”You don’t know anyone as dumb as Donald Trump, you just don’t”

I continue to feel that our national experiment of making the dumbest MF in the country president was ill advised.

Every now and again some actual good news.

Funny how these older male politicians never talk about one of the most robust correlations with autism - fathers over the age of 40 and particularly over 50 (Probably accounts for much of the rise since 1970 that isn’t just better diagnosis).

‘…memorial schism We didn’t start the fire…’

Who’d have thought that people who got Disney+ so they could watch season 2 of ‘Andor’ might not have been thrilled with rapid capitulation to an authoritarian regime?

Literally the day after Brexit my wife began the process of moving from indefinite leave to remain to getting British citizenship. It was pretty clear which way the wind was blowing (and also she wanted to have a say in the country she lived and paid taxes in).

Just wait until SCOTUS overturns this on the emergency docket. (I kid, I kid, sort of)

The tactic is very clear - obviously and deliberately plagiarise Goebbels and then attack as illegitimate ‘hate speech’ any suggestion that this seems ‘a bit Nazi’.

The ‘veers’ in the headline is doing a lot of work. Given that the channel has continually pushed any number of conspiracy theories and flagrant racism since inception, at what point has it not been far right?

Good point.

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... now this is a good idea. Maybe it will catch on?

this wins :)

TBF supposedly negotiating peace between Cambodia and Armenia is not really that much sillier than most of the ‘Abraham Accords’ which were signed between nations that had never actually engaged in hostilities- which serious people claim to take seriously.

“The real existential threat isn’t AI—it’s the powerful people building it.” — @adambecker.bsky.social For a simple debunking of bizarro AI politics, read this now (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

A US administration going out of its way to piss off India because someone got his feelings hurt about the Nobel Peace Prize is a challenge to the ‘realism’ of IR Realism.

people will tell you they don't understand gender fluidity then look right at a ship called the Edmund Fitzgerald and call it "her" without missing a beat

I suppose eight hundred years of scholars in Oxford wrestling with developing an understanding of texts by reading them and then working out how to express ideas about them was a pretty good run.

🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

Marcus Rashford scoring two CL goals for Barcelona in the space of 10 minutes just feels like trolling Anorim and MUFC.

They Came For Jimmy Kimmel open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Karis Nemik was literally crushed by a pile of money, but he wasn’t silenced. I wonder if people at Disney are noticing that metaphor yet.

Now following and hoping others will to.

Appointing Mike Pence is a top class bit of trolling by George Mason University.

No restrictions on ‘permissible types of cause’. For example “we don’t want her ‘cause she is a black woman”.

Watching this is making me want to be Mexican.

Starting to think the people of the USA made a really terrible mistake 166 years ago today in not acknowledging the authority of Emperor Norton.

The Administration has been incredibly lucky so far in this hurricane season. From a humanitarian perspective I genuinely hope the luck continues because I fear FEMA is now a mess.

It's the anniversary of the date that Joshua Norton of San Francisco walked into a newspaper office and handed them a proclamation that he was now Norton I, Emperor of the United States. The Protector of Mexico bit came later. In Celebration you should buy my #HistoricalFiction novel!

What were the betting odds that blonde female ex-Minister and former MP who has the initials M and C defecting to Reform this week wouldn’t be Miriam Cates? (astronomical I’d have thought).

San Francisco’s lowrider parade to be televised for the first time www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Musk constantly retweeting ‘citizen journalists’ reporting things like ‘man has been sentenced to 24 months in prison in Britain for shouting fuck Muslims’ whilst somehow neglecting to mention that the prisoner had shouted this whilst yeeting a brick at a police officer.

I love this guy - he could probably do 6.35 tomorrow but where would be the fun in that.

Do it today!

Larry Tesler, inventor of- you get the idea…

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

A lot of good points in this - but it avoids discussing one of the most costly popular bad policies- the triple lock.

Amongst so many outrages and abuses of power this one is particularly egregious - firing ‘for cause‘ would have been bad enough if she had technically breached the prime residence rule but it is now clear she didn’t.

At least since the 1980s, arguably much longer, on both sides of the Atlantic, conservatives have been attacking universities, slandering the professionalism of academics and cutting funding. Then they act shocked at surveys showing academics don’t vote Republican/Conservative.

If you want to know why Vance really hates the Ford Foundation - Google “Heartland Initiative”. Practical policies designed to deliver real benefits to rural America- that is an actual threat to his agenda.

2016 Washington Post - “Democracy dies in darkness” 2025 Jeff Bezos “Turn that light out!”

This is the Pixar movie we need.

The pointless alienation of democratic allies- from Canada to Denmark to South Korea - will ultimately have both political and economic consequences.

If none of these pilots request the Polish controllers to ‘Repeat Please’ I will be most disappointed.

Very much this - how is it even possible that five seasons of ‘The Wire’ didn’t produce a winner in this category?

It would be extremely funny if the King sits him next to Andrew at dinner.

The world‘s most valuable company now is now priced based on two products they haven’t yet made work- and show little or no sign they actually can make work- whilst most of the products it actually makes have falling sales.

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is exactly the kind of multiple offender- including several prison sentences for violent assaults who Musk claims should be imprisoned for life in the USA.

Could be quite happy if he spent all his time on his big tacky White House ballroom if it wasn’t for the fact it will just leave Miller running the country.