That clip of Matt Goodwin mansplaining population and saying that women don't understand population so we need sitting down by men like him and having it explained to us... ahhhhhh the arrogance of that man! Christ. What times to live in.

Also, it feels like a mad week in which Matt Goodwin dare stand for a seat in Manchester, having said that women who don't have children should pay more tax and be penalised for their 'choices'. Across the Atlantic, a popular alt right individual is talking about forced breeding camps for women.

Worst take ever in The Guardian: Gisèle Pelicot should not have done interviews because it'll give men ideas. They'll be 'in thrall'. The idea that they'll be getting ideas as if men who wish to do such things have not got ideas already is another quite bizarre moment of victim blaming.

I wouldn't be arsed about the colossal shitshow in the USA right now if it wasn't so clear they're inveigled in everything and it's all having global fallout. Since we don't get to vote in that shitshow and there is no oversight, it's clear we have no influence. Time to start cutting ties.

I'm noticing platforms I use to share educational content who went hard in on AI are really struggling to deal with any kind of communication from their clients now. Seems like they all invested in chatbots on the surface and now they are struggling to keep up with the problems this has created.

never a point comparing this or that country to N*zis or the G*stapo - all you have to do is understand those countries always acted in this way, just usually not against the kind of people in their own country whose treatment grabs headlines. It's baked in to the regime.

They depend on our compliance.

When people from the global majority say that something is racist, it's racist. White folk don't get to say it was meant as a joke. Likewise when women, folk with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ folk say something is sexist, ableist or exclusionary. I'm sick of the normalised prejudice.

100% this. I honestly hope the outrage finally shakes the British public out of its complacency. It does not go without notice that the press have overlooked Farage and his connections to the whole sordid lot of them.

wow - there's times I feel like a conspiracy theorist looking at some crazy cabal with a new world order for the super-rich... A cabal who operate completely outside of rules and order, doing as they please at the expense of what is right and good and fair

So, basically the working class week life for decades of industrialisation, except with intense leisurely exercise, sleep trackers and slightly better food? WTAF? Why are we fetishising killing ourselves for work?

This makes me absolutely weep for so many smart, poor kids.

The only reason I went to university was because I had a small bursary to pay for books & accommodation, and because I had no tuition fees. We were too poor to afford that. I'd have not bothered with A levels were that not the case, and would have joined the workforce at 16.

This is interesting from the Guardian story about ICE at the Winter Olympics (pun intended?!) Why are immigration and customs officers acting as bodyguards, and not secret service? This is not a place for Trump's private waffen schutzstaffel stabswache when he's already got secret service?!

Make this make sense. We can't keep doing this, can we?

Has anyone informed Björk? The 'first' dip? Since when? Since last April when he last went around waffling about tariffs on China and all the traders were bricking themselves?

Remember last June when Merz gave Trump his GERMAN family tree? Christ. This is awful. Someone needs to go on with a hooked staff and pull him off the stage.

Trump's Council of Peace is giving strong SPECTRE vibes. If you wanted to put all the world's villains in one place, that's exactly how you'd do it. It's not helping him keep ask for one billion dollars. Pavlov's done a right number on the things I see in my mind when someone says that.

Above everything, the integrity of Greenland must be respected not only because it's the will of Greenlanders, but also because of the ecocide that will follow. We simply cannot allow Trump to trash the planet any more than it is already trashed.

Why isn't the USA dealing with their shitshow? All I've seen are posts apologising and saying EU/Eur/UK should be firmer. Like what the actual fuck are YOU all doing? Because I'd been harassing my conservative MP mercilessly for weeks before he finally handed in his resignation to Boris Johnson.

Because this is normal behaviour...

Do you remember when Trump said he was suing the BBC for One Billion Dollars and that just seemed like whimsy? That's only 2 months ago. Destroying the East Wing? Three months ago. He's unravelling quickly, isn't he? Supported by enablers of his wrecking ball madness.

Yep. Not a morning I don't wake up and get angry straight away over these treacherous individuals. And David Cameron. He gets my special ire as the architect of it all.

Man drinks a glass of liquid from the teets of another species that should be to nourish her offspring. Dairy consumption is weird and gross. Imagine if we'd fetishised bull semen instead 🤮This is how I feel about milk & cheese these days. Just gross patriarchal exploitation of female bodies.

All the Greenland conversation about Trump misses the point that he could have troops there if he wanted to and could work with other NATO countries to improve the USA's arctic capacity, which is quite poor. It's not boots on the ground that he wants, but to exploit the minerals.

