don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

You can be proud of what you've got while also accepting that other's have some good stuff, too.

13k comments on one tweet is a massive payout. All of the tweets follow a certain formula, so the content is likely automated using AI technology (e.g., AI generated images and text). Basically running it as a money printing machine. But for those in the US, it translates to low simmering rage.

Shabana Mahmood's proposal to stop being told to "go back home" is to send people "home". Her proposal to stop black and brown people from feeling like they don't belong, is to bake in to the immigration system that they will never belong.

The Roman Empire prospered due to open borders, mass immigration and diversity then fell because of huge wealth inequality and corrupt leadership. I just thought I'd mention it.

“There is no danger in Spain of Francoism coming back, but forgetting history can make you take for granted the democratic freedoms that need constant vigilance and protection.” My piece @theguardian.com on memory, unexplained history, the transition and my mom! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What do you do if you're a con artist, you run a scam, the marks roll up and you get rich? You tweak it, polish it, make it more professional and run it again and again, finessing it each time. That's UKIP, The Brexit Party and Reform UK.

Wes Streeting is Darren Grime's older brother.

The fact that a guy called Nick Fuentes can be a prominent white supremacist in the US suggests that a lot of US white supremacists are a few bricks short of a load

it's genuinely incredible, but entirely expected, that the certificate which is a physical representation of fourteen thousand pounds of your time and money, is sent back to you in an envelope which doesn't even have a cardboard backing. ole boydy's saddling up for one more mission

this country literally does not care about migrants "pitching in", or "contributing", or "integrating", or anything else because you do all of that and their final response in relation to the above is to throw this all-important document into the wind and shrug. i've sent better secured ebay parcels

I'm really starting to wonder how many times Mike Johnson's name appears in the Epstein Files.

I had this by @chrisdillow.bsky.social open in a tab, after @pauliewaulie.bsky.social‬ had mentioned it, and now I finally read it. It's from 2018, but as true now as when it was written: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/against-de...

Christmas is cancelled in Reform UK Ltd Kent. Turns out you can't put up Christmas lights if there are flags on the lampposts! www.harrietshamparishcouncil.gov.uk/community/ha...

Going to watch the American football on Channel5 shortly. There's something very soothing about watching a sport whose rules I find barely intelligible played by two teams from vaguely familiar cities with commentary that is, as far as I can tell, six or so people reading from James Joyce's Ulysses.

Buy me in September, ignore me, eventually get around to use and abuse me as a pumpkin substitute

Software in 2025

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

There is one sure fire solution: Give people with ILR the right to vote. This is the model in New Zealand. Anyone with permanent residency gets to vote. All of a sudden the incentives toward othering and performative cruelty are gone. There are millions of votes in compassion and inclusivity

Of all the thousands of kilometres of copy written about Brexit, this is probably the neatest encapsulation I’ve seen of why it happened. ‘…what Cameron was actually doing was giving the British public a fuck-you button, and asking: "Do you want to press it?"’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BOTD 1970 Presidente de Argentina Javier Milei

"My doorbell won't work because a website is broken" is not the glorious frictionless future technology promised us, is it?

Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output

It's about time someone was brave enough to say this.

ICYMI @almagroschool.bsky.social Spain's radically different approach to African migration www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can't help thinking if unidentified masked men rocked up to kidnap people in any European city there would be...

Remember how we were all urged to switch to paperless billing to save the planet so the post office is on its last legs & now techbros are opening all our mail to read it, then burning more trees to power datacentres so they can analyse the contents with AI which they fed on work they stole from us?

When you clear the whole table straight from the break.

Not ‘Arf, Mr Secretary Hedgehog

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‘This is the night mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.’ ~ Night Mail, W.H. Auden ~ Goodnight from #BookWormSat 🖼️ Abraham Neumann m.youtube.com/watch?v=-EZx...

This continuous attack on empathy, this attempt to squash humanity and kindness and trying to stop civilised society treating humans as humans is coordinated and across western democracies. 2/2

What could possibly be the reason why Disney made a U-turn over Kimmel ? Worried about loss of revenue? You cynics

It may be ignorance or collusion - probably a bit of both - but whichever way you look at it, the anglophone media is working to the Spanish right's agenda in its coverage of Pedro Sánchez. @almagroschool.bsky.social explains all in another top piece ... macdonnchada.substack.com/p/sanchez-an...

"Not me, obviously ha ha ha ha"

"I knew there and then, that Antifa were after my natural essence."

Only 4 flags? I've seen more than that outside the big Sainsbury! Why does Kemi hate Britain?

In spite of her many faults, the most successful Communist in a democratic state, she's done a huge amount for the less well off, a huge percentage of whom will thank her by voting for the PP or Vox at the next election

At some point, this has morphed to: Party A: We hate these and we're going to attack them by doing [this]. Party B: We hate these more than Party A and we're going to do [this] even more than them. There is absolutely zero political philosophy or belief system underpinning this beyond... 2/3

Slightly diminish a book: The Day of the Jack Russell

The Immigration debate. Sadly people don't know the difference between 'people' (human beings) and people who are criminals. It's the same in the trans debate. Some think looking 'white', well groomed cisgender and having good teeth makes you nice. 🙂 These people will also buy investment scams.