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Oh they didn't use IV
“We reject the far right’s racist lies about ‘protecting’ women and girls. They are not defenders of women – they exploit violence against women to fuel hate and division." Words that very much need to be said.
Everyone needs more Nikolai in their lives :-)
Circe what you did there
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I hate flags, nationalism is revolting. I don’t understand patriotism, I feel nothing but contempt for this type of pride. Where you were born is just a piece of luck it’s like religion or what type of shoes you wear, another abstract piece of tribalism. Fuck your stupid club.
A guy who for some reason hasn’t been ostracised for working with virulant antisemite Mel Gibson
I don't know why but bsky seems to especially target Traji. Please help her with the evacuation ❤️❤️🩹
Making us all work 40hrs in bullshit jobs is not just about capitalist profits, its about keeping us busy, distracted and lonely. #socialistsunday
I had a joke about the third from last section of Ulysses. Eumaeus well hear it
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Me: British food discourse is so tedious and we should all just refrain from indulging it Me when a white Yank is getting dragged for British food discourse: get his ass
Let he who is without imperialism cast the first scone
Can anyone put us in touch with any journalists in Scotland with an interest in disability or neurodivergence? It's starting to look like the withdrawal of funding from the best autism assessment services in Scotland is just the tip of the iceberg. Thanks! #Autistic #ADHD #ScotPol #Edinburgh
Is he trying to get released from his Toyota contract so he can drive for not-Toyota?
Nikolai the #SilkenWindhound
I want Starmer to explain to me, calmly and in detail, why it’s bad to have asylum seekers staying in a hotel in my town. Why should I be concerned about that?
Fish hook theory ftw
Spot on. I think about that bit in relation to Starmer a lot
‘A cowardly man trapped between two different forms of cowardice’
Oh so they’re doing Kindertransport all over again: refusing to accept family members tout court, requiring absurd amounts of money, and running it as a private partnership. In fifty years they’ll have built up such a mythology they’ll claim they were the heroes that rescued the poor refugees
The 'Richard Hammond' type
It looks like the ruling classes of country after country have looked at a choice between a) “mostly neoliberalism, but now without you” and b) “mostly neoliberalism but with Hitler, and you get to stay on as the tame opposition” and they have all been palm-slamming button b) like its Hungry Hippos.
Sorry to sound like a stuck record here but the answer is incredibly simple: *bc Labour don't want to*
My main issue is that the idea of leaving an international human-rights treaty in order to be able to cause harm to people is an inherently fascistic proposition.
Stocking up on the Irish staples during a trip home
This was probably the most fun conversation I ever had online, and I'm old enough to have been on USENET. My friend @loreandordure.com (who is a vet) joined in and backed up my diagnosis; the rest of the evening was spent laughing at Jack's mum for nearly eating it and talking about food generally.
I don't think I've ever heard a leftist use the term unironically. Centrists and liberals, on the other hand...
My apparently unpopular opinion is that if the term 'tankie' could be directed at leftists equivocating over the USSR sending tanks into Hungary it should apply just as much to people who justify, say, the IDF sending tanks into Gaza
A N G E R Y
(I say 'authentic Italian' is if there aren't dozens of very different regional variations)
I wonder if there's also an element of them not knowing what authentic Italian pizza is if they fell over it
As a professional faller-downer-of-rabbit-holes I salute you
Yesterday saw a comment I decided not to reply to, by an American, who wrote 'my husband told me that the British went round the world looking for more interesting food than their boring fare, and that's why they stopped after taking India' and just I cannot
again a reminder that the british vs american food debate is not only tediously boring, but also often racist.
Lascaux Cave in France contains paintings from the Paleolithic era, 17,000 to 22,000 years ago. The paintings depict people, animals and abstract symbols and you couldn't do them today because of woke.
Two tentacle pots still available and some tentacle cups www.roseschmits.com
Agreed. @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social @zarahsultana.bsky.social this is unacceptable
Oh my god it got worse
reasons you *might* like my next book: - no romance, only trauma - 2nd person / 1st omniscient pov - ww2 in south china - low magic - monstrous women - 53yo mc - GHOST CAT 🐱
Labour going hard right to try and beat Reform is half the story. The other half is that Labour is under the control of right-wingers with right-wing politics who want Labour to be *the* centre-right party and believe they can achieve this because they’re the smartest guys in the room.
Never forget, a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org
Eu mae as well ask
"I'm being as racist as I can" tearful Starmer tells voters
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
STUDENT, NOT DOCTOR, READ THE GODDAMNED BOOK
I had a joke about Odysseus but it took too long to hit home
Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
Me: I'm going to just kick back and watch a really stupid film Also me: That was so stupid, and I'm never getting those two hours back why did I do that
Order 66 but for former Trump grandees
This here is SMS Grosser Kurfürst, which was unfortunately rammed from behind - and each subsequent detail to emerge about the accident only became more and more embarrassing. No reason to post this now, but I wonder if Rudi Guiliani is reading?
