I‘m tired of being nice about this; “abolitionism” has had years to develop a non-idiot policy program and the best they’ve come up with is ”murder without even the pretense of juridical process.” And I am not nut-picking; this is all over abolitionist writing.

Good lord this man is an idiot

This is equal parts horrifying and hilarious, because the Eisenhower Building, which Trump is now calling "ugly," was one of the prime examples of architectural perfection used to justify his executive order mandating "neoclassical" architecture. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

Delay Repay is the most perfect technology mankind has ever invented, it just works so perfectly and seamlessly, if only the people who invented it could be put in charge of a railway or something

Altho ngl i wish we had lived to see this as it would have solved a lot of problems a lot faster:

Yeah. I think some of WotC is in a weird place where they are dead set on making DnD a place where it’s never the right thing to kick down a door and take everyone’s stuff and equally deadset on the rules revolving round it and I’m not even mad, I’m just confused.

The electorate: 🤷‍♂️

A sure sign that my cat has been up to no good is when she sees me and immediately tries too hard to act casual.

If you tell refugees that they will never be able to put down roots, how the hell do you expect them to integrate?

Even in conversations about saving the planet from catastrophic destruction, regressive anti-trans voices are trying to derail things by demanding climate agencies collect data about 'biological sex' rather than gender 📊🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're now at the RE-PARDONS stage of this presidency www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

"The cat scratched my groin when he saw that woman from Strictly" "Claudia Winkleman?" "No, man, but it was close"

I’ve only just stumbled across the fantastic fact that Margaret Thatcher’s 1970s voice coach, who taught her to lower her voice and speak more resonantly, was none other than Catherine Fleming, who voiced the evil Animus in bonkers 1965 Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. The Zarbi’s not for turning!

Why did Tolkien call it The Red Book of Westmarch and not “Mordor, He Wrote”?

Is London's Sea Life breaching animal welfare standards with their Gentoo penguin treatment? DEFRA must investigate. @dannychambers.bsky.social

Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.

Petition for a universal shower control design. The shower should have two controls, no more or less, both *clearly marked*, one with "very hot" at one side and "very cold" on the other the other with how much water you want to run.

Pretty sure this meets the definition of irony...

With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

florence pew: thread

A levy on foreign students is one of the closest things you're going to see to tariffs on services - except the UK will be putting it on its own exports... www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Nabokov: "In by book, I wrote about the treatment of Lolita as an examination of human cruelty and selfishness" Pedophiles: "At long last, we have created Lolita from the classic novel It's Really Bad To Sexually Assault Lolita"

I think medieval beekeeper outfits could be the strongest look in the entire history of fashion.

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

This doesn't necessarily mean anything, but when I ask NASA folks who their favorite current astronaut is, they unanimously say Anne McClain (if I broaden to retired astros as well, they say Peggy Whitson).

I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

Urghh... it's as bad as I hoped it wasn't - these really are 'the first', 'the earliest', 'the only'. In terms of gold cash price they're not worth a huge amount, maybe £60k, if that - but in historical value, they're utterly priceless. So awful.😔 #Archaeology 🏺 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

I think the gilt market reaction to this week's shenanigans is easy to understand. The specific OBR leniency isn't new news. What *is* new is the revealed preference of the government to extra leeway - which is to use it to avoid doing something difficult, rather than bank it in a lower deficit. 1/

If the UK is on the brink of civil war, as Musk claims, it follows that in 300 years time there will be be a new generation of civil war re-enactment societies. "Geoff,you defend Laurence Fox. Can you guys shout outside a hostel. Brian, i need you to relentlessly slag off Nish Kumar on Facebook."

Question on Monday Is it now your principle that every Ukranian refugee in Britain should leave, must leave once it is safe + that they will all be made to leave?

I know a family who fled Somalia in the early 1990s. The children have all been born in the UK - and all feel themselves to be British. I *think* Labour's plan is that their parents would be deported to Somaliland* on the grounds that it is relatively safe - despite having been here for 30+ years.

Tried to get a selfie with one of the therapy horses, instead he decided to sniff my phone, so we got an upnose photo instead

Malaysian dummymandering produced the blow-out that upended the country's politics and stopped the stagger to autocracy.

Nice job senate republicans you fucking clowns

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no, no, I'm in Your Party (Marxist-Leninist Corbynite), not those splitters and wreckers in the Your Party (Revolutionary Corbynite Tendency)

This looks like an Emmerdale new cast member announcement created by a previous-generation LLM.

Not being allowed to respec ruins everything.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

What Americans don't understand is 'crassly forgetting Northern Ireland' is a core part of British culture, like cueing and only being able to communicate via laconic understatement.

I also think there is a risk of history repeating if they do break their tax pledge, with people saying later on "they are unpopular *because* they broke the pledge when in fact, like LDs in 2010-15, the decline in popularity precedes the broken pledge (though becomes rationalisation after).

I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

This is why we should protect the BBC.

our major investigation, in collaboration with Children Rights International Network. While there has been excellent reporting on SA at AFCm this is, AFAIK, the first time anyone has looked at how boys face physical violence & bullying at extreme levels in AFC www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...

It seems to have slipped under the radar, but I see that Nottingham University is going to close some of its nursing courses. It has been obvious for sometime that cash scrapped institutions will cut expensive subjects, even when there is societal need for them. www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

NEW: While remaining a neutral party to the case, Bridget Phillipson's lawyers have told the High Court they don't think the EHRC's proposed blanket bathroom ban is the right reading of the law www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...