They think you're stupid.

(Sam’s explanation for why MAGA influencer accounts work is blunt: “The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people—like, super dumb people. And they fall for it.”)

I think it means he’s the British politics equivalent of a Red Wizard of Thay.

Reform being pretty clear that Farage wants to rule like Trump and we should therefore expect outcomes like Trump.

Let’s ask Reform voters: do you want a British government like the current US government?

I figure the BBC is just trying to reflect the perception of growing racism in their audience.

That’s Welsh for “Minecraft Llama”

Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".

Just looking at the UK: this is why it’s so problematic that the only people who have gone to prison over the Post Office scandal are postmasters whose money was stolen then wrongly accused of theft by the company that stole it.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Police treating arson attack as antisemitic hate crime It comes as a man attempts to ignite a plastic bag containing containing fluid in north-west London.

And another one.

It would be nice — albeit a triumph of hope over experience — to think we had vocal allies right about now.

🫶 Andy

Social media ban for the over-65s, it’s the only way.

I’m waiting for all the shocked faces on the politics shows when Ed Davey comes loling home to a plurality or slim majority in parliament despite being third on vote share because the Lib Dems were second place to the incumbent in every seat while the left and right blocs splintered into tiny pieces

Because both sides of the media don’t like to take them seriously.

The right prefers excitement about Reform and the left prefers excitement about the Greens.

In The Gutter on the Gray's Inn Road

A drawing of flooded overgrown ruins in bird's eye view. A man is wading through the water on stilts.

A drawing of some items: A diamond ring with a snake design - a flint knife wrapped with string - a gold chain with small gold bees - two clay toy dog figurines - a cup shaped like the head of a horse or donkey - a horse shaped candle holder - two crabapples - a votive loaf of bread (shaped like a hand) on a plate, with a bowl of salt and a lit candle.

A drawing of a woman reading a Tintin comic on a balcony in summer.

Three small drawings: One of a shrine under a pine tree with a stone inside, one of a salamander on the forest floor, one of a coastal path with stone steps, two tall trees, stone columns and two hikers in the distance. The overall feel is very late summer to early autumn.

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However common antisemitism is getting, however more violent, there’s comfort in the British antisemite still giving pure loser vibes

Like an embarrassing, massive loser vibes

Britain’s historical triumph was defeating Nazism, it’s in the national consciousness, DNA

Being antisemitic is so lame

I heard there was
a secret cord
You plug it in
and you meet the Lord
But you never care for OSHA
do ya

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

Millions of scorpions emerging early sparks warning Experts are reporting a spike in activity as the western U.S. faces a record-breaking heat wave.

Not now, millions of scorpions.

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Excerpt from the article: "The question here is not really one of whether such prayer is in fact an attempt to “dominate” – or the more obvious explanation, that during Ramadan one breaks ones’ fast by eating very briefly just before and then more properly after the evening Maghrib prayer (yes, like our own Maariv prayer). Rather it is about whether one has the right to publicly express their religious identity in this country. In this specific instance, an event to mark a key event in the Islamic calendar had been openly and legally booked for Trafalgar Square. Muslims present had every right to pray as a part of that."

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square

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Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

A stone carving in a church depicting a bald figure who kind of resembles ET with a large, exaggerated vulva. The figure is holding the vulva open with their hands.

Happy Sheelah's Day. This feast, largely no longer celebrated in Ireland, commemorates either St Patrick's wife or mother, who probably didn't exist. So let's celebrate a similarly-named mysterious figure today instead: the sheela na gig!

I’m going to start teaching my kids about Geoffrey Wednesday, the magic fairy who leaves full size snickers bars in the shoes of every pleasant child on Wednesdays. oh, Geoffrey Wednesday didn’t leave candy in your shoes this week? I guess it’s because you’re going to hell

lady of sophistication @janky_jane Props to anyone who tries to be fashionable in ireland i wore a red beret once in waterford and someone called me super mario Andrew Beatty V @AndrewBeatty Replying to @janky_jane I once ordered a taxi in Belfast for a night out. The driver pulls up to my house and just says "yer not going out like that. Go back in and change, I'll turn off the metre." | swear I was wearing normal jeans and a normal jacket.

Matthew @MrWeir Replying to @janky jane I once wore a silver jacket to college, turned up late for class, said 'sorry I'm late', lecturer said, 'that's ok' then waited til I was halfway across the front of the full class before following up with 'trouble with the spaceship again was it?'. Replying to @janky _jane My sister was in France sporting a new trench coat, thought was so stylish, but went into an Irish bar and got called Inspector Gadget by the first guy that saw her 15:53 • 8/16/21 • Twitter Web App

was wearing my super-fashionable short trench coat. My friend took one look at me wearing the jacket and said, "Where are we off to now. Columbo?" Eoin O Neill @eoinjoneill Replying to @janky_jane Was wearing a vintage nike jacket in a very long que for drinks at a boxing match when a Belfast lad goes "furk me this is taking forever, your man has been here since the 80's"

Loic Wright @dufflest Replying to @janky jane I wore a suit with a matching tie and pocket square to my first day of work at an advertising company (I thought I was going to be in Mad Men I guess) and the staff sent around and signed a communion card for me with a fiver in it. Eóin O Coileáin @L20_MTN Replying to @janky_jane I wore a white, wool turtle-neck jumper to the match once and a fella in the pub said 'Where have you parked the U-boat?'.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

a big set of Spirit 2K film scanners. they look cool as fuck. they're beautiful brushed stainless steel on the sides and a big glass view door to watch the film transport mechanims they're in a garage

so we rescued a set of cinema film scanners

does anyone need a set of cinema film scanners?

if you have a need for a cinema film scanner (or can give it a good home!), and can arrange to have it transported from the Seattle area, message me on fedi or e-mail me at hello@alyx.sh