Nothing destroys my high ideals about the benefits of public transport faster than an encounter with British public transport.

Your occasional reminder is due again I see: There's always enough room in any given situation for everyone to be wrong.

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

It’s a very weak statement. I don’t think it’s an explicit backing of Trump’s attack – if anything, the reference to international law indicates not backing it – but I do think Starmer has probably pulled off the trick of being sufficiently vague as to annoy both the US government and its critics.

Reagan gave Thatcher a few hours before and she was famously furious about it. Also Grenada was in the commonwealth.

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100% seriously, European leaders and Commission officials should plan on the basis that the US might do this to them too, about Greenland, about tech regulation, about “Christian values”, about “free speech”, whatever.

Congress was not only not consulted: even the committees that oversee the Defense Department were kept in the dark, CNN reports. cnn.it/4aHZou2

⚠️ The Vice President of Venezuela has spoken by phone to a Venezuelan television news channel. She confirmed that Venezuelan President Maduro’s whereabouts are unknown, demanded proof of life for Maduro from Trump, and called the people of Venezuela to the streets.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Impeach, convict and remove. I don't know what Congress is there for otherwise.

In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.

SOAR (A) Little Birds firing rockets in the middle of a South American city, did I wake up in 1989?

My controversial hot take: If people are consenting adults, I can’t find myself that upset about age gaps in romantic relationships. I don’t get why anyone cares. It’s assumption of the worst on everyone’s part and it’s not my business. Am I wrong? If they are CONSENTING ADULTS only.

Incredible so few people have this on their radar. In February (knock knock) we are sending humans to the moon (to orbit and come back) for the first time since Apollo over 50 years ago. #scicomm 🧪 #space #moon www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...

Shamima Begum was a minor when she left the UK. We had a duty of care which was conveniently forgotten about. High time she had her citizenship reinstated.

A vulnerable child was groomed and trafficked and then subjected to the most shocking experiences imaginable including the deaths of her babies. Instead of taking responsibility the British establishment stripped her of her citizenship and dumped her like old rubbish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As we see so regularly , it is always the teenage girls fault , mix that with political cowardice that is driven by “but what will the Daily Mail say if we do something humane” and we have a system desperate to appease the worst of us, and to utterly ignore those who dare to empathise

I'm re-re-posting this because it's such a good essay. "...writers should also never forget these two secrets of using LLMs to help your writing: - First drafts are where the thinking begins. - If you become dependent upon a tool, that tool can be taken away."

Ruin two bands by combining them: Wang Purple... needs Cream

Score one for “fuck you, make me”

It seems like the right time to mention that I'm very fond of you all. Yeah, even you. And to anyone I can be any use to with whatever pathetic power I might muster to your need: always love, always support.

Ruin two bands by combining them Banaramones

meanwhile.... medicine has taken INSANE leaps and bounds in the last 2 years. we're out here curing HIV and leukemia and creating 100% efficacy vaccines against all sorts of cancers, and now this?? between this and renewable energy outstripping fossil fuels in efficiency, the future is bright

“financially devastating but morally exhilarating” is the mood to aim for

A culture that diminishes the idea of what a person is to 'consumer' finds yet another way to devalue any kind of expertise and process folks into something that despises effort and habitually looks to a product to provide them with answers. Not only a feature, always the point.

A sizable uptick in measles cases in the ongoing outbreak in South Carolina has put the U.S. on the precipice of losing its elimination status.

Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/ #StarTrek

damn that baby looks cool as hell

Anti-intellectualism is a deep vein in US history. Ignorance, has also been associated w/"honesty," "common sense," & "authenticity," qualities completely unrelated to it. @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social Hello. In evangelical dogma, is ignorance considered to bring a person closer to God?

Com read some free one page comics !

This is what the entire internet used to be. Just page after page of maniacs putting maximum effort into something totally inexplicable simply because they wanted to. This is what they took from you. floor796.com

A certain segment of the hard right is clearly using anti-Israel sentiment, shading into overt antisemitism, to distinguish themselves from Trump, to represent the next generation of the MAGA movement, and to attract a crossover left-wing audience. It is incumbent on leftists not to fall for this.

Peter Kellner summarises bloc politics very well here (inc. my work w/ @martamiori.bsky.social and thoughts by @benansell.bsky.social). This has been especially relevant in the last year or so, because the Brexit elections polarised the blocs. It also isn't new... t.co/DoqLs6x740

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

“But what about your pension? If there’s a crash!” A warning that sadly falls on deaf ears for those of us whose pension was our creative work, stolen in the first place to build this teetering edifice of toxic dogshit.

Obvious 'amusing' comment to this is "we need a vaccine for brainworms". But it exist: a culture realising equal right to opinion doesn't mean equal validity of all opinions, and that how strongly you believe something is immaterial - strength comes from evidence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

It’s not often I read something that changes how I behave at once but this is it. I love my Apple CarPlay and… “when using Apple CarPlay by touch reaction times were nearly five times worse than when a driver was at the drink-drive limit, and nearly three times worse than when high on cannabis”

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

The supreme sense of Lord Percy's entitlement drips off the screen grab.

I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax. Hang on. I'll find my violin.

"Labour Alienating Rural People by opposing hunts" lads I'm gonna be real with you the purpose of a social democratic party is not to speak for the country squire

How I've arranged the individual program windows on my laptop now has about as much to do with the various bits of fluff I've scraped across the screen in the last few weeks as any kind of actual utility.

I think about this quite a lot