This thread is the only thing you need on the various occurrences in Catholicism today (which I was totally unaware of). Claire Willett is extremely, extremely witty

a fun fact about SSPX is that the main founder was a Vichy regime sympathizer and one of his founding bishops was an outright Holocaust denier. both excommunicated in the 80s I’m no JPII stan, but you KNOW that was one thing former Polish Resistance member Karol Wojtyla was NOT going to stand for

every single one of these priests has a terminal case of Resting White Supremacist Face

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Now a national charity can say it's saved people so many millions of pounds when it hasn't done anything.

We'd then record this as "money saved" for each client we gave this basic advice to, as if everyone who came to us wasn't already doing these things, or that it they weren't they'd go home and instantly implement them.

They could have spent this segment explaining the energy system to viewers so they could understand that the biggest reason we have such high bills is because gas - the most expensive form of energy - sets the price almost all of the time in the UK. Not plugging things in at the wall.

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

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Imagine what the world might be like if journalism was actually what our English teachers at school told us it was supposed to be.

When Llamageddon was right there??

As cars continue to get heavier (government could regulate this but CBA) this will be a problem throughout the country. You can everyone driving an SUV or historic bridges open to motor traffic but not both.

Ordinary people still count. If enough of us say "enough" we CAN bring about change. The big money can be beaten. Communities. Togetherness. Unity. Safe, renewable energy. Clean rivers, streams, and drinking water. They're not Utopia, they're our rights. That's the @greenparty.org.uk future 👍

Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔

“to the delight of several colliers who were passing”

This, the finest news story ever published, has once again appeared in my inbox, and it would be rude not to share it.

Thank you Google maps for protecting the cow's privacy

The AI slop absolutely doesn't improve matters, but online learning has been a multi-dimensonial clusterfuck of grift for going on two decades now. Which is not to say all operators are bad, but sorting the good from the hucksters has been tough since MOOCs first blew up around 2009.

Well. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

I was just thinking oh, unfortunate photo, bet the photographer thought they were doing a thing. Then I realised this is Keir Starmer’s account, so someone has made an actual decision to show this photograph under the assumption it makes him & the team look good

Nothing says 'speaking for the concerns of the common man' like being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to promote actual gold bars

This is my favourite so far, I think bsky.app/profile/tyle...

Am I worried? No, I'm fucking terrified. The vital pre-requisites for a civil society, that we personally grew by, erased by a lockstep march across Western nations led by the most stupid and venal, people whose only interest is to replace thousands of years of the human project with exploitation.

I think we are going to need to talk more securing the public (esp. kids') access to grounded facts, given that our govts & big tech: – replaced web search with generated fiction – block kids from talking to other people online – are replacing teachers with 'ai' – are shredding &defunding libraries

This is as the man McDuff says it is. “Sometimes you must stand athwart history, yelling Are you fucking serious?” You should read this and give it some time to talk to you.

Come with me and you'll be / in a world of abject exploitation

Have Americans considered, rather than court-packing to outnumber the court-packing the other guys did, simply not having politically appointed judges and instead having an independent judiciary? Radical, I know.

Lots of people rightly calling out the lack of commitment on trans rights here, but far less highlighting that disability rights are also absent despite us looking at a minimum of tens of thousands of disabled people being sent into poverty by 2030 as it stands

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Hmmm... I'm not sure £67,500 is an hourly rate that many of the working class #Farage claims to represent would be familiar with. I'd further suspect that promoting gold bullion doesn't involve much actual labour. So how on earth does he continue to fool people?? 🤔 share.google/v74m1OX2HIEi...

counter-point: it's a helpful visual shorthand for where America is at right now

I demand Google gets over itself.

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

This is such a ridiculously good book - please pass this on

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I think this is so wild when you hear about random c-suite tech people or Bari Weiss rolling around 6 to 12 deep in personal security and armored cars. Kindness builds courage. Greed just makes you afraid and isolated.

i have been so angry about this all day i couldn’t form the words but under this definition, reporters killed while reporting from NPR, PBS or the BBC (or any outlet while embedded with the US or UK militaries) wouldn’t be counted, but ofc they aren’t being excluded—this is pure zionist racism!

When did the idea of MPs and the PM being public servants tasked with improving our lives down the toilet as they now they think they’re there to feed the capitalist machine and hold us to account?

Actual British people: “my landlord wants one of my kidneys and my entire monthly salary, a pint costs £800” Wonks and the media: “the problem is we need more growth hubs”

Shall I call the Waaaaahbulance? This company stole my work and the work of thousands of writers. Stole, as in illegal theft.

What are we doing here, folks?

Last Year At Marienbad/This Month At The State Fair

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Tell us something we didn't already know... This has been the broadest of daylight robberies. Pretending it's a shocking revelation is typical of a robber baron's henchman... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

'A variety of different backgrounds' We all know exactly what kind of person would sign up for a role like this

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theyre not “predictors” theyre gamblers, hes trying to get 18-34 year olds addicted to gambling

LOL

Treating children like cattle’: what happens when private equity takes over a UK care home? Homes with inadequate staff, management. “High levels of distress” among the children resulted in self-harm, children not safe, poor care All in pursuit of profits. Successive govts privatised care homes.

You cannot wake up those who pretend to be asleep.