applying for jobs again

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

'We Spoke To Some Reform Voters and Jesus Christ, Look At Them'

Posted to Twitter eight minutes before it was copied and pasted onto bluesky

INVIGORATED by the appearance, in Brooklyn, on my phone, of someone's wifi being called "Routers of Rohan"

Sensational that the Mayor of New York City is someone who probably has strong opinions about Kieran Tierney

Suella Braverman has every right to make her own choice for herself about her own identity If her argument is to refuse to accept that Ian Wright & Michelle Agyemang, Rishi Sunak, David Lammy and Priti Patel are English - their identity & birthright - on grounds of race, she should lose the whip

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒

I think they should, and that I should be given the job of designing it

This just isn't true. It's factually wrong. But who cares about facts?

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only the New York City mayoral election

Many Brits are in denial over this but that’s just because the modern United Kingdom has no idea what it would look like to have a low level civil war within its borders

I've written about why Labour needs to update its understanding of the UK's political landscape – and get that there are many, many other places for voters to go, and some of them are preferable to others. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

your starter for ten: work out what happened here from just the apology.

'a co-operative, non-militarised European security framework' - given what's happening stateside it's hard to see calls to move beyond Nato as entirely ridiculous, but I for one would currently see my ideal European security framework as being 'quite militarised, actually'

X, Grok, Musk cannot be trusted to provide reliable, accurate information. British government and MPs should not be on the platform.

a movie you've seen more than 7 times, as a gif

Stafford McDowell, one of those Scottish rugby players who sounds like a small wealth management firm

did a Halloween bit with @arabellamunro.bsky.social

Hello kids. Great costumes. You can have boring regular candy or, in exchange for a small fee, you can invest in something I'm calling Candy Premium, an AI-enabled solution that

please can i come to the party tonight? i promise won't do the spoken word poetry banking advert bit again (three beers later) Here's to the kitchen thinkers. The M&S tinnie drinkers. The bathroom queue winkers. The champagne flute clinkers. Here's to the people that make this gathering, a party.

Frankly a crazy amount of editorialising in this write-up.

when you're simply too much of a feminist

She’s right. She *deliberately* hacked into Harriet Harman’s website, whereas Rachel Reeves is accused of obtaining a license late by accident. I assume that’s what she means, given Badenoch is widely known for her thoughtfulness and her self-awareness.

oh looks like someone's mental health has picked right back up now he's got a chance to degrade people's human dignity

> trying to find news about Sudan > go to BBC News homepage: nothing > click through to "World": still nothing > click through to "Africa": "Fear of mass killing as thousands trapped in besieged Sudan city" is the FIFTH story, just below "Migrant sex offender deported from UK after mistaken release"

Morgan McSweeney frowning, wondering how to frame the next election as a choice between Keir Starmer and Prince Andrew

supported Taxing The Working Rich at Sneaky Pete's once, they were rubbish

If "raising the basic rate of income tax to pay for well funded public services" is "basically evil" then I don't know what your conception of being left-wing actually is.

I do not think civil war in the UK is inevitable, nor indeed especially likely.

Keir Starmer's failure to stand up to this man is a cowardly and suicidal calamity

It's increasingly obvious that Labour's strategy - call it Starmerism, Blue Labour, whatever - has got it badly wrong. It has alienated the party's core vote while failing to win over those leaning to Reform. There was no shortage of people warning them they were getting it wrong either.

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

sorry / pleased to see that the Buffalo Buckaroos have beaten / lost to the Missisippi Manatees again after an incredible / ridiculous display of sport at its best / worst

just contributing to the ratio for this desperately awful framing before going to bed

SCOTTISH - and I mean this, I really do - FOOTBALL

you owe it to yourself to read this whether or not you have any interest in football, Scottish or otherwise

when you're glad that the new chairman's brought investment into the club but you're a bit worried that he might be Sauron

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

imagine how much the person who chose the picture here must dislike Kevin McKenna

'there are too many black people on my television these days' is about as far from legitimate as a concern can be

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

The quotes in this are so fucking bad I had to check several times it wasn’t a deep fake www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Feels incredibly bad that the barriers around this sort of open racism have been degraded so much that a sitting MP (from the party currently leading the polls, no less) will engage in it on TV with a smile on her face.

translation: 'devolved elections haven't had a significant role for the hard right over the past couple of decades, and I've found that boring'

deciding not to spend my morning replying 'turnout's probably basically okay if underwhelming among Labour members and super low among affiliates with no real reason to care' to dozens of people, but feel free to imagine it if you wish