Which one is more English?

It’s the boomer dark web.

The people there are really nice by the way. I’m not the friend* being referred here by the way, I’m just saying they’re nice people in my experience. *I’ve never even met Jonn.

One often ignored, but crucial feature of absolute monarchies was the role of the king’s fool. It seems for those with near unrestrained power having at least one person whose job it was to mock you and your dumb as shit ideas provided an important check on dangerous excess. #bring-back-the-fools

Launching today is a series of proposals backed by the Adam Smith Institute, Bright Blue, CenTax, the Centre for Policy Studies, the Institute for Public Policy Research, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the New Economics Foundation, Resolution Foundation, Tax Policy Associates.

Then why is the British government still on X?

This crap just gets worse and worse as these companies fling #AI spaghetti at the wall (the PUBLIC) hoping desperately that something will stick — and PAY.

What’s gonna happen when they stop paying the rent on the housing? My buddy in Belgium was DoD and he did not live in army housing.

Imagine needing the attention that much. I think it must be a disease.

They live in a fantasy land, the lie of said land will not significantly change over Mamdani’s term.

I asked you kindly not to post my nudes. I asked you!

My wife and I had a Hindu wedding ceremony in her parents backyard and the HOA bitched about it and fined them. Over the years my FIL has built up an Indian voting bloc and now they control the whole thing and he walks around the development like this telling white people to mow their fucking lawn

I dunno, is it the snort-laugh thing?

I have to say, one of the weirdest things about McSweeney’s refusal to change tactics is that it suggests he’s completely oblivious to the fact that the fundamentals have changed. They’re in government now, not opposition - you can’t actually just run the same campaign.

Vs “no they’re not.”

To be fair to the government: 4 years is a good amount of time for Labour to deliver on their ambition of getting left bloc voters to hate them more than Reform.

To be fair to Labour, they are doing a lot to signal they are in one of the blocs: the right bloc.

And it comes back to my point from the other day. If Labour want to benefit from bloc-based voting, they do actually have to signal they are in one of the blocs.

A little bit of work news from me (well, not exactly news, but it's nice to get name checked in Screen Daily!) www.screendaily.com/features/the...

I think Lancashire’s Reform members may have misunderstood the instruction from central office to “get out the vote”. They didn’t mean make them homeless lads, stop being so literal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Demanding editor implores: no gerunds in headlines.

A little bit of work news from me (well, not exactly news, but it's nice to get name checked in Screen Daily!) www.screendaily.com/features/the...

Important question, people are asking.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when's bins?

Trillion dollar leadership.

I wish I could show you all the joyous photos and videos being shared on Muslim and South Asian WhatsApp right now with people reacting to Mamdani's victory. It's really beautiful and cathartic. So many years of anti-Muslim bigotry, racism & hate. And all those tears are now sugar for our chai.

Voilà ce que va créer l'IA Le doute systématique

Today seems a good day to repost this. It’s also a good day to remember you cannot do anything granular and sensible with Labour Force Survey data at the moment And the inactivity rate has plummeted since the data work for the Mayfield review was done*

“These AI tools are supposed to be there to serve us honestly with facts.” That is not what AI tools are for in any way, shape or form. It is problematic that our legislators seem to believe such erroneous nonsense.

The government should get rid of the price cap altogether - it shouldn’t be giving an energy subsidy to the wealthy! If you lose the cap the wealthy will invest in energy efficiency to reduce their bills (good for the climate) and you can target more help to the people who need it.

I would vote for Cuomo if the only word he could say was “Cuomo”.

Well… our conservative politicians are being pretty racist, so I guess so.

Omg lolololol

I don’t get it. America already has an aristocracy. They’re all called Kennedy or Bush - half your politicians are nepobabies - that’s an aristocracy bro!

This is a vastly unreported issue. A friend of mine is quite vocal about how much a Reform government scares him. I really think the mainstream media should be doing more to report the concerns of our ethnic minority friends and neighbours.

This is what mass immigration has done for the UK:

Have-go-ham-roll

I’m going to try and explain this joke to my American followers: Basically imagine that a socialist muslim was running for mayor of a premier global city so the establishment opposition ran a really racist negative campaign and was doing terribly in the polls, yet the most credulous mainstream hack

Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.

"They have taken the Bridge and the Second Hall. We have barred the gates, but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes... Drums. Drums in the deep. We cannot get out. Onions and mustard in the dark... We cannot get out... They are coming."

"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."

Sure the sandwich guy didn't actually hurt that cop, but that was because he was propelling the sandwich by hand, what if he'd had a sub machine gun

'I could smell the onions and the mustard'

Kinda weird how Republicans are so unbothered about needing to win over blue and purple states that they’ll throw up convicted felons and run on corruption and tax cuts for the rich and not care because it fires up their base - while Democrats are all “uwu we mustn’t be too critical of the nazis.”

“Emergency speech” Genuinely can’t think of an emergency that would ever benefit from someone giving a speech. It’s like responding to someone who says they’re going to vomit by handing them a pocket tissue.

Oh! It’s the guy from Wicked. Honestly, you really do need to mention these things if you expect the terminally not with it like me to know who the fuck you’re talking about. Don’t just say the actor’s name! I don’t know anyone’s name! I’m not a telephone directory!

this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...

Why is trust in politics so low? Asks government that is so disdainful of its voters that it’s own MPs have to stand outside No.10 with placards to try and get their attention.

I feel there’s probably a lesson in there somewhere about not letting popular politicians and wealthy folk get away with illegal shit because they’re popular politicians or wealthy.