Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

⚠️ Palantir released what it describes as a vision for “The Technological Republic” in which it argues AGAINST democratic and cultural pluralism and FOR militaristic supremacy enforced by a technocratic elite who produce AI weaponry. These points stand out:

I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now

🇭🇺 "Russians, go home."

Thing is that as a consequence of their invasion of Ukraine, if the Russians wanted to invade Hungary now they'd probably have to use the exact same tanks they used to invade Hungary in 1956

Swollen RFK Jr. Warns Americans Not Eating Enough Bees https://theonion.com/swollen-rfk-jr-warns-americans-not-eating-enough-bees/

1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...

Am slightly tempted to suggest to every USian joking around about "TACO" after their president's declaration of a brief hiatus on genocide that they may wish to jump from a B52 bomber directly into a lake

Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.

Loving Angine de Poitrine but do want to point out that almost none of it is actually "microtonal" - instead mostly chromaticism around a very stable tonal centre (& songs that are surprisingly catchy and melodic once you get used to 10/4 and 7/4)

An utter, utter disgrace which makes zero sense and has minimal support among the people of the UK, but which a small handful of fossil fuel lobbyists have thrown their weight behind

To me the big Manosphere debate just highlights the developmental harm of not having earth-shattering new albums released every month or so throughout adolescence

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

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Australians now have better mobility into the EU than Brits “Under the new scheme, Australians can live and work in Europe for up to four years without needing a job offer before arrival.” Second class citizens in our own continent www.skynews.com.au/lifestyle/tr...

#Russia: The Oscar-winning Mr Nobody Against Putin has been banned for promoting “negative attitudes” towards the government and war in #Ukraine. Filmed secretly by Pavel Talankin, the documentary exposes pro-war propaganda in Russian schools ⬇️ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

🤔🇺🇸🇮🇷 IRGC Spokesman: Hey Trump, you are fired! You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

The due diligence report on Peter Mandelson's appointment handed to Keir Starmer warned about Mandelson's financial links to Russia, which he retained "long after Putin's annexation of Crimea"

“I THINK THE WAR IS VERY COMPLETE, PRETTY MUCH"

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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Your 3-minute guide to today’s asylum policy changes

Sir Ian McKellen read a poem by Ukrainian veteran Arthur Dron to mark the anniversary of russia’s full-scale invasion 💙💛

Presently watching Brief Encounter, the story of one woman's attempt to escape the shackles of her two unbelievably annoying British children

Are people aware of how for gone you have to be to be too far gone for the freaking Legatum Institute www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Commuters to UK Train System: so how does this all work then UK Train System:

🇵🇱⚖️I promised a banger on the rule-of-law crisis in Poland, so... here it is. A group of PiS MPs have lodged a case with the Constitutional Tribunal, asking it to find the rules of electing the judges of the same Tribunal, introduced in 2016 by a PiS majority, to be unconstitutional. 1/

"They have these big gaming chairs with the back sweat, they drink Monster, they can't get a credit rating. They're weird people" www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yb0...

If Starmer & McSweeney finally go over the revelations in the Mandelson files Their toxic immigration plans must go with them. NO MORE politicians in the pockets of the seedy rich blaming the outcomes of their greed & corruption on immigrants!

Is it ok that the thing I am still most angry at Mandelson for is causing British chocolate to taste like a butcher's bottom

Ceding all forms of autonomy to Trump is now a well-established position within Britain's media and among British media owners.

Ukrainian intelligence warns:Russia is preparing new massive strikes. In -20°C This is not about military objectives,but about breaking people. They are trying to provoke fear, exhaustion, despair to force submission through cold. The world should call it what it is: terrorism

can any theorists tell me whether enshittification can technically occur in a service that has never not been shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

"For if you forgive others their debts, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their debts, neither will your Father forgive your debts." inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

if Nigel Farage is lazy enough to record a message for paedophile Ian Watkins in exchange for money, what else might he do for money without thinking too hard

"Greens were on course to win when these elections were first cancelled and our support has grown rapidly since. Democracy isn't optional, and this should alarm everyone" Green co-deputy leader @rachelmillward.bsky.social on the postponement of up to 30 council elections until 2027.

Hello, historian of empire speaking: this is colonialism. All those recent scholarly apologists for historical colonialism lie unmasked: they really do believe colonialism was ethically good, and they think powerful countries should be colonising again.

As a former editor of Popbitch – and the proud owner of a legal letter sent by HarperCollins, accusing me of being "highly likely to cause serious harm to [their former star client]’s reputation both as an individual and author” – may I just say: GET IT RIGHT UP YE

⚡️/1. For the first time, Ukraine’s Security Service has struck a tanker belonging to Russia’s shadow fleet in neutral waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The SSU’s elite Alpha unit targeted the tanker QENDIL (IMO 9310525) using aerial drones while it was sailing in international waters.

So kid, in your heart you want to study humanities but you worry about your job prospects? Let’s play a game. On the latest data, who is more likely to be unemployed after 15 months after graduation. The English Lit grad or the Maths grad? WRONG!

A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative www.politico.eu/article/get-... #digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität

The United States is poised to recognize Crimea and other occupied territories as Russian in order to strike a deal to end hostilities, The Telegraph reports Guarantors of the territorial integrity of Ukraine are just "amazing," all of them.