I still don't know why the now explicit white supremacy of someone in direct control of so much of our daily lives in the UK isn't a bigger story

How the fuck can Google get away with suddenly pulling support for POP connections in Gmail *without any notice*, telling us it's going away basically now & only letting us know in a message at the top of Gmail *today*? Who knows how many thousands of people have relied on this for years

Starmer maybe rightly doesn’t take bait each time but he needs an outrider - a semi-licensed “off message” attack dog - to make Haw-Haw Farage pay for sucking up to the guy who denigrates British war dead.

Denmark sent thousands of troops to Greenland because of hysteric libs on Bluesky

It's something else for the SEO agencies to sell I guess

Miss the days when this would've had consequences

Sad watching the press gleefully helping a family breakdown. This is all irrelevant private nonsense said in anger! No one needs to know!

For as long as European leaders continue to cling to the myth that Atlanticism can be salvaged Trump will continue to exploit the threat of blowing it up to exert dominance over us

Far right press accusing another ethnic group of disloyalty is it

Society once we realise the solution isn't age gating websites but mandatory filtered connections

Notable that Labour's losses to the right (11%) are dwarfed by their losses within bloc (27%) and Don't Knows / WNVs (21%). Collectively 4.5 times as large. The argument that ONLY losses to the right matter in the constituencies Labour have to defend seems increasingly tenuous to me.

"Banning children from doing X won't stop them doing it." But... it kind of does, and in most cases that's a good thing

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Bit awkward to pivot to "negotiating tactic, gotcha suckers" for all the UK Trump fanboys who've already come out in favour of military surrender

Labour should go in all guns blazing on this. All but call him a traitor. Deliberately ignore his subsequent "BUT Greenlanders should choose" weasel words and don't give him space to repeat them. This will and should stick on him

Quisling

Attn news commentators: Trump saying he could use force to obtain Greenland but won’t is not Trump saying he won’t use force to obtain Greenland. It is Trump using force as a threat to obtain Greenland. That is why he mentions it.

Naturally the pro-Trump party are against kids learning gay people exist

One reason I am gloomy about Britain’s ability to rise to this geopolitical moment is the sheer parochialism and unseriousness of much of its media. The Times, which used to be a serious paper, does not have a single comment piece today on the gravest international crisis in 80 years

I do wish some Americans would stop comforting themselves that 1A still stands & people aren't yet being openly arrested for criticising the regime. You need to look for things like regime critics suddenly being audited or otherwise targeted by the state for unrelated things. That's now happening

Days late per the usual Starmer Cycle but encouraging

Relatable: “I want to live in defiance: indeed, to defy by living. What gets me through the day nowadays isn’t joy. Joy is all right but actually, I prefer spite. I will live, I will flourish in defiance of these people, and that’s what powers me through.”

Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.

It's great that the EU is finally starting to think about defence against the yankfash but it'll be hard to agree on anything until they figure out how to cut Orbán out of the process

we hear so much about trans people from the British press yet so rarely hear from them - I'm really pleased this piece was commissioned, and will also be in the physical paper: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

A number of people who were (and are) arguing Trump isn't a fascist cited an absence of militarism and a racial enemy, but what else are Greenland and his explicit monstering of Somalians

I wish apps and sites would stop using email as a 2FA method as depending on your provider and email setup it can make logging into things practically impossible (staring straight at this app)

I'd like to see ol' Nigey Farage wriggle his way out of THIS jam

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

This is unusually explicit racism for Trump, and helpfully solidifies that every time he's described non-white people as "low IQ" in the past it was a directly racist statement invoking race science (but the media let him get away with it every single time)

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”

I do not buy any of the explanations for why our PM isn't talking like this. I just don't think he's got it in him

That might've been an acceptable holding position 2016-2020 but now we know it's not a one-off, GOP sensibles have been eliminated and arguably worse people like Vance are waiting in the wings it's totally delusional

Yes, let's take continue to take lectures on what's good for the West from the country threatening the West with war

me when I really want to use the bazooka

I'm really not sure if anyone in the Greens is noting all this, because come an actual election all of this stuff is going to come back and bite them if it hasn't been resolved even if it isn't on the agenda right now

In which case I hope military leaders in the US who've devoted their careers to safeguarding the peace of the last 80 years will have the guts to do what's necessary

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

Predictable criticism of this but I do think it's important to be willing to hear perspectives from people you don't agree with* unless we want US-style violent polarisation (because that's turned out so well there) *Except if it's plain bigotry obvs, sadly the case with a number of names on here

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I would like just one day where I wake up and the Americans havent made it worse overnight

He's a fucking quisling and we should be blasting him on it until Reform collapses

Far right politics always ends here

How ironic after Brexit that the UK can't defend itself as robustly as this because it isn't independent enough

I really love the For You feed but I think it's perhaps become so popular and essential for so many people's experience here now that it needs more resilient infrastructure

@spacecowboy17.bsky.social FY has been down for a while unfortunately :\

It's a little bit embarrassing how Polanski starts off making a relevant contribution (closing US bases? Plausible argument rn) but tries to segué into batshit pacifist defence policy that he should really want to keep quiet about at the moment