What countries besides the US have had a head of government that was a US citizen before they assumed the office? The ones I can think of are: Ireland: de Valera UK: Boris Johnson Vatican City: Leo Surely there's more, but I don't have a good index on this.

Don't think US establishment thinking that they can just see Trump out then return to normal has yet acknowledged just how much damage he will have done to its global standing or position, never mind the web of global corruption he's created

We need mass ownership of video cameras that do cryptographic signing, and it's going to be painful until that happens. At least, we need journalists to have them.

I really question whether I'll still live in the UK a year from now.

Coming to the conclusion that LLMs are a tool that require radical self knowledge to use effectively and safely, and destroy those who don’t have it, or refuse to have it

I'll say it again, as I do almost every day in some context: the way policy is set up right now, most British universities will either radically downsize or close in this Parliament or the next. Only a small elite of c.10 to 20 will be recognisable as univs at all. How do people not know this?

For someone who lives in Clacton, what is the optimal strategy? What is the Farage/Binface two candidate vote breakdown that damages him the most? I’m guessing 52%/48%

Guy who doesn't know where Toulouse is: www.maptap.gg July 8 100🎯 93🏆 100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 Final score: 987

My favorite bit of Assange lore is cablegate got published bc he was grifting off routine maintenance saying cia hacked the site so some German hackers thinking it was legit grabbed the never meant to be public press backups and seeded torrents which David Leigh had disclosed the pw to in a book

Oo remembers when Farage getting debanked was a scandal

A new AP poll of Jewish Americans Mamdani (+5): 44% Favorable 39% Unfavorable Netanyahu (-27): 32% Favorable 59% Unfavorable Trump (-42): 29% Favorable 71% Unfavorable apnorc.org/wp-content/u...

Got home and turned on the football, it’s been an incredibly exciting ten minutes

Reminded once again that, especially for rural jurisdictions, US property taxes--the primary way that municipalities are funded, so I think it's the like-to-like comparison--are off the charts compared to UK council taxes

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

once again, i'm begging the US and UK to make it feasible for UK-resident Americans to not have investing in ETFs be a tremendous pain in the ass (yes, "do it in a pension"--but I don't want to be limited to that--or yes, "simply invest in US ETFs that are HMRC reporting funds." pain in the ass!)

@clairewillett.bsky.social Have you looked into the Transalpine Redemptorists/Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer? They've only this year reasserted their sedevacantism. Looks like there's going to be another excommunication-inducing event on July 25th

Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated

you just know right now some collins staffer is looking at a file on his laptop called "Platner-nword--SEND-2026-09-15.mp4" and shaking his head sadly

Good. I'm surprised he's apparently not going to fight it.

The toddler just called a clear plastic tube “rubber glass,” which is excellent

On the BBC website this has the fascinating headline “Buckingham Palace says Prince Harry will not stay there,” which uses the same word both as metonymy and literally

I continue to be impressed by what the Ukrainians are doing here. Destroying the oil infrastructure is such a great strategy, and they're pulling it off.

Hearing a random guttural scream from down the street and trying to figure out who scored based on whether it sounded more Germanic or Romantic

i increasingly feel like the standard leftist toolkit systematically disempowers compassionate people who take ideas seriously by convincing them that everything that is or could be powerful is impure, and they should abstain from those things

we constantly rely on unreliable tools (some of them in meat suits and with hair) by adding compensating controls around their actions so the outputs are bounded and, while not deterministic, predictable in the real world, this is normal. but now *you* have to look at it, and some people hate that

Skill sets students should acquire: - think critically and evaluate lines of evidence - write and present creatively and professionally - negotiation, collaboration and healthy group dynamics - what Computer can/can’t/should/shouldn’t do - domain expertise - when/how to post vs. touch grass

That math is STEM and philosophy is humanities should tell you this is all fake

“Reduced to a procedural loophole for gate keeping power” is exactly how he would want to be remembered

I find it crazy that every residential landlord is mandated to act as an arm of the home office (right to rent etc), but commercial landlords can just cash the cheques no questions asked?

So do the right-wing gaisensha use loudspeakers because they learned one good lesson from Mishima

The paradox of Northern Ireland's existence as a political unit is that: - the state it is actually part of couldn't care less about it - the state nominally wanting to annex it in fact desperately tries to preserve it - the political movement claiming devotion to it constantly tries to destroy it

This headline was written by a Floridian

Wakanda would get flattened by the Chadian Army's hyper advanced approach of "small units in technicals use flanking maneuvers" and "have literally any indirect fires."

A good run ruined by guessing wrong whether a town is a Perth suburb or a far flung northern Western Aus extraction port, somewhat recovered by knowing China better than most www.maptap.gg July 4 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 75🤗 98🔥 Final score: 919

Bet Taylor Swift is annoyed she missed that match

Who would have known Argentina would have so much trouble battling a remote Atlantic archipelago?

Cabo Verde didn’t pull it off but they fought so hard

I honestly do think it's pretty sad Trump has basically destroyed the celebration of the USA's 250th anniversary because he is incapable of not making everything about himself. 1776 was very flawed but also a genuinely important moment worthy of celebration!

Ah, yeah, these parents want to disqualify minority groups from competing so their daughters have a better shot at college And we’re supposed to find that sympathetic Okay

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Us? No, we can’t beat him. But they can *points to three ghosts* (We can totally beat him but it’s going to take a while)

Kind of surprised the feds haven’t said anything about fable yet?

Limited Run, etc. already do some of this, and they occupy a similar space to early vinyl revival producers (that is, more on the “indie” side of thing). So yeah, I welcome a future where they become more important even though the economics of the industry point away from it.

it's never a *bad* day to read @kjhealy.co on the subject, but today might be a particularly good day

New syllogism just dropped: X is a Y Z is a Y I like Z and not X Therefore X is a disgusting butchering of Z

I mean come on, this is Douglass' "Composite Nation" speech in 1867 calling for open borders and full citizenship for Chinese people: www.loc.gov/resource/mss...

Well, Eileen Cannon's confirmation hearings should be interesting.

Fuck the Supreme Court and long live our trans friends and family