New BBC tactic for dealing with Zack Polanski appears to be pretending he doesn't exist 😄

Every. Single. Time. You back down, they take it as an incentive to go after you even harder. This is fascism. It believes in strength alone. You can't reason with it, you can't compromise with it. All you can do is destroy it with every tool available to you.

Fun to watch the goalposts being shifting all over the place in real time, whilst constantly interrupting anything that sounds like an informed and sensible response, and what the fuck has this got to do with Momentum?!

The amount of racial slurs that will be generated at this festival is going to create some sort of bigotry horizon.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

The amount of space on my timeline taken up by that Dilbert guy compared to how much I give a shit about the topic is at an all time disconnect.

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Lmao apparently people near me are freaking out about a non binary teacher And I am watching the entire community come together to dunk on the much smaller group of transphobic dipshits and it is DELICIOUS The local newspaper even snarkily wrote about them and I am CRYING

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

Slightly obscure and random question, but does anyone know anywhere good to eat in or around Gloucester?

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

Yeah, you reckon?

Love to be lectured about having some introspection about what the moral nature of my country is like from a fucking American literally during the opening act of Yanqui Latin America Dicatorship Run 2.0

How have I scrolled through pages of this and not seen a single shout for Blackadder Goes Forth?

Sadly, I think the only thing that might falter Trump's stride is if the US occupies Venezuela, and the people resist, making it another Vietnam. Maybe the sight of thousands of their kids coming home in bags might actually compel the American people to act.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

2026, innit?

The dauphin of Harriet Harman and Jack Dromey, about the same age as Zack Polanski, wants to make it clear that only the grim, grinding, managed decline of death march politics counts as serious.

I have never "Hootenanny-ed"

Don't you hate finding the perfect card, just too late to use it?

The core problem that has basically destroyed political discourse for the past decade or so.

That’s no mystery. What’s more mysterious is: how could a bunch of professional politics commentators have concluded that politicians who have no good ideas, no charisma, no notable connections with the public - no skills, beyond telling journalists what they want to hear - would make good leaders?

You mean: where might Labour politicians and staff have got the idea they could achieve incredible personal success, just by screaming abuse at their own core supporters while regularly falling over and pretending to be injured? Gee whizz, it sure is a mystery why they’d have formed that impression.

centrist ghouls insisting people dont like starmer because of 'vibes' are just projecting their own superficiality. you like him because hes a haircut a briefcase & a voice thats it. its aesthetics. honestly you should just own it. accept you're shallow & leave politics to other people. its ok

Shout out to the woman at the back of this bus absolutely fucking *demolishing* a cheesy garlic bread. I hope you're enjoying it as much as you look like you are.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Paddington Bear becoming the UK's go-to psychopomp is one of the very weirdest things to happen in this very weird decade.

Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74

Damn, Chris Rea.

To be clear: Maccabi Tel Aviv’s supporters do not only *sing about* sex crimes, murder and genocide. Plenty of them have been personally doing that stuff for at least two years.

This weekend I learned that boxers are called that because of their ability to put jumped up little shits back in their boxes.

Tbh I assumed that if your paper referenced another one it meant you had read the paper, understood it, and were relating its content to your ideas. It turns out it actually meant "this paper exists" and now it doesn’t even mean that.

Mr Beast next, please.

It’s not just that destroying this one country’s government and installing criminals to help you loot their resources makes this war look bad. It shows what most of the other wars were, and what the people who sold them to the public are.

Welcome To Derry has been absolute garbage, hasn't it?

My man is innocent lol

It's mad how fundamental we think of as something like the tomato in pretty much all of global cuisine, but it wasn't introduced into Europe until the 16th century, and even then the British (of course) didn't eat them at first because they thought they were poisonous.

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

It saddens me to say that I’m sure we’ll see an incident like this again, as more people with unnecessarily enormous vehicles succumb to car-brain

Yeeeeeeaaaa-no

what a confusing time to be a piece of shit

True Detective S1-3: There is a deeply unsettling supernatural element to the show, an undercurrent of life and death, past and future, a sense of piercing the veil, but always in the context of extremely unreliable narrators and allegory. True Detective S4: Yeah, there's ghosts. Ghosts everywhere.

Near where I live there's a model of a Spitfire that was paid for by local people who did a whip round for it, because you could do that then. You could build a Wellington bomber in 24 hours. You would however struggle to do the same for an F-35, and that's because IT'S NOT WORLD WAR 2 ANYMORE.

The combination of flu and strikes could collapse the NHS, according to Wes Streeting. Good thing you could stop one of those things happening right this second then, isn't it Wes?

Setting Madeley aside for a moment, I think part of the issue is that once people realise *just how much* wages have been allowed to fall away from where they should be, the figure seems insurmountable and therefore ridiculous to ask for, but that's our fucking money, stolen from us by capital.

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

just seen this photo of mangione on twitter, this man is innocent i'm telling you