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I would have hoped thoughtless massacring of henchmen was passé after Austin Powers but here we are
Ah I see, the 'expendables' in the film The Expendables refers to anyone who isn't a main character
need rudy’s supposed 911 call stat
Vbb never misses
I wouldn't be that surprised if the sounded r in rt sounds is present in more accents of English than it is absent
Or indeed any one of the dozen UK regional accents where the 'r' is sounded. We Brits really have a long way to go to get over BBC being the only UK accent that matters
Yes, very much this
Poor Yuki could have been having his best season yet in the Racing Bulls, and instead he’s killing his career at RBR
Sorry but Max was incredibly lucky on lap 1. He tried his usual hail Mary round the outside and was absolutely screwed until the slope of the banking slowed him down. That wasn’t skill
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
I forgot Albon too
Safest to assume everyone else is a terrible driver only paying half attention and not put yourself in their hands
It was probably mainly because of the camber of the road but she can count herself fortunate the car drifted right and not left
It really doesn’t. Slightly damp road, two swerves - to avoid the pheasant, then to avoid the kerb, and the car broke grip and went around. I’d have been really interested to see how it looked from the cars behind I’d also be interested to know how fast texting woman was going - it looked fast
But overall, yes, Red Bull has tended to chew up and spit out drivers who aren’t the favoured wunderkind. Webber and Ricciardo were both very competitive against Vettel and Max respectively but it was clear that politically the management were always going to favour their teammates
The issue with Ricciardo and Kvyat was slightly different. Kvyat had been underperforming but he was improving and they really wanted an excuse to put Max in the senior team for PR. Ricciardo was competitive with Max in 2016-18 but he left because he could see the way the wind was blowing
Sainz never drove for the senior Red Bull team - he absolutely should have done but I suspect they didn’t put him in there because when he was teammates with Max at Toro Rosso they got very competitive with each other…
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Every day is a good day to email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz demanding they reinstate @soma-eslam.bsky.social and all the other Palestinians they've banned for no crime other than being Palestinian.
Anyone in Edmonton, please keep an eye out for Premee’s kitty Fiasco! Franca has been found, but Fiasco is still lost. We need him home safe.
If you still have an Academia account, heres how to turn off the gross AI scraping
(the car went through 180deg by which time most of the speed was scrubbed off and I had control so I just used the remaining momentum to back onto the verge. I'd swerved reflexively as the car in front hit a pheasant and flung it right back at me)
I can believe it. I once spun at 70mph on a dual carriageway and afterwards my partner told me she'd been screaming 'oh shit' the whole time, and I had not been aware of it at all
It definitely seemed like a really weird reaction to me
It's absolutely ludicrous, this has happened to every driver from Gasly. It isn't the driver. We know Yuki can drive, they basically shouldn't even think of changing the second driver until Yuki is routinely within 3/10 of Max
Holy fuuuuuuuuuuuk
The only person I want to see in that seat is Lance Stroll
I hope not for his sake
Invented by people doing a comedy version of German and really committing to the bit
Now *that* would have been an interesting thing to see on screen
Oh that a man's reach should exceed his grasp/ Or what's a heaven for
It's the last day of #worldprincessweek and a great time to remind you of Jade Linwood's CHARMING series, where the prince is a conman leaving a trail of broken hearts and empty treasuries so a gang of fairytale princesses combine to take him down! # 1 geni.us/n6okby # 2 geni.us/chbeast
Yes, that’s true. Most adaptations seem to make them indestructible rather than just very powerful. I suppose you could say that the scene near the end of the Spielberg version where the US military takes out an already ailing tripod with MANPADs is influenced by it
I love this! In the spirit of tangents, do you have a favourite undergrad university lecturer? I did my undergrad degree at Leeds Uni and was lucky enough to take Prof. Simon Dixon’s modules on Russia during the times of Peter the Great and then Catherine the Great. He was a peerless teacher.
These days you could make it an environmental theme. Protect the biome and it will protect us against the Martians (If I could be bothered I would make up a ‘he attac/he protec’ meme with a microbe)
And if they had these tripods waiting here for millennia, would they not also have been analysing the environment for things like microbes?
Now I think about it some more, it would work narratively if you balanced it against the main character’s actions in some way. So, it’s the Martians’ hubris that makes them vulnerable to tiny microbes where the main character realises their humility before nature can save them, or something
Oh no! Sorry mate
It includes audiobooks, toys, and photocopying. Just despicable
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I tried to watch Tropic Thunder but after about two minutes couldn’t stand any more
Like Prometheus but even more dumb
Yes! Now I’m thinking about it, what was the point of the machines already being here? I don’t really get why that’s necessary, other than to afford the cool ‘unscrewing’ sequence
And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.
I really wish Lando would stay mad a Max, because that’s not a friendship
Very much so!