If you're still saying 'Vote Labour or we'll get Reform' at this point, you're just a fucking dickhead. If you're accepting this low a bar, which a worm couldn't slide under, you're a collaborator. Labour needs to be opposed every bit as much as Reform or the Tories.

There is at least one cult, maybe more, that feel a super-intelligent AI could become or be considered a deity, and they aim to make that happen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_... Peter Thiel seems like the kinda guy that would subscribe to this.

Users on the r/UKFood subreddit post occasionally "mince watch" updates on the price of beef mince. Someone spotted Asda 5% at just over a tenner a kilo, others have calculated that's a 20.79% increase in 3 and a half months 💀 www.reddit.com/r/UKfood/s/s...

Wear a third coat

In our research, we spoke to experts in human trafficking who were uniformly clear that raising a modern slavery defence requires resources and quality representation that is simply not available to most defendants in first instance proceedings. This is why it's usually only dealt with at appeal.

It seems hopelessly naive to give Trump the headline, report it as comments and counter-comments, then add some downpage paragraphs saying it is simply false at the bottom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eating a bag of wine gums before putting dinner on was a mistake. A delicious and slightly nauseous mistake that I will make again.

Lmao premium grade stuff, the borderline unlistenable incoherent ramblings of an ignorant madman sold as a milquetoast sentiment most people on the street agree with. Regime press release.

I wonder if they feel this is working now

spokesperson for Sadiq Khan: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Welcome Bulgaria. The coins are fun because a Euro is a Euro, but each country has their own design on one side and you can try to collect them all.

I may not have consideres all of the geopolitical ramifications, but what would happen if the rest of the UN General Assembly joined together and simply ate Trump

I picked the wrong day to quit Tylenol

The most successful novelist of her generation can't actually enter this country to accept an award for fear of arrest, someone tell the BBC

Nick Robinson is a right wing activist.

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

Cracking open my support sandwich case to carry me through to lunchtime.

In Spanish, the snack or bite you have between meals is tentempié. It literally means 'keeps you standing'. Isn't language diversity beautiful.

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

"He argues that, in stark contrast to the United States - where free speech is protected by the first amendment..." Haven't a load of Americans just been sacked for saying the wrong things about Charlie Kirk? Appalling article in a whole range of ways.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Something the BBC could do "thanks to the unique way it's funded" is not have a Westminster Gossip Correspondent and sent a health correspondent to talk to the Health minister, an energy correspondent to talk to the energy minister etc

Feels like yesterday that his spokesperson disagreed with Farage's maths but not the substance of his policy to scrap indefinite leave to remain. Oh... wait.

In Prison Break is it the same guy that keeps breaking out of different prisons? There are five seasons of that show - why does this guy end up getting locked up so often?

“Some say”, “controversial”, “experts disagree”. Just say they’re talking bollocks, man, the world is ending and we haven’t got time for this

Do you know what? It doesn’t matter what causes autism because it is not in fact a bad thing in itself and some of your posts to say X or Y doesn’t cause autism are pretty fucking ableist

"Britain has sought to align its approach to crypto to that of the U.S." A reminder that the president of the US launched a meme coin to enrich himself. A meme coin that's lost about 70% of its value from its initial high.

I was getting worried that the Lib Dems with their Ed Davey jollies were becoming almost likeable. Ed complaining about benefit fraud and PIP claims is a return to true Lib Dem values.

Spectacular return to form by the Piss Diamond Party. x.com/maxtempers/s...

Feel like the world is accelerating towards something really bad. Things are already really bad, but I think they're going to keep getting worse. It feels like time is speeding up and new bad things are happening faster and faster.

When Reform come out with especially abhorrent immigration policies that most people would consider too far, the government can’t take a principled stance that this is racist because it goes against their logic that immigration is a problem, and so they can only say their plans are unworkable.

calling out of work to attend a nazi rally and not even telling them a fake reason

I have a twitter account I don't really use. I mostly follow folks from the shit-post left. Every time I log on the "for you" feed is maybe 75%+ hate speech.

I'm not a big political brain, but the spokesperson could have said: "This is a stupid idea and bad for the country" I guess that's not the message they want to send, eh.

The govt long ago conceded that there were many people in this country who shouldn't be here and that deportation was a suitable response. All Farage is doing is taking the next logical step to up the ante. Anyone expecting Starmer to suddenly stand up for migrants hasn't been paying attention.

A vital point: None of this would've been possible in the UK context if our political and social spheres weren't dominated by a resentful aristocratic, political and media elite desperate to enact petty revenge fantasies against a plebian class that dismantled their pretensions of prestige.

it doesn’t matter how smart you are if you’re hanging out on x you are soaking up nazi propaganda. you are not immune. nobody is.

it was also stupid for libs to have spent the last decade allowing transphobia to run wild we now have a justice system full of these ppl. a columnist class full of these ppl. our institutions, even of equality, full of these ppl terfs are not just transphobic. they are far right conspiracy cranks

Ah yes. Let some mouth-breathing Reform mayor decide the syllabus. Can't see any issues with that.

I am still perplexed that Farage was flanked to the right. Rupert Lowe is a crank, but Musk owns what seems to still be the main/primary platform for a lot of politics folks in the UK

Who is Tom Baldwin? He's the sort of former director of communications at Labour that goes on to write for the telegraph. That's who Tom Baldwin is. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bal...

"leaked" is a funny way of saying 'handed to me by a grinning guy officially representing the leadership knowing I would print it'

Not sure who this guy is, but I am confident we should reclaim "Fenian". It's a cool word with a lot of history* *I don't think Americans should be allowed to use this word. Too many terrible yanks already think they're Irish

"Call the police" is very Lib Dem coded. 1) you think they'll actually turn up 2) you'll assume they'll be kind to you (a white Karen) and not suspect you

They are so weird. I don't really know what "Brexit a few years earlier" means or is meant to mean. I presume it's bad, but Brexit in 2016 is bad too.

They are so weird. I don't really know what "Brexit a few years earlier" means or is meant to mean. I presume it's bad, but Brexit in 2016 is bad too.

Some random lib dem fan turning up in your replies suggesting they were smol uwu twats in 2010 and wanting to take no responsibility for the things Lib Dems actually did when they had power Spare me

Blocked, and tbh I'm relieved. What are Lib Dem fans smoking rn?

Hello, police, I'd like to report the 2010 Lib Dem/Tory coalition for the deaths of 330,000 peop Hello, this is the police: lol I can't imagine anyone feeling strongly enough about the Lib Dems to go in to bat for them online. And yet here we are 🤷🏻‍♂️

If a government can't be formed we can return to the polls. A minority conservative government doesn't kill 330,000 people, they only do that with Lib Dem support Lib Dem apologists are wild. I look forward to Greens decimating this weird party.