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Either we are all free, or none of us are free. Either we all have the right to be who we are, or none of us have that right. And if someone doesn’t believe that, all they are doing is choosing whom they wish to start with eliminating, but their end goal is to get rid of everyone who is not them.
I don’t understand why people are so sure that Trump’s base will recoil at the thought of children being abused when children being murdered at school has no apparent impact on their support for guns.
I think LOTR is a really interesting comparison because the expanded linguistic universe behind it tends to lead the true nerds into "so Finnish has 15 verb cases" and not "slavery is fine, actually"
I feel like they're calling out the connective tissue between the 'Tans and ICE. Which isn't getting the attention it deserves. But is this going to be a whole line? Will they do Klan and SA and Cetnik flavours?
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
So exactly what you can expect if you arrive in the US having said anything the regime there dislikes.
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Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
The swastika is already too complicated for them.
There’s a book in that. But a DI and a vet with that kind of cash? And a trade unionist? I think they’re investigating stuff so they can throw out a distraction any time the NCA shows up.
It's not as balls-achingly obvious in the book, but if Elizabeth retired from SIS with the kind of money this movie suggests, she has to have been on the take to a truly epic degree.
Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival
Better question - who's judging you?
Amid all the speculation on the current uncanny silence, let's just take heart from the knowledge that any medical issues will be in the safe hands of Brainworm Guy.
The accounts department though... blood everywhere...
A few year back, Neil Jordan said that "oh you couldn't make the Crying Game today, by gum" and we all braced ourselves for a "because of woke" rant. But he the said you couldn't make it now because the idea of an Irishman not realising the bar he's in is a gay bar is now unrealistic.
He IS the arse of the deal, nicht wahr?
Yup. But his leverage on the deal is limited. If Putin takes the ground I can’t see him sharing the spoils with the USA. So the only way Ukraine honors the deal is if there’s still a Ukraine to honor it.
Kind of thinking that Ukraine doesn't need to stick to the mineral deal if Trump doesn't hold up his end. What's he gonna do? come and dig it up himself?
Just keep in mind this is just a variation of 20 years of government bans on studies of how guns contribute to the violence.
Don’t forget the difference you make by setting up a working group to consider changing the fabric.
Powered by a large crank sounds like how we got the 47th president
They do seem to be threatening us with a good time
There has to come a point in this kind of exercise where the guardsmen say something like "You know we have guns?" and suggest that they'd prefer not to be given any more stupid orders
liking the way you're holding open the possibility of other faeces flavours, but we need clarity on where human faeces would stand on that flavour spectrum.
Unusual sentence construction for a six month old
I realize NO ONE else has this take, but I'm gonna say it: The National Guard are scabs now. These are potentially union jobs, many of which were outsourced, now they're insourced, but without union labor.
Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don't read history repeat it
If I win tonight's $800 Million Powerball I'm sharing with all my followers on Bluesky. I'm not sharing the money, but I'll let everyone know I won.
may is doing a lot of work in that sentence
Yes, exactly. You hope for readers to develop an open sense of complicity, a willingness to be moved in the heart and in the head, rather than a grim interrogation mindset ("You think you're clever, but you're not going to pull a fast one on me!").
Related (or maybe the same) is that "I'm going to trick the reader haha" is not a good path to reader investment, but "I am going to delight the reader, haha!" is. They look the same on the surface but they're not. I always advise being generous to readers, not adversarial.
"secret weapon" will you people fucking STOP! it is MONEY – the "secret way for babies to survive" is GET. THEIR. FAMILIES. OUT. OF. POVERTY mortaility down 45% – economists are "stunned", "Cash played an outsized role" what do you mean "outsized"?! give them cash, they'll use it to SURVIVE
I think that it’s more noticeable at the extremes. I really noticed a change in what you could hope for in poor light. With well lit scenes the differences are much harder to see.
Annoyed to see that I missed auto correct changing Nordor to Mordor.
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Edge of tomorrow? Nothing but resurrections. Oblivion? Heroic sacrifice followed by resurrection. Mans got firm is what I’m saying.
Tom was the producer. He’d have resurrected in the second act. Which he honestly kind of does in the final act. And not just in that movie.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, like Donald Trump and the strength to change the things I can, like the channel when he's on TV.
Non-binding deal? So not a deal at all.
They've been doing in Mordor for generations, and yes, that's the exact effect that it has. The Orange Order will be pleased to see England becoming more like their fond imagining of it.
You get the Navalny you deserve
To: All Staff Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!! NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.
Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.
What about his bone spurs?
I don't feel safe FROM America.
Each other? It’s the wilful self-harm that must have him rubbing his hands with glee
It’s not as though anything his principal adversaries are doing is likely to leave them stronger in five years time than they are right now.
