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I don't want smart appliances. I want dumb appliances designed by smart engineers.

There are serious human rights concerns around not only the proscription of Palestine Action, but also the chilling consequences this decision has had. The UK's overly broad terrorism laws are being misused to suppress free speech.

This is absolutely not a normal situation, and we cannot let it become so. This is a serious violation of our right to protest, happening in front of our eyes right here in the UK. These arrests should not be happening. It’s clearly both ridiculous and seriously disproportionate.

BREAKING: Peaceful protestors arrested outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool Yet more peaceful protesters are being arrested today and hauled from the streets by police - a scene which just a few months ago would have been shocking but is quickly becoming the norm... 🧵

So this week paracetamol causes autism, the far right in America belief the bed in Prometheus which can extract an alien fetus actually exists and we're still waiting for the Epstein documents. One week.

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At this point surely it's better to release a list of #billionaires and powerful people swirling around #business and #politics who didn't go to #Epstein Island.

In hindsight, all the problems started when we moved away from hand-written library catalog cards.

Bruno penalty

Just thinking about that bit from V For Vendetta, where the talk show host did a silly comedy skit and got nigh-immediately black bagged for it. No idea why. Anyways I may have to start adding Yakkity Sax to a lot of sped-up footage in the near future. No reason. Tee-hee.

21st century Britain where it's illegal to project an image on a wall but not illegal to supply weapons to mass murdering genocidal psychopaths

Congratulations to Your Party who despite not officially existing, having a proper name or even any structure have already fallen out with each other. We on the left need to stop infighting and this shit isn't helping. Grow up for fucks sake.

I think quite a few people on all sides need to understand this. Freedom of speech does not mean you get to say what you want to say. It means you have to hear what you don't want to hear.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

I wasted my teen years on imageboards and I desperately want people to understand that neo-Nazis and the alt right are actually like 20 personality cults in a trench coat and will absolutely engage in inter-faction violence over sleights nobody on the outside could ever understand.

the world will have to learn what “groypers” are and i don’t think the average boomer is ready for that

This looks like a new Hall Of Presidents animatronic after John Cena gets elected. It's like Jim Henson Workshop made their own Vin Diesel out of stained Tupperware. It's like if Chuck Liddell's super-villain origin was falling in a vat of Nair. "What if the Terminator was a butter sculpture?"

2/ or earthquake victims, or a person drowning off our coast and how that drowning person causes argument...so much argument on both sides that both sides forget about the drowning person. Or maybe I'll just ignore it, pretend I didn't hear it.

1/ When (if) my phone alarm goes off today I'm going to think about the sort of things that it might be warning us of...perhaps an incoming Nigel Farage, or the imminent arrest of pensioners for holding up words on cards that condemn a genocide, or maybe burning or falling tower blocks,

That’s exactly what this feels like!

I'm 17 again. Completely homeless politically and with zero confidence anything will change in the system regardless of which party gets into power. All sides (yes even yours) is tainted by the corruption and money swirling around everything. And every party is becoming a Cult of Personality.

If you're a real patriot and care about the country and ALL people in it then you'd happily pay tax. Pay your tax. All sides. Everyone. Pay your tax. And let's vote out all people ON ALL SIDES who don't.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

If you have previous for threatening trans people and allies online and in person and you post to hundreds of thousands of followers that they should physically attack trans women (or get a man to do it) that's a crime. Now, tell me what you think of Palestine Action supporters being arrested.

Lin Manuel Miranda has written a Trump musical. Includes a scene which lasts twenty six minutes of King George laughing.

Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.

Read this thread 👇

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy | The Bear

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

Listen kids: Sometimes you just want to play a video game with all the cheats turned on and that's absolutely okay. That's the flannel jammie pants and t-shirt of gaming and it's perfectly valid.

Today in AI Is Not A Good Source For Learning About The World's Most Misunderstood Body Part, meet this ChatGPT gem. Funnily enough, we're actually going to talk about how most of this is kinda sorta right (for small values of right), as a cautionary tale about generative AI.

Seeing people in the US of States glazing Newsom's dank memes and being all "Gavin slayyyy" is giving Starmer Fever 2024 and, American pals, it's equally embarrassing to witness.

Anyone fancy a pair of Schindler's List leggings?

Me only reading the headline: Yeah! Suck it puny dweebs! I’ve got a stronger biological response!

you’re so close

Thanks to a single post from @bethanyblack.bsky.social this morning I've gone down a rabbit hole of Georgia Tann and Boston Marriages. Eye opening subjects for all sorts of reasons. More please Beth... And thank you.

Bye Bye Big Bird 😢 No more #npr