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So, what was I up to?

Unpopular opinion from abroad: Life peers are worse than hereditary peers and should even less be trusted with even a modicum of political power.

There’s so many ways to do it.
There’s so many ways to see.
But the only way to do it,
Is to DO IT PROPERLY.

(Turn up the music.)

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords Upper chamber accepts final draft of bill, which offers life peerages to some of those who would otherwise be removed

Kind of funny this will mean eliminating the only members who are currently elected.

Why do you have a rapid response team instead of a public editor?

They serve the Father of Lies.

I am mad at Renfer and, also, this guy has practiced for thirty years and this is what is going to mean he never practices again.

If you’re interested in AI, this is quite a thread.

Or did they finally arrive?

If you want to encourage people to stay home and not vote, this is the way.

There was to the Black Death at first.

"Tyler" is worse.

But they will all post little videos about how we all must stand up against the enormities of the regime.

On top of everything else about him, Senator Kennedy's country bumpkin act is infuriating.: Vandy; UVA; Magdalen College, Oxford.

My new Purity Litmus Test for any Democrat in politics is to at least talk like uhh this cato institute gentleman

The fantasy of the nation state.

His nonna never really got the hang of castellano—or italiano, honestly.

The other half's nonni left subsistence farming in Piedmont to be domestics in Buenos Aires.

I say it pretty often—the discourse today makes it relevant again—none of my grandparents longed to return to the farm.

"y'all" privileges revoked

Before Trump didn't give a shit about COVID, Republicans didn't give a shit about AIDS

Before Trump and the brutalization of brown people, Republicans brutalized black people.

Before Trump fucked around with our elections, Republicans took one to the Supreme Court

Before Trump in Iran, you get it

Share your findings.

In fairness, she’s not in a (real) department anymore.

reminded of my most dad coded political opinion which is that we need a universal Naps and Lil Snacks For All program

How far down Plato's cave shall we go?

Every dog has them once in a while.

Then you move on to "high" culture references to show them just how truly weird you are.

I'm sure there are worse, but San Diego has to be among the worst-governed biggish cities in the United States. Just stupendous work being done no matter who is in power.

Deeply satisfying and also very frustrating because I would give anything to be this cunty with such literary flair

The gym is full of them!