the most genetically distinct humans on earth are more or less interchangeable in terms of social function, ability to do things, etc. we should have lizard guys. i mean i guess we've proven we can't be trusted with them, but still

I have always felt I'd have done okay in the 17th century it was truly an era of posters

Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home www.nber.org/papers/w30569 via Mike Konczal

"The Soviet press agency Novosti decided to capitalize on the anger at China in Latin America in the wake of the Chilean coup by publishing a series of brochures titled “Why Maoism Is Dangerous for You."" lmao

imagining a 1970s leftist convinced that Watergate was a plot by Washington to end detente

The guy who wrote Weekend at Bernies died. I'm told his last words were "Dont do it, please. You gotta promise me you wont do it. You know what. Promise me."

36 days of log

Don't know this guy but if you start measuring your denomination adherence in days you've clearly done something wrong.

think this is something that white people/non-migrants maybe don't always get, more broadly - can't speak for all immigrants, of course, or for all non-white people, but even I, arguably the single most white-passing mixed race person to ever do it, will hear that stuff and take it pretty personally

If we want to rebuild the defences against authoritarianism (as we should) we'd be better off using the instruments we already have. Dismantling Henry VIII powers, getting dirty money out of elections, even changing the electoral system could all be done more easily than writing a new constitution.

Constitutions are only as strong as the willingness of institutions, parties & - above all - voters to uphold them. A constitution cobbled together in a contested process, that lacked broad public support, in the absence of agreement on big constitutional questions, would be a high road to disaster

How would a new constitution be entrenched? There is no mechanism by which one parliament can bind its successors. A constitution with the weight of history behind it, or overwhelming public support, would exert a potent moral constraint. But this constitution would have neither of those benefits

What would this constitution include? The monarchy? The House of Lords? The ECHR? First Past the Post? Devolution? All these things would be highly contentious - esp. if they then became harder to change. We always tend to assume a constitution would say what we want it to. That's a mistake.

There is a serious, principled case for a codified constitution, for some of the reasons George sets out. But botching together a constitution to stop Farage - a constitution that could not command widespread support and that was widely seen as rigged - would deepen our problems, not resolve them.🧵

If you're gonna do it, might as well embrace the insanity with a supersonic ramjet, radioactive emissions, and multiple warheads

Temu Project Pluto

POST VIDS YOU COWARD THE PEOPLE NEED TO SEE www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Viewer discretion: the following sitcom from 1976 is reflective of attitudes in 2020s England'

It genuinely turns my stomach acid that maybe starmer thinks nandy is doing a good job in culture

MiG-21 supersonic inlet design🧵 Small Nose vs. Big Nose

Modern Warfare 2 and 3 (and it really doesn't matter if it's the 2009/2011 version or the 2022/2023 version) make infinitely more sense if you just assume it's the Trump administration running the US

it's kind of funny how many plot holes in geopolitics/natsec movies and games can now be resolved by the simple statement "assume it's the Trump administration"

Do you think she makes him do the blackface during sex

New Labour used the prospect of licence fee increases as a tool to nudge the BBC in a more liberal direction, but for some reason the current Labour government has shown no interest in repeating that strategy

watched a cursed three stooges movie last week and now they keep trying to come out of my TV at the same time and getting all jammed up in the bezel

The unwillingness of a great many people to call racism racism because doing so is seen as rude or uncivil is hugely problematic.

Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in

I'm not sure there's ever been a better assassin than @dieworkwear.bsky.social in the history of posting

Note how, when the government’s condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!

Fanfics are fucking disgusting and won't exist under Puritanism

'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be

OK so full thread below but here’s my overall take: Bad. House of Dynamite is bad. In the world of nuclear crisis films, it is the ChatGPT-equivalent. What do I mean by this? I mean to the average person it *looks* real and correct in the surface until you interrogate it even slightly.

25 Oct 1941 // Minelayer HMS Latona was set on fire by German bombs off Bardia, Libya. She remained afloat for two hours and almost all on board were evacuated. When the fire reached her magazine she exploded. 20 crew and 7 soldiers died. (Imperial War Museum FL 14541) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

Blairism is fascinating because its proponents in 2025 would argue against it in the strongest terms if it was reinvented today

My class solidarity? Being subverted by my own aspirations to own more capital?

I’m sorry but American Hukou as divine feminine Self Care is genuinely hilarious, Brooklyn stay winning

i'm so mad that they had a much better setting in BF2042 and then decided to not have any single player

Haven’t seen a Yamamoto attack on an Allied city this successful since [pulled offstage by a giant cane]

Centrist liberal commentators stop trying to rehabilitate the vile bigot Wes Streeting after he made one vaguely pro immigration comment challenge x

25 Oct 1944 // Destroyer HMCS Skeena dragged her anchors in a storm on the night of 24/25 Oct at Reykjavik, Iceland, and was driven ashore and wrecked on Viðey. 15 men lost their lives. Her remains were sold for scrap in 1945. (Image: Wikimedia Commons) #RoyalCanadianNavy #WW2

Some folk On Here so happy to clown on the Brits they lost sight of who’s saying what www.hrw.org/news/2025/04...

“You should instead let other countries build detention and “processing centers” in your country”

cats when u are 5 minutes late feeding them:

I thought “legitimate concerns” were supposed to be about things that might in theory be unrelated to race but oh look

Bernie Sanders once again showing that socialist (or social-democratic) economics are worthless without social liberalism, just as people like Nick Clegg show that social liberalism without socialist (or at least Keynesian) economics is worthless. You need both.

Why is the labour party comms ran in "mods are asleep post anti mass deportations content" mode

Little known fact, but Cookie Monster was actually responsible for the fires planning at La Malmaison in 1917, including the flooding of the Ailette valley with gas.