Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

Oh Glasgow, every now and then 🤣

The internet was supposed to open all our minds and give access to knowledge and education to everyone. The lack of regulation on platforms has instead created a minority of loudmouth pub bores who know nothing but think they know everything being mobilised by men with fascistic agendas.

Just following the rules.

Gratulation, Amerika. Die Masern sind zurück. Nicht, weil das Virus mutiert ist. Nicht, weil die Wissenschaft versagt hätte. Sondern weil man euch zu viel zugehört hat. Euch, den Eltern mit „eigenem Bauchgefühl“. Euch, den Akademikerverächtern mit WLAN. 1/

Damn right!!!

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.

'Car', 'to change', 'piece' - English borrowed these words from French, which inherited them from Latin. But they weren't native Latin words. Latin got them from Gaulish, an extinct Celtic language. Gaulish was a great-aunt of Welsh, Irish and Breton. Six common Romance words of Gaulish origin:

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🚨new Indie SAGE report on childhood diseases! 🧵Vaccines have been so successful that once common diseases are now so rare that even many doctors might never see a case. In this report we describe 12 diseases, their consequences & impact of vaccines 1/15 independentsage.org/report/preve...

🚨BREAKING🚨 The French National Assembly removed the backdoor section from the amendment to the #Narcotrafic law. Read here how Politicians tried to undermine everybody's #security: tuta.com/blog/france-... 🙏 And thank you for fighting against this with us. This is a great win for privacy. 💪

You got to laugh at the irony of life!

"Words that are short in English are short in other languages too" and other falsehoods programmers believe about languages.

Word of the day is ‘lickspittle’ (17th century): a person who fawns upon someone in power for personal gain.

Fuck Trump. Fuck Vance. Fuck the GOP. Fuck Maga. Fuck Russia. Fuck Putin. Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini Slava Ukraini

Did you know that Irish 'teach', Latin 'toga' and English 'stegosaur' all come from the same root? (I'm sure some of you do know. It is Academic Bluesky here, after all. That was a rhetorical question. I didn't know until yesterday)

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Who the fuck does Trump think he is? Telling Ukraine about its territorial concessions without involving it in talks. Telling Europe about its responsibilities without providing any assistance.

There are no words to express the level of stupidity this represents. Denser than lead! It's very, very simple: you CANNOT have both strong security AND backdoors. The two are 100% mutually incompatible. If this goes ahead, we can wave goodbye to mobile banking and thousands of other things.

Brexit was a con. Sold on a pack of lies by fantasists, ladybird libertarians, chancers, xenophobes and spivs. On this day of all days we should take a moment to remind everyone of that.

My current take on AI is that you need a human between the AI and the consumer, otherwise it feels uncanny. Use AI to plan a presentation but not give it. Use it in business but don't give customers a chatbot. Use it to analyse information but not relay it. Don't shove it in people's faces.

🎶 when you go, will you send back a lettuce from America? 🎶

Lying liars and the lies that they told. There is no question that the leave campaign lied through its teeth. Legally, that means nothing now, of course: Brexit is settled under European law. But is there a moral case to say the British electorate were innocent? Let's look at the lies A 🧵

I know it's morning time and all, but hey, fůçk ďąț. 1 Mobility arrangenents are fair and inclusive. The UK is treated the same as other third countries. If being treated equally feels like oppression, that's your problem. 1.

Republican Jesus, a thread of cartoons. 1/x

Why you should always use a professional translator, number I-don't-know-I've-lost-count, in a series that is far less occasional than it should be... 🤦‍♀️ #xl8

“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)

I don't love it either, but I'm not sure how you tell a man that he should let his only surviving son rot in prison to respect norms, institutions, and the rule of law, when the country you devoted your life to serving just pretty comprehensively voted they don't give a shit about any of that.

One of the biggest political con tricks in the UK is the one that forces every party to bang on about helping people get on the housing ladder. Just build high quality, affordable social housing, and regulate the long-term private housing market like they do in central Europe.

We are on @bsky.app. Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz. Repost please.

Hard to express how few fucks I give that our budget does not please a Brexit-voting billionaire who moved his business to Singapore and bought 36,000 acres of farmland to avoid paying tax.

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Breathing a sigh of relief to hear that our president Van der Bellen 🇦🇹 has charged the ÖVP (Conservatives) and Social Democrats with forming a government. Grand coalitions are not the easiest of things but I will take that over a government led by the racist, misogynist, queerphobic FPÖ any day

Britain's Brexitism test. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The tone of UK-EU relations is improving, but any 'reset' will be limited unless & until Brexitism is marginalized, and YMS, ECHR, and Gibraltar provide some tests of that: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/10/brit...

The word 'cretin' has the same origin as 'Christian'. They both come from Latin 'Chrīstiānus'. The meaning of 'cretin' made quite a journey: Christian > person > simple person > poor fellow > person affected by Congenital hypothyroidism > idiot. Click the graphic for more:

New depths of moronic victimhood plumbed… By übermoron who took away our freedom of movement rights and was part of a Tory regime that limited our rights to strike, protest and vote and armed the far right with slogans and hate… Now FREE to whine at the prospect of accountability. Repulsive.

For me, the essence of Bidenomics is a long overdue policy rejection of "trickle-down". Trickle down was a scam that took over the West, and it helped no one but the increasingly wealthy 1%. I'm still waiting for other countries to follow Biden's lead. But it's the only way forward.

Just saw that #TonySoprano got held up at the UK border for over 2 days. Did nobody think that was … dangerous? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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As long as government is dragged down by the viciously moronic deadweight that is the ERG, it will fail us. These people, motivated by ignorance and hatred, will only ever screw things up. A shit-tsunami of ruinous, knuckle-dragging disgrace. (Letter, Times)

The average lifespan of a falcon is 12-15 years. This means every falcon alive today was born in the 21st century, which makes them all Millennium Falcons.