Though we can't be sure in any one case, it's such a common pathology among certain types of privileged people that I suspect it might be transferance: the redirection of trauma and self-hatred. What presents as mocking self-confidence could reveal deep insecurity and/or externalisation of fear.

I know this type. I've seen them often enough. They revel in being obnoxious: but not towards the rich and powerful, to whom they fawn. Always towards the weaker and the poorer: towards people who don't have their privileges, such as access to private medical care. They think it's funny and daring.

Lovely people, these Reform UK candidates for the upcoming election, and great to know they're on our side.

When you aggregate the comments of various Reform UK candidates, you find they: Hate the NHS Hate immigrants Hate Black people Hate Brown people Hate Muslims Hate Jews Hate women Hate students Hate LGTBQ people Hate the unemployed Hate disabled people Hate everyone ... But claim to love the country.

We get it, he’s rich. But politicians, pundits, political appointees, and people in general should not take cues from Marc Andreessen. His worldview is abhorrent and bears no relationship to the views of everyday Americans. /end

Andreessen has also advised the Trump administration on tech and economic policy, and Andreessen’s business partner, Ben Horowitz, is in Riyadh with Trump *right now* /11 bsky.app/profile/artc...

Despite how out of step Andreessen’s views are with normal people, he has a massive amount of political influence. For example: - He interviewed people for DOGE - Three a16z employees are now Trump officials - He recently headlined a fundraising event for Sen. Ruben Gallego

In February, Andreessen’s firm a16z hired Daniel Penny, whose only real qualification for the job appeared to be strangling a homeless Black man on the New York City subway. /9 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/t...

Historian Rick Perlstein met Andreessen in 2017. Last year, Perlstein wrote that Andreessen—referring to people who never left their hometowns like he did—told him something like “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.” /8 prospect.org/power/2024-0...

Semafor calls Andreessen a “nuclear reactor who powered many groups.” In some chats, “executives commiserated about how to handle employee demands that they … declare that ‘Black Lives Matter’ or support policies they didn’t actually believe in around transgender rights.” /7

Andreessen reportedly hosts a vast universe of group chats with tech execs and political influencers. They’ve included white supremacist Richard Hanania, right-wing provocateur Chris Rufo, alleged fraudster Tyler Winklevoss, Tucker Carlson, and more. /6

Late last year it was reported that Andreessen invested in a VC fund that aims to create a “Christian enclave in Kentucky.” The firm, New Founding, has also announced plans to create an alternate economy for conservatives and has called leftists “anti-human.” /5 www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

Marinetti writes that Futurists “want to glorify war,” “demolish the libraries,” and “fight feminism.” He was a key supporter of Mussolini and architect of Italian fascism. After the “Manifesto of Futurism,” Marinetti co-authored the “Fascist Manifesto.”

In his 2023 “Techno-Optimist Manifesto,” Andressen described Italian fascist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti as one of the “patron saints of techno-optimism.” Andreesen even paraphrased a portion of Marinetti’s “Manifesto of Futurism” in his own writing. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

In January, Andreessen called Curtis Yarvin “a friend.” Yarvin, 3 weeks earlier: “everything rots when it has no owner—human beings included.” Also Yarvin: “It is very difficult to argue that [the Civil War] made anyone’s life more pleasant, including that of freed slaves.”

Marc Andreessen is one of the most influential men in America. The billionaire venture capitalist has an audience with everyone from Trump officials to pundits to Democratic senators to tech execs the world over. So it’s a bit concerning that his worldview leans fascist. 🧵 /1

And it's a bit concerning that he is a major investor in Substack. Marc Andreesen is shaping media into his vision and some of y'all are just letting him. You are letting SS use your left leaning journalism to launder right wing extremism. It's making me nuts.

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces fired tear gas at Palestinian schoolchildren who were staging a sit-in protest Monday after settlers blocked access to their school in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta region.

God suffices me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. This is what the occupation did in Khan Yunis I ask you to help and share to reach the goal together Thank you all chuffed.org/project/1686...

Praise be to God for everything, and this is our situation now in the tents We hope everyone will participate and support us to achieve the goal In order to get what we want from food and our lives Thank you all chuffed.org/project/1686...

Please contribute if you're able or share the original if you're not. Note that the most effective way to get help for people is to directly ask people you know

We can find £600m for tech that might help us in ten years (big bold announcement) - but not the courage to take on this foolish market mechanism. Shame.

