anyway if you're anonymizing something strong recommend that you backcheck it by doing at least this: feed it back into a naive LLM to see if it can crack it

Jesus Christ

I note that the world’s deadliest cat starts adorable and grows into… omg it’s still just ridiculously adorable

Well, it’s a false dichotomy. Clean energy *is* cheap energy much of the time. This is effectively a push poll.

seriously.

tony blair and tony blair's caricature in TRANSMETROPOLITAN are basically merging into one. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

This is why in Glorantha it's perfectly legal to kill an Eurmali clown when they're doing their trickster thing (unless they're under the protection of an Orlanth initiate) because they're often genuinely messing with people and the 'jokes' have a nasty edge. (They're Cugel the Clever *at best*)

Dear Guardian, The whole point of you is that you're catering to an audience who can more-or-less read—you are not the Sun. All you had to do is explain early on that "neko" is Japanese for cat, and then you could have simply used "Nekonomics" rather than calquing it, and not ruined the pun. B x

Right wing bidding war over size and scope of concentration camps

Fortunately our adult education sector is thriving along with opportunities for mature students at universities where they live (eg Southend on Sea www.theguardian.com/environment/... )

the answer is yes

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

Last night husband read out highlights from the Blair essay. Before he started I said there’d be something about digital ID in it. Pumped my fist and whooped when Blair snuck it in at the end

I really don't think people are prepared for 10-20 years time or so when the first generation of proper private pension schemes hit and suddenly pensioner poverty shoots through the roof.

7. It is 2037. Nobody can remember why one of the campus coffee shops is called "Rephresh@Dysonsphere!!" 8. VC announces Project Excession, which will see the University connected simultaneously to ultraspace and infraspace by 2049.

5. Doubts are raised in a Senate subcommittee concerning the capacity of local industry to fully finance the initiative. These doubts are not minuted. 6. P-VC(KII) leaves to take up a better-paid position elsewhere.

3. The descriptor for every module must now be updated to specify its Project KII38 compliance against seventeen criteria. Each criterion has a logo. 4. Many long-running pet projects are discovered to be PKII38-critical, including the new payroll system, flipped classrooms, and nineteen MOOCs.

How it works in UK universities: 1. VC announces plan to make the university a Kardashev Type II institution by 2038. 2. An Associate Pro-VC (Kardashev II) is appointed. Twenty-three new abbreviations are authorised. A team from PWC are providing deliverability assurance.

Except it isn't what he did in government! He raised spending massively, raised taxes, increased welfare spending, increased immigration and was pro-EU integration. Now he's against all those things.

Not to mention that he's built a detention camp system on US soil where deaths from disease and malnutrition have already begun to accumulate. www.npr.org/2026/03/10/g...

I have in mind: cuts to USAID combined with this war and attendant oil shock combined with opportunity cost of their cuts to US medical research and vaccine production (especially their nixxing mRNA research funding). Maybe that last one is a bit cheeky but I think it should be counted.

I really think Trump II is going to rock up 20th century dictator bodycount when all is said and done and all accounted for, Leopold in the Congo kinda stuff here. Just wildly evil.

'Oh, you've got something to say do you, Mister Tony Blair? Well first, answer me this: how many grains of rice did I just throw in your path?'

I would simply throw a silver-threaded blanket over the haunted mirror that Tony Blair comes from and ring it with salt so that he can no longer communicate with our realm

I don't need a boyfriend, I need someone who treats me how I treat my cat (tells me how gorgeous I am whenever I enter a room and feeds me when I scream at them)

This metaphor is so incoherent that he is in negotiations with Granta for the essay to be published in their next issue.

You may say that the Tony Blair Institute's reliance on funding from dictators and techbros is unseemly, but he has few other options after he was fired from Translink for making all the bus routes go through brick walls.

By interesting I mean "incredibly fucking depressing".

Can't think of many things more likely to rip the country apart that introducing some even more vicious version of ICE and carting away 5-10% of the working age population.

Interesting that the idea of another EU referendum is regularly discussed on broascast media as something that would cause division and thus a bad idea. But plans to deport literally millions of people are discussed as administrative questions.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audianism Maybe the earliest version of rejecting the idea that God is a man goes back to the council of Nicaea declaring Audianism (the belief that man was literally made in god's image and therefore God was a man) to be a heresy in the 4th century.

For theocracy wonks playing along, the idea that God is a man has been deemed heretical for centuries by the most traditionalist Christian sects & the catechism of the RCC rejects the idea that God has a binary gender right next to the clauses that forces binary heterosexual sex on humans.

The underlying assumption is that Manchester students are rich enough not to be already working. My own university is bringing in compulsory placements: one of the issues not raised AT ALL is that nearly every single student has a job already, quite often full-time. Are they meant to quit?

Last I looked, voters around my way were furious with the medium to long term consequences of spending cuts. People will cheerfully vote for 'difficult decisions on welfare' but they're less keen on the visible rise in poverty in their town.

Argue that the UK is culturally disinclined to pay higher tax. Make the moral case for a smaller state. Say the UK economy is currently too weak to take tax rises. Whatever. But if we want blunt honesty, let's start with you get what you pay for.

The Blair thing. This morning I've already heard several calls for an "honest conversation" with voters, all essentially saying cut spending. Does this include the 'highest tax burden since' mantra and being honest with voters that this isn't high tax country, particularly for median earners?

Not only is our system not generous, it's set up in such a way that it makes these problems worse. Unemployed but don't have depression or anxiety? Don't worry, DWP will soon fix that.

The government lacks a unified governing agenda. What it should do, to remedy this, is adopt a governing agenda that basically no-one in the government believes in. That will improve matters - me, for the Tony Blair Institute

2026 Me: Hey 1996 me, in 30 years time you'll be furious at everything Tony Blair says and think John Major makes some pretty sensible points 1996 Me: Fuck, so I'm doomed to become more conservative as I get older 2026 Me: Well not exactly

Like, putting aside the policy if you look at this political enviroment for Labour, when were losing 4x as many voters to our left as right, and go 'the solution is to abandon net zero and embrace trump' then... yeah, maybe the political antenne are gone

The core critique of Starmers government is broadly correct here. There is a lack of a governing project and choice making. The details, however, are like a massive from 20 years ago. No longer grounded in modern reality or the pragmatic balance that once defined Blairism

23 years ago leftie protestors were objectively, provably, right and he was wrong and he’s been losing his mind ever since. If Ken Clarke had become Tory leader and the Tories opposed the war he’d be a communist by now

I joke about TBI standing for the Tony Blair Institute and Traumatic Brain Injury, but they are probably the only two groups who'd think "Blair, man with a good record on military intervention in the Middle East".

‘Highly unusual intervention’ it’s every bloody month and the message is always the same!

It is dangerously inaccurate for Tony Blair to say "US security strategy [under Trump] describes the principal threats no differently to how Europeans see it" when one of its main concerns is of "civilisational erasure" in Europe being caused by migration & ethnic diversity

So he can't cope with the fact that the government does actually need to raise more and instead you get suggestions of cuts that can't be delivered and ideas that might have been viable 20 years ago but are lunacy now.

Something of the elderly general about Blair, unable to realise warfare has changed since his days and his particular talents don't really help with the present situation. The only time he had to close a fiscal hole, Clarke had already done the hard work and he just had to follow the plans.

I remember when an unusual intervention from Tony Blair was a special thing. "Have you heard? He's made a rare intervention!", we would say. Now it's like if they were selling creme eggs all year round, there's just no point to it

[how I think BBC articles about record breaking temperatures in the UK will end] this is, of course, only the beginning of the climate crisis. Global leaders must prioritise how to stop this getting any worse [how they actually end] having an ice lolly on a hot day is nice

Shut up, Tony. You're past it and the young you would not recognise the bullshit you're spouting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...