A thing the govt should actually ban (therefore they won’t)

GenAI is like Skynet but instead of nuking us it just turns everything, even small joys and marvels, into shit.

Look, a big problem for Burnham is that he had to create his cabinet from Labour MPs, and they are universally wet, fashy wronguns (he is also a Labour MP).

introducing: the Minister for Bubbles & Slop.

“neoliberalism” is better referred to as “market fundamentalism”

Skinner meme but instead of the children being wrong, its Amnesty International

You say wealth taxes won’t work because people will leave. I say: Bush-Blair style extradition and black sites for tax exiles.

As with this, and Rowling, it is going to be interesting to see which sensible commentators are ever going to mention that all of this is only possible because it's laundered through the mainstream broadsheets and treated as credible rather than mendacious horseshit.

Not only is there a magic money tree, there are two: renewables and migration. I think immigrants, all people, have value beyond our contributions to GDP, but blocking Miliband in favour of Mahmood as Chancellor, and framing it as the choice for “the economy” is maxed out silly sausage.

That Amnesty can resolute in their stand against dictators and genocidal regimes but back down instantly on challenging transphobes doesn't just sound like they're worried of being sued but also that there's a big transphobe either within or partnered to them that got pissy tbh

Why isn’t anyone speaking ill of Sam Neill? Could it be that he seems to have been sound af? Is this what the vile trolls demand!?!

Microsoft always finding new riffs on “videogame book burning”

It’s dead funny (depressing) that of the few things the UK does well, unis are right up there, yet our political class just relentlessly trash them.

tfw you think about Seattle

The UK is on a war footing! We must boost military spending. As such, we will reintroduce the top rate of tax from WW2: 99.25%. Any attempt to avoid this tax will be regarded as sabotage and treason, punishable by death.

80% of Gestapo arrests were initiated by civilian denunciations.

Starmer’s whole thing was just saying Reform voters (and policies) are right and appeasing (or implementing) them what are we talking about here lads. Thick or lying? (bit of both)

I'll say this for the heat: you can dry clothes fast. Huge evaporation buff.

The end of RE2 is a broken promise. “The downfall of Umbrella was mostly court cases, not good for gameplay” ok but Capcom made Ace Attorney.

35°C is normal, we used to just call that summer! Here's how many summers topped 32°C 70s 4 80s 2 90s 8 2000s 6 2010s all of them 2020s all of them And here's how many summers topped 35°C 70s 1 80s 0 90s 2 2000s 2 2010s 3 2020s 4 (out of 6 so far)

the oppressive warmth, stacked on the ambient fascism, is really adding to the We Live In Hell vibe.

excited to learn how fast can Burnham do the “everybody, even the centrists, realise he’s the same reheated dross” speedrun.

the age group in the UK whose minds are the most fried and poisoned by social media are 50+, not 16 year olds.

I have obtained a strawberry which has a little arse

Look at these legends. The original Core Design team that made Tomb Raider (Gavin Rummery, Jason Gosling, Toby Gard, Heather Gibson, Neal Boyd and Paul Douglas). Heather Gibson created textures by adapting scans from books which is way cooler than this dross.

whig history gets funnier by the year. history is “progress” is it lads? for whomst?

pogroms is it? starting to worry immigration might be an illegitimate concern and we’re accidentally Weimaring to close to the sun

Gutted about Anthony Stewart Head. Giles was one of TV’s best mentors. The power of knowledge and how to support someone become the best version of themselves. Probs part of why I work in education.

Massive protest yesterday against Wigan Reform Council.

What are the odds this guy describing a collectivist ideology as “me-first” went to a fee paying school?

taking ambient psychic chip damage from being in "England"

Might something be going on in the UK that’s tanking young people’s mental health? Is this worth looking into? Nah, they’re all lying and, even if they’re not, a few shifts at the Amazon warehouse is the cure.

The billionaire class funds manufactured cynicism. They thrive on our despair because an exhausted working class can’t fight back. Any green shoot of hope has to be stomped, so ZP can’t be tolerated.

Not a lot of people know we owe the cool English dialogue in Metal Gear Solid to the translator who took such liberties with the script that Kojima fired him. For example, “Solid Snake” should be “Boner” and “Liquid Snake” should be “Wet Boner”.

Britain’s reactionary press manufacture fear and panic -> the (supposedly) less reactionary press do vox pops with people parroting manufactured fears and panic -> politicians debate how to address these “legitimate concerns”

The MEN have done interviews in Makerfield and this one has sent me into space (they’re voting Reform). “Won’t someone please think of the landlords?”

I am in a whatsapp group with Miyamoto and he says super mario “canonically has aluminium bones” and someone said “where does it say that in the games?” and he said “I am the games” and the other guy left the group.

If we’d done net zero 16 years ago when interest rates were 0.0001% we’d be insulated from fossil fuel spikes from wars but those of us suggesting this at the time were “looney left LGBT Islamofascists”

The Washington Monument has “Cymry am byth” carved into it (Washington is not Welsh)

The Iran War is going to mean shortages and this will be a Real(TM) economic crash, not banks or lockdowns, actually running out of stuff. We’re probs going to need to do rationing and I have figured out how we’re going to ration: if you have lots of money you get the stuff, if not lol, lmfao

Underused terminology for it being hot: “boiling”. It is “boiling”. I am being “boiled”. I am covered in “boils”.

Too sunny. Too hot. This is not a ginger man’s weather. Even the shadows are warm.

Sonic the Hedgehog runs fast but comes very slowly, if ever, due to antidepressants.

tip: you can eat the raw chicken straight out of the pack and save time, energy and money.

"The mines had to be sealed. It killed Mrs Thatcher, what she did to her beloved miners"

Andy Burnham: what if we exclude trans people from society, compassionately??

Meet the new toilet monitor, same as the old toilet monitor

“taxes on work are historically low” ok but your landlord, your boss, and the VAT man leech away half of workers’ income and only one of those shows up in the data you’re looking at.

There was a school of thought that the Mandelson faction pushed for Rejoin/Peoples Vote stuff in 2019 because they knew it’d collapse the Labour vote in Leave areas and kill the Corbyn project but also maybe they do just love it.