This is a big win for
1) We're all trying to find the guy who did this GIFs
2) My "Farage is desperate to maintain the cordon sanitaire between him and the Robisnon-Lowe Reactionaries and he's losing that battle" thesis
A lot of my pop pyschology of "why is Starmer shit" is based on my experience of the work culture of senior lawyers and this tracks
Cancel Reply Forbidden Jay Bluesky is made with Al, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code Can you ask them to stop?
Asking the forbidden question
Pet abandonment and surrender rates.
(Gonna get back to the main thing in a bit when I’m more free but made a bit of this because I liked the idea.)
trying to find a specific bit in Todman's Britain's War and the scale to which even British planning during the Phoney War was just on a different scale to German levels is mad
Classic little MattY two step here where he uses an implied, partially real but exaggerated, crazy thing his loudest detractors believe to smuggle in something actually insane himself, as Ryan correctly points out here.
There's a consistent part in Daniel Chandler's Free and Equal where he repeatedly points out that the negatives of people exploiting a redistributive system are negible to the exploitation people can achieve in a system that makes no attempts at harm mitigation whatsoever
Evil? yes. Pentagon leaking like a sieve? also yes!
something that’s really been wild to me, as someone raised in the ‘freedom of religion’ usa, is how my other nation, the U.K., quite literally has a state religion and is somehow a hundred times less religious functionally than the USA
Peppa Pig logo generator (at https://t.co/0ngiSfKwV6), with the logo reading "From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh" with "It disgusted me" as a subline
Never quite been as convinced the Tory party is dead as I am now that Marie has made this point
🎁🎂🎉
Quark chyron on the news with Quark speaking
News used to be better
“Perhaps today IS a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys.”
— John Worf, Star Trek: First Trek Consquences
Oh that's
That's indentured servitude
That's just indentured servitude *at best*
The economics of the recreational gun market are really interesting. It’s probably one of the most directly and explicitly “political” markets in the country due to stuff like this.
In case you're wondering what life on a Daily Wire production is apparently like... deadline.com/2026/04/jona...
Underrated destroyer of civilization was news media getting article level engagement metrics
10+ of "Trumpism is a rapist ideology" and he just says it out loud
The Crueler Sea
Love a map where you can see the Death Shroud of the British World
Looking forward to the post in a few weeks.
TO OUR GOOD AND LOYAL SUBJECTS,
After pondering deeply the general trends of the world and the actual conditions obtaining in our empire today, we have decided to effect a settlement of the present situation by resorting to an extraordinary measure.
It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌
Good to see Australia honouring its cultural heritage:
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/31/democr...
He was a Marine wasn't he? Must have got chatting to a SEAL at some point and got his agent's number
Weir saying "I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other" is one of these moment where you realise someone has absolutely not understood authorial intent at all
The IOC’s decision seems cruel and pointless until you understand that cruelty *is* the point.
I'm really split on this personally because I agree the museums need the money but having worked front desk at a museum the delight on a tourists face when you tell them it's fee is a universal language I wish we all saw more of