Seems about right although I'd deemphasise the Atlanticist aspect these days for reasons you can probably guess.

please remember all of us who will dislike Nolan's Odyssey for non-chud reasons.

What i think is really funny is how everybody in Labour has decided to crack on with a leadership election while Keir is presumably like. Guys. I havent resigned. What are you doing

Not to put this one person on blast - a lot of folks say this - but you can't actually "just end the war." Iran has to agree to end the war. You can unilaterally stop bombing - we did! - and the war might not end. Iran is going to demand *payment* to end the war, in the form of concessions.

Tonight’s stalemate

Reached that stage of any British political nonsense where it becomes impossible to distinguish between breaking news from political reporters, shitposts from random people, breaking news from random people and shitposts from political reporters.

You must admit this would all be much more entertaining if we had a Labour Graham Brady

David Rees, 10/30/01

I'm not fond of Gonk droids.

That's the west coast mainline for you

Pondering your orb is inherently neoliberal.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

The 2020s are really shaping up to be an incredibly bleak decade aren't they. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Can you imagine going back to 1776 and telling the Founding Fathers that in 250 years, the King of England would be standing in the United States Capitol lecturing American lawmakers about the importance of democratic norms?

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

The only way out of the housing crisis is to actually build the fucking housing. There are no other shortcuts.

If this Delta Force guy who bet on the Maduro raid wants to be found not guilty, he could do a better job of dressing like “someone who doesn’t place sketchy polymarket bets”

The correct position here is that the men are right about this but that they support nuclear power mostly because splitting the atom is just kinda cooler than some wind blowing or the sun shining

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

When I die bury me with a bunch of these like they’re terracotta soldiers

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Never should have been either. If anyone couldn't tell there was something wrong with the "left wingers" naming themselves after the people who committed the Armenian Genocide, that's on them.

Cenk has been working the tankie left --> far right matchup for a long time now, possibly as someone paid. There is a concerted effort now to merge the ends of the horseshoe. Cenk and really anyone from TYT should never be trusted as a genuine, independent voice.

We all have days like this

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

peter magyar campaign posters: we need better wages for hungarians viktor orban campaign posters:

There are two fields when you follow another country's politics - "things that are our business" and "things that are not our business" and for the time being the fact that Hungary has no left is not really our business.

Mr Gorbachev, I’m building my own wall.

What the fuck?

There is no policy that can mitigate an absolute shortage except by relentlessly screwing the Global South.

So many female journalists I know has at least one me too story they couldn’t get over the line because it’s so hard. You need so many victims to go on the record. And for so many good and understandable reasons - like fear of being sued - victims are scared.

The extent to which Netanyahu has detroyed Israel's global reputation is hard to overstate.

today in questions from my four year old: “when people die how do you dig out their bones?”

Two observations on the statement by Melania Trump, which are in tension with each other. 1. It is hard to see what professional advice led to her making it. 2. The statement was well drafted but she seemed unfamiliar with it, which indicates it was drafted at least in part by someone else. Odd.

I think Kemi is a mad partisan who has absolutely no theory of mind.

Okay not TV or film but - breaking with the general vibe of the series - Grand Theft Auto IV

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

a truly stupendous amount of this is Israel’s fault *but* there is going to be growing horseshoe pressure to claim that it is *all* Israel’s fault and I don’t think that’s true

Begging, pleading: You can't have a ceasefire deal everyone understands to mean completely different things. This isn't like a trade negotiation, this actually matters.

Unsure on time but was just reported: Saudi Arabia’s vital east-west oil pipeline carrying crude from the Gulf to the Red Sea for export has been attacked, according to two people familiar with the matter. -FT

I'm not being funny but Ukraine and Syria have /actually/ - actually, with no ambiguity on Who Started It - been victims of Iranian military adventurism and I genuinely do not care if they don't express one iota of sympathy

Oman and Iran seeing Trump somehow agreed to let them collect their entire GDPs in taxes on shipping

PRIME MINISTER SHARIF HE DOESN'T USE TWITTER YOU NEED TO GO ON TRUTH SOCIAL

it’s very funny to come on bluesky and implore everyone to call their reps, this is the nerd website, we are way ahead of you. go explain what a government is to the people on threads