Good things are still possible in this world
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Had a dream that England lose to Brazil in the Quarters of this world cup

I look up the seeding and we are literally due to play them in the quarters

I've had prophetic dreams before... If I'm right I'm buying an octopus costume, some flags and putting a lot of money on bet365 for the semis

Wait sorry people are comparing these things?

That's so smoothbrained it's bot-esque, ffs

Universal Basic Income — like Social Security — isn't about creating dependency; it's about ending it. It gives people the leverage to negotiate better wages and better conditions. It turns the labor market from a coercive "choice" into an actual choice. That's the freedom we should be fighting for.

So much time is wasted by journalists reporting this shit tbf, i.e. just funneling the intellectual pißwasser snake oil of tech entrepreneurs right into the gullets of the laymen, pretending the whole time that all they speak is "expertise"

Managed to get some more but still don't have a photo of the best, RIP

🤔Could it be? Reform quietly shelving a vote-winning policy the moment former Tory Robert Jenrick becomes Treasurer?

The party that cosplays as “for the people” is bankrolled by & takes their orders from the same kind of profiteers who’ve run our water system into the ground.

A real curveball that

Sadly I don't even have a photo handy of my favourite find, let me see if I can dig it out

Reminds me of the joys of obscure Thai night markets

As soon as the British press decide to pick the government up on a 180 from a manifesto commitment, it's "U-TURN" headlines all over the shop and everyone is furious.

Maybe there's nothing special about manifesto commitments compared to other ways governments lose popularity, but they still matter

He's right in the sense that people don't care about stuff they don't notice. The idea that you can spin this into "people don't care about promises you make before an election, actually" is insane 🤦‍♂️

Does every political party have people with humiliation fetishes that just *love* to go out on the broadcast rounds the day after a by-election to brag about how proud they are to have lost it?

"Yes actually we cracked open the champagne at 5am when we found out that 5 people had voted for us"

A lot of landlords are massively raising rents before the renter's rights act comes into force in April, which is absolutely maddening

This interview is also probably LARPy in itself, a component of it is surely bigging up just how cucked you are to the venture capitalists to the FT in order to increase your chances of making it on Forbes 30 under 30

Would be refreshing if people could just have fun™ when discussing passions within a shared hobbyism without the need to be performative

Can't wait for the revival of sincerity to lift us out of our collective societal depression tbh

On this, I find I have two types of first impressions with hipsters:

1. We nerd out over shared appreciation for various musical masterminds, then they shake their heads in disbelief when they find I'm an Oasis obsessive
2. They think I'm backpeddeling when the above interaction happens in reverse

It actually must be quite sad to be someone who can't take sincere and candid art and just enjoy it. That there must be subtle messaging or restraint in something in order for it to be provocative or worthwhile to engage with whatsoever...

Anyway guess I'm gonna get into Bruce Springsteen!

softiejessxo outing herself as a diehard republican

A vastly unequal democracy is a democracy only in part.

We are in the endgame of this system which has hyperbolised to the insane distributions of wealth and power we have in 2026.

The choice is clear: we democratise our economy, or we ditch democracy entirely and resign our fate as peasants.

Tradtional media fails to tell this story - leading to further distrust - so new media (and often disinformation) step in to provide explanations in it's place.

They're filling the gaping hole left in the post-war social contracts of democratic societies.

The "collapse of liberal democracy" is simply the result of "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor".

People don't trust institutions, because they're the middle men systematically keeping this status quo in place.

Top tier WPSIATWIN pick! Would be my pick for my last few school years too I reckon, generational climax to a generational album

Guess that's the issue when you try and bundle "charasmatic renegade" and "useful idiot" together into the leader of a political movement

What's it going to take to get twitter banned in the UK?

If you made an AI webapp that didn't stop users from making deepfake child sexual abuse images, it would surely not last?

Just please put it in the bin and set it on fire, good job to the MPs standing up for this cause

The thing is, I actually hadn't heard of elf on a shelf

Yup. If there's one thing teenagers hate its embarrassment, needs to be leveraged way way more to get results in school

When I tell people I work at a magnet factory, I usually have to explain that we do complex engineering and it's actually quite technical and difficult

But to be fair this morning I am trying to pick up paperclips with magnets we're trying to make rn, so, maybe my whole career is a joke, actually

Strong strong starting point with Rayman Legends! Got thoroughly engrossed in that on my switch on lockdown myself, felt like a renewal of some of my earliest childhood memories

"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors.

So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.

Not to say there was none of course - there has been some. But an economic strategy that can reduce cost pressure where people are hit hardest (energy bills, housing costs, childcare etc.) AND higher taxes on the wealthier in society to improve public services will make most voters far happier.