The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made. Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

like i said, BITCH,

I love this.

the worst era for pop music was (UserProfile: BirthYear+13) to (UserProfile: BirthYear+21). that was total dogshit. everything else pretty much fine

I love living in a country where "newspaper that publishes almost exclusively fake stories" is basically every single paper and seeing this take.

if you care, a best of seven baseball series is nightmarish, an expression in sporting competition of our total unimportance in the grander scheme of the universe and the uncaring impersonal forces which order so much of the world if you don't care it's a delightful romp

I think I would shine as a sportscaster coming up with stuff to say during a 17th inning. Just not at any other point

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The only ideology they have is infinite consumption, and he has affected that, so now they are upset. What they wanted, by the same token, was not free speech but infinite speech - to say what they liked without backlash. And that deserved backlash is upsetting them too. That's basically it.

All fun and games until the Spanish reciprocate, and have English pensioners picking up dogshit outside Lineker's Bar in Tenerife

I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.

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'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

This will break you

I'll admit that the AI features in PDF reader have fundamentally changed my experience - I now have to angrily click past a pop up before I can read the PDF I need to.

i believe that short form video is maybe one of the worst things people have ever come up with and it should be regulated at least as much as cigarettes

what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't

He's discarding the best progressive opportunity in decades by: - refusing to raise taxes and borrow - prioritizing welfare cuts for the poorest and disabled - slowing planning reform and balking at EU re-integration - ignoring the voting system - embracing Reform's language and logic on migration

What’s it like to be an asylum seeker inside a hotel where racist mobs chant for your removal outside? What will it take for the frightened children to recover from this & be able to feel safe & at home in this country. Which WILL BE their home. eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/...

Why was the correct answer (George Osborne's austerity) not provided as an option?

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I don't meant to misery post but this is what I mean by Memory holing. It's not even the first time the UK and its media (not even just the state media, though that is the most egregious) has actively ignored a mass protest in the capital because it doesn't like the protestors.

Oh yeah, because this won't in any way shape or form lead to people attacking delivery persons, Uber drivers etc. FFS, the image alone is meant to instil fear. That is guaranteed to lead to attacks. Labour's new pledge "actively inciting violence to gain votes"

this literally all there is to making salmorejo, and its perfect

Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.

This may be an unpopular opinion but I think golfers and tennis players being unable to handle noise is weak as hell. If someone can hit a 102 mph fastball while 40,000 Philadelphians are yelling at them to eat shit, my dudes here can handle a champagne cork. bsky.app/profile/awfu...

If this was reported on in any other country headline would be like: Masked Paramilitary Unit Unlawfully Slaughters Innocent Civilian As Authoritarian Crackdown Pushes Crumbling Empire Closer To Complete Dictatorship

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Surreal is the right word. Two completely indistinguishable positions on small boats from a Tory & a Labour MP on Newsnight yesterday. Neither one of them capable of making a case that stands up to the slightest logical pushback. Pathetic.

Hugh Muir recalls the response of London Mayor Ken Livingstone to 7/7 from Singapore. I agree that, despite his flaws & failings at other times, that this was an important message www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

punting on 2nd and 3 at the opponent’s 20 is something we will never ever see in football, because if a coach was trying to throw a game there are many more subtle ways of doing so. this is probably the closest thing to that we’re likely to see

Inviting Morgan McSweeney to tell you what to do, doing it unquestioningly, trying to walk it back to stop everyone who isn't a massive racist from hating you, pissing off the racists in the process. Leadership. Forensic. The grown ups are back in charge.

We do not need a "left Joe Rogan." We do not need to throw anyone under the bus. We do not need billionaire donors. We do not need the coolest memes. We just need people who give a shit.

media outlets love to paint a picture of a roving horde of violent protestors seeking out opportunities to brutalize law-abiding members of society. and they're correct in the sense that they're describing the cops, but obviously they're never going to realize or acknowledge that

Always remember:

I would love to hear from anyone who grew up in the UK* and has stories of: -parents very obviously favoring their dogs over their kids, in weird ways -parents kicking kids out of their bedrooms to make it into the dogs' room *I have a feeling this will be a 99.9999% 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 thing but let's see

I'm sorry, as much as I am enjoying this spat, how can you take seriously someone who spent 100s of millions of dollars electing Trump, then went to work for Trump, left government just days ago praising Trump, and is now calling for Trump's impeachment. Just unserious people.

Sometimes you just have to tip your hat to the Lib Dem press operation.

This is what heroes sound like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BI published this a few days after canning 21% of its staff and reaffirming a commitment to go "all-in on AI." That's not mentioned in this story, unsurprisingly.

New 'we didn't start the fire' verse just dropped

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