What, with the matrix? 😂

This is where Covid-26 will come from.

US society just needs Tesco Expresses on every street and its society would be substantially fixed. (I am aware Tesco once held this view and was rejected by America.)

small cars provide a more premium experience in any kind of proper city, and shouldn't simply be synonymous with "cheap and low end"

FLASHBACK: Charlie Kirk on January 6th: “All the people that came into Congress today, that broke the law, should be held to the highest level of criminal prosecution.”

Most surefire way to raise Bluesky's hackles is to use the term AI in a non-disparaging way, no matter the context. It just shuts off the critical thinking region of the brain entirely, granting direct access to the id.

I do not think the lives of Matt Yglesias and Nate Silver etc could have ended up more worthless.

Can be just go back to using “LLM” and “ML” and the like? It was more descriptive of what we’re actually doing

With Hegseth in charge, I’m sure a crushing US military defeat, with thousands of KIAs, is quite probable.

If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate. Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Anyone I know also read 2000AD? I have an extra copy of the 2026 annual that’s yours if you pay for postage.

If you’re too stupid or too ideological to vaccinate your kids, you shouldn’t have been allowed to breed.

Going to be pretty easy to just not stay at Hilton hotels anymore.

Sulzberger’s definitely in the Epstein files, isn’t he?

That’s because all of Nvidia’s current innovation is in enronomics.

6 Democrats just voted for Trump agenda, despite everything going on right now.

I just think Bluesky desperately needs private accounts

LF and its consequences

While the automaker's poor sales aren't too surprising, what remains a mystery is how the company’s stock manages to retain its value.

Another one for “the French Revolution knew how to deal with reform voters and it involved barges.”

Right now, Chuck Schumer could walk down to the White House and handcuff himself to the front gate. Would that work? Probably not. It IS a card to play though, and we're past the point where we need to start being more creative.

The explanation for Trump's obsession with conquering oil-rich states stems from one of the key elements of his mentality: that his understanding of the world hasn't changed since 1987, when conventional wisdom about the then-recent oil shock was that the US got robbed & humiliated by those states.

The next Democratically installed SecDef can bust Hegseth back to private. Assuming he’s not been hanged for murdering dozens of fishermen, which he should be.

Saw these last week on the Wandle in Wandsworth.

As usual, these things always make it look like racing games don’t exist, then you remember Gran Turismo 2 came out that year.

The amount of “this is clearly about oil” posting across all platforms as story after story comes out where the oil industry is saying that the oil isn’t worth extracting is making me feel a little insane

In less than a year, the USA has become a pathocracy.

Imprison, appropriate.

Oh. My. Goodness. Do you see in this photo what I see? (It's the dashboard of the new Volkswagen ID.Polo, their smaller #EV, which won't be sold in North America.) See 'em? DO YOU SEE THEM ??

Why is he wearing that ridiculous jacket?

Trump is trying to strongarm the oil industry into supporting his war and they're like this deal sucks it's exactly the other way around from the "war for oil" theory lol www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Trump's face starts drooping as his eyes keep closing

the photographer was definitely like, "ok everybody, look tough!" but we know they're all just reading tweets with their arms crossed in a country club dining room divided up by bedsheets tacked to the beams

I still think it's highly unlikely that China makes a play for Taiwan anytime soon, but if they do it'll crater the US economy in about 3 seconds flat simply because the entire AI lending-ouroboros depends on NVIDIA.

One wonders if Trump even realises it is a lie?

Director of the CIA is in the room but you have OSINTdefender's twitter page up on the screen

They really are the most pathetic bunch of losers you ever saw. I’m ashamed this is our government.

Exactly. They cannot occupy American cities and brutalize and arrest its citizens AND engage in complex international war criming and ...this is what happens when you elect people who valorize nationalism without reading anything else.

It should not come as a huge surprise that the likes of Dodge and Jeep, which have spent the last decade and a half basically making exactly the same vehicle and just throwing in a bigger Hemi now and then, not really knowing how to adapt in a market moving towards EVs.

America has an all-volunteer military. And “I was just following orders” is no defense. If you continue to serve, you are serving Trump’s interests, not America’s.

how dare you raise taxes on me so that everyone can benefit from public goods when you're not taxing people who I think are an infinite money machine

“So you want me to struggle with my mortgage just because republicans refuse to fund the govt“ no, I want *us* to struggle for democracy by what means our opposition can while still bound by the **non-violent mechanisms** of politics making. This is the best it will be, why wouldn’t we take it????

Remember, Norway *literally* gave us Quisling.

Since Norway's pension fund is the #1 institutional investor in Tesla, the country buys Musk cars year-over-year due to governmental rebates. See how that works? 🙄

Tesla's German factory is another cash-burning vanity project of Musk like the Cybertruck. Tesla's 2025 sales growth: Norway (EV tax hike in '26): +41% YoY Sweden: -67% Belgium: -53% NL: -45% YoY France: -38% Denmark: -38% Finland: -30% Italy: -18% Portugal: -13% UK: -10% Spain: -4% Total: -25%

Was back in the UK over Christmas and I had to actually tell people to stop talking to me about Trump all the time. Either find another topic or leave me alone.

The next UKian f&cker who accosts me in a pub and tries to make me personally responsible for Venezuela better personally apologise for Kenya and the MauMau stuff. That is all I’m asking

So what happens when the people of Venezuela start sending home American soldiers in body bags? As they’d have every right to.

Time to cancel my Road Rat subscription. Hated the F1 issue, half the articles in the current one are by assholes I don’t want to read, and the rest are poorly edited. (The “Victorian era” was not a “decade,” for starters.)