2024 mandelson intake.

all of these ppl need to be recalled and byelections should be held.

“We’re in uncharted territory” / “It is not uncharted, you ignored the chart” strikes again

One of the big ‘masks off’ moments for liberalism at the level of the professional classes was the successive events in both Ukraine and Gaza, when it became apparent that cozy friendly liberals could be outraged at the murder of white people whilst turning a blind eye to the Middle East.

The dark history of the Telegraph's new owner... Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach.

The dark history of the Telegraph's new owner

Analysis in the British press focuses on Axel Springer's attitude to Brexit but a closer look suggests its worldview is just Right for the Telegraph's existing editorial approach

via @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

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How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents Parents were frightened by social posts that seemed to encourage violence at schools. But it was more complicated than it looked

Basically, adults need their social media use restricted

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MacBeth, isn’t it: Oh shit there’s blood everywhere, this seems really bad! I guess there’s nothing to do now but slap on a grin and plough through it

A reminder that when Christian Zionists and Christian Nationalists in the West talk about Christians, they are not talking about the Christians of the same holy land that Jesus himself came from. They don't give a shit about us.

Boris Johnson video shows 'excruciating' exchange with Foreign Office adviser 'Astonishing, it's the real life The Thick of It,' Twitter user writes

"“We shouldn’t probably use the cake analogy too much,” Ms Wilson responds."

I can't help but remember this clip from a BBC documentary of Caroline Wilson (and her facial expression) trying to explain French and the French position on Brexit to then UK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson:

This case fucking haunts me. So far, no one involved has faced any consequences, including the rapist.

The rape victim they framed could have gone to prison for life.

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This is absolutely horrifying and infuriating. Why police forces are allowed to investigate, and subsequently clear, one of their own is baffling.

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

This is completely unacceptable and, without exaggeration, if you have a Labour MP you need to write to them demanding she resign immediately.

BUT the NHS came up with a clever trick to stop these 16 & 17 year olds from accessing (safe, beneficial, low risk, well evidenced) HRT.

They looked at the evidence in a VERY specific way.

This is violent, sickening rhetoric.

GB News commentator claiming here that non “indigenous” people are committing “genocide” against the UK.

GB News is beyond the fucking pale

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.

🧵 1/3

Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.

This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.

The study underpinning this played one particular trick.

Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5

"aren't you worried about farmworkers." yes. primarily i am worried that they are doing backbeaking labor in the hot sun and we rely on an entire shadow economy which can feel free to abuse them essentially at will.

it's not that farming isn't important (i am eating a hot dog) but that no one does it. like the basic idea he has is that we live in an entirely circular economy where people only eat food because they are responsible for growing it. that's not real. i think that's from an early vic3 patchnote.

who even farms. this is, like, what a sumerian peasant would worry about

"WHAT ARE WE TO TELL THE CHILDREN ABOUT GAYS MARRYING?" Dunno. I'll ask my 5-year-old, who just married their stuffed bear to a stuffed pony."

Stuff like this is just designed to further normalize gAI use to write; to numb us to criticism; to humanize LLMs and dehumanize actual authors and artists: I detest this kind of bs

we have entered the era of nation-state level trolling

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

The average reddit user is a pretty good model of the american voter in that they’re generally quite liberal in most ways but if you trip over an issue that irritated them they will immediately try to invoke state violence

its too late ive depicted you as the soy dumbshit bug eyed pokey and myself as the chad confident and all knowing prickle

If it's not made a crime to sell your personal data and location to third parties - organizations like ICE are going to keep buying and using it

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense.

People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

it was the united states who bombed that location again, ~40 minutes later — just in time for first responders to have begun massing, in significant number, at the scene.