Back when I was a full-time debunker, I would have meetings with Very Important People about how to defeat fake news. What tools would we use? Apps? Anti-disinfo schools?? Warning labels?? I would say "support antiracism and antimisogyny initiatives" and watch the light go out of their eyes

Go to FB to catch up with my friends. Algorithm decides what I really need to see is Matt Goodwin praising Farage and claiming "anti-white racism" is a major problem, then I have Rupert Lowe calling for a referendum on the death penalty as the first two posts on my feed.

https://writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev "Parliament has until ~30 June to stop the new EHRC Code. Then it becomes law. Your MP can object. They won't unless you ask. 29 Days left to act."

first they will come for the Muslims, then the Jews, then for the gentile white left, and because the British frog has proven it has literally infinite heat tolerance, the boil won't even be slow

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Southampton have decided that the Championship needs a villain next year and no one else need apply.

"In the long run we are all dead."

Still waiting for the Dickian moment (A Scammer Darkly?) when a transvestigator discovers that they're secretly trans.

I just looked it up, and there were 32 winners of the ECWC during its existence. This is a sign that they all need to be brought together in a tournament.

If I was an eccentric billionaire, I'd stage a pre-season football tournament for all the winners of the European Cup Winners Cup so we can finally have the European Cup Winners Cup Winners Cup.

I feel I’m shouting into the void with this, but because I was actually one of the few people who’ve been following this issue really closely since it became mainstream: There was never ever a serious push to abolish the case by case single sex exemptions in the Equality Act

The press appears to be moving into "welfare reform is necessary and inevitable" consensus-constructing mode, and I'm guessing sometime in the next twelve months we'll have proposals for the return of the workhouse.

Yeah, but can he do it on a wet night in Chorley?

Old enough to remember Steaua Bucharest winning the European Cup by playing for penalties for 120 minutes. Nice to see old tactics returning.

Might go round taking names of everyone complaining about how Arsenal are playing so they can be reminded of it when praising England for doing the same thing next month.

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Considered football opinion: I grew up in the era of the offside trap and boring, boring Arsenal, so I dont exactly like them, but it appears that them winning the Champions League against sportwashers will piss off fans of teams I dislike even more so come on you Gunners.

In November 2023, police discovered the decayed corpse of Tracey Turnell in Walthamstow Market. She had no phone, job, passport, friends or lovers. There wasn’t a single photo of her. It was as if, in her far too public death, she entered the public record for the first time. Who was she?

🥱 Why does Batman not kill the Joker 🥱🥱 Why does Batman not give his money to charity 🤯🤯🤯 :

Yes, yes, I'm going to hell.

Okay, bear with me for a second. Because I've held this theory for a long time. And I kinda feels like this confirms it. The death of Harambe was the tipping point of no return for the unserious right-wing turn of America. 🧵

Reading this without seeing the quoted post details below I realised this could be any one of dozens of writers from a whole range of mainstream publications. It's not news, but this country is rally fucked up, isn't it?

Higher denomination banknotes (like the €500) are heavily used by organised crime, so there is something fitting about his face being on them.

Palace now the fifth London club to have won a men's European trophy, no other city has more than two - Rayo Vallecano would have been the third Madrid club to do it.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

30 YEARS AGO TODAY

OK, going to have to actually read the whole Blair thing later but this is just ignorant of reality. It's simply rehashing the old 'centrist'/conservative belief that there is one correct answer (yours, conveniently) to difficult questions which people only disagree with because of "politics".

There's an argument that Blair's first term was about radical centre policies, especially in delivering major constitutional reforms from the Cook-Maclennan agreement and what Britain needs now is to go back to those principles... but he's not proposing that, is he?

You're a philosopher with access to a time machine, but you can only use that time machine to either kill Hitler as a baby or prevent the creation of the trolley problem. What do you do?

I'd assume the problem with casting a new Doctor are mainly because no decent actor would want to take on a role when there's no public commitment from the BBC about what shape the series will have in the future.

Starmer's failure is opening the ground for a whole lot of "something must be done, this is something, therefore it must be done" arguments, of which Blair's is the most egregious example.

It's the way you can see tiny vestiges of a conscience poking through in the occasional minor disclaimer, before they're trampled down by the overriding need to be a lickspittle to despots.

Petition to protect Parkrun and other sports bodies from the TERF lawfare

The difference between Facebook and x is that while Facebook has and will radicalise people to riot X will radicalise politicians and journalists to excuse the riot Both problems but raw viewer count is not the sole metric

Helen "not a TERF, honest" Lewis writing a piece about why people should read Pratchett while not mentioning Cheery at all?

The ultra-rich, whose wealth clears disagreement from their lives, obviously see nothing wrong with giving everyone their own portable sycophant.

95% of the way to winning the lottery, just need the numbers drawn to match my picks.

genuinely, in Omelas, if your feed is curated properly, you won't see the brutalised child, but you will see more raucous conversations that threaten to go off the rails, or break containment badly. but they often don't, and then it's just fun

Whole thread worth reading but interesting that we get fictional and mythical accounts of brave defenders of a place sacrificing themselves for something greater, but not the real thing.

If Spurs stay up, they'll start next season bottom on alphabetical order - I think it'll be the first time ever the top flight hasn't had a team starting with W.

Fascinating how every excuse he comes out with makes it sound even more corrupt - only four people knew about the money, did they?

If there’s one thing I want in an NFL quarterback, it’s political opinions that make his offensive line ask themselves if they should let a pass rusher through just to teach him a lesson

To counter some clickbait, top 30 Classic Who stories off the top of my head. (Reverse chronological order as that helps me recall them) Fenric, Remembrance, Varos, Androzani, Snakedance, City of Death, Stones, Ribos, Fendahl, Fang Rock, Robots, Seeds of Doom, Genesis, Ark, Time Warrior, Carnival...

Seeing someone talking about Slaughterhouse-Five reminds me that at some point when I've got a bit of free time and mental space from my Masters I want to write something about Vonnegut's "unstuck in time" and the "spots of time" in Wordsworth's Prelude, just stating it here like a public post-it.