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Mustn't speak ill of the dead, so best repost this again now.
True to say that if 'anchor tenant' accounts switched to or added posting here, BlueSky could flourish, obviating the need for X. But lethargy and apathy rule, as ever.
The novelty of social media has long passed. Twitter was in steep decline well before eL0n bought it and turned it into the bot-fuelled dumpster fire it is today. The take-up of new alternatives was always going to struggle; not because they're less active, but because interest in socmed has peaked.
*its accelerating intensification, but yes.
What does Part One have to do with Part Two of this story? And why does it require reporting at all? Did his hair dye run in the process?
This was an agreeable way to spend two minutes out of my busy schedule
That's one conspiracy theory I can buy into
Champagne's in the fridge, here
Yes, a multiple bankrupt felon with elections to win is much better placed to set economic policy than an economist with a 14-year tenure.
Wallace was obviously an offensive twat, but afaik, no one was actually assaulted or abused in any harmful way. Sack the guy, sure, but this has been such an hysterical overreaction.
Don't want to be nasty, but the Champagne's in the fridge. #justsaying
What idiot called it a bikini wax and not Bush Administration
Not just Americans, but *everyone* should listen 'The Story' podcast from The Times. "Why Trump's attack on the Fed affects us all" Economists fear the sacking of Lisa Cook is the start of a journey towards economic meltdown in America. If you have a 401K, a mortgage, or a family, listen to this.
What the hell has happened to the great USA? It's a banana republic.
..sold as toughness, greed exalted as ambition, and corruption worshiped like gospel. It is America's shadow made flesh, a rotting pumpkin idol proving that when a nation kneels before money, power, and spite, it doesn't just lose its soul-it shits out this bloated obscenity and calls it a leader.
... ghoul-all spray-painted orange and paraded like a prize hog at a county fair. Not a president. Not even a man. Just the diseased distillation of everything this country swears it isn't but has always been arrogance dressed up as exceptionalism, stupidity passed off as common sense, cruelty...
Behold. The festering carcass of American rot shoved into an ill-fitting suit: the sleaze of a conman, the cowardice of a draft dodger, the gluttony of a parasite, the racism of a Klansman, the sexism of a back-alley creep, the ignorance of a bar-stool drunk, and the greed of a hedge-fund...
Made a deal with the devil and pocketed $100m. Good luck to him, but now please shut the fuck up.
The idea that all wealth ultimately belongs to the state and is for governments to apportion as it seems fit is nothing less than communism.
Condiments matter.... www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2...
Interesting development that'll interest you. Live sports rights awarded to a YouTuber... www.thetimes.com/sport/footba...
@stevemartinreally.bsky.social Happy birthday, legend. 80, how did that happen??
Snapped the Mallorca Final Boss on the beach at the weekend...
Snapped the Mallorca Final Boss on the beach at the weekend...
Exactly. Surely nobody in their right mind would comply without cause.
How much more proof do MAGAs need that their hero is not the 'stable genius' he says he is... Trump tells Goldman Sachs CEO to hire a new economist after bank says consumers will pay bulk of tariff costs edition.cnn.com/2025/08/12/e...
TV news reports yesterday featured local residents claiming that neighb ouring Dean households had been searched by officers ahead of Vance's visit. This can't be true, can it?
Baltimore Mayor Scott response on Trump: I think it's very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the President has a black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime…
Watch out for counterfeit notes at the ticket office... Please be aware of fake £20 notes going around like this one. You can spot that it’s a fake because there are only 4 people in the dinghy
Billionaires are disposed to paying the least amount of tax possible, so only if all loopholes are closed and low-tax jurisdictions are brought into line would the 'stick' work. Ideal, yes, but not realistic.
Of course, no system is perfect. But if the 'stick' hasn't achieved the required result, perhaps some 'carrot' may be more effective. Give medals, titles, honours for the biggest tax payers; appeal to their egos.
At 79, Trump, doesn't have long left. If he wants to be remembered as the greatest US president and get his face on Mt Rushmore, he should wear a suicide vest on Friday.
Well, yes, but aside from lobbying power, they also have legions of 'creative' lawyers and accountants to swerve those. Unless you align all tax jurisdictions, incentives are our best bet.
Appealing to billionaires to 'do the right thing' hasn't really worked so well for most of us. Rightly or wrongly, tax incentives work.
Don't know how long Balderdash has been posting here, but your funny lookalikey birthday greetings were among my favourite regulars on Twitter.
