I wish we had the Asian audio chat app Spoon in the rest of the world. I tried this Walkie Talkie app because I was sick of waiting for something that may never happen. It’s sort of fun, but chaotic (and full of stupid people). It’s the opposite of Clubhouse, which is too formal. This is just nuts..

Jacob Rees-Mogg in 2026: The sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow. And have you heard of Fracking? What a wonderful technology. Are these fuckers going to still be saying this in 2030? 2035? When will we finally be able to have a serious conversation about what has to happen?

Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.

Of course it does. And of course the Brits should be unceremoniously booted out as soon as possible. Even if Cypriots’ safety was guaranteed, (which it obviously isn’t), there should be no RAF presence there at all. War fuels debate in Cyprus over UK military bases www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why won’t BBC Sounds let you pick a handful of your favourite stations to appear at the top carousel, like every other radio app seemingly does? And also, why is the iPlayer app for Apple TV so awful? The navigation makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Do they not want peopel to use it?

Don’t agree with Mick Lynch at all. Too forgiving of Starmer’s decision making. Too willing to support military build up and so on.

I find this interrogation of the Irani ambassador by Laura K ridiculous. Iran signed the nuclear agreement. Trump ripped up the agreement. Israel and the US have nuclear weapons. Iran doesn’t. Britain is allowing use of airbases and is shooting down Iranian drones etc. Of course we’ve made…

🚨 NEW | Seat estimate for London local elections: 🟢 Grn: 548 (+530) 🔵 Con: 481 (+77) 🔴 Lab: 415 (-741) 🟠 Lib: 252 (+72) ➡️ Ref: 132 (+132) Greens would win a majority on 9 councils 👀 Source: Bombe data published in @Guardian

Just heard BBC News announce this, followed straight after by thr F1 qualifying result. You couldn’t make this shit up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

After George Monbiot evicerated Annabel Denham on every single one of her points, she then comes back with talking about intermittency of renewables. She is literally one of the stupidest people I’ve ever seen. She shouldn’t be anywhere near having a national profile as a journalist on any topic.

🗳️ NEW | Greens lead with all voters under 65, reveals latest YouGov survey: -- 18-64s -- 🟢 Grn: 26% ➡️ Ref: 20% 🔴 Lab: 17% 🔵 Con: 13% 🟠 Lib: 14% -- Over 65s -- ➡️ Ref: 33% 🔵 Con: 26% 🔴 Lab: 15% 🟠 Lib: 14% 🟢 Grn: 6% Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 March

The UK is getting passed by every country. And it’s going to keep going this way for at least the next few years. We’re a joke. And obviously, this is the type of stuff countries can invest in instead of wasting money on death and destruction in a climate crisis. youtube.com/watch?v=3p8l...

🗳️ BREAKING | Greens surge to 2nd (YouGov) ➡️ Ref: 23% (-1) 🟢 Grn: 21% (+4) 🔵 Con: 16% (-2) 🔴 Lab: 16% (-2) 🟠 Lib: 14% (=) Poll: @YouGov, 1-2 Mar (+/- vs 23 Feb)

I despise Nadhim Zahawi.

The majority of people in this country do not want us to be involved in this war. Keir Starmer of a few years ago wouldn't have supported this war. The only reason he does now is he will do anything Donald Trump wants - and it makes us all less safe.

If I were Iran, I wouldn’t have said I was still planning to use nuclear technology only for power generation. I would have said we’re not interested in nuclear. We’re going fully renewable and battery storage. And then the USA would still have attacked them because nuclear was always an excuse.

Funny how Laura K said “what would you do when you have a country that acts without any care for the law and protecting its own people?” She meant Iran. I was thinking USA. Or both actually. She definitely wasn’t thinking both.

ITV the most serious national broadcaster at this point. BBC virtually indistinguishable from GB News. youtube.com/watch?v=59DZ...

Played a very small amount of the Marathon online test. I really like what Bungie did with the style, and the gameplay feeling is really nice. It’s just that I suck at FPS games. The only way I’m going to play shooters is if they’re Battle Royales. Anything other than PUBG and Fortnite aren’t fun.

It makes Starmer look even more ridiculous for him to brand the Greens as an extreme party of the left that wants to “tear our country apart”. No one’s going to look at Hannah Spencer and think that’s an extremist who wants to tear our country apart.

The fact that Sky News cut away to Corbyn saboteur and certified dickhead Iain NcNicol makes me feel suspicious that they faked the audio issues to avoid having to show the full Green Party news conference. I don’t want to be conspiratorial, but this country teaches me to be sceptical of everything

Zack was really not mincing his words this morning on Sky News. Wasn’t expecting him to go that hard on the “family voting” accusation, but was so good. Sky allowed Zahawi to run his mouth all night long. Certainly the presenter did. Sam Coates did intervene eventually. And Sonia Sodha once as well

Sky News had Reform Zahawi and centrist Labour Sonia Sodha the whole night other than when Natalie Bennet and Jenny Jones were on. And they attacked them when they were. They allowed Zahawi to go unchallenged all night saying the Greens were encouraging “Islamist” sectarianism. It’s not sectarian..

Ah yes, the right wing immediately in there saying that the Greens cheated somehow. Except it was Labour and Reform that seemingly cheated with some of their campaign literature. This is why they were so quick to get their excuses in early in the broadcast at midnight.

