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Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse. Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."
I used to protest against the EU for reasons I couldn't name but they took that away so now I'm protesting against England
thanks for your money, now get out
some of my best friends don't have flags at home
I think local identity is ironically the achilles heel of any devolution scheme: what is the right level of granularity and where do you draw the line.
cut ... he was overacting on purpose
and yeah that's where I started to think seriously about North Sea oil ...
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Anything except gun control.
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Quotes from the *actual admissions officer at the time of Badenochâs application* Brilliant scoop from @jessicaelgot.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nobody does vile comedy like South Park. But I wouldnât have thought that the show still had the capacity to shock or impress me. I was wrong, writes @imogenwk.bsky.social.
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the Brexit pivot
actually as it happens I do have a banana in my pocket
I'm not a racist, I just don't like strange looking people coming into our communities and scaring women ...
"i've got access to the kids, but they don't wanna see me"
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.
Iâm almost nostalgic for the days when these shitweasels used to whine about not being able to talk about immigration without being called racist, or âwaycistâ as one of them used to âjokeâ.
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
They missed the bit where Brexit campaigners talked about reconnecting with the world especially the Commonwealth, and not just 'Little Europe'. It seems some Brexit voters now realise this means more brown-skinned people as opposed to 'people like us'. Call it their 'breaking point'.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
football moves probably
My Week: Nigel Farage* www.thetimes.com/article/c16e...
And you published that Erica Albright was a bitch, right before you made some ignorant crack about my family's name, my bra size, and then rated women based on their hotness.
Erica Albright: It didn't stop you from writing it. As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared. The Internet's not written in pencil, Mark, it's written in ink.
Erica Albright: You called me a bitch on the Internet, Mark. Mark Zuckerberg: That's why I wanted to talk to you. Erica Albright: On the Internet. Mark Zuckerberg: That's why I came over. Erica Albright: Comparing women to farm animals. Mark Zuckerberg: I didn't end up doing that..
you couldn't make it up
no more Brussels to winge about
... now we have people in the streets in England flying St George flags and painting red crosses on the road. I'm not convinced that this has anything to do with celebrating an international football competition or foreign visitors.
when I was working in Germany in the 1990s there was an acknowledged association between people draping the German flag from their balconies and Ausländerfeindlichkeit. Then that changed when Germany hosted the world cup and it became cool to put little flags on your car ...
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Few technologies have been met with such a barrage of misinformation as heat pumps have. @carbonbrief.org just dropped a brand-new version of my heat pump myths factcheck. Have a look here đ interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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Did anyone really think a guy who dumped a dead bear cub in Central Park and made it look like a bicycle accident would be a superb guardian of the public health?
it's all about managing the decline
Republicans: itâs not a gun problem, itâs a mental health problem Also Republicans: letâs get rid of medications that help people struggling with mental health
Nice advance in origin-of-life research: scientists get RNA and amino acids to spontaneously attach to each other (RNA aminoacylation). Also, @404media.co is doing good work! www.404media.co/scientists-m...
don't expect an overnight change, it will take them some time, some say 14 years ...
The ever-eloquent @rafaelbehr.bsky.social pointedly refusing to mince his words on what Farage has done for us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
he was never really cool
I realise Farage is leading polls. He has 4 MPs. The Lib Dems have 72. Can anyone tell me why #BBC gives them much less coverage in the #immigration debate? They are making the point about #Brexit impacting the possibility of returning people who arrive here irregularly @cornwallchar.bsky.social 1/
Wednesdayâs @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
they're both trustworthy parties after all
This is so wrong.
First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.
This is just mad now - all beefed up by news execs and journos terrified of offending a so-called 'real' Britain that doesn't even exist.
channeling your inner cold fusion
"it was this or the shopping mall"
If your mate formed a useless indie band called Asylum Hotels they would get bigger crowds than this
Mindscape 326 | Natalie Batalha on What We Know and Will Learn About Exoplanets. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
sunlit uplands something something
I'm going to cut your heart out....with a spoon
I haven't seen VV yet ... but TLK definitely felt anchored and convincing as you say
darn ...I was similarly hoping.
Texas may be busy rigging elections, but California isnât sitting idly by. Newsom just signed the âElection Rigging Response Act,â a measure to pick up Democratic seats and put power back in votersâ hands. Pair that with his pitch-perfect trolling of Trump, and this weekâs wins hit especially sweet.
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority. There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.
... reporting is simply nefarious.
Absolutely. It's a disgrace. My understanding is that while they make up just over a third of asylum seekers, boat people represent just 3% ish of total UK immigration. As a nation we need to find a better way of handling their choice of transport and their housing when they arrive. This kind ..
The awkward truth is that putting up flags everywhere is a decidedly un-British thing to do
Quite! âIf youâre a farmer owning a farmhouse & 200 acres of land, youâre going to be worth at least ÂŁ3.2m â that puts you in the top 1% of wealth in this country,â he says. âAnd if youâre farming 500-acres-plus, & youâre worth ÂŁ10m, you should pay the whole fucking lot â forget the 50% discount.â
Garcia: What we got was complete bullshit. We demanded the full Epstein files, and thatâs not what was sent over. The White House cover-up clearly continues. What they sent us was 33,000 pages of documents that have already been in the public domain.
"gunboats"
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The original tweet
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meanwhile www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...
cats are the best
BREAKING: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.
RSV is 75+ and Shingles 70+
delightful
I love following @arstechnica.com because I can test how good I am at guessing which stories are by @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social. My hit rate is pretty good! (Not counting the occasional cases where I have inside knowledge.)
Isabel Oakeshott's mum, presumably.
the fusion power horizon of Trumpian high politics
80 years on, âAnimal Farmâ shows what it was like to live beside or inside communism as it mutated, writes Jean Seaton.
Expressing an opinion in a reply to a post is interaction not "telling people how to live their lives" Stephen, or if you think it is then apply your 1 and esp 2 to yourself please.
here we go ... more poorly thought through stuff from Labour. You had 14 years to study and plan!
try replacing with "Hitler" Chris
Do they see it yet? How absurd their own leader is? No?
Common People (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia share.google/cIwZmpDRP0i0...
1. rewatch The Social Network 2. leave Facebook
how will he learn to do the washing up now ?
There's no credible evidence asylum seekers commit more crime, or are guilty of more sexual assaults. I am so sick of being force-fed lies by these mendacious thugs in their expensive suits. share.google/WCAREyAQN5TG...
Our contribution to the White Houseâs new TikTok
never saw the appeal tbh
Nasa finds a whole new moon around Uranus
This paper has a fun "video abstract" made by Brian Swingle. Also very pleased to see a revival of interest in baby universes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_9V...
We know what you're thinking but we promise it's not planted! This ichthyosaur vertebra was begging to be found, sometimes you just have to be in the right place at the right time! Remember most of our fossils are loose already, your job is to spot them!
A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA
does this provide any answers? www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4xx...
enjoying the Blade Runner synthetic replicant and Corporation undertones to Alien Earth Ep 3, the alien lifeform narrative less so
Eighty years on from Bletchley Park. Fifty years on from the Moon landings. We are the generation that somehow made computers bad at mathematics.
plasticine T-shirts have priority sir
probably ... but no second hand IKEA furniture at exorbitant prices please