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If we can have endless variations of the Italian Job and Nikita, I’m up for a Netflix genre of “I grifted too close to the sun and oh my”

This is diabolical

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

Ok I had to look that up and I’m incredibly disturbed that you had that one ready to go. 😬

Oh but it’s too delicious not to be true. Grant me these small mercies.

Perhaps we might give the Spanish Inquisition a call. First time I’ve ever thought a bit of stake burning could be healthy.

Onya Leo. There’s a bunch of stuff that distanced me from the church but I’ve never lost my belief that social justice is the true mark of faith.

Try French women in the resistance WWII … and frankly women in every occupied war zone ever. Oh you can’t meet Friday as you are preparing to march through the ambush-ready woods? Fascinating.

Am I making things up or did I see the post from Pakistan literally had ‘text for post’ at the top, suggesting everything had be pre-vetted, down to the wording online? Or am I simply insane for trying to parse this absurdity.

Barnaby Joyce in singularly unattractive shorts and a cowboy hat in town.

All hat and no cattle … i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/0...

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

We didn't deserve this day.

NOT NOW N.KOREA

23 people could stop this genocidal war criminal. That’s it. 23.

20 Republican senators and 3 republican reps in the house and he’d be out of politics forever. But they won’t.

They’re addicted to power. A drug so strong they’d rather see a civilization die than give it up.

So based on my extensive study of this discourse, my fish taco is actually a snapper waffle dumpling?

It seems the only failure pointed needed in your system is 40 congressional cowards. Buy them or threaten them and you are invincible. You can then stack the courts, siphon off funds, destroy protections…

I suspect that Elon is very mad in a way he can’t articulate that these are humanity’s real space pioneers and he’s just a toddler with a trillion dollars and a tantrum

Jumping in to say that Swish Edinburgh just out of frame is an awesome place for nerdy T -shirts, including my favourite, Justice for Gingers

I know we don’t say ‘can you imagine if Biden’ anymore but ‘can you JUST IMAGINE if BIDEN …’

Mamdani’s March madness city repair campaign is an interesting one. Pitting options directly against each other to get buy in around priorities is one way to end the idea that everything is possible/affordable. (Imperfect analogy as all 100 jobs will be completed eventually.)

Happy on Earth (4%) is somewhat lower than I expected

i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.

Nice to see Perth top of the list (bit rainy though so don’t rely on turnout as a political barometer). He’s as resoundingly loathed here as anywhere else.

That’s genuinely beautiful to see

I will never leave my hairdresser as he is completely happy for me to be silent or rant with me about the state of international politics. Not once has he ever engaged in small talk. He’s a gem.

Also about as tricksy as if a raccoon had wings

Not federal, but one state - a nice but smallish one at that (sorry SA). We are robust enough to deal with the likes of one nationism, and we are immensely fortunate to have preferential voting. Take heart.

May we be more boring still, insulated from those who would emotionally manipulate us into fascism

This feels like an unfortunate design choice. It surely funnels the Animalia in and traps them by the travel section