HACKER: Humphrey, is that even a thing? HUMPHREY: Minister, in government, everything is a thing once sufficiently acronymised.

BERNARD: It's the framework for the protocol about the guidelines that will eventually outline the process by which departments may consider whether to evaluate inclusivity metrics.

BERNARD: Minister, I have the briefing for your announcement of the Mandatory Workplace Inclusivity Framework Implementation Protocol. HACKER: The what?

i have been doing a deep dive into the Rolling Stone / Eastern Oregon datacenter water story, and... as far as i can tell, no named source other than the corrupt republican county commissioner who was turned out of office because he was _responsible_ for the nitrate spraying mentioned Amazon at all.

What the doomers don’t seem to get is that nobody, including Trump, can cancel elections or implement fascism when they 15-20 points underwater in the polls.

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

It really is the administration of King Herod the Great tweeting at Jesus family during Christmas.

i know no one cares about this but i do think it's professional malpractice for historians to do public history where they assert that the bolsheviks overthrew the tsar youtu.be/LFFkDDmEEpQ?...

Cohen was right

I know we all get sick of “vibe-“ everything, but for too many people, everything is vibes.

Listen I hate Biden as much as the next guy, but for real reasons like appointing Merrick Garland or sending bombs to Israel. Every time someone says shit like "Biden promised he would be a one term president!" or "it's Biden's fault he had narrow legislative margins and an evil SCOTUS" I cry.

Everyone on Twitter was pissed at Biden because he explicitly rejected M4A! youtu.be/t_y0ElVR7Xs?...

"Biden's promise of single payer healthcare" what the fuck are you talking about, he explicitly won the Democratic primary running on his opposition to single payer healthcare

He didn't promise like half of this!

I mean we are tho, he’s right

Exactly. It's disingenuous to call it a purity test to say "You shouldn't be beholden to right-wing billionaires pushing right-wing policies and right-wing candidates." newrepublic.com/article/2039...

The very first recipient of the FIFA Peace Prize was of course Paolo di Canio for not scoring that goal that time

"Disappointing, but we can have no complaints" - Thomas Tuchel reacts to England being kicked out of World Cup as punishment for that Rio Ferdinand skit

(peasant dying in a ditch during the Thirty Years' War) at least I didn't have to watch Wayne Gretzky and Shaquille O'Neal take the stage during the 2026 World Cup draw, live from the Kennedy Center in beautiful Washington, DC

Bill Clinton taught him this.

"If I'd known I'd have to sit through an hour of Gianni Infantino I'd have just played a square ball" - Kieran Tierney

Saint and Greavsie would never have tolerated this fucking about #WorldCupDraw

If you only fight censorship right up to the line where it becomes your definition of porn, refusing to have solidarity with pornographers, I can't find it in me to care about your problems. You've shown you don't care about mine and will bounce the moment you get what benefits you.

A lot of creators essentially saying "My work might contain nudity and sexual situations, but it's NOT porn. My work is important and artistic, while their work is dirty, which is still okay to hate and censor." But guess what! The purity squad makes no such distinction.

As a pornographer myself, I feel... weird about creators who make distinctions between porn and other adult/sexual content. If you defend porn, your work will ALSO be defended. Don't be afraid to get down in the mud with us. You're gonna end up here anyway.

hey who wants two tickets to cambodia vs ecuador at the ketchum Idaho high school football field

Fascinating but also pretty intuitive

I can't believe how badly Farage is fucking the Woz Racist at School stuff because I honestly didn't think this was news to anyone.

Jenrick is a Cambridge alumnus whose pre-political career involved corporate law for a high-salary firm in London and Moscow as well as a directorship at Christie's

Ultimately I think better to have the Stranger Things problem (for the first 15 minutes of each season you go “wow, they are a lot older”) than the “expecting people to sit through eight hours of 2001 Emma Watson’s acting” problem.

starmer somehow concluded from a decade of tory wins and then a single, catastrophic loss that the tories were popular but their big problem is that they were not good at being tories

British people want: 1. the NHS fixed 2. the end of austerity 3. presumably some kind of shortcrust pastry with meat and gravy British politicians want: 1. transphobia 2. austerity 3. ninja ban

yes, it is

Everyone is twelve theory strikes again

Minnesota is not "a heavily Democratic state." Harris got 51%. Republicans currently control the state house.

Goddammit

it's cool that the UK has invented guys who talk like Matt Walsh but think they're a radical leftist

Personally I think it shows the deep tolerance of Scotland that it allows so many kids to keep speaking a foreign language like English. Forcing them all to learn Gaelic, Scots or Norn seems a bit much to me.

I think this guy might be turning me into a Bevanite out of pure negative polarization

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

god i love how these guys make it obvious they've cooked their brains on lobby groups on X and not actually talk to any zoomer gays

there are a lot of comments these days where you just have to self-censor your immediate reaction because...well. but I will note that we are simply back where this whole damn thing started at the bottom of that escalator.

I Think Her Party Should Be Making Statements In Her Defense And The Greater Somali Community

Gary Linekar has politics that I think is, let's say, veers a lot more to the centre than mine. But I do respect the fact, despite all that privilege and wealth, he's still willing to speak truth to power. That's actually a very rare thing.

Holy fucking shit. Under no circumstances do you have to give Trump credit on the fucking gestapo. Who the fuck is this for?

lmao even Enten couldn't spin this one

See, with a case this high profile the cops needed to be sure it was air tight. Dot the i's, cross the t's. And instead they just blundered along like this was a regular arrest that nobody would call them on. You know. Standard cop behavior. Oops.

I swear to fucking god if I see any of you bummed at a single digit loss in a Trump +22 district

Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier

The "How dare you platform her?!" crowd hasn't exactly won the day here. This is more humiliating than her ex working her over like the fucking Stasi.