God I hate Minns, and hate the fact that the NSW Libs have dragged themselves into the MAGA sewer to the point where I have to preference his government even more

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

He was charged with not having a valid boat registration 😂 electrek.co/2026/05/19/t...

this seems like it’s just asking for problems

this guy is a wrecker piece of shit and too many people follow him. his goal is to get reposted and get followers and get engagement and part of the reason you can tell is because he’s lying to you about what power dems have to censure any of their members and mixing senators and house reps

I definitely have become a lot more cosmopolitan chauvinist in a way that I know is sort of problematic, but I just don't see any way around it. If you allow the provincially minded too much autonomy they inevitably regress and start trying to burn witches, they need minding by their betters.

Having an old friend for dinner

start-up idea no. 25,368: 'Hot Takes', a takeaway service that only serves items there is food discourse about, which you order through your social media app by subtweeting the items you want

You could probably play quite a difficult game of “Restore Britain Voter or American Bluesky User?”

Others have said this but I do think we do need at some point to talk about how many Americans don't actually think the rest of the worlds is as diverse as them

two tradies knocking up what looks like an ok pasta sauce in their van. fucking give these lads a tv show.

‘My dear Engels, please send me some money’

V interesting piece. Amateur landlords selling to multi property larger landlords is probably a good thing.

Yes, I suppose cyclists usually are

I like fine dining, and I'm very happy to combine that with drinking too much wine. I also like gin. I nonetheless think that a six course dégustation paired with six neat gins is an impressively terrible way to expensively ruin both!

My view on prediction markets is that they are a sucker's play, an obviously stupid thing to put money into and expect a positive return from, basically the prototypical example of a rigged market but also I don't see how they're any worse than normal forms of gambling on real life events

It's like being corrected over a mispronunciation of a name. Those making an honest mistake might feel embarrassed, but not generally annoyed or "policed" by the corrector. Those who *do* feel that way aren't making honest mistakes, they just don't think they should have to use right pronunciations.

American money is behind so much of the UK far right, from little Tommy to anti-abortion activism. It’s not even hidden

Birth rate discourse is like “It turns out if you give women more choices, they’re less likely to make ones that make their lives harder.” Which is really helpful in figuring out how we can improve society somewhat. But instead people are like wow giving women more choices was a mistake

I have a little bit of a take on the weekend's discourse and it is that I think we should be better at differentiating between "people who want to have kids are either not having them or having fewer than they'd like" (bad! must fix!) and "the overall fertility rate is going down" (eh, ah well)

So like, other than the total failure to understand the work itself, what I find especially funny here is that if he were alive today then I suspect there are very few people on Earth that Tolkien would despise as much as Elon Musk specifically.

The UK is not occupied by Zionists, if you think that it is you are genuinely a moron.

The only characteristic of Trump that I find personally relatable is his extreme contempt for evangelicals that support Trump

Good, we need all the power we can get if we're going to get rid of farmers.

It's incredibly funny watching Millennials demonstrating that Douglas Adams's technology adoption rules remain valid decades later

Union power as a constraint on private sector employers' ability to extract surplus is broadly good for society as a whole; union power as a constraint on democratically elected governments' ability to achieve their policy and budget goals is broadly bad for society as a whole.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

trying to overturn a free and fair election is, in a real democracy, one of the most serious crimes there is nine years is a light sentence for what she did

“This poem revolutionizes our understanding of the ancient world,” says Trinity professor Oliver O’Leary. “We had no idea that the ancient Romans had knowledge of Nantucket, let alone met a man from there. And the rich anatomical detail—“

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

well i guess we know what happened to molesworth when he got old

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 17,1944

REPORTER: here you go boss, interviewed some real scum of the earth types just like you wanted NEWS DIRECTOR: you mean salt of the earth REPORTER: sure yeah

This mostly just tells you how much less they know about you than you think

their culture is not your costume 😔

The questions in this survey are badly drafted, obsessed with the US while and often make little sense economically. It’s a really poor effort. Here are my ones that can’t be answered properly (sometimes one can see what they’re getting at but not literally and sometimes it’s just confusing) 🧵

Musk says an hour of his time is worth $100 million yet he spends six hours a day angrily posting online every time a big budget Hollywood movie casts a Black person in a starring role. Curious!

“Crucifixion?” “Yes” “Good. Out of the door. Line on the left. One cross each”

It is worth reading this in the context that it's a matter of record that all of President Trump's close advisers are completely mental and very racist, and most of them are also extremely stupid

The moral issue is a tactical one. The United Kingdom did not become atomised 2024-6, and remains much less of a warm home to racism than many countries which score better on the various metrics the “let’s explain away the racism” brigade blame for it. Moral arguments are also very important.

Fascinating, as demonstrated by Putin's slow nation-destroying grind and Trump's rapid party-and-possibily-nation-destroying farce, how the balance of military power has shifted to defenders in a way that even a brutal invading force with no shits given about civilian casualities can't overcome.

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "It was a tough shift, especially having to make nice with the owner's drunken idiot friends on top of the footy crowd, but somehow we got through another evening."

You may think the people still on Twitter are stupid for losing their shit about a black actress playing Helen of Troy. But we, the ones who know true Balkan shitposting, know the true key to the greatest shitfight conceivable: cast a Turkish actress

They've been clear for a while. One of the key figures in setting up the LGB Alliance, Gary Powell, is a lobbyist with previous work for the Witherspoon Institute (anti abortion, anti same sex marriage) and CBC (pro conversion therapy, anti sperm donation) transsafety.network/posts/profil...

I'm sorry, I refuse to believe the ending here www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If we're going to have quizzes which are clearly written for only one part of the world, can we have some from places that aren't the US? Imagining an NI Political Compass, 80% of the questions for which would be trying to work out if you're one of Themmuns.

The critique of Burnham here appears to be 'he only did the things he was allowed to do in law' and, erm, well, yes? He still did them lads

This is such a blatant abuse of economics/data I will assign it in my Data Analysis course next term..

Agree, original post is baffling. The McSweeney/Starmer project was based on "you can get away with economically left wing policies if you're fashy enough on culture"; the actual outcome was that nobody on the left noticed the economic policy, and nobody on the right believed the fashiness

I’d like you all to run “transgender extremists captured the BBC” through your deranged conspiracy theory bullshit detector, and see whether it pings