I mean you’d have to hike it *a lot* to make having a baby be the cheaper option

me: this meeting could have been an email! judge: again, that's not how this works

I need some of the people insisting that attacks on Jews worldwide are the fault of Israel to explain the absence of attacks on Russians worldwide.

This post. Coming from a country where things actually don't work (Johannesburg, South Africa), it really is quite amazing how much councils do get done, thanklessly, whilst their always being a cohort complaining, and moaning and fucking petitions.

Excellent piece - and shows quite clearly why the new immigration policies are the political equivilent of punching yourself in the face to fix a spot. Maybe solving one 'problem' but creating a dozen others in doing so. Idiocy.

Really good read this. Lays out the arguments for clearly and well and is careful and nuanced.

boy, a grim echo of Budapest's memorial to pogrom victims here.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

I mean I’m 50 and this is still most of my problems

Let people be their true selves, as they know and understand them. Let children explore their identities. Celebrate difference and variety and the incredible spectrum of humanity. The only alternative denies an opportunity to celebrate the joy of human flourishing and is ultimately unspeakably cruel

dreher and his friends would save us all a lot of time if they just said “jews”

Wow. This is an absolutely terrifying read. We now live in an age when a single company can, through what appears to be plain old bureaucracy, can more or less brick your entire digital life.

Like essentially this is just ‘it is wrong that I need to have a job and be accountable for doing that job well’ and everything else is ideological window dressing.

I can *smell* the interior of this house 🤢

I honestly feel like I’m going mad. It’s like everyone suddenly decided that racism is totally fine, just so long as my side does it. “They’re all gutter racists, but we’re nuanced and principled analysts of political issues *but only in relation to this very specific ethnic group*”

Can we just stop and reflect on how fucking terrifying it is that “mainstream” conservatism is just straight up normalising anti-semitism and the Nazi holocaust now? Six million people were murdered! Synagogues still get attacked. What the fuck is wrong with you people?

If you need a burner phone to visit a country you probably don't want to visit that country.

Terminally online Right wingers are telling on themselves

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Burn it to the ground (sustainably) and start again - Lisa Nandy wake the fuck up

This is related to the explanation for why the COVID lockdowns cooked so many brains. It's also related to one of the many reasons why American-style city planning is bad.

I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.

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Oh you’re angry it’s two words are you? You’re sharing the post on social media to complain? The post with a fish hook as the main image?

Great to see the record corrected, but I don't think Laura and David need to say "sorry." The culture change I wish we could have: Understanding that we all make errors, and incrementally improving the processes of social science to make them rarer. This doesn't happen through "blame and shame."

The Munsters poses the chilling question, what if your parents were a vampire and a Frankenstein? The Addams Family poses the chilling question, what if your parents were openly sexual?

When you read the student’s terrible essay, and the TA’s measured response, it’s immediately obvious there’s no real issue or unfairness here. It’s incredibly weak as case studies go. TPUSA must know that. It’s a flex. They’re showing they can win/force people out even when the facts are this week.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Bloody immigrants.

Sought and found asylum in the UK

For what it's worth - & without questioning Jes's experience - my students this term have been a joy. They talk in classes, they do the reading, they're interested, and they hand in assignments. It really feels like the Covid effect (which is underrated for that generation) is starting to ease.

We’re so cooked

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The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social: Four years Ukraine is fighting for the whole Europe. NATO was built to fight only one war, not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria. One war to save free Europe from Russian aggression.

‘Why don’t you just take a new job in Canary Wharf?’ Well that’s £153,750 reasons why Ben. 🤣. Getting rid of stamp duty would be such a growth booster I reckon. Would make the labour market so much more liquid.

Christ. Suck the landing on the final panel. Dusty here

Evergreen

Sometimes we’re just the Sideshow Bob stepping on a rake meme. Perpetually.

And the way you make that happen is you email [email protected] . Normally, these consultations get a few hundred respondents. More people will read this thread and its friends. Let’s make the M25 ugly again.

apologies for the crude language but this is the most concise distillation of this phenomenon to me

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Calvin pursuing a hobby while listening to Cardi B music

Wary of opining on this for obvious reasons, I don't think people who scream racist abuse in the street are that interested in your migration status. Indeed, I think part of the problem is they often use "asylum seeker" as a stand in for "migrant I don't like the look of".

Love the sheer Britishness of this comment in the local (to me) middle story here. (London Centric is great. You should read it)

BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation" As opposed to doing what with their children??

Since June, Kent Council (Reform) has decided to just not bother paying an SEN school for its services, so the head has to sell his car and take out a personal loan to keep it going. I'm sure some of those SEN teens are illegal immigrants, guys. You show 'em! www.kentcurrent.news/p/if-some-of...

Bottom of a really interesting thread on how everything is out of wack on house pricing and salaries and what people think high earning is. As always started by @stephenkb.bsky.social one of the most insightful commentators and journalists who’s really worth reading if you dont.