Nigel £arage explaining where all his crypto donations come from

This does detect the freebies scandal was a stunt, but gets the cause and motivation wrong. The freebies thing was meant to a bit of mild Noticing Stuff, intended to gently discipline the incoming government. A reminder to the politicians: we’re watching you, so you’d better stay somewhat honest!

Hi hello I was going to do a full thread on the Great American State Fair later but it seems I'm starting early: why in the fuck are PragerU, Patriot Academy, and other far right groups the ENTIRETY of the Department of Education booth

George taking the divorce badly

Lovely bit of Disambiguation here

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Please spread this far and wide. Not every podcast sneaks onto the team bus and casually sits at the back for a natter.

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Oh no

oh god that's exactly what's happened isn't it

This is a disgustingly shameful act of betrayal. To simply STOP PAYING rescue workers, because they think they can get away with it, because they think the workers will carry on doing it for love. Utterly despicable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"a big Q is how to cut the welfare bill, I think theres an agreement it has to be cut" Yes theres an effort by politicians/media to convince us it has to be cut, when the reality is welfare spend is c.10.6% of GDP & as a proportion thats lower than most other European countries.

Okay, let me know at what point you figure it out www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

They want us to give up on believing that the world will accept trans people as valid We will not give up Ever Trans people are valid in their lived gender Trans rights are human rights Transphobia is immoral and ignorant

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand just remember folks that asylum seeker rights are the playground for governments to see what they can get away with for everyone else. They are coming for the SEN tribunal. If you tolerate this your children will be next.

This is an ugly policy. If an asylum seeker has a legitimate case then they shouldn't have to pay for being held, particularly when they're not allowed to work. If they don't have a case then they won't be able to pay and should be deported. The Home Office has a very serious culture problem.

We need to either return to a pre-bot/AI internet, or flee to create a new one. Call me naive, but back in the 90s I was under the impression the internet's destiny was to be an unprecedented knowledge resource that benefitted humanity. Instead it's become the unreliable puppet of grabby little men.

I'm not going to encourage anyone to vandalise or sabotage these robots, but if that were to happen en masse I'm sure it would stop companies from using them faster than any government regulation would.

That list of “10 big ideas for Burnham” that is getting reshared a lot does not include a single one about making people happier or their lives easier. So much wonk stuff is about ‘growth’ and ‘innovation’ with absolutely no mention of human happiness.

Japanese sci-fi: two robots in space, yearning American sci-fi: man gets the author's beliefs on polygamy confirmed by the aliens of ramalama IV french sci-fi: two horny bounty hunters visit the Galaxy of Breasts British sci-fi: nuclear war. Everyone dead. America's fault

Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood

Americans, on an individual level, should simply stop being so difficult and already have the actual Arc De Triomphe installed where they live. Or at least just take the short eurostar trip to see it.

It is difficult to make a man understand why the public dislike Keir Starmer when the best man at his wedding was Peter Mandelson

won’t somebody think of the childrennnn

John Shitass Michigan, County Marriages, 1820-1941

I assume it’s for the same reason why Britain has been so acutely vulnerable to every major global shock of the 21st century: a fifty year ideological project of selling off as much state capacity as possible, explicitly to put it outside democratic control, to shore up the country’s oligarchy.

Acknowledging Israel’s monstrous crimes against humanity doesn’t just implicate both major parties and our whole ruling class in genocide and ethnic cleansing. Much worse than that: it shows the left were correct and that their detractors are simply *bad people*. So you see why that can’t be allowed

they're doing "it's ephebophila" but for the mass murder of children

people say Kier Starmer and Andy Burnham are identical, but that's not fair, as you can see they're plainly different

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: donate all of me that’s donatable, cut my middle finger off, put THAT in the family tomb and carve my name in the stone, and then dispose of the rest of me in the most environmentally friendly fashion possible, which will probably still be a 3ft wild burial

While I read the UK license on conversion therapy, Spain national assembly literally yesterday voted to make an attempt at conversion therapy a criminal offense with jail time. It was already a banned practice, now it's flat out criminal, and if you wonder if it's worded well, read the pedo's panic

Tesco is extending its Kids Eat Free scheme to 7 days a week over the summer, where children get a free meal with an adult purchase, but honestly, this detail about how small the adult purchase can be broke my heart.

If you just assume more or less everything you hear out of the fash far right in Britain and America now is a real and serious issue affecting minority groups that they’ve turned into bullshit stunts for morons, then you will not go far wrong.

Work is paid and unpaid. All of us work every day. UBI permits the freedom to work at more things we choose instead having lives dictated by poverty. Some people do not want human beings to have agency.

Conversion practice okay if its done by a healthcare professional and of good quality 😉 the UK’s conversion will be of a high standard for all

If we took a standard UK terraced street and put AC units on every house, the street would become a hot, humid, mess much hotter than the ambient temperature. This doesn’t bother the yanks because they’re only out of their house for as long as it takes to get into their car. But for us?

I know you all know this, but you do know that air conditioning doesn’t actually cool the air down? Right? It removes the heat. Which sounds similar, except for the fact that the heat still exists, and needs to be exhausted somewhere else. Usually out your window. That’s the heat island effect.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Elton Lube United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2013

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.

There is ONE thing I am looking forward to this heatwave: Pictures of paschal candles that have melted in churches. Here's an example from a few years ago. It's my favourite phenomenon. Because, well... Look at it.

I can't believe Peter Mandelson would choose one of the most right-wing former Labour MP's to be Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

as usual i wanna point out that we can't rejoin the european union with all of labour's anti-trans laws and healthcare policies. they violate multiple laws within the eu. andy burnham is in favour of those laws and policies. if you're clinging on to burnham rejoining the eu you're on to a loser.

The most duplicitous UK politician in my lifetime.