.

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

ngl i did not know the TA/Professor that graded it was trans at all from any of the coverage. explains a lot about why this happened though

sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.

oh man, was wondering when this subplot would come back up lol

“Guy who worked for US-backed death squad goes nuts and shoots up some soldiers” doesn’t actually seem like it needs a particularly baroque explanation

endless hand-wringing on labour (potentially) breaking a manifesto pledge by raising taxes but when they abandon a manifesto commitment on workers' rights, the same media *praises* them for it

Honestly, as much as the policy angers me, I do think it’s the way the BBC have reported it that has especially riled me up. Just no actual balance whatsoever, to the point where I yearn for the flawed version of balance that both sides everything

It's also an example of the underlying problem being the same cruelty that they now think will solve it! The reason for expensive taxis is that they restricted bus travel to appease the same people!

apparently that DC shooter had his name searched up in DC hundreds of times several hours before the attack. wild but not unsurprising if this actually ends up being a false flag to create the permission structure for the immigration ban Trump is doing lol

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated

every right-wing newspaper this morning: those Benefits Street kids are worthless scum who should never have been born... ...unless a muslim raped them in which case the police ignored it because of political correctness no other possible reason

Hearing Rachel Reeves explain why it is so important to lift hundreds of thousands of kids out of poverty is a reminder of what a Labour government can do. It is also a reminder of how little of this sort of thing they have done and how much more needs to be done.