What the FBI’s Epstein Files Would Reveal An index from an 8-year-old FOIA lawsuit shows that the bureau is withholding bank and phone records, photographs, communications with foreign government agencies and other revealing material related to its 2006 investigation. archive.ph/ffGHB#select...
Happy #InternationalCatDay to all who celebrate 😻😻 #ProofOfCat
Very Sheiny, though
Cnut
Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof
What, the Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof?
Did she say how much Melania was paid for sex with Trump on the Lolita Express?
Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof
Kiddie Fiddler on the Roof?
Sounds like just the place for Prince Andrew www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
And all to prevent the disclosure of the First Lady as a $5000-a-night hooker. Whatever the truth, Donnie seems prepared to go to the ends of the earth over it, which isn't like him.
I'm definitely in the market for one of these DARID body driers. 61 years of toweling myself dry, I'm so over it. darid.es/en/producto/...
With the remaining 8% coming from the hot air sector.
Hopes and prayers all round 🙏🏻
"The best apps for dating aren't even dating apps", I'm sure you mean.
Perplexity or Gemini are better bets for that type of query.
Just the opening sequence of the BBC's Destination X already puts it streets ahead of the US version.
Wut??
EPSTEIN Evil Perpetrator Squirming To Escape Incriminating News
It's always the cover-up...
The world went mad a long time ago (specifically thinking of November 8, 2016...), but this is a whole new level of madness.
There is, of course, no such thing as "child pornography". It is child*abuse*.
Was going to suggest a Skoda of some sort, but thought I'd give ChatGPT a go:
EPSTEIN Evil Perpetrator Squirming To Escape Incriminating News
And the Presidential pardon is in the post.
There is, of course, no such thing as "child pornography". It is child*abuse*.
The Daily Mail appears to have completely missed the story? How could that be, I wonder...
This week, climate change campaigner, Prince William, Kate, her parents and kids, hopped onto a Lear jet to Kefalonia and boarded the 146-metre megayacht, M/Y Opera, owned by oil and gas gazillionaire, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.
He's at the point of asking Putin to release the Moscow peepee tape.
I can't hear you over The EPSTEIN FILES!!!!
Imagine being a politics student a hundred years from now. "Didn't they have the internet back then? Weren't people able to exchange information and organise against tyranny?"
Easy, he has neither. In any case, deflection has always worked for him in the past, so perhaps the calculation is that people will move on before long.
Trump has inherited the power over the members of Epstein's paedo club. Perhaps the monetary value of that is worth the political heat he's taking now over the affair.
If Epstein's unexplained wealth were the proceeds of blackmail, Trump is now the one who holds enormous leverage over this paedo club. Whether he himself is implicated or not, it could be worth the short term political heat he's taking.
You mean Trump, the multiple bankrupt? That guy?
Every accusation is a confession
If Epstein's unexplained wealth were the proceeds of blackmail, Trump is now the one who holds enormous leverage over this paedo club. Whether he himself is implicated or not, it could be worth the political heat.
Whether there's anything on Trump himself is moot. Could it be that DJT now has his tiny hands on the compromat that Epstein used to enrich himself? That could be a large hill of cash for him to die on...
Saw him in a comedy club years ago, no idea who he was, but he was extremely funny. Glad he has managed to escape the clutches of depression. It sounds like he had dysthymia.
What a pain in the arse she was
As Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway rightly say on the Pivot podcast, Trump has been forgiven for his tax affairs, sexual assault conviction and multiple criminal counts of falsifying business records. Yet, he's prepared to die on this hill over the Epstein files; that's how bad it looks for him.
Don't go to the USA.
Craggy Island?
Skip the WSJ paywall: archive.ph/5VJ1L
archive.ph/5VJ1L
More of this, please. 👏 George Conway: "I didn't say Trump supporters are fascist. They may be supporting a fascist... I don't want to see the Republican Party led by a fascist. But he is a fascist. He cannot help but be a fascist."
In the meantime... Ozzy Osbourne's final performance with Black Sabbath raises a record-breaking $190M for charity www.billboard.com/lists/highes...
Yes, note Mrs Infantino leaning away from the stench
Absolutely gopping.
On russian telegram: Here’s how things improved in the russian managed McDonalds A Zoomer got a job at "Vkusno — i tochka" and decided to add a special ingredient to the burgers. He spat into each portion and then sent the dishes to the customers. This is russia in a nutshell.
And what an incredible coincidence that FIFA have just opened offices in Trump Tower...
