Something very beautiful about an octogenarian novelist making Elon Musk sob his broken little guts out

The Worker's Party of Genovia, the only pro-republican party, was dissolved in 1990 after it was revealed that it was set up and run by the security services. Since then the small parliament has been dominated by the monarchist Popular Community party.

Genovia is a founding member of NATO, as evidenced by Joe's involvement in stay-behind cells during the 1980s.

One of my colleagues who is not I would say a big reader got talked into reading The Picture of Dorian Grey by another colleague and then spent the next month raving about it

writers and editors at the times have figured out you can print any lie you want to in the newspaper if you insert the "without evidence" clause somewhere, as if the lack of evidence of the slander somehow makes it newsworthy instead of the opposite

The acme of British policy-making will be AI-powered ID cards as a time-limit to the backstop.

Imsane Clown Posse vindicated at last

Enough space politics, its time to consider why the country of Genovia from the Princess Diaries is almost monolingually English speaking and what its relationship is to the EU, particularly given it is technically an absolute monarchy

My more serious point is that if you were smart Trump's endorsement of GB News is a massive bludgeon against it given how unpopular Trump is

Interns patiently explaining what a Lolcow is to Andrew Neil.

WhEn wE WiN

I feel like my issue with the Government more than anything is they are not acting like they are in Government. You are in control here, if Robbie Gibb wants to be an agent of the Tories at the BBC you can just fire him!

To paraphrase Thatcher: people did not vote for withdrawal from the European Union because they wanted to transfer sovereignty to Washington

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

The Students4Reform group chat full of gas chamber memes will leak just in time for the next GE

Ah, the joy of "It's true white working class young men are more likely to support Reform than other young men, but even then Reform's support there is basically average, with a strong age curve. The more significant trend is Greens among young women." being edited to "young men […] support Reform".

The PBMs, the for-profit insurers, the oligopolistic wholesalers of this, that and the other thing, Medicare Advantage at all

What the fuck is a “pharmacy benefit manager” and why does it exist

Babe wake up the anti-immigrant fash are now angling to deport the Irish

So essentially Robbie Gibb pressured the Director-General of the BBC into resigning because of the opinion of the (universally loathed) President of the United States? On one hand it is very funny Davie was fired by the people who brought him in to ratfuck the BBC on the other hand why are people

NFL games in Europe that end regulation in ties should be settled by penalty kicks.

> Mark Andreessen crashing out posting Sydney Sweeney memes at the Pope > Alex Carp bitching at Michael Burry shorting because Palantir sells "ontology" > Sam Altman asking for a government bailout > Elon Musk celebrating his 1 trillion payout by making Grok say "I love you" Calling the top

being an in-group contrarian in small doses is healthy but i've never seen anyone that does it more than that who was happy

The era of ‘handwritten submissions only’ with secret tests* is inching closer. *like Flann O’Brien’s book-handling service - must have four words misspelt, one sentence that lasts a whole paragraph, and a too-long-word crammed into a too small space. Judgement of veracity made by AI, of course.

My god this BBC criticism report is by a man who thinks professional wrestling is a genuine competitive sport.

This is very good. It's distressing how many smart people take Scott Alexander seriously and don't recognize how noxious he actually is. segyges.leaflet.pub/3m4yn4yf2lk2d/

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

"Kent residents design AI NIMBYism tool because they had so much difficulty opposing construction of a mosque" is a bit too on the nose as a metaphor for this country

I completely understand the ennui experienced by the average person in our modern age but it's very funny to be like "This sucks I wish I was a farmer in the 1400s"

The only upside of the Danish system is that occasionally their immigration ministers get to see the inside of the jails their government is responsible for.

You can probably get to the same point by bailing out the private credit funds currently mostly financing the CapEx

One of the ghouls adjacent to these ghouls had a freak out the other day about how Chappell Roan's stage persona isn't attractive to men because her make up is stylized and inspired by drag queens?!

Ok fine why not. I don't think it necessarily means something will happen that affects the market per se, and the cause of the crash will probably be odd, like a small start up failing or something

I feel like the UK being outside the EU seems a difficult thing for the EU's own political structures to process because the UK is so much bigger than every other non-EU state in Europe and is quite central to a lot of projects the EU is very invested and collective defence

there's an entire sub culture of middle age men who are so impervious to other views that at no point have they ever read any of the many comments pointing out that an obsessive interest in student politics is deeply fucking creepy? anyway, this is worse.

The Youth Parliament is actuvely great

We Don't Call 9-1-1

::movie trailer voice:: They said he was retired, but Bill Kristol has one more regime to change...

As far as I can tell lots of Western European countries have a very low level of corruption in most places whereas in the US corruption seems to be both quite common and heavily punished.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

USA to get its own CCP.