after I finished uni it took me years to get back into reading for pleasure cos whenever I picked up a book I still felt guilty I wasn't picking up something I was supposed to be reading for uni instead

I'll be honest with you, people don't like Keir on the door but it's not over this Mandelson thing. They don't like him personally

Great news boss, this Mandelson stuff isn’t cutting through on the doorstep because they already think you’re a cunt

Tweet Coffee Lovers and Fans @tony.... 4d ..• Just listened to a full episode of Red Scare for the first time. Holy crap those girls are mean cyberbud @num1_cyberbud • 3d theyre great. like a high iq paris-and-nicole duo, using their girl boners to navigate politics, and somehow managing to derive actual insight from it Coffee Lovers and Fans @tonyhawktruther Replying to @num1 cyberbud You sound like a pervert who belongs in Hell 10:48 AM • 2/1/23

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

imagine your name was Warren Peace but you didn't know anything about the Napoleonic Wars

What you don't realise though is that once you've made your account you can never change your username, so folk who sign up just to browse with no intention of posting and so don't care about their username eventually begin posting but then theyve got this weird username permanently attached to them

When you sign up for reddit it randomly generates you a name unless you deliberately override it and use your own one instead.

List of threads in r/AskBrits showing every pro-Starmer prompt post gets 2-4000 upvotes ant any other ones barely anything

List of threads in r/AskBrits showing every pro-Starmer prompt post gets 2-4000 upvotes ant any other ones barely anything

Subreddit Rules 1. Don't be a prick 2. Posts must be real questions Don't just phrase a statement as a question or ask loaded questions. You should be genuinely looking for responses to your question specifically from British people. "What do you think of this"-type questions do not count

look at the insane numbers on all these pro-starmer posts, also funny that they all break rule 2 of the sub but the mods let them stay, which tells you a little about the kind of folk running the UK subreddits

you'd think that every corner of the UK now despises Keir Starmer, but you'd be wrong.

the UK-wide subreddits have been infiltrated by labour astroturfers to such an extent that a post in r/AskBrits like "I'm not sure why people don't like Starmer? He's doing a good job" gets 2000 instant upvotes

another world was possible

Lads it’s nice that you’re trying to do a bot net, but it really does need to be more than two. Looks a bit daft otherwise.

Listening to this kid’s science podcast in the car and they’re talking to a guy who studies tickling. He says, “Kids, don’t ever let a chimpanzee tickle you.” The host asks, “Are they good ticklers?” Guy says, “Yes.” Then a pause, then wistfully, “God yes.”

lol yeah same, the culture of helldump gave me a healthy fear of sharing personal information online but also was overall a Bad Thing, but my most constant group of online pals over the last 16 years started as an irc channel that spilled out of the LF UKMT then migrated to discord

it is quite funny that SA is still running and has slowly transformed into a retirement home for middle aged posters who can't be bothered with social media

WhatsApp reply to a video of a capering jester, saying "lol you often caper in front of me"

I mostly only use it for audiobooks and it's Fine but it could do with a better selection, my gf also had a shire one for a while but I think lost it eventually

face god and walk backwards into a pile of babybel

I remember when aberdeen city libraries switched from libby to borrowbox and the selection became rubbish, it's been slowly growing but it's still mainly kids/YA/entrepreneurialism self help books

of course how could I have forgotten luke nukem

I think I assumed joani reid must have been about longer cos she seems to have got stuck in the extracurriculars so rapidly

I'd consider myself reasonably attentive to politics and yet honestly don't think I could name a single new labour MP from the 2024 intake

this is his jam and allotments

he's just saving them for later

I say we should hear her out

Image: a screenshot of X with a still from an Elon Musk interview. Text: Guy who has that more than anyone on earth Elon Musk: "It's a real weakness to want to be liked, a real weakness, and I do not have that."

I’m so sorry for both the X screenshot (though it’s actually insta) and for mentioning *him* but this has made me laugh and laugh and laugh.

cat with a smile that makes it look incredibly guilty of something

if I was one of keir starmer's scheming viziers constantly pulling his pants down in public he'd simply never know it was me, I would be the last one the bumbling oaf would expect until it was too late

you grow up thinking that to get ahead in life you have to learn loads of things and be really capable but it turns out that to succeed in journalism or public office the most important skill is to be able to pretend to be born yesterday and feign ignorance of everything

This is the single funniest thing I have ever seen Bluesky staff do.

a post by karlusss demonstrating that he joined in July 2023

for the full forums experience i subscribe to the labeller that puts everyone's regdate under their name

if a midwife goes to a conference sponsored by a baby formula company, or even accepts a free pen from SMA etc, they could lose their NMC registration!