always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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when i save "hannah montana implies the existence of 49 other hannahs" as a draft, what good does that do except delay your eventual suffering?

Piss off a peadophile - join a union

My "I was never friends with Peter Mandelson" t-shirt asks more questions than provides any answers

140 million people watched the halftime show We found a dozen registered sex offenders who watched Kid Rock lipsync confessing to statutory rape instead. Here's why these two things are equally important. Our owner is in the Epstein files, btw. You're welcome.

I have today been informed that, despite personal assurances to the contrary, the Green party have once again used my image and misrepresented my words on a second leaflet circulated in Gorton and Denton ahead of the by-election. I have now lodged an official complaint with the returning officer.

Not a Prime Minister, but in the dying days of the 2010-2015 Parliament I was asked to take a bottle of whisky to Nick Clegg’s office to be signed for charity - a colleague who caught me on the way asked if someone else was taking the revolver…

the suggestion that the libertarian movement has always been anti trump is infuriating, but also a sign that people may have a sense of which way the wind is blowing

I was going to say it’s weird that Kyle is carrying on with his career like nothing happened but then I remembered he’s on TalkTV, a youtube channel that gets less views than most streams of mobile deck building games

Starmer becoming basically corbyn by refusing to go even though every other leader says he would be very funny if unfortunately didn't affect me

Yes. People love to paint Corbyn and Starmer as opposites but there are throughlines over their tenures atop the Labour Party: corrosive, faux macho bullying, horrible appointments made for loyalty rather than competence, a sneering indifference to racism & gaslighting of its victims

Much the same as with Karen Pierce and the US ambo appointment, Starmer actually had someone who could have been director of comms, Steph Driver, who gave years of hard work and professionalism in opposition but then got a succession of people promoted over her for no apparent reason

The flaw in the McSweeney/Starmer project can be summed up with "the people whose pitch to the electorate was they were serious also had no interest in policy", and when stated that bluntly it seems extraordinary it got this far

The remarkable thing is Labour have basically made 'anti-child poverty' and 'climate change' the two core missions or this Government and... ... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.

did you ever doubt the plan anon

Finally got up to Series 3 of For All Mankind 20 years into his 5 year plan

My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Macbeth: SHIT

Richard Tice of Reform on Bloomberg TV suggesting that backing crypto shows 'common sense'. these people are morons.

Yes, mate, that's your job

oh my god this is even lower than the funniest low number I was imagining

A really good Labour administration would have fixated on the fact they were polling at 45% and won with closer to 34% and tried to reason through what that entailed.

Andre Ventura of Chega (change) running on anti-immigratiom slogans like "this isn't Bangladesh" and "Portugal is ours" has lost the Portugal presidential election in a landslide. He was second on 23% to 31% in the first round but losing about 30-70 in the run-off to socialist António José Seguro

Here’s the situation in the Twin Cities: Random Bovino-style tear-gassing: Way down Relentless persecution of immigrants: Unchanged Thuggish violence against observers: Way up

going great already lmfaoo

I didn't think I could think less of McSweeny but the way he's immediately started briefing against a PM who's shown him exceptional loyalty is extremely shabby.

A new low for the “everything is improvised!” slop that Facebook has decided I love

Just beyond parody at this point

It's hilarious that Fox News treats these things as deeply scandalous, in between segments where a bunch of adults are sitting around saying stuff like, well, you know, fourteen-year-olds *are* pretty sexy these days ...

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

And that's ultimately who he was: the preferred chief of staff of the 'no policies, just vibes' crowd, who are in denial even now that they have driven Labour to the brink of death.

One of Boris' Cabinet ministers used to say that Dominic Cummings was like Richard II: 'everything is going badly, he just kept going "hey, remember when I stopped the Peasants' Revolt?" and Dom is like that, but with Vote Leave' and so much of this is the same.

Been thinking how much some bits of MAGA match up with Russia’s use of the culturally and economically surplus manpower of 40-something men from the provinces as cannon fodder in Ukraine

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Five years ago I caught my dumbest ban

we're all celebrating now but remember we've just released a new substacker and podcaster into the wild

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

morgan mcsweeney: [sadly exits downing street] new chief of staff morgan macsweeney wearing a suspicious moustache: eyy boss he resoigned on his own toims see? let’s get back to woik

I love that Cuomo sucked so badly that even in the wildest theories of his most unwell supporters he can only tie

Good. The UK is not a big CLP to have fun fighting factional battles with.

Really enjoying that there are two parties seemingly named after 1 person - neither of which is the party predicted to get 1 seat

For a politician as psychotically ambitious as RAK appearing on TV during an unannounced leadership contest not to promote your own candidacy but to attack someone else's is proof you are a real hater

After a certain point the sanity of Palantir's leadership does matter to the national security of the UK and other European states buying its software

If people are going to make money from social media, it seems so wildly obvious that what can be broadcast by the platforms is regulated in the same was as TV is.

Can only read the third one up in the voice of a dad fixing a car