Hi, my name is Rachel Reeves. I've got it into my head that a government should spend absolutely no money at all, and that's what I'm working towards. It can't happen all at once but I am going to take it from the disgusting poors first, especially the ones that have things wrong with them. Ugh. Ew.

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The best way for Polanski to appeal to people - beyond a raft of amazing policies aimed at improving the lives of everyone that isn't super rich - is to not be a drum-banging leftist that talks about how left they are, because the word "socialist" is, whether we like it or not, boring and tainted

mean liberal: nice car, weiner. did it come with a divorce me in my Cybertruck: no. my ex wife gave that to me. computer, please take note of another injustice I’ve suffered computer: confirming your destination is the Hoover Dam. cruise control set to 97 miles per hour

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Taxing the wealthy more is a good step to get where we want to go politically and economically, but we have to recognize that the entire economy is built around the extraction of labour toward the accumulation of capital. Taxing the rich doesn't subvert that fundamental logic!

In my head Ed Zitron and Ken Klippenstein are the same person

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

internet access should be like driving you should have to pass a test when you hit a certain age and if you fail they take your phone away

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Lmao I literally didn't even realise UKIP still existed, just casually papping an iron cross on the podium

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

He’s right

Because of your guys' help, I'm about halfway towards paying off these remaining grad school fees and getting my degree next month ❤️

bad news dude, they're on the Fighter Select screen selecting and deselecting you over and over to make fun of your voice line. they're saying the little pose you do when selected is wack. they're rotating you

[doctor coming to brief my family in the waiting room] He's awake and posting.

We all love Jonny Greenwood* but not enough people love Jonny Greenwood's score for You Were Never Really Here *yeah,, I know 😔

two-factor authentication option where your one-time password is dead dropped in a hollow log

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost

I won’t let myself have a mental breakdown even though I think I deserve one

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

The @scottishgreens.org - unless I'm mistaken and there's some alternate channel I'm unaware of - haven't uploaded to their YouTube channel (besides a few shorts) in six months Couldn't tell you how they're doing on TikTok etc (perhaps they can?) but the digital space matters more than leaflets atm

men used to get unrealistic expectations from porn and women used to get them from romance books. now everyone gets them from playing immersive 100 hour videogames where an elf with a shadowy past comes to know love again through your shared adventure and offers up their glistening elf body to you

The Green Party wants to Abolish Landlords. The question on everyone’s lips: What does that actually mean? Here’s motion proposer @sallonsax.bsky.social talking to @turnleftmedia.co.uk about just that!

i bet all this pain is going to lead to some insane gains

I'm sorry you feel like i shot you a bunch of times

Good watch and good job from Polanski I'm also excited to see how my YouTube algorithm lurches rightward after watching precisely one (1) LBC video

There's a Michael Jordan-esque competitiveness to Taylor Swift that I would almost find admirable if it didn't manifest in wringing every penny out of her fans possible.

it remains really funny that this site was spun up to be a crypto/rationalist platform and then old time weird twitter people and others started moving over here in spring 2023 and ever since management has been mad they're successful but not in the way they wanted

At least vaguely start to look after yourself, because even if you don't feel old, your body will soon disagree with you Start looking at bad things through the lens of "how can we stop the bad things" If your relationships suck, it's probably time to ask why, and leave if necessary k good luck!

When the PSNI were over arresting peaceful protesters in London, loyalist terror groups with 12,500+ members threatened terror attacks for using this island's native tongue. No COBRA meetings, no British reporting, nothing.

Engineers love being like "errrrr I designed an elegant solution for all your problems". Buddy? FUCK you. Ever occur to you I love having a shit life with 10,000,000 miserable problems?

Do I have it right that people who are trying to create digital slaves are telling other people not to use "eugenics language" toward computer programs

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others." she was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy." when you're definitely the good guys

a few small beers

Uncritical support for snubbing the Orange Order

One Piece of Trivia

folks we need to bring back forums. social media doesn't work. forums didn't work either but they were funnier and had more concentrated giant flameouts

It's quite sad that the value of science needs to be explained to people that are incapable of seeing anything without automatically placing it within the limits of a capitalist framework, like "what are the immediate benefits of this?", but here we are (and we've been here for a long, long time)

CEO of a site whose success has relied upon the CEO of another site fucking their site up: What if we fuck our site up

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

I still don't know who Jesse Singal is beyond someone that everyone fucking hates (which is enough for me honestly, I trust you)

Zack Polanski saying what every politician should be saying, "It's problematic to weaponise the synagogue attack to silence protest in this country against the genocide in Gaza" "These are separate things and we should condemn them both"

I think of the older women in Belfast arrested for Palestine shirts and stickers every time I pass the UVF billboard on the Donegall Road, which is several times a week

Hundreds of activists have gathered inside Glasgow Central Station to protest against the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla 👇

Been reading a bunch of leftist/ecological nonfic lately and would appreciate some recs for the reading list, so if you don't mind,,, 👇

I laugh out loud at this every time I see it ffs

The more you learn about how things work in the world the more you feel like you must be missing something because it can't possibly be that stupid. Oh so all we need to avoid an economic crash is for the stock market to go up forever? And a third of the market is magic beans? I see,