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I don’t know why we’re doing Twitter discourse but IMO there is no reason for people to be active on there unless they are investigating/reporting on Twitter using burner accounts. Stop going to the local nazi bar and telling me you know it’s bad but it’s the only place you can see Dave.
I’m not suggesting that Zack Polanski is a British Mamdani, but the way Nick Robinson spoke to him on Friday’s Today programme demonstrates this mechanism at work.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d agoYou might ask “where is the British Mamdani” and the brutal truth is that the US press - as bad as it is - gives left wing politicians time and space to talk about their ideas. A British Mamdani gets swiftly kicked to death on camera in an avalanche of all-channels screaming hate.
Anne Carson seriously raising the bar here for ‘what I was doing when I got that surprise call that I’ve won the Nobel Prize’ www.ft.com/content/7eef...
The BBC is great. When it goes, which l think it will, it will be another Brexit moment for this country. Something we’ll bitterly regret.
“Badenoch says Archer was “a great communicator” and a “great storyteller”, and someone who believed in Conservatism.” He also spent two years, 2001-03, in prison for perjury.
The Spectator said much the same thing about Jason Arday back in the summer.
The Economist@economist.com · last wk.Like many Netflix series, the Harry and Meghan saga has all gone on for so long that no one can quite remember the plot. But it offers Britain some much-needed distraction
It’s almost as though that time the board resigned in an attempt to oust Altman was some sort of clue.
Anupam Chander@anupamchander.bsky.social · last wk."I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken" by @dgrobinson www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Kemistry is the name a 19yr old called Kemi might call their Instagram handle.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.Kemi Badenoch has been reading Thatcher's 1976 tract "The Right Approach" so is publishing her own 90 page 30,000 word pamphlet "The Right Way" www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Who’s going to clean up after they’ve finished wanking themselves into a froth? That’s what no one seems to have an answer for.
Liam Thorp@liamthorp.bsky.social · last wk.Austerity 2.0 is it chaps? I’m always amazed at how these guys derive genuine excitement at the idea of slashing public services
“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.” ― Carl Sagan
No, you’re right, world leaders should approach a would-be despotic bully with cognitive issues like absolute pussies. History teaches us that always works out well.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2w agoCOMMENTARY: Canada’s Mark Carney and France’s Emmanuel Macron have been giving as good as they get. But is it a good idea to go mano a mano with Donald Trump? 🔗 vist.ly/5km9w
Getting my request to be aggressively interfered with by a chainsaw in now.
“They were released on bail the following day in what police described as an "investigative decision" which was "grounded in experience and strategy".”
Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 2w agoLol
“Your blunt m’lord” Vintage Reuge musical dispenser IG: @estatesaleedit
43 years ago Today, Stanislav Petrov, an officer of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, correctly identified as a false alarm an early warning about an American multiple ICBM attack, possibly avoiding an escalation to a full-scale nuclear war. Original post
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DAD [to kid]:
What would you like then darling?
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DAD:
Would you like an ice cr-
ICE CREAM MAN:
Cut the crap.
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DAD:
Sorry?
ICE CREAM MAN:
Let’s stop pretending, yeah?
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ICE CREAM MAN:
*You* want an ice cream, don’t ya.
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ICE CREAM MAN:
You, a grown adult, want an ice cream.
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ICE CREAM MAN:
A special ice cream with spwinkles and a choccy bar pushed into the top, just for you.
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ICE CREAM MAN:
To eat in the street. In your *forties*.
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ICE CREAM MAN:
You pretend you’re here for your kids, but it’s always for you.
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ICE CREAM MAN:
I’ve given up appealing to kids with cartoon characters on my van
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Just drawn creepy pictures of *your* favourites instead
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[Show the side of his van with a weird airbrushed painting on the side. It depicts the hideous, badly drawn, distorted faces of Fiona Bruce, Alastair Campbell, Rory Stewart, Micah Richards, Richard Ayoade and Noel Gallagher]
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DAD:
Is that… Fiona Bruce?
ICE CREAM MAN:
You love her.
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did you enjoy your brunch with the most corrupt, racist and censorial zealot to ever helm the FCC were the golf tips and artisanal pastries to your liking
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo agoThe chair of the Federal Communications Commission on making the agency more ‘aggressive’, his fight with Disney and playing golf with the president — over Lunch with the FT: ft.trib.al/rzbcEFS
BBC R4 journalist struggling to find people on a Makerfield high street who aren’t other journalists looking for vox pops.
If you’re still on X for any reason you’re a fuckin bozo.