Why won't Labour grasp this nettle - we need to break the link between the price of fossil gas and the price of all other forms of electricity made here. That (and only that) can bring bills down immediately. And protect us for the future. Legislation to do it exists - only the will seems missing.

Global fossil markets do. So these nukes could appear tomorrow, could even make affordable energy - but it won't affect our electricity bills at all - because all of the stuff we make here is priced somewhere else.

And that’s not all. Rachael Reeves is right to flag the importance of making our own energy here, to protect us from future crises - but she overlooks the elephant in the room (no not Trump) - we don't set the price of electricity made here, whether from the wind, sun or nuclear.

This crisis will be over by then and the ones that will follow. How on earth can anyone think that something coming in ten years is an answer to a crisis we’re in right now?

This sentiment get’s worse when we hear that this mini nuke investment is intended as an answer to the middle east inspired - second fossil fuel crisis of this decade so far. The ‘hope’ is to have the first three up and running by 2035, nine whole years from now.

Amazing collection this, of hope over reason. Britain just invested £600m into Rolls Royce’s ‘mini nuke’ program - that was always coming. But here we see it’s being done in the hope that these things can be built faster than the big versions that are slow and always late. Hope. buff.ly/ooAYgOS

Mayotte (France): Mouvements mixtes vers Mayotte le long de la route de l’océan Indien occidental - Avril 2026 #Refugees

Covid is airborne.

It’s vital everyone understands so you can choose to prevent spreading infections to those around you and protect yourselves and those you love.

What we see in much of the media is talk of how the ‘last Covid strain is no more serious than the current’ but they are all serious. They all carry risks for 3 or more years. From a leading expert on long covid. Mild symptoms are not the same as saying this will lead to a mild outcome.

"Hope is, of course, the main emotion one associates with Reform UK, a party whose other big intervention last weekend was Robert Jenrick’s online whinge that poor and disabled people were stealing from hardworking families via the medium of cut-price tickets to London Zoo."

"Mourners carry the bodies of... killed in an Israeli strike... in Gaza City on April 15... In the evening of April 14, the civil defense agency reported that multiple people were killed in a strike near an intersection in the Al-Shati refugee camp..." www.threads.com/@omarelqatta... (3/x)

"Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinians... killed in an Israeli strike on the Al-Shati refugee camp... in Gaza City on April 15... ...Al-Shifa hospital confirmed receiving 5 bodies from an Israeli bombing... (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA AFP via Getty Images)" www.threads.com/@omarelqatta... (2/x)

"Mourners carry the bodies of Palestinians allegedly killed in an Israeli strike on the Al-Shati refugee camp during their funeral in Gaza City on April 15, 2026... (Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP via Getty Images) Photos by @omarelqattaa" www.threads.com/@omarelqatta... (1/x)

Everybody knows the water companies are a bunch of charlatans and thieves. Watch my interview on why privatisation is — and always has been — a total disaster. youtu.be/1J2D0PgbAbQ?...

The world watched as Israel razed Gaza to the ground. Now, the world is watching as Israel razes Lebanon to the ground. War crimes beget war crimes — and the failure to bring Israel to justice for genocide has emboldened it to destroy human life with total impunity.

100 bombs in 10 minutes. 10 per minute. Just imagine that happening in Rome or Paris or Tel Aviv. What would the world's reeaction be? But it happened in 🇱🇧, so who cares? vm.tiktok.com/ZNRVDYRES/

"What these votes offer is an organizing opportunity for all of us to show the Senators the broad gap between where they are, and what the base is demanding of them." jewishcurrents.org/democratic-s...

Tennessee’s Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers wpln.org/post/tenness...

free speech is when you're free to shut up and sit there while i give a speech

Check out our story, about an influencer allegedly on a mission to target women in video games (and video games journalism), and inadvertently making thousands of his private conversations public in the process, here:

There are many ways to publicly humiliate yourself using AI. For instance, if you're a Youtuber still holding a torch for Gamergate, your conversations with ChatGPT—in which you hurl slurs at the bot when it refuses to obey you—could become allegedly damning evidence in a lawsuit against you.

4 days since a donation. Omar has a large family to take care of and relies on you all ❤️ Don't let him down. chuffed.org/project/1400...

"Which country in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? It's not Iran, it's Israel... Which country in the Middle East attacked six countries last year? It wasn't Iran, it was Israel." From my Piers Morgan debate with Israeli spokesman Doron Spielman. Full show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkk1...

All he’s got. My @smh cartoon.

Breaking: WASHINGTON (AP) - Justice Department moves to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys in major Jan. 6 cases.