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Also feels very rfk/MAHA coded

2/9/2025, 11:11:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture danjac.bsky.social (@danjac.bsky.social) reply parent

You've made a couple of good points.

2/9/2025, 11:04:38 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've seen it. It's very weird, think of the Doctor Who intro

2/9/2025, 10:58:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did he hypnotise them

2/9/2025, 10:54:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Joe Rogan's Austin "comedy" club?

2/9/2025, 7:11:27 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Trump gets a pigs heart and starts making announcements like four legs good, two legs better and directs the CIA to hunt down Snowball

2/9/2025, 7:07:01 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That last comment alone would have Napoleon III spinning in the grave so fast he could power the French national grid for a week

1/9/2025, 3:27:49 PM | 68 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Saw a clip of the Ken Loach documentary McLibel about the long running libel case between McDonalds and a couple activists. Interview with a young idealistic left wing lawyer who took on their case pro bono. Wonder what happened to him

1/9/2025, 2:48:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's based on the two colors of white Englishmen: their colour for most of the year and their colour after 2 weeks in Benidorm

1/9/2025, 2:44:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Given how long that last movie took to make, turned out there was Plenty of Time to Die

1/9/2025, 8:04:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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In certain countries you are only allowed to name your child from a set list of names. Protection against narcissistic parents.

31/8/2025, 4:18:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He also has no natural constituency-Mike Pence at least had the evangelicals.

31/8/2025, 10:36:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Was he ejected prematurely

30/8/2025, 12:34:24 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's probably dropped his phone down the toilet. Normal service will be resumed when they find a competent plumber who hasn't been arrested by ICE

30/8/2025, 12:29:50 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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George W Bush was in the middle of teaching a class of elementary kids to read but thankfully was interrupted just in time which is why he is still with us today.

30/8/2025, 11:52:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Couldn't believe when Cameron did that. For God's sake man The Muppets is a family show

30/8/2025, 9:20:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Ballet enthusiasts: tune into Fox News, they've got Swan Lake playing 24 hours a day

30/8/2025, 4:46:53 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If Farage is your Gorbachev I wonder who will be your Yeltsin

29/8/2025, 5:44:48 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I've been reading about Britain after WW1 and there were numerous cases of veteran-led riots, strikes etc that seriously panicked the establishment. Nothing on the scale of what was happening on the continent - or Ireland - but yeah, having lots of unemployed men with battle experience...

28/8/2025, 7:43:29 PM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He looks like the Nazi who got his face melted off when they opened the ark of the covenant

28/8/2025, 5:23:12 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This kind of thing - and the lack of questions/discussions in the user community - make me think this is aimed at hobbyists, not serious production use.

28/8/2025, 2:58:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe this is used in production, but it doesn't give me a lot of confidence if docs on pytest integration are completely absent.

28/8/2025, 1:46:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Looking at litestar's advanced_alchemy....astonishing to see absolutely zero documentation on integrating with unit tests (running migrations on test db, rolling back transactions, etc etc). Maybe found an example using sqlite memory, which is a huge red flag if your production db is not sqlite.

28/8/2025, 1:42:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pro-tip: if you are fishing for sympathies, it's better to choose someone people can sympathize with, not someone whose only claim to fame and fortune comes from their dad.

28/8/2025, 12:50:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Tom Clancy's Lolita

28/8/2025, 12:46:51 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should try being a nicer person and send immortality promises instead of death threats

28/8/2025, 12:46:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The slogans seem hard to justify

28/8/2025, 12:42:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guy in the pic looks more like the kind of person who enjoys a refreshing glass of aqua vitae

28/8/2025, 7:44:07 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Which foreign power is going to raze America to the ground, occupy it for decades and force redemption at gunpoint?

28/8/2025, 5:27:06 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Projects like Litestar are interesting, but as soon as you add SQLAlchemy to the mix, it totally kills the momentum. Such an awkward piece of kit to work with.

27/8/2025, 4:55:16 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let's try a little project in SQLAlchemy, surely the ecosystem has improved in the last few years... Oh, looks like it's the usual mess of technical debt & poor decisions that make me abandon every SQLAlchemy project and go back to Django

27/8/2025, 4:44:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The first big celebrity deaths I remember were Liberace and Rock Hudson (my grandmother's generation).