I've clearly been drinking What the actual fuck?

I wish Americans would stop apologising for Trump and actually stop him. What's the point of being all over social media apologising for their mad tyrant king that they elected? So much for the land of the free and the home of the brave. It's just apologists for Trump.

It's ALWAYS been this way. People comparing it to N*zi Germany without realising the context in which the US has ALWAYS operated domestically. It's rooted in the bones of the very land.

All I can see is a power-mad, insane totalitarian and the USA doing absolutely nothing about it. No control over him. No accountability. No desire to rein him in. No ability either. How easily regimes sweep into power!

With a Trump presidency, there is literally no day I don't wake up dreading what news there will be. He's so ridiculously thin-skinned that you know this forced gesture of being given the peace prize is really about Obama living rent free in Trump's head. All this to appease his hurty demons.

Cameron should have let the eurosceptics in his party defect to UKIP back in the day. There'd have been no pandering to them, no referendum and none of this defection malarky to Reform by a bunch of thunderc*nts over a decade later. About ten would have left and they'd have lost their seats.

I've not used Twitter since Musk, but have just deactivated my account. Felt like time.

Half of me wonders why Trump is focusing energy on forcing a move of European forces into Greenland. What's going on in the East? Is this Putin's strategy? I feel like it's an attempt to stretch Europe and all we all want is to be quiet and peaceful and get on with stuff without power-mad dictators

So ... let me get this straight... Maduro falsely claimed he'd won the election even though he only had 30% of the vote. So Trump removed him. And now Trump has just said he's president of Venezuela without an election? He's drunk on power without any sort of legalities to restrain him, isn't he?

Nadhim Zahawi - a corrupt politician who made his money exploiting the system shows his true colours. Colour me shocked... They're so far from ever being a party of the people that it's laughable. He should be in prison for fraud, not signing up for the party of rich racists.

These last few years have been the hard man test, haven't they? Where Israel, the USA & Russia are all 'And Who's Going To Stop Us if We...' And it turns out all the big empire makers of the past are just too weak to do anything other than say, 'Carry on!' Nothing we can do to stop them.

So... I see we now live in a world where heads of state and their wives are kidnapped by the "leader of the free world" Interesting plot twist. Amazing what oil & corruption can do.

Looking forward to reading the smallprint of the UK Govt's new proposals about animal welfare. It's easy to be cynical when you need the whole system to change. I'm already rolling my eyes at the shadow chancellor's declaration that it'll facilitate imports from less protected settings.

No capitulation to Russia. It would be criminal for Europe to capitulate to the "deal" from Trump/Putin that delivers Putin everything he wanted without any acknowledgement of the crimes he has committed.

Larry the Cat giving strong Trump vibes here.

No capitulation.

While I agree that the best thing for the planet and ourselves is going vegan, insisting on total veganism is really, really tough. I've been vegan since 2019 and living in rural areas at the mercy of small rural supermarkets is tough unless you like eating the same things repeatedly.

1. The Daily Express should eff off. 2. Celebration is often an act of rebellion that says 'We survived, no matter what you tried to do to us.' Starmer's Labour are never, ever going to appease the fascist media until they're shooting people on beaches and stealing the gold from their corpses.

The eye roll comes from a woman whose parents fled Egypt to the UK and who, as an adult, moved to LA as an economic migrant. Why are these people platformed and never called out for their massive hypocrisy? I'm so sick of it. Here's to all those who challenge that narrative.

It makes me feel all weepy when social & environmental justice are the top of the agenda. Only been waiting all my adult life for these conversations.

I'm at that point in life where Mary Maloney's tactic of ringing a bell to drown out "politicians" saying ridiculous things seems like a sensible step forward. I'd happily stand behind F*rage and clang every time he spoke. Whether I could keep it to bell ringing is another thing entirely.

I've really noticed that supermarkets and restaurants are making it harder and harder to access vegan produce... fewer varieties of beans on the shelves; removing entire vegan product lines; stocking the worst-tasting stuff and removing popular lines... We've got to improve access to vegan food.

Good for you. Good for animals. Good for the planet. What's not to like? Starting by reducing meat, dairy & eggs in one meal a week helps ease the shift. If every adult on the planet had 1 plant-based day a week, that'd be a huge step in the right direction

We have a media problem, don't we? A massive one.

Odd one out question: One of these villains is a complete work of fiction who did not execute their own dog, try to stir up race riots/rabid hatred/racism or hang around with p*dophiles and engage in s*x trafficking.