‘Highly unusual intervention’ it’s every bloody month and the message is always the same!

Like.... him and the GOP being the one taking all the political heat for a difficult transition the world should be making anyways, but by accident, is almost poetic. If you squint you can see a much brighter future coming out of all of this!

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It's like Elon Musk and blue checks on X; make them meaningless stamps of approval.

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔓𝔬𝔭𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔡 𝔞 ℌ𝔬𝔩𝔶 ℭ𝔯𝔲𝔰𝔞𝔡𝔢 𝔞𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔰, 𝔟𝔯𝔬𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔰

one big gap, actually. one might call it a "strait" even.

I think this might be the US equivalent of the UK's The Queue: something that, whether we like it or not, absolutely encapsulates the general spirit of the respective nation.

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

"If the problem is that British people are leaving while non-white migrants are arriving, net migration is not the right measure... For those whose politics is increasingly about replacement, that is precisely the problem." ukandeu.ac.uk/race-and-spa...

ok capcom you cant keep doing darkstalkers references 30 years after the last new darkstalkers game the uncs are going to die off eventually and there will be no one left to spend 15 dollars on a costume referencing a game from before they were born

Ah, we have discovered his truest darkest secret

Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

when you toxic masculinity so hard you come out on the other side somehow

Oil down on strong desire to believe the world is just and fair.

Beginning to wonder if our political class is allergic to public information as a meaningful discipline

Alarming numbers of houses and flats on my way back to Manchester with curtains and windows both wide open, in this heat

no one can predict the future but “endless tit for tat plus irreconcilable differences on nuclear material and frozen assets keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed for 6 more months” is now within the cone of possibility

A fascinating hangover of covid is that it has sort of removed “you can just ask people to do things” from the policy toolbox.

Every single rake must be stepped on with surgical precision, it's in the Labour manifesto

Don't know if this one's been added yet...

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

MASSIVE fan of this one:

Humanity first heading into the stars in the 40k universe.

okay econsky i need help. years ago i encountered an econ history paper about the spread of coal in england. it argued that rather than deforestation being a cause of coal adoption, it was a consequence--coal drove down the price of wood, and landowners converted woodlots to farms aaAGH WHAT PAPER

THE ISRAELITES AFTER MOSES WROTE LEVITICUS:

Turns out that we're not alone in the universe. Check out the Vronski Dossiers for the latest intel on these invaders of the One Hundred Suns. www.zeogenesis.com/blog/vronski... #ZeoGenesis #Nerdlings #Miniatures #TabletopGames #Gaming

Continue to think the core problem with “ban the under 16s from social media” is it treats “online harms” as similar to a bottle of Grey Goose when they are far more akin to bathtub moonshine:

this is probably technically true but mostly because immediately before the strait opens energy prices are going to be higher than anything we’ve ever seen before

The Vatican went and made infographics for the encyclical 👍

if you haven't realized this yet you can make an aquarium in subnautica 2 by sealing off 90% of an area with rooms, tossing growbeds and plants down then quickly dropping a bunch of fish from your inventory then leave the aquarium and seal it. place windows around the side of it

imagine making a multiplayer experience this good, imagine even thinking of it. FUCK.

“No, not like *that*, you are doing racism wrong” - me, for Spiked

The one arguement I can really see for a immediate election is to try and get ahead of this and buy yourself another 2 years to ride it out. But I'm not sure you can get trhough a election in time... plus the risk is too great without *far* better polling

Not consistently, but sometimes, the Star Wars universe is a place where interstellar *travel* is apparently easier than interstellar *communications.* Someone will fly through hyperspace to have a 5-minute conversation about the Sacred MacGuffin's possible location that coulda been an email.

Imagine if Nixon had demanded that the Watergate burglars receive a massive taxpayer reward and that all future investigations into him and the whole cabal be blocked forever. Sounds bad? Well, things are much worse than that today.

Yeah, it’s pretty crazy to see in the US that Biden got no credit for managing the best post-covid recovery in the world. Egg prices were up and the public reacted by installing a guy who immediately set about creating a new crisis on his own. It couldn’t recognize good vs. bad governance

The larger problem, IMO, is that governments have stopped making a case for pretty much anything. There's almost a distrust that the public can be persuaded or helped to understand that a difficult situation will involve trade-offs

Well, this is an utterly insane thing to consider doing. Because the Middle East is too stable these days and people are too positively attuned to the US/Israel

It's just staggeringly stupid. I'm struggling to think of any government in my lifetime who was this inept at a basic skill in politics. (Maybe Truss, but that's a low bar.)

There's a grim irony that the main benefactors of the Iran War going pear-shaped will be the opposition parties who idiotically cheered it on. Doesn't exactly help that Starmer would rather blame businesses than argue 'prices are going up because of the war that these morons wanted us to fight in'

I agree with this, but I wish it felt possible to get people to... not do that. Or, at least, to judge governments based on the quality of their response to the pressure rather than just being mad at them because egg price go up. Maybe I'm just pessimistic but I fear the public won't respond well.

I do think the GCs benefit from the UK having a very friendly media environment for them, so most people are unaware that they're a legit obsessive hate group who want to bully a social minority into non existence for no better reason than quelling their vague sense of discomfort.

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

‘Malawi has exhausted its strategic fuel reserves and is selling part of its gold holdings to raise foreign currency, as the economic shockwaves from the Iran conflict deepen an existing fuel crisis in one of Africa’s poorest countries.’ www.ft.com/content/273a...

I'm not even joking about this, Pope Leo had a Tumblr account

That would be Antipope (Mar-a-Lago Papacy) Johannes Diocletian Vance I

to learn french, I watch a the french version of a show for toddlers named "Bing" and I enjoy the little dashes of realism in such a cartoony show. Like look at Bing's dumb little card. what a idiot it's good