It occurs to me that Sadiq Khan is in reality what Sir Kier advertises himself as: working class kid made good turned blandly competent centre left administrator. It turns out I don't mind it when someone really is that! Not my favourite politics but definitely in the "willing to vote for it" range.

Team crying child

still losing it at “Mufti Naomi Wolf has consulted the sacred texts (Google Al Overview) and issued her fatwa”

On the one hand, this is extremely bad; on the other hand, the race is on to grab the band name 'Extreme Criminal Protest Group'.

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the mild manners are job security, baby www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...

the author of harry potter and the methods of rationality has the vice president's ear. effective altruists are steering the economy. the worst posters of the 2010's are ascendant

This is also such bad advice on the NYT's part; the best way to play this is surely just to knock on their door in a polite, friendly fashion and explain to them that you're the gay couple upstairs and you have a daughter. 18-19 is a prime age for learning that Other People Exist.

Sign of the year, and it's only February. (...Jesus Christ, it's still only February?!)

good thread

I unfollowed that person and now I rarely, if ever, come across this content. So the next time you find yourself thinking, "this whole place is crazy! I'm seeing all this wild discourse or whatever?" just ask yourself, "who's reskeeting all this hairy clussy into my timeline?" and act accordingly.

This reminds me of an old lady in our local NextDoor group who logs in every day and posts a (rhyming, poor scansion) poem about her life/the birds/the weather. If she doesn't log in she will explain later what prevented her. Lately, she's missed a lot more days due to medical problems 😢

I've been woimpilled It's time for some woimposting

Ever since we found this poem today at my parents' house I keep periodically thinking about it and collapsing in laughter. Clickerty Clack; Clickerty Clack.

- fixed a tuning issue so that the Prime Minister now vomits at an acceptable level.

Day Today vibes

Sometimes I get weary of the fact that almost all Golden Age detective novels are secretly heterosexual marriage plots in disguise, but then I read a bunch of Anthony Berkeley novels which are mostly about 'what if a woman was such a bitch that she deserved to be murdered' & I yearn for the m p.

2026 basically

Mediaeval peasants cowering in their seats because the bong is jumping out of the panel towards them.

Difference between US & UK citizens right there. UK - we hold the right to cross the road on our own terms sacrosanct. US - they hold the right to wield a gun in almost any time and place sacrosanct. I know where I feel safest.

"Land of the free" and they can't even cross the road without permission

I'm not especially opposed to driverless cabs, but I'm fucked if I'm giving up my ancestral British right to cross the road anywhere if it's safe for me to do so. "Jaywalking" isn't a thing or a crime here, techbros, so your magic cars will have to learn to deal with that.

I'm now imagining the Scottish transgender clans where if you're lucky and you're in the right one, you'll inherit your great-grandma's First Appointment at the gender clinic.

the current administration has a lot in common with the movie "Idiocracy," in that both are very anxious that the wrong people are being allowed to reproduce

i can't believe big tech managed to sour me on the idea of one day having a robot butler. "a little robot butler who does a sarcastic beep when you ask him to get you a soda from the fridge" was an aspirational hope for the future for so many years

I'm not even saying that's the most *likely* possibility, but it's just very clear that the likelihood of that outcome as increased and even if there's, like, a 1 in 10 change that "AI replaces most to all white collar jobs in 10 years" that's an *enormous* risk to the social order!

I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.

The street finds its own uses for things.

In an attempt to distance himself from the Epstein scandal and Mandelson, the health secretary reveals that he's a moral coward only willing to say the obvious behind closed doors and in private groupchats.

neanderthal, denisovan, erectus, sapiens— when you come down to it, we’re all just a bunch of homos

it's funny how UK politics is a war between zoomers who want to keep the welfare state for their parents and the populist right which their parents vote for

Labour has had so many reboots they're about to make Jared Leto Chief of Staff.

still think he should do this

"Resurrection"

this is how the British press talked about Mussolini lol

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection. If you take that away, what do they have left?

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

it's not just that Mamdani is charming af (he is), it's that he is normalizing the idea that children are full members of society that we all share a collective responsibility for

this is absolutely correct, but what people need to understand that it refers NOT ONLY to the way work is produced and enjoyed BUT ALSO what defines "success," and that's actually going to be a very hard pill for people to swallow

I envision this over/under images of obviously hazardous garden setups

Tired: Marx's theory of value Wired: Billie Eilish's theory of property

Showed Briar this post from our local NextDoor & they said 'honestly this needs to become a copypasta'

You want 'British values', here's national treasure Ian McKellen performing a speech by national hero William Shakespeare about how we should be humane and welcoming to migrants and refugees. bsky.app/profile/lala...

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

You'd never guess from this post that it's about Briar learning to play a vintage 1980s miniature synthesiser.

This is happening with Bourbon as well. Jim Beam moved to heat pumps and now they don’t need a gas *pipeline* anymore.

Yeah I will say I spent a a lot of my life thinking I was being a sophisticated Marxist by condemning vulgar tendencies which saw particular capitalists and members of the ruling class as evil and the problem. No no, I would say, it is the system! Well, ok, maybe: but also they are evil turns out.

I'm worried that the broader public isn't really understanding the Epstein Files. The problem isn't that everyone in the files is a secret pedophile, it's that all the people are corresponding with him because they *don't care that he's a pedophile*. It's a story of elite impunity.

I agree with this but as someone who's in a lot of Signal group chats, please don't fight in the Signal group chat, have a fucking coffee together or at least a video call, I am begging you.