it is fascinating how so much of this site's failstates come down to replicating Twitter dynamics (e.g. random networks getting into war with other users) Reddit has its issues but i think the silo'ing of areas helps prevent that

Genuine question which I'd prefer an answer from someone who follows these things closely rather than just partisan griping: do the bbc report on the Tories like this? This seems like a remarkably hostile way of putting things, carrying an implicature of intent to deceive.

I do not understand why Liberty gets to be treated like a real college with valid degrees, NCAA teams, and everything.

Today

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

INTERVIEWER: If you could have a dinner party with any three historical figures, who would you invite? ME: James Bond, Jackie Chan, and that bitch MacGyver.

Problem is there's absolutely zero cost to being wrong over and over again so it won't matter.

Doug Burgum went to Stanford. Remember that when they brag about their student body.

This is important. Reform keep taking positions that are only supported by the 25% of the electorate they already have and in doing so are negatively polarising everyone else against them.

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

Incredibly deployable image for Bluesky posts

Incredible how "death to the tyrants, up with the people" is both incredibly obvious and morally consistent and an extremely uncommon foreign policy view.

I wrote to my MP about this issue and while I appreciate their reply I basically felt they were just caught in the intrinsic illogic of the situation, and so tried to suggest that our new Efficiency Enhancing Measures would simply remove this issue.

Every Home Secretary of the past 15 years: "migrants contribute little and we need fewer of them" Every Chancellor:

one of the things this stupid war absolutely proves is that MBS is an absolute fucking impulsive moron with no long-term thinking/planning skills whatsoever

The revealed preference of the American people is that you can use the power of the American state to kill as many people as you want as long as we don't get our hands dirty and we keep our bodies to a minimum, and also that if you stop a war the press will hound you to the ends of the earth

Updated title for Elena Ruiz's talk on Thursday: The Problem of Adaptive Regeneration in Building Solutions to Structural Violence. Thu 4pm. @lsegovernment.bsky.social #politicaltheory

The piece is here btw: www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/798...

Now you can say he was young (tho he wasn't) and that it isn't relevant. That's fine. But at least engage with what actually happened here before trying to cast it aside. I suspect, of course, that is exactly why people don't engage with it; because it isn't defendable and speaks to his character

This mainly shows that Williams... appears to have not read the actual Sun piece? Which shows he wasn't just approached, but was actively claiming he could use hypnosis to boost people's cup size. And that he actually tried to do it! (and it wasn't lapooning woo - it was a soft soap piece)

JFC i'm talking to some people who are like, "i don't know man, i'm not convinced kamala wouldn't be bombing iran, too." are you some kind of asshole?

It's one thing to believe that's there's no difference in Palestine, but on Iran? Are you high??? You can't really think Kamala would just decide to wack the ayatollah ?

Annoyed I’ve cultivated an online presence where I can brag about my research successes (nothing to report), but not my weightlifting successes (incline db press with the 65s for 5 reps)

Some of us are out here living in barrels Liams

This was adolescent me watching Moonlighting in the 80s.

The true insights of philosophy

I don't know if I would trust those people to do the important work of Philosophy (creating wise sayings about how to live with Intent and generate Success-Wins in lean startups).

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participants in social movements, trade unions and political parties in europe don't typically centre around self-identified hero organisers and i dont really understand the role of people like this in american social movements beyond "they write blogs"

UK politicians: The Taliban are murderous, Assad is a tyrant, Khamenei is a demon. Also UK politicians: We must stop all these illegal immigrants who are just economic migrants and bogus asylum seekers coming to the UK. 🤡

Just found out that there are actually hundreds of philosophers who haven't won Leverhulme Prizes?

Got dressed for work this morning and then realised

What really leaps out from the full piece is how lacking in any interest in policy it is, and how all the reading that has shaped it is visibly just 'social media scrolling':

Any centre left governing coalition is now: - Young people, especially graduates - Urban progressives - Minority groups - Working age people with low incomes - Educated Professionals If both your political and economic strategy is not geared towards these groups, they will find a party that is.

There is a pervasive attitude that the only voters that matter are people who have aged out of supporting a centre left party, but who may have at one point in their lives voted Labour. Voters who are still part of our coalition, who have heard they aren't wanted by us, are instead to be patronised.

Mahmood trumpeting her admiration for Danish asylum policy, only to have to distance herself from its architects because they‘re massive racists. Incredible scenes

You know, having actually read the bible, i’m not 100% convinced Jesus would be particularly thrilled with these dumb godless motherfuckers

“Comforting solutions to uncomfortable problems” Paul, that is *literally* what you and the other Blue Labour crew are doing. When have you lot done *anything* that was outside your socially conservative comfort zone??

And there is a decent quantity of stuff that left voters would like, but it's either not especially high importance to them or the government is allergic to telling them about it.

that’s been the question for me as an observer: is there actually a viable path to economic growth + restoring or at least stopping the slide in services (NHS etc) that they aren’t willing to look at, or are they stuck & can’t admit it? hard to tell from outside & am very curious

Another great example of Starmer promising to be a competent, process-driven PM and then just…giving us bad process.

Was it perhaps a mistake to make vexatious, truthless wingnut swine the arbiters of what’s sensible, reasonable and patriotic, and then pander like fuck to them for decades

What was meant to justify the whole Starmerist approach of Quiet Competence Plus Neutralising The Right by Appeasement was it would keep leftwing voters in line by giving us some stuff we like while remaining politically viable by keeping older racist voters (and the press catering to them) in house

Exibit a) Paul Ovenden - the PMs former Director of Political Strategy in The Times today. You'd think, having collapsed your poll lead during a GE and then further halved your support in office you might reflect on your approach. But no, full steam ahead. Mystery why were in this place

"Sex is ok in fiction"?! Is there no end to your licentiousness?!

I'm not gonna lie: Macron and his generals singing the Marseillaise to a nuclear weapon is a bit chilling.

found starmer's address

I also said Labour needed to stop winding up their own supporters on immigration.... sigh.

This is what I wrote in January about the possibility of the Greens passing Labour in the polls. (This was before Gorton by-election was announced). samf.substack.com/p/whats-the-...