I was supposed to go out with ex work mates last night This girl found me mate lost and bladdered last night in town Opened his phone and sent this to the group ha ha

presumably people have known about this the whole time she's been an MSP, so I wonder why it's hit the papers now

www.linkedin.com/posts/r-d-br... One of my former undergrad students (Ryan) is looking to develop research around chronic pain and self compassion. If you’d be interested in participating, please use the link or the QR code.

I like this, I want this, I would gladly vote for it. Not “despite massive reservations” but, these policies are good and I like them.

Sitting at the pub at Waverley Station takes me back to Christmas 2018 here with JK Rowling complaining Old Jezza’s Labour were rubbish. To which I recall saying: it’s not that I think they’re gifted or even mildly skilled, it’s that they’re the only people offering anything I actually want.

The fact that Democrats call things they perceive as bad communistic is an important cipher that decodes their thought patterns as being identical, in the granular sense, to Republicans, and heavily contaminated with Fascistic ideas.

These people care for nothing - not children, not victims of sexual violence, nothing. They are pure hate.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

lmao usailures seething

Checking in on Morgan McSweeney's grand electoral strategy

least corrupt fifa ruling

My latest substack is on my recent realisation that even though I've never been married, I might actually be divorced: tomusher.substack.com/p/am-i-divor...

being a Labour MP means making Difficult Choices like Repeating Daily Mail Lines and Being Paid To Do That

that's right

Toby Perkins is as generic a Labour Failson as it gets. His political nous begins and ends with doing exactly what his right wing seniors tell him to. So for him to suddenly be trying to coopt and distort the term 'progressive' tells me it's the official media stance now.

original Channel 4 report of Farage's bigoted school days was over 12 years ago (Sept 2013). didn't land at all because the wider press didn't engage with it for even a day. British journalists submitted Jeremy Corbyn to an order of magnitude more scrutiny for saying he loved James Joyce's Ulysses

to commemorate alan dye moving from apple to meta, here's one of his best quotes

Keir Starmer is set to offer a peerage to Matthew Doyle, who in his former job as Starmer's spokesman repeatedly used to assure me that his boss was firmly committed to abolishing the House of Lords www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

this is to date the peak expression of the energy the world needs to bring for the US team at the failing 2026 World Cup

founder this, founder that, still haven't founder way to see the kids at weekends

This looks bad, but the red is actually intended to signify Jolly Old Saint Nick, with Labour doing everything they can to get us into the Holiday spirit. (The green signifies Christmas tree numbers, which are declining because they're being cut down to decorate people's homes!)

Things the government is convinced are caused by your phone: - Unemployment - Neurodivergence - Being able to contact your MP directly (unacceptable) - Trans

One of the people leading this likely farce is Simon Wessley whose previous work includes a reasonably well debunked study of ME which was used to make it harder for sufferers to get support or recognition. Streeting knows exactly what outcome he wants from this meassociation.org.uk/2018/02/gove....

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

I love the BBC. "Energy grid investment of £28bn to push up household bills" [photo of wind farm] [third paragraph] ᵐᵒˢᵗ ᵒᶠ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿᵉʸ ʷⁱˡˡ ᵍᵒ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈˢ ᵐᵃⁱⁿᵗᵃⁱⁿⁱⁿᵍ ᵍᵃˢ ⁿᵉᵗʷᵒʳᵏˢ

I have some bad news about your most recent Black Friday purchase, the AI Pervert Toilet.

You do not hate Fine Gael enough. Their hands are every bit as bloody as israel's.

Yeah hi, I'll have a big mac meal aaaand please have the Grinch jack me off.

These little briefcase thinktanks seem to be completely unregulated and they are a regular source of embarrassments like this

No cum collection unit for US soldiers doing war crimes then

Always great to see your own personal “Do not build the torment nexus” moments come to life.

frankfurt school apology form

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.

"I can't believe you'd have an austerity and failure party and not invite me or Rachel 😢"

This is genuinely massive, like earth-shakingly big in terms of pushing back the anti-trans exclusion drive. The anti-trans movement have lost a case they didn't expect to lose and really couldn't afford to. I can't imagine them not appealing (near infinite money) but now the precedent exists.

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling” Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

UK using more wood to make electricity than ever, Drax figures show. Drax burns wood, the most expensive electricity, biggest UK polluter. Drax is highly profitable. Received subsidies for years, will receive £458.6m a year between 2027 and 2031. Govt doesn't take any equity stake.

It’s not the PM’s job to go to the water companies, instruct them to fix the systems they neglected so they could steal more money and jail execs, if they don’t. The PM’s job is to go on TV and explain that nothing can be done, convincingly enough so that the public don’t demand it get fixed.

Disgraced former anti corruption minister Tulip Siddiq saying her trial in Bangladesh was unfair as it was heard by one judge lmfao

Sam Altman today in the newspaper:

sometimes I remember Kier Starmer casually saying he'd break the Good Friday Agreement and campaign for the Union in the event of a referendum on Irish reunification and the media pretending it didn't happen

People seem to be under the impression that these debates will just be put on pause for the years and no, they won't and also they can't. People will argue about it. I intend to win the argument on the merits because there will be a different president one day and I'd like them to be of my view.

Then it should be trivially easy to find reliable data to put in your magazine article!

No kidding.

should people be ridiculed for their height? no. should people be ridiculed for pretending to be taller than they are? absolutely.

I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...