27/8/2025, 1:33:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Counterpoint: Mark Taibbi. Who followed a very gen X professional path.

27/8/2025, 1:30:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is like the immigration debate in the UK. The actual figures show marked decline in illegal immigration but that doesn't matter because the median voter experiences everything in vibes, not facts, so the government must do "something".

27/8/2025, 12:17:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly were else would they turn up but Argentina

27/8/2025, 12:14:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should do political quotes, but in vintage silent movie captions

27/8/2025, 12:13:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Once these are overturned, next stage will be forced remigration/ethnic cleansing and return of the death penalty.

27/8/2025, 12:11:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Because he's always good for a quote, and what's left of the British media is a hollowed-out shell hungry for clicks and views

27/8/2025, 12:09:46 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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People are underestimating the danger a Farage-led UK would be not only to its own inhabitants but to the security of Europe. Breaking up the UK would be not only be the right moral but also geopolitically strategic goal.

27/8/2025, 10:06:01 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The far right griftocracy won't be satisfied with leaving the ECHR or "remigration" any more than it was satisfied with Brexit. The algorithm and their rabid followers will keep pushing them to further extremes.

27/8/2025, 9:15:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Honestly that sounds better than the cardiac arrest on a plate that is the full English.

27/8/2025, 9:13:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You should insist on the full Greek breakfast, instead of that foreign muck. Like that mad English tourist in Greece who complained she didn't get fish and chips.

27/8/2025, 8:58:45 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Interesting how the Labour government caved to Powell with the Commonwealth Immigration act. History repeating indeed.

27/8/2025, 8:56:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If this is the editorial line of the Times, there is something deeply rotten at the heart of the British establishment.

27/8/2025, 8:50:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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When you are such a traditionalist you yearn for the Danegeld

27/8/2025, 8:46:44 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/8/2025, 7:59:26 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Angel family were all GOP voters. Except Mean Machine until Pa "fixed" him

26/8/2025, 10:11:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Starmer not only lacks moral convictions but also political instincts. Ends up led by the nose by incompetent advisers, focus groups and tabloid headlines.

26/8/2025, 8:51:50 PM | 13 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why can't he ask his mate RFK for some tapeworm juice or whatever

26/8/2025, 8:33:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I remember when Margaret Thatcher died the UK media tut-tutted when people kept requesting Ding Dong the Witch is Dead on national radio

26/8/2025, 8:30:38 PM | 1 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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It might give them pause to consider the role of the monarchy under Mussolini and its eventual fate.

26/8/2025, 7:18:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Adding lead to gasoline provided them with a generation of GOP voters, they'll need to do it to replenish their supply

26/8/2025, 5:45:51 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Once ECHR is gone, they'll be beating the drum for the return to the death penalty.

26/8/2025, 5:23:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Old Russian saying: when fish begin to rot, they start at the head.

26/8/2025, 4:34:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Armed pro-government militia currently occupying the capital of this troubled former British colony are kidnapping ethnic minorities and regime opponents off the streets

26/8/2025, 4:12:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A government with a huge majority already behaving like a cowed opposition.

26/8/2025, 3:01:09 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Parties run by people with no moral backbone and no political instincts, so rely on advisers, focus groups, newspaper headlines and poll numbers to choose direction

26/8/2025, 1:31:39 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Grauniad has a habit of hiring reviewers ignorant of the franchises they are reviewing

26/8/2025, 1:01:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Washington Post is Pravda and NYT is Izvestia. Or is it the other way around. "There is no truth in Pravda and no news in Izvestia".

26/8/2025, 12:44:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labour behaving like a Putinesque controlled opposition rather than the actual party in power

26/8/2025, 12:42:55 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sure, but someone in power has to call them on it. If/when the regime is toppled, they should face a reckoning.

26/8/2025, 12:33:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this point, why pay the licence fee? Even if you just watch it for nature documentaries and Doctor Who, you're paying for a right wing broadcast channel.