You will after all be hosting the world’s most egregious cluster of vanities.
Same decor principles as the Oval Office then?
Unless you are living in the house or village where you were born, you're a migrant. Most of us are migrants.
This is genius.
OMG 😍 someone suggested: give the nobel peace prize to US-AID and make trump to come recieve on US-AIDs behalf 🤣😂🤣😂 oslo is right behind this
64% of the richest 10% in Britain got most of their money via inheritance, not by working for it. Such as Allsopp, the eldest daughter of Baron Hindlip, chairman of Christies, who got her start in TV via her art history degree, which she studied at ... Christies. But sure. More austerity.
The thing about vengeful people is that their grievances are not guaranteed to be in any way just or reasonable.
Nothing would please me more than you getting all the money you want. It’s the icy vengeance of the people who think that money was rightfully theirs that worries me.
Man you’re explaining the capitalist playbook out loud. I need your airfix reviews and books not your martyrdom at the hands of weaponised finance bros.
I’ve a strong sense that in any kind of corporate environment there’s a perceived pressure to be like the people you work with. So when most of them are this is what you get.
The closing line is the self-inflicted headshot.
You can’t be overlooking self pity.
You can insult prominent far right jerks (or anyone, obvs) without being transphobic or homophobic. If your response to that is "but THEY'RE transphobic and homophobic so it really bothers them!", I remind you that they're malignant narcissists with fragile egos. ANY insult really bothers them.
Ireland was fully independent before WWII started as shown by its neutrality in that conflict.
Tell him he'll hear in two weeks. Rinse, lather, repeat
Time to review and codify what the Germans did to preserve the Stasi records.
the peace deal should be Putin completely withdraws from Ukraine and he also takes Trump home with him
America's Black and Tans
As entertaining as BBC Sherlock was, I still will join you on that hill.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
Also here for something.
It was discouraged. Had I but noticed.
I doubt you’ll need to know much Swedish to understand what David is saying.
Not at all. Just pick a workplace full of paranoid people and then do what seems simple without thinking about whether it’s good for your career and hey presto you’re a menace to society.
The declining years of my working life were enlivened by the vague realisation that some colleagues thought I was their mindful nemesis and that other people were all agog.
I think they should have asked how many people thought they were someone else's nemesis
Train information scroll just said ‘we wish you a comfo’ and I now want to make this a saying. I, too, wish everyone a comfo.
They’re magnetically drawn to bad people who lost badly. I guess losers identify with the noisiest other losers. Sorry, not noisiest. Naziest.
One thing that I’m only thinking about now is that diaries and letters have been replaced by personal “records” written in the expectation that strangers will read them.
Was reminded of Bentham’s argument that fear of crime can be a worse harm than crime itself. Everyone can be affected by fear of crime but relatively few people experience serious crime. And fear of crime can easily be manipulated for nefarious purposes.
Or take taxi apps, which exist largely to hoover rent off taxi drivers. It's more than possible for the taxi drivers of any community (or the local transport regulator) to set up a competing app which wouldn't take any rent at all.
This is exactly it. We see the number one use of LLMs being therapy/companionship & the response is 'lol losers' & not 'how badly are we failing our fellow humans if this is what they're driven to'. Discourse changed emotional labour from 'grinning through your retail shift' to 'basic empathy'.
When I started you weren’t doing your job if your minister ever strayed that close to lunacy. By the time I quit not so much. And honestly I blame Yes minister for that.
At a gallery where an artist has one of her paintings displayed for the first time… ART CRITIC: Would you like to hear my professional opinion on your painting? ARTIST: Sure ART CRITIC: It’s pretty much worthless ARTIST: That’s okay, you can tell me anyway
For the folks suggesting I'm promoting science fiction works from this millennium because I want an extra sale or two 1. I assure you I am doing fine, thanks for your concern 2. Otherwise FUCK YES support currently living/working writers please and thank you, they need to eat and live in a house
Mooring posts I think.
honestly thinking hard about the rational philanthropists out there who could easily step up and provide $500 million in funding to keep mRNA vaccine research on track
Did no one suggest he jump?
Gonna need a scanning tunnelling electron microscope to play this violin
Really, Alan Turing Institute?
"So how will seeing a clown cure me?" "I'm afraid you misunderstand. There is no cure; this is purely pagliative."
Or the rocket in the fascists.
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
I'll admit, ever since I saw Psycho as a kid I've felt a tiny bit nervous each time I kill someone in the shower.
he problem is that there's a Republican Stephen Miller. And a load of Republicans waiting to step up if he somehow falls off the board.
Single?
I’ve bought at least ten books on the past two months because I saw them mentioned on here.
I think I'd probably find the whole notion of banning kids from social media easier to swallow if adults accepted that it is also obviously driving them mad.
I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.