If you are a labour mp morgan mcsweeney thinks you're an idiot

they've downsized into the washington post-it

The problem with social media is that you’re only allowed to hold opinions in batches. If you believe X and Y, you must also believe Z, which is atmospherically similar to X and Y and believed by all the same people. If you don’t do this, everyone hates you. It makes actual thinking impossible.

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

Yeah, just no. Actually sickening how many people are willing to give this cretin the benefit of the doubt. Once a Nazi, always a Nazi as far as I’m concerned

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

I do enjoy these CCHQ quotes: "Yes another of the people we promoted to extremely important roles is a grifting wanker."

There is always an XKCD

Controversial take probably, but I think they mostly like the movies, bc there’s quite a bit of (probably unintended, but still) racist undertones there that’s just simply not in the books 🤷‍♂️

Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

No idea who Laurent Brindeau is, but isn’t this caricature of @zackpolanski.bsky.social in today’s @dailymailpolitics.bsky.social ragingly antisemitic?

“Buy our home security package named after someone who was utterly destroyed by a back door break-in he didn’t see coming because he was focused solely on the front door.”

Why should I, someone who doesn’t own a family farm nor stand to inherit one, particularly care whether a farm is farmed by a family?

Made some new friends at the bf’s place

Why Christmas is a Christian Holiday A thread for Nittel Nacht ♟️

Do you think the parallel lines that meet at the vanishing point are having a fun time?

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

He saw the light.

I'll say it again: if any other ethnic or religious minority said "please don't use this particular term or chant, you might not have bad intentions but it is deeply racist and threatening to us", the reaction would be mortified apology. And that's without a mass terror event four days ago

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.

The National Archives should set the bar a little higher for their law research assistants if u ask me…

This is very very illegal in France. If the government doesn’t do anything about this then we might go ahead and say American companies are above the law.

‘Thanks so much for joining us on what I know is a very busy day for you. Tell me, what is your vision for the BBC as the corporation’s new director-general?’

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

There are no words for Sudan-- the "blood bath" conclusion marks the complete failure of the international community. This is a horrific situation & like so many other wars, I doubt there will be justice for these survivors & their families.

Elon take Tolkien’s name out of your filthy mouth challenge

The current line taken by some Conservatives is "We will rip up ILR, something no govt has ever done before, but citizenship is different". Not reassuring. Precedents matter. "We don't abide by rules previously agreed" is the precedent.Once that's set, reassurances on other rules carry little weight

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Faragist parties have always hit a ceiling of support at 30% – that’s about as well as the Brexit Party or UKIP ever did, albeit in EU elections. Reform hasn’t broken through that, it’s just done it in Westminster polling as the vote share of the big two has collapsed. That may be significant.

What if Sarkozy was like ‘I’m already going to prison, might as well live a little’ and then robbed the Louvre

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Can you explain this gap in your CV? Yes, actually that was the time when darkness took me and I strayed out of thought and time and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell

Am wondering if all of those suddenly deciding they’re against communities living “parallel lives” might reconsider their support of religious schools? Or indeed private ones?

Utterly despicable.

Bomb proof doors. Barbed wire. Coordinating with police. Community security service. Drilling congregants about the security protocol. Withholding the details of events publicly for security reasons. Always being on high alert. The list goes on. And it’s still not enough. What more can we do?

Is it just me or does anyone else feel like they’re a complete failure when they’re ill 🤒

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

The sheer hypocrisy of this. You have to "show your papers" to vote in a general election. I have to "show my papers" to examine a PhD thesis. I can't sing evensong down the road without "showing my papers". The Mail backed all these Tory changes. But suddenly Labour is turning us into Stasiland

Damn was it Mads Mikklesen

Damn right I’m eating the carp xx what do u think they’re for??

Retrospectively removing indefinite leave to remain would be immoral and economically damaging. It would tear families apart. Attacking it as ‘potentially illegal’ is completely beside the point. Argue with the (awful) idea. Don’t try ’well, actually you can’t do that’.

The funny part is that none of these people support any real effort to have people retrain in STEM subjects

I'm old enough to remember US libertarians condemning the UK for much less than what he is now proposing. It was six months ago!

Gonna be savaged for this bc Bluesky, but I have a healthy social life and still don’t think only ever communicating with coworkers through a screen is as productive or enjoyable as working together irl. I just want to be able to ask questions or discuss something quickly without having to do admin

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

Doing a massive pile of dishes after making an elaborate meal: 🫡😌🧽🫧 Washing the ~2 cups I left around the flat during the week: 😭😠😤😵‍💫

Lets see you at 21 (ish)

There was a Tolkien round on the pub quiz, we’re so back