Call me a woke purity-test white knight leftist if you like, but I think "the President should not be a sexual abuser or rapist" is a pretty low bar for the most powerful office in the world.

To be clear, we already know that Trump is a serial sexual abuser of at least 25 women. In a 2016 YouGov poll, only 16% of registered Republicans felt that disqualified him from the Presidency. In his monstrous exercise of patriarchal prerogative, many men find something aspirational - not evil.

I cannot compute how a party with a Qanon wing, that speaks of 'exposing' the 'elite pedophiles', has a base that does not care at all whether the President of the United States is a paedophile rapist. There's levels of Freudian projection going on here that seem impossible to sustain.

A really moving long-read - a biography of one of the many people failed by our society. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

This was always my own personal favourite Joyce Carol Oates burn - of Curtis Yarvin and his fellows.

Pleasantly surprised that the current US Supreme Court upheld the rights of same-sex couples under the 14th Amendment. But the status of same-sex couples is still fragile without a further amendment explcitily enshrined a right to marry. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

"ever since we subjected every sphere of human existence to perpetual surveillance, there are a lot of photographs of people reading"

This term is so social media-brained. Coined by people who can't imagine themselves without an audience, or that anyone could genuinely want to pass time in any other form than Stare at Phone

time to do a winter bulk i guess. the lion does not heed the opinion of a calorie tracking app 😤

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

I've noticed some people on Twitter are prone to arguing with Grok, posing leading questions to get Grok to confirm their most delusional, conspiratorial beliefs. I worry that this behavior + AI's politeness bias + lack of mental health services + widespread guns will lead to bad things.

This kind of story is something I think about a lot when it comes to the arts. In some ways it's never been easier to cultivate an audience by yourself, but conversely it does seem like people's ability to formally access the arts has diminished: UK arts do seem to be very stratified

back from Egypt, shocked to find out it is not 31 degrees in the UK. what have you guys been playing at

The part of Mamdani's speech that I found most exciting was "you dismantle the conditions that allowed him to gain power. That's how we stop Trump — and the next one." We need popular political figures to point out that Trump is not an anomaly and there are plenty more to take his place.

If you’re still on X, why? Why are you happily contributing to this? Is your follower count so important that you can’t make a stand? observer.co.uk/news/columni...

I constantly see people join Reform, convinced of a platform it never had. It's a huge problem with our media that many Ref voters *think* the party will invest in public services despite the very clear pledges to cut, cut, cut. It isn't interested in "getting things done" for anyone!

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£600 for 3 office chairs is just....how much office chairs cost?!

Come now, Your Party will be a significant socialist organising force ready to contest the 2029 general election by about halfway through 2033.

Also because the people inside it are too cowardly to either spend the money or demolish/stop using the building to not spend it, so their staff have to work in a deathtrap instead. We are encouraged not to see this as a metaphor for how Britain is run.

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

Yes, they are actually saying that a "foreigner" who has worked here for decades, paid National Insurance, & is entitled BECAUSE OF THAT to a state pension, would be deported for the crime of claiming it.

when I was 16 years old I founded my college's anti-fascist movement and we worked to try to unseat our BNP MEP. try having consistent principles babe its not hard!!!

people always want tidy historical narratives. and it always makes me nervous because humans are some messy bitches. so if you’re trying to tidy up the past, i need to know what you plan on doing with that tidy, *useable* history.

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Yes, it's gauche and classless, but the real story here is he's renovating the White House because he intends to live there after his second and final term is legally over. It's a signal of dictatorial ambition.

This White Paper is one of the most depressing things I‘ve read about universities. It‘s a vision of universities as places that exist just to invent things & train people for industry. The purpose of universities is just to drive economic growth.

Late to watching it but this is absolutely painful. Shallow characterisation, absurd anime battle-scenes, Marvel dialogue. It's made worse by its constant attempts to oay homage to the Jackson films and appropriate their motifs - a stark reminder that you could be watching something much better.

If you want the punk version of this, Leicester Anarchist Federation used to claom that Peter Kropotkin had pissed in a specific toilet in the pub they met in.

My friends who are immigrants are, each and every one of them, pondering where they're going to go. Even if they're not compelled to leave, the ambient hostility suffusing the UK makes them scared to live their lives.

ok I finally watched the stupid Trump diarrhea thing and I have to confess I thought some of you had made that up as a bit. but no, the President of the United States of America really did post an AI video of him physically shitting on his political opponents.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/sumo... OK but we need a full-time "Sumo Wrestlers explore the world" TV show right now. Just hours of these giant lads wandering around the Louvre and the Pyramids, drinking coffee in Italian piazas etc etc

it is my pleasure to report they are indeed mad as fuck on the other site over being blocked and ignored. keep up the excellent work everyone

I both think this is funny, and also think the chances of the US state declaring this website a terrorist organisation are about 50/50 in the next year.

[through gritted teeth] Block and move on. Block and move on.

If only there was some way to predict how Trump might behave in office during his second presidential term.

Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead. When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.

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"I'm not surprised the personal attacks have started. They've got loads of lines: about my teeth, about my history as an actor, about my name change... the right just don't actually have a line of attack against me that's political"

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Appalling framing from the BBC, here. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A perfect distillation of AI use: it can save you time, but it alienates you completely from the intended outcome. Sure, you can chat to twelve people with minimal effort but you won't make a connection with any of them - just as you can generate 100 mediocre essays and understand nothing.

I just wanna express that I hate EMR so so much

Truly, German is the lego-bricks of languages

Can't imagine why this lot would have trouble connecting with the public.

We had years of debate about whether Trump's movement was a fascist one - I never expected them to openly identify themselves with historical fascism.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross