Being a British MP isn't a normal job - it's much easier and better remunerated, which is why the only way they can get through it is with a bit of puke down the front of their shirt

spending all my time down at the Veterans of Unpleasant Dinners hall telling everyone for the umpteenth time about how my pocket square stopped the bullet that would have killed me

christ these giggling courtiers are going to be boasting about this like they were at the fucking battle of the somme

omg shots fired at the WHCA Dinner?? I hope no one is okay!

this seems about right

telling ODOT this is a whale

rest assured, people like @anneapplebaum.bsky.social will write a blistering condemnation of this, they're just a little eepy sleepy at the moment

kind of alarming how extremely pro-rape "british feminism" is (see the last bullet point)

this makes them look cool though

I cannot believe that I am being compelled to remind people that it is possible for you to hate someone enough that it makes you measurably biased against them in such a capacity that you no longer can understand jokes as a form of rhetorical structure. I am not even talking about the humor itself.

I'm amused by how many people in this discourse cycle were making jokes about the actual heist at the time. Glad they've found their footing now that the NYT opinions page provided them with one

i can’t believe that bad apple streamer advocated for museum heists as a serious policy proposal. hasn’t he even read my white paper? i wrote it in middle school while dangling from a flagpole by my y-fronts

Former Biden admin senior advisor Amos Hochstein "supported last summer’s Operation Midnight Hammer," where Trump admin struck Iran’s nuclear facilities, bc “we had thought internally in the Biden administration we may have to take [strikes] if there was a second term.” - @facethenation.bsky.social

from time to time i will see people go "of course he's terrible but i don't think the critics have a coherent idea of what they want" and it's like... of course i do. i want the economic norms of 1970s sweden and the cultural mores of 2010s holland and the migration policy of genghis khan

It's wonderful to think of everything that Alex Jones spent his professional life working for and building being taken away from him by a silly man who he hates intensely in order to be turned into an object of public ridicule

Nice boat.

if the city ever gets breached catch me ascending the high tower in my best plummeting robes

The Brits are astonishingly good at pretending not to understand things they in fact understand very well. World-historical champions.

As John le Carré once said, like any good socialist, I am all about the money. To add to that, as any good capitalist, I am all about state power.

hell it's damn true

Mr. Iron Hands, of the Iron Hands, whose hands are made out of iron, residing on his ship the First of Iron: personally, I do not care for iron.

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this is where I come down for a huge proportion of the vibecession debate. Bidenomics was superb on the traditional indicators, but he also oversaw a near total withdrawal of the most generous welfare state in US history. most of that wasn’t his fault, but still

any sane socialist world republic would end up sharply curtailing americans’ red meat consumption might still end up shipping e.g. bananas to places they’re out of season though (albeit more expensive, though maybe not by too much relative to consumption?)

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years of hard work in the Thinking Good mines and they couldn't even pick the good version of Mage

After the liberation of France, GIs joked that the Vichy regime would have fallen in weeks anyway, since every single Frenchman they met was a secret member of the Resistance

i *really* hate the impulse that whenever the right comes up with some new phraseology people on the left adopt it 'as a bit'. we are all thirty or forty years old. stop this

Israeli diplomacy in absence of US support would start to resemble Brexit negotiations under Boris Johnson; a cycle of bizarre ultimatums delivered by the much weaker party, who gets told to fuck off and ends up running out the clock and getting worst possible deal

Christ saw his reflection in the Bean at the garden of Gethsemane

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Not liking Hasan Piker is the strongest I've ever resisted negative polarization and still come out on top

@georgem.bsky.social i think this happened near the end of fjord

extremist cleric eliezer yudkowsky must be sanctioned by the US

kind of thinking the vibecession argument boils down to a question of definitions imo like it can simultaneously be true that people have 5% more real income over the past X years and that the percentage of their income devoted to life-maintenance (rent, insurance, etc) has skyrocketed

the only “token allowance” i want from my job is for f-fricking… chuck e. cheese! folks… *crying* folks,

"mark carney" is what hideo kojima would call a guy who works at a fairground

This anecdote from the autobiography of Leslie Mitchell (wartime BBC radio presenter) has been kind of a skeleton key for me understanding the specific ways in which British media is fucked up

the possum memes should be understood as something like people earnestly saying, back at the beginning of the Ukraine war, that the Russian public was fully against it and Putin was suppressing public opinion. a "wouldn't it be nice if that were true" plea to the universe

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People put the petty capitalists and the demobilized proletariat together, call them the working class, and wonder why they have the revolutionary potential of a sack of potatoes swung indiscriminately at women and immigrants by racist uncles who own cement plants and skidoo dealerships

i don't think we've fully metabolized what the genocide means for jews and judaism. what we're seeing now is the equivalent of the average global temperature "only" going up by one or two degrees. what you have to be worried about, and are way too late to stop, is how things develop over decades

My kingdom for a discussion about LIRR labor relations that are specific to the actually existing LIRR contracts, work rules, and common practices and not a copy-paste of priors about unions in general. Historical, material conditions have specific historical and material features.

I’ve been thinking about this guy almost daily for ten fucking years. essentially my entire 30’s. when he finally croaks I imagine I’ll let out a sigh so deep it realigns my fucking spine

There’s an answer here.

“I do not think Mona is a hateful person” (never mind her forty years of gutter bigotry!)

Liberal critics of DSA demanding a level of democratic centralism that Lenin never achieved always tickles me, but you’d think they’d be embarrassed.

The problematic part of colonization was the enslavement and genocides. It wasn’t the exploration and planting of flag. If we discover that there are sentient moon people with a rich culture and full emotional lives and also their blood can make room temp superconductors, maybe. Until then, no.