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Working on tech He/Him London, UK Left non-statist

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DOGE reminder from a year ago.

10.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

10.03.2026 23:11 πŸ‘ 1117 πŸ” 390 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 43
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We must never lose sight of how absolutely fucking hallucinatorily batshit this is. The other guy says when you surrender now? That means *you* are the one suing for peace

11.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 873 πŸ” 199 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 14

Remember the mystery a few weeks ago, about how and why xAI was spitting out people's government names, even people who have only *ever* used a pseudonym professionally?

11.03.2026 00:01 πŸ‘ 441 πŸ” 154 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Wikipedia says she was once an "activist for Amnesty International", which i guess is fine until Amnesty runs up against the world's first good genocide.

11.03.2026 00:03 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november

10.03.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 1133 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 6

"Operation Epic Escort" guys come on

10.03.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 1092 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 32

yeah, this is in keeping with what a lot of people here (especially @sky.skymarchini.net) have been saying

10.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 13

i do think if the straits are mined... we are in a totally new ball game for Iran + the Gulf

10.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

What exactly needs to be evidenced?

10.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Mr. Rosenberg said in an interview that he did not believe his comments were Islamophobic and added that he had apologized to defuse a volatile situation. He said his problems with the mayor related to his policies and β€œthe way he treats certain people, including mine, the Jewish people.” (Mr. Mamdani has angered some Jewish New Yorkers with his belief that Israel should not be structured as an officially Jewish state, and his unwillingness to condemn the phrase β€œglobalize the intifada.”)

Mr. Rosenberg said in an interview that he did not believe his comments were Islamophobic and added that he had apologized to defuse a volatile situation. He said his problems with the mayor related to his policies and β€œthe way he treats certain people, including mine, the Jewish people.” (Mr. Mamdani has angered some Jewish New Yorkers with his belief that Israel should not be structured as an officially Jewish state, and his unwillingness to condemn the phrase β€œglobalize the intifada.”)

It's wild because she'll now just drop parentheticals into her stories to be like, "He's angered some Jewish New Yorkers..." when that's clearly a stand-in for her being angered. From a different article. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/n...

10.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

The reporter has a pretty clear bias against Muslims. She went out of her way to get a quote from a conservative Muslim who wished that Mamdani had gone on some rant about radical islamic extremism or something or other.

10.03.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 533 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Like, this Mamdani piece. You read it, you read, "There were no short-form videos posted to social media about the attack in front of Gracie Mansion," and it becomes extremely obvious that the reporter is too biased to write the piece in an evenhanded way.

10.03.2026 17:20 πŸ‘ 643 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

the 1970s oil embargo & resulting stagflation was felt to discredit the left on economics for two generations

& this is a million times stupider & more avoidable than that

10.03.2026 20:20 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

They would like to incite people to kill him, just like they want trans kids dead.

10.03.2026 17:22 πŸ‘ 33 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think this story is a really good example for people to look at when it comes to understanding bias at NYT. It's not that the reporter, Dana Rubinstein, says anything outright false. But the framing, word choices, etc., add up to an unprofessional and biased account.

10.03.2026 17:17 πŸ‘ 6312 πŸ” 1234 πŸ’¬ 49 πŸ“Œ 0

Other than actually nuking Iran, he's getting everything he ever wanted.

10.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the time is here: send us the worst Iran takes

10.03.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 185 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 1
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Luke Akeh*rst MP, aka Luke the Nuke, former director of We Believe In Israel, and Labour First, Labour to Win and Labour Together, the three orgs that undermined the Labour Party in 2017 and 2019 and then put Keir Starmer into power

10.03.2026 19:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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America has become an agent of chaos in world energy markets A succession of US foreign policy choices has destabilised the oil industry

I hope American and Israeli lebensraum is worth it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

10.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Brit rent-a-GPU biz Nscale picks up $2B, hires Nick Clegg : Former policy boss Nick Clegg joins Cheryl Sandberg and one-time Yahoo prez Susan Decker

Nick Clegg is the new George Osborne of getting millions of jobs www.theregister.com/2026/03/09/n...

10.03.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

i feel like one problem here is that so many writers take Germany instead of Italy has their model of what it looks like

10.03.2026 13:14 πŸ‘ 381 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 12

Trans activism has "infected" Cambridge University, which presumably just means that cis students are being normal about trans students, by e.g. not describing them as an "infestation." Aww, you poor things.

10.03.2026 12:47 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump is not a fascist
Lightbulb, from Prospect <no-reply@prospect-magazine.co.uk>

Trump is not a fascist Lightbulb, from Prospect <no-reply@prospect-magazine.co.uk>

we're still doing this?

10.03.2026 13:12 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

When policymakers watch too much Marvel

10.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Old enough to remember "Hamas bombed the hospital themselves"

10.03.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

i think a better observation for mehdi to have made is that the only politicians who ever get held accountable for antisemitism are the two muslim congresswomen who never do anything actually antisemitic

10.03.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the president has literally called israel our country and benjamin netanyahu our prime minister and called us disloyal to them both and not a fucking thing happened

09.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0

Be sure to contrast with unlawful extremism, like the hundreds of pensioners being arrested for terrorism in the UK for holding a placard with certain words on them

10.03.2026 00:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck it, Trump now owns all of space between our solar system and the Andromeda galaxy

10.03.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0