26/8/2025, 12:27:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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As with troops sent to opposition cities: enough military to look good on Fox News, not enough to actually do the job

26/8/2025, 12:22:27 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's the over 60s I worry about, not the 16 year olds

26/8/2025, 12:19:51 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I had to return mine after I was charged for assaulting Michael Parkinson

26/8/2025, 11:36:44 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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RIP Orville

26/8/2025, 11:28:33 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Dearborn Independent

26/8/2025, 8:25:04 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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You also need a loyal ballet company in case you need impromptu performances of Swan Lake during times of unexpected regime crisis

26/8/2025, 6:39:48 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The way to make a small fortune in the restaurant business is to start with a large fortune

26/8/2025, 3:07:48 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The nearest thing i guess is going to see Hamilton on Broadway

25/8/2025, 9:03:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's no money in bisexual corbynism though

25/8/2025, 9:01:44 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I would never want to hand it to Clegg, but this is pretty spot on

25/8/2025, 6:57:47 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If your country is no longer under the rule of law, your judges are about as relevant as Judge Judy.

25/8/2025, 6:53:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There's certainly a lot of mass in that crowd, particularly that bloke in the middle

25/8/2025, 6:51:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Presumably in a wings basket?

25/8/2025, 6:46:39 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'd apply under the name Franz Kafka

25/8/2025, 6:42:39 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're acting like the controlled "opposition" in Russia. Maybe hoping to keep their privileges in the new regime.

25/8/2025, 6:40:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Two options: a) he's gaslighting b) American "elite" education is complete garbage

25/8/2025, 6:39:34 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Just heard that Finnish post will not be sending mail to US because of the tariff nonsense, and countries around the world will be following suit. I wonder if this applies to, I dunno, mail-in ballots from US citizens overseas?

25/8/2025, 6:38:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Guest spot on Joe Rogan in 3...2...1

25/8/2025, 12:26:10 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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IIRC you never saw England flags anywhere outside of a museum until the '96 Euros and from that point they were ubiquitous especially with a certain demographic

25/8/2025, 12:20:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I'm going to save myself a fortune on new glasses with a couple jump leads and a car battery

25/8/2025, 10:26:38 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It would be interesting to hear what's going on inside the BBC, rather than just rumors. It's a public organization; surely minutes are on record. Where is the pressure coming from? Who is setting the agenda?

25/8/2025, 10:24:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Labour stans are just getting weird now.

25/8/2025, 10:20:40 AM | 8 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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So what actually is their business model at this point?

25/8/2025, 10:18:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe when they are talking about crowd size they mean the size of the beer bellies

25/8/2025, 8:36:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Maybe but then that's putting all the blame on one man, who can be fired by Starmer at any time.

25/8/2025, 8:31:34 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He (or his handlers) reckon that if they break Chicago they can break everywhere else. Crack the hardest nuts first.

25/8/2025, 6:16:20 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's wrong with the perfectly adequate and traditional "Yank"

25/8/2025, 6:06:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A good point: no constitution is immune to a nihilistic, willfully ignorant and morally degenerate electorate.

25/8/2025, 5:55:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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if it was genuinely useful why does he need to force them

24/8/2025, 5:31:04 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's with the Lex Luthor look?

24/8/2025, 1:18:41 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Orban at least has the constraints of being in the EU, as weak as they are, because Hungary would fall into an economic black hole if it left. The UK has no written constitution, has left the EU, and would leave the EHCR. Orbanism would be the best case scenario in such a situation.

24/8/2025, 11:55:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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If you want to really control a country you need a Stasi not a Gestapo

24/8/2025, 11:36:37 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Wouldn't be the first time an empire was overrun by illiterate Arianist barbarians

24/8/2025, 11:35:16 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Are we going to see a remake of Annie Hall with Steven Seagal going "lah dee dah"

24/8/2025, 11:07:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Probably. Americans love their political dynasties

24/8/2025, 11:05:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does Tucker always stare at the camera like Mr Magoo trying to work out whether the publuc bathroom door reads Ladies or Gentlemen

24/8/2025, 10:10:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They should really be named the Dubai Gazette these days

24/8/2025, 10:08:21 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An ecosystem that relies on burning cops for crops is not sustainable in the long term

24/8/2025, 10:04:21 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view