I see that Toby Young had written about an elite university messing up by elevating someone who may not have been actually qualified to be there. Interesting stuff
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imagine a future where *we* appropriate the vicious symbolism of ICE in a merciless crack-down billionaires and the MAGA class: fancy production value videos of bashing down their fancy doors, slapping bags over their spray-tanned heads, black helicopters, shattered ugly gold homewares, etc etc
Imagine the Democrat government live-streaming a black helicopter raid on a MAGA corruption-parasites shit-ass mansion. People would LOVE it.
Andy Broughton@andybroughton0.bsky.social · 2h agoDHS did a helicopter raid in the middle of the night on a building a couple miles away from me, zip-tied every resident on the street, then released a sizzle reel of the operation (including hilarious footage of some CBP lunk scaling a two-foot fence with a ladder), so I’m saying there’s a template.
Very interesting. According to Politico a big reason slimeball Rep. Andy Ogles got whacked in Thursday's primary is because he was targeted with $2M by a super pac funded by solar execs. They didn't user solar or enviro arguments. They used standard right wing ... www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How the solar industry helped take down Ogles
An aggressive new PAC backed by renewable energy supporters notched a major win last night by helping unseat Rep. Andy Ogles.
politico.com
My most politically radioactive opinion is that they should just design traffic lights with integrated speeding and red light cameras. In fact, fuck it. Put one on every half mile stretch of road. The average dr*ver is a barely civilized troglodyte that needs to be kept in line by force
bzzzt nope www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Nick Murphy@nmurph18.bsky.social · 3d agoPeople speed in America because American roads are poorly designed. There is no punitive measure that will fix road design. Increased ticketing will only plunder the lower classes while doing absolutely nothing to slow traffic.
Well, this is awkward: Tony Dokoupil is on vacation, and his substitute anchor is delivering the show's best ratings in months, surging past 4 million viewers last week. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...
Dokoupil’s Ratings ‘Dagger’
Tony Dokoupil’s summer vacation has delivered an unexpected and somewhat awkward result for CBS News: the program’s substitute delivered the show’s best ratings in months, Status has learned.
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for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? multiple opened envelopes with letters no longer relevant to your current needs and circumstances
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d agofor a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? An abandoned scrunchy from an undisclosed female family member.
Balingup cafe battles 'prohibitive' costs of sponsoring beloved skilled worker
Cafe owner battles high sponsorship costs as government vows to cut migration
A Taiwanese barista's employer is trying to secure a visa for her to stay in Australia, but the cost may put it out of reach.
abc.net.au
Should Hongkongers be counted in the census?
'Coded to Chinese': Hongkongers unable to list their ancestry on census night
People with Hong Kong heritage are frustrated that their ancestry will not be recognised as distinct from Chinese in the upcoming Australian census, despite years of lobbying and political turmoil.
abc.net.au
The french have it all figured out. Words should mean one thing and if you try and make them mean a second thing a guy comes out from the Louvre and shoots you.
The writers thinly disguised family court complaints@swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d agoSweet, endless discourse where nobody agrees on the basic terms of the discussion! This never gets old!
I had to look up the context and it's even funnier. "Reform are woke because they have a huge victim mentality. Not like me, I am not a victim and will never play the victim... but actually I probably have grounds to call myself a victim"
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 3d agoI don’t think that’s true, Kemi.
I love that AI companies are all like "we just have a marketing problem" when regular people are having AI experiences like this all over the place every single day
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d agoGotta love the “or stocks” part. Like Gemini realized its first answer was nuts so it tried to wedge in a better one.
*turning the hot take machine up to 12* Marx and Will Stancil would have the exact same social media and presence, except that Marx would be 10-12 times worse to women and minorities
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 5d agostop parroting theory and start trying to read and understand theory, marx would fucking disavow and destroy every loudmouth anti-chart jackass on social media, he would be obsessed with people being wrong on the internet and he’s not even the best reference in the 21st century
Howard’s big idea is to call migrants “New Australians” again. I wish I was joking.
Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7d agoOh piss off. You are only worried about how hollowed out your beloved Liberal Party had become. You look upon your works and despair. Go rot.
I thought this sort of cringe Putin apologetics had died off by now, either from embarrassment or because the Orban money had dried up. Guess some people are determined to be stupid here rather than on their natural home, Xitter. (tks @pixelatedboat.bsky.social for flipping over this rock)
Fuck all the way off with this. Howard has never liked multiculturalism. Not because it denotes ‘different tribes’ but because he can’t imagine anyone but someone who looks and thinks like him as ‘Australian’.
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
burnsfilmcenter.org
The real way to tell if someone is a real New Yorker is to show them this level of containerization and see if they shriek about how it might work in the village of Ribiera da Janela but would never work in da Big Apple.
This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
This is getting clowned on even in the left-nimby holdout that is the original NUMTOTs Facebook group
Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️@jgbollard.bsky.social · last wk.This is it boys, the platonic "New York can never get better" piece www.archpaper.com/2026/07/litt...
Bluesky catnip: written constitution talk plus detailed devolution things as.ft.com/r/a78e8a40-2...
Burnham says devolution plan paves the way for a written UK constitution
Prime Minister’s sweeping powers for local mayors could lead to ‘new principles’ for running England
as.ft.com
Holy fuck! On 27th of July 2026, BMW put a FULL SCREEN ad on all their cars at startup time for Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026). Not loan cars or demo, on cars people had already purchased and fully paid for.
BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising
On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day movie advertisement to the dashboard Control Display (the car's main center screen...
consumerrights.wiki