A tax subsidy on land makes food production more expensive not less.

The commonality bt the 60 Minutes Fiasco and the failed Jeffrey Epstein rollout is the incompetence of the person leading the effort.

Hoooooow does it take so long to bring things to trial. The Tories were just so dreadful.

Bad to have UK party leaders lying

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

‘A stream of negativity and abuse’: why are Labour MPs still sticking with X? - www.ft.com/content/5b0e... via @FT

Every recipe should come with a warning about how much washing up it generates.

i made a bot that posts random wikipedia birds if that would help

A true Game Of Thrones fans goes further and denies the very existence of multiple series.

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

Sad to report congress has decided to no longer enforce the winter solstice. Days will continue to get shorter until, eventually, we live in a world of endless night

Choosing to die in a domestic prison because a random foreign government is up to no good is just *weird*. Bobby Sands was in the IRA fighting against the British, the actual group who were oppressing his people.

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I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

This statement is a sick joke. US foreign policy is a sick joke, being implemented by enemies of truth, freedom & democracy - people driven by personal greed & the opportunity to exploit the suffering of others by trading US power and prestige for death & business opportunities.

People are using natural language instructions and getting outputs like this and acting like it's not still wildly impressive.

Observer piece better than @thetimes.com. But do any of these demands sound deliverable? Who is working to stop these people killing themselves because their demands are totally unmeetable (and delusional)? prisonersforpalestine.org/read-our-let...

An explosion hit a car in the Moscow region this morning. Russian media report the target was senior officer Fanil Sarvarov, head of operational training, a veteran of Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, and the war against Ukraine. An IED was planted under the vehicle. He was reportedly killed.

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Yes, this is bog standard Trumper stuff: people who are just normal stroppy arseholes finding friends online and driving each other completely insane, alienating their own friends and family as they become increasingly wacky and difficult to be around.

These guys are gonna die because they've set themselves totally unmeetable demands. Won't do anything good for politics. Hermer is technically right it's a judicial matter but politically his judgment stinks: useful if these guys don't start dying. www.thetimes.com/article/ddde...

The Times is constantly finger-wagging about the GLP-1 drugs and really unwilling to concede that actually, they're helping millions of people live healthier lives.

Calling someone a blockhead is known as "adding insult to Ian Dury"

Drug policy in Scotland isn't going great is it? Call me a simple man, but I usually love line go up. But here I think line go up is bad. Very bad.

This is very funny

Got a great idea for a new JRPG if anybody knows any game studios.

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

To err on the cautious side...

Essentially all social policy, and for a few thousand years almost all politics, was about men age 14-24 being an absolute nightmare to deal with. It's good society has moved on from that in lots of ways but the conservative move to lionise bad behaviour and excuse the Andrew Tates is bad.

Academics citing stuff they haven't read? Oh my god. I'm hearing about this for the first time.

Nominative determinism at its finest.

Where my Dual The A303 crew at?

Reform's Chris Parry tweets "unfulfilled" to signal that he in 2025 still seeks to fulfil Enoch Powell's 1968 call for the mass repatriation of migrants + minorities from Britain. This was in response to criticism of his telling David Lammy to "go home" & questioning Lenny Henry's loyalty to Britain

Does anyone wanna see a really good Getty image of Rita Moreno and Sam The Eagle having dinner in 1979?

Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.

Hey. Just reading about the Leeds tram. Crazy, huh? Makes me think about the times I never saw the potential in something and failed to invest properly. No need to text back. X

folks they are almost out of ai assistant names. there are not many left

Quite the chart. www.ft.com/content/30a4...

So this?

A friend has sent me this photo from the website of the Sandringham Estate. That fireplace looks *remarkably* familiar, doesn't it? bsky.app/profile/jame...

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

The Dead Kennedys include JFK, RFK Snr and Jackie. This list is incomplete and you can help by expanding it.

Lol

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Degrowthers are like MMTers. Just the most annoying and patronising people in your mentions.

Its not ableist to point at problems with services for disabled people. The quality, ease of access, speed of accessibility support at airports in the UK has declined over the last year and it makes travel for my wife, who is disabled, harder. Can people please engage their brains?