There should be a video podcast where celebrities from different fields just stare at each other in silence

Iran is doing a very poor job, dishonorable some would say, of allowing Oil to go through the Strait of Hormuz. That is not the agreement we have! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Two reminders:

First, Robert E. Lee was never a general in an army recognized by the United States. You can annoy all the right people by referring to him as Col. Robert E. Lee, his actual rank.

Second, the primary flag of the Confederacy is the white one of surrender. To wit:

Every time I see "furthermore" and "moreover" in reading responses, I cringe a little.

Aside from everything else, it’s fascinating to watch an 80 year old man who has never in his life known the shape of a consequence fuck around and find out as hard as it is possible to fuck around and find out.

'All you had to do was pay us enough to live. There goes your inventory': video shows employee setting fire to Kimberly Clark warehouse in Southern California, destroying it completely

Jesse Singal is forever worthless, but also key is that The Dispatch is platforming his hate — which serves as a good reminder that The Dispatch is essentially just National Review in never-Trump drag.

That article is well worth reading, by the way: it sounds like much of the government has bet everything on a fancy machine that a) helps stupid people to sound smarter than they are, and b) convinces credulous and/or desperate people that their dumb ideas are very clever.

Ministers listened to Hassabis describe a vision: as Al transformed the world the state would be transformed with it. LLMs would provide both economic growth and a faster, more productive government, by taking on the administrative duties of civil servants. The fiscal implications sounded incredible. In 2024, the Tony Blair Institute said Al could save the government £37bn a year. The following year, Peter Kyle (then the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology) said Al represented "a £45bn jackpot" for the public sector. Clearly, £45bn is a lot of money. It is enough to run the UK's entire public transport and justice systems. It would cut government borrowing by a third.

And all they wanted for these magic beans was one cow? What a bargain

It is IMO worth asking “If this technology is so excellent and all the smartest and best people have been using it to change the world for the better, then why is everything going to shit on rocket boosters?”

Can't wait!

21:07 < 凸 = Transgender women banned from women's PDC darts Darts 9 Apr 2026, 18:21 BET RED GETTY IMAGES RANSTAD.NL Noa-Lynn van Leuven became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship in 2024 The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from Home My Sport Scores

21:08 ld Champion The Darts Regulation Authority has banned transgender women from competing in its women's events with immediate effect. The DRA, which governs the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), said "only biological females should be eligible to compete in women's tournaments regulated by DRA Rules". It comes after the DRA completed a review of its Trans and Gender Diverse Policy, which began in 2025. Noa-Lynn van Leuven, who in 2024 became the first transgender woman to compete in the PDC World Championship, said the decision had "effectively retired her". She remains eligible to play in open tournaments for men and women. " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. Home My Sport Scores

ecision had "effectively retire‹ 21:08 remains eligible to play in o naments for men and wome " just got an email and apparently | just got retired, not by choice but because l am no longer allowed to compete," Van Leuven said in a video posted on Instagram. "The DRA just decided that trans women are no longer allowed in women's events which basically means am out. "Everyday it is getting harder for trans people to exist, to compete. If you think this stops with me, it doesn't. We just want to be." Sex-based rights charity Sex Matters said "men's physical advantages in darts may be small but they all add up". "Darts is a male-dominated world, played in pubs and clubs, and the top darts players are all men. That's why women need their own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair OC [International Olympic Committeel policy, this maid tirn to My Sport Scores Home The DRA said and

21:08 a male-dominal s and clubs, and the top All men. That's why women. own tournaments. "The Darts Regulation Authority followed the lead of the old, unfair IOC [International Olympic Committee] policy, so it's great to see this rapid return to fairness for women players." The DRA said it "seeks to be inclusive" and it encouraged "all players- irrespective of their biological sex, legal sex, and/or gender identity" to continue competing in open tournaments. It said its decision is based on legal advice and a commissioned report by Dr Emma Hilton - an academic developmental biologist who has published several papers on sex and categories in sport. Dr Hilton's report concluded "that multiple, small-magnitude sex differences accumulate to generate male advantage over females in darts". Last year, the World Darts Federation (WDF) banned transgender women from mentr Home My Sport oventrv. announced Scores

Looks like they’ve banned trans women from playing darts now of all things. Comes to something too when BBC Sport are quoting Sex Matters, and the DRA has commissioned noted transphobe Emma Hilton to helm a report for them. It’s a stitch-up, and it’s disgusting.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social • 1h Melania Trump: The lies linking me with Jeffrey Epstein need to end today. I've never been friends with Epstein. I never had a relationship with Epstein or his accomplice, Maxwell. My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence. * * 1:44 coverage of -- SOC LADY MELANIA TRUMP DELIVERS REMARKS AT WHITE HOUSE TODAY C-SPAN z

Melania Trump must know something about her and Epstein/Maxwell is about to hit the aircon

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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They did! Check the blog, it's great.

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"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."
If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.

the other side of this is that if you are still getting similar engagement on twitter - given the explicit ideological algorithm manipulation pushed by the platform’s owner - you should take a good hard look at why that might be happening

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Photo of three men standing on top of rocky terrain. One is wearing a blue zip-up jacket with a blue chambray shirt and tan chinos. One is wearing a green-black checkered jacket with red chamois shirt, white pants, and cowboy hat. The other is wearing a blue parka with with blue jeans.

Two photos. In the first, three men are wearing bomber jackets with blue or white jeans. In the second image, one man is wearing an off white (possibly chamois?) shirt with blue jeans. Another is wearing a blue denim trucker with blue jeans. A third is wearing a blue quilted parka.

Two photos of groups of men. They are wearing Nordic sweaters, olive bomber jackets, flight suits, black-green checkered jackets, cowboy hats, beanies, and jeans.

Two photos. In one, there's a man wearing a brown tweed with a checked shirt. In the other photo, men are wearing bomber jackets and high-waisted cotton pants.

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

A reminder, again, that the establishment have to maintain that the Corbyn era was a non stop cascade of Hitlerian racism because otherwise their response - a decade of public pants shitting, Boris Johnson, diamond hard Brexit and Keir Starmer - seems like an insane overreaction.

Have I got news account - Kanye West has been banned from entering the UK to play Wireless Festival, as it would have been terrible to have a prominent public figure going round Finsbury Park condoning antisemitism Jeremy Corbyn replied @jeremycorbyn .2h O... This is disgraceful, baseless and irresponsible. You should delete this immediately.

Just saw this - when I think of how my occasional off air, online opinions were considered too much for the frail, balanced BBC , seems pretty surprising what the official account of a BBC show can say - hmmmm seems like it may be specific to the direction you’re pointing

Okay. What the fuck am I supposed to do. I'm supposed to do that?

he would not fucking say that

The obvious follow up question: why did he sign off the letter in the first place then?