‼️ BREAKING: Greens WIN Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide victory 🟢 Grn: 41% (+27) ➡️ Ref: 29% (+15) 🔴 Lab: 25% (-25) 🔵 Con: 2% (-6) 🟠 Lib: 2% (-2) Green GAIN from Labour (+/- vs GE2024) ‼️First-ever Green win in an MP by-election

Zahawi thinks Angela Rayner will “take out Polanski and be the voice of the hard left” Are you kidding me? Or are you just completely out of touch? Actually, no need to answer that one if Nadhim happens to be on Bluesky XD

Sam Coates asking Natalie Bennett of the Greens are proud of their truthful campaign, but not asking Labour or reform if they’re proud of their lying and cheating campaigns that both potentially have cases to answer with the Electoral Commission. Isn’t that interesting…

We’ve heard this attack line before about how the Greens are cynically “using the Middle East” aka the genocide on Palestine to manipulate the Muslim vote. It’s such bullshit how the mainstream media keep coming back to that, and it also shows that’s all they’ve got in the centrist outlets…

Why are they talking about “concerningly high levels of family voting” in Gordon and Denton? Is that code for high Green turnout among families who have all decided they hate the establishment and they want a good MP? Seems odd to say that otherwise.

Incredibly biased interview. Is this in accordance with Ofcom regulations? Surely the Greens could complain about this? youtube.com/watch?v=JekT...

Gamers are so brainwashed, that not only do they not want a gaming future without exclusive titles. But they’re actually asking Microsoft to stop releasing formerly exclusive games on PS5 so they can feel more proud of their console choice in the endless “console wars” www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...

I find this Michael Gove and other right winger bullshit about “low value university courses” so inanely dangerous. I mean literally what else do people like about the UK around the world other than our arts and culture?

Gaming is Broken. Here’s how we can Fix it

I was looking into it properly and apparently there is a benefit of 1000hz and above even on 60hz monitors. It’s to do with how long it takes games to represent the inputs onto the screen, and so it helps to provide them with more up-to-date positional data. That’s the gist anyway.

When it comes to gaming mice with really high polling rates (some up to 8000hz), is there any point when it will only be represented on screen as fast as the frame rate of the game, or monitor (whichever is the limitation)? Is there a benefit to having a higher polling rate than the frame rate?

What a shock. The US men’s hockey team is full of bigots. Who could have seen that coming? But are we sure the women’s team is that much better? Yes, the men seem to be mostly misogynists, but from what I’ve seen, the women’s team didn’t blast Trump when declining. www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-...

The BBC seem to be very keen to talk about the 1980s “Miracle on Ice”. It seems to not be particularly subtle, their desire to push anti-communist propaganda when it’s certainly not necessary for their broadcast of the hockey final. Am I looking too deeply at this? Maybe I’m imagining it. Not sure.

Very important point Ed Leigh made in his and Tim Warwood’s freestyle wrap-up with JJ Chalmers about how the top British snowsport athletes all end up moving out to live in snowy regions at a young age. It’s clear that under neoliberalism, this sport is the preserve of upper-middle class families.

This warmonger Radakin is talking all the usual right ring bullshit on militarism being wonderful and how we need to spend I think even more than 3% of GDP on war. 3.5% I think he said. Whereas I want to slash the military budget by more than half and have defensive only weapons, only on this land.

Laura Trott straight-up saying the Tories would defund the arts at universities. They’ve been doing damage to the arts for a long time, but now they don’t care to be subtle about it in any way. Obviously the Tories are unlikely to get back in soon, but they probably will eventually in dumb Britain.

I’d be curious to see the result of that Men’s 50k Cross-Country if Andrew Musgrave had the Norwegian team’s skis, and the Norwegians had the British team’s skis. I would imagine that there’s a sizeable difference in performance when you have practically infinite resources for ski wax preparation.

It’s interesting how you have people like Ticktum who’s not only talking about not liking lifting and coasting (which they already did in F1 or any motorsport. It’s all efficiency racing to some extent). But he even went as far as talking about V10s and V12s now.. www.the-race.com/formula-1/ma...

Crazy that Heidi Alexander is bringing up Jezza now. I’d be curious to know if people still believe the lies about JC. I wouldn’t be surprised if people in this dumbfuck country would still take Starmer over Corbyn. The brain rot goes extremely deep.

There’s always a clueless woman in the Question Time audience every week who says that all the political parties should stop bickering and work for the people. Except that’s not what politics is. You’re supposed to agree on the facts, and then offer different solutions for what to do about things.

Awesome. I wasn’t familiar with the Chinese skater Ning Zhongyan, who beat Jordan Stolz in the 1500m before. Or at least I didn’t remember seeing him before. I probably have. Awesome to see China getting a gold, and especially upsetting the apple cart like that.

It made me think maybe the world isn’t quite as shit as I thought to see how happy Ami Nakai was when she realised she won a bronze, having led from the short programme. Alyssa Liu being more preoccupied with celebrating Nakai’s medal than seemingly thinking about her own. That’s Olympic spirit.

I find it amazing how Hasan is getting criticised for the most basic socialist take at this point. Why would anyone with any sense vote for the establishment Democrats when all they ever do is bully socialists into voting for them, and then do nothing even remotely progressive once in power?

I wish Ski Mountaineering at the Olympics was a much longer single race over an hour or two where they went much further out into nature and then had a much longer ski back down. The sprint format is just a tacky climb through some weird diamond barriers and a the shittiest ski-cross downhill ever.

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