Picky

A lot of landlords are massively raising rents before the renter's rights act comes into force in April, which is absolutely maddening

This interview is also probably LARPy in itself, a component of it is surely bigging up just how cucked you are to the venture capitalists to the FT in order to increase your chances of making it on Forbes 30 under 30

Would be refreshing if people could just have fun™ when discussing passions within a shared hobbyism without the need to be performative

Can't wait for the revival of sincerity to lift us out of our collective societal depression tbh

On this, I find I have two types of first impressions with hipsters:

1. We nerd out over shared appreciation for various musical masterminds, then they shake their heads in disbelief when they find I'm an Oasis obsessive
2. They think I'm backpeddeling when the above interaction happens in reverse

It actually must be quite sad to be someone who can't take sincere and candid art and just enjoy it. That there must be subtle messaging or restraint in something in order for it to be provocative or worthwhile to engage with whatsoever...

Anyway guess I'm gonna get into Bruce Springsteen!

softiejessxo outing herself as a diehard republican

A vastly unequal democracy is a democracy only in part.

We are in the endgame of this system which has hyperbolised to the insane distributions of wealth and power we have in 2026.

The choice is clear: we democratise our economy, or we ditch democracy entirely and resign our fate as peasants.

Tradtional media fails to tell this story - leading to further distrust - so new media (and often disinformation) step in to provide explanations in it's place.

They're filling the gaping hole left in the post-war social contracts of democratic societies.

The "collapse of liberal democracy" is simply the result of "socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor".

People don't trust institutions, because they're the middle men systematically keeping this status quo in place.

Top tier WPSIATWIN pick! Would be my pick for my last few school years too I reckon, generational climax to a generational album

Guess that's the issue when you try and bundle "charasmatic renegade" and "useful idiot" together into the leader of a political movement

What's it going to take to get twitter banned in the UK?

If you made an AI webapp that didn't stop users from making deepfake child sexual abuse images, it would surely not last?

Just please put it in the bin and set it on fire, good job to the MPs standing up for this cause

The thing is, I actually hadn't heard of elf on a shelf

Yup. If there's one thing teenagers hate its embarrassment, needs to be leveraged way way more to get results in school

When I tell people I work at a magnet factory, I usually have to explain that we do complex engineering and it's actually quite technical and difficult

But to be fair this morning I am trying to pick up paperclips with magnets we're trying to make rn, so, maybe my whole career is a joke, actually

Strong strong starting point with Rayman Legends! Got thoroughly engrossed in that on my switch on lockdown myself, felt like a renewal of some of my earliest childhood memories

"House owners", as in, well under 1% of house owners. Many of whom will undoubtedly be (often foreign) investors.

So, so sad they'll be hit with a tax far, far below the average growth in value of their notoriously reliable and profitable asset.

Not to say there was none of course - there has been some. But an economic strategy that can reduce cost pressure where people are hit hardest (energy bills, housing costs, childcare etc.) AND higher taxes on the wealthier in society to improve public services will make most voters far happier.

The £137 figure seems a bit irrelevant. Losing around 0.5% of your salary (from my back of the envelope calculation) is nothing when inflation will have caused prices to rise by more than 10x that by that point.

Consumers will be far more miffed at a lack of direct action on the cost of living.

The electorate aren't whiney babies, they're struggling. Just because Reeves has done the most notable actual tax hike since the 70s doesn't make up for the half century of trickle up economics that preceded it.

What point are you even making? That the public sector is actually well funded now?

No offence guys but if you think this points to mass cognitive dissonance, you're completely out of touch. You're focusing on this one piece of information while ignoring all other context.

2 largest post war financial crises => 15 years of austerity => highest post-war inequality in real terms

We are one step closer to Kier Starmer moving to doing his press conferences from the number 10 kitchen, in a hoodie, with a podcast mic

Details aside, I never really understood why there's a need to just assume history is inevitably cyclical.

New things can happen and new patterns can develop. We can influence the curve of history, it's naïve and intentionally defeatist to suggest otherwise.

Writing it out has made me realise it's like my most common recurring nightmare:

-Something is badly wrong (e.g. the kitchen is on fire)
- Whenever I alert others to the problem, no-one seems to care
- I have to solve the problem myself as it gradually gets worse and worse despite my efforts

Every few weeks I have what feels like the same penny drop moment where my head writes some version of this essay in my head

You realise something is blatantly profoundly wrong and no-one cares, then suddenly you look around at all the other shit you've adjusted to and feel you've gone insane

Oh, a spokesperson from a tech company has said they're gonna build those tubes from Futurama did they? Have you asked literally anyone with knowledge outside their company if it's remotely possible?

No? Ah well, just post it anyway, I'm sure they'll get it done!

Placing the merit of these ideas aside, why is it always just assumed that if a science/tech entrepreneur has an idea, it can be done

Absolutely no sales BS detector needed. Just publish an article that makes you look like a dumbass to anyone in the industry in question - anything for the eyeballs

Agreed on all points mate

Sure - these are just different things though. There's no problem right now with talking about the future governance of the region.

I suppose the thing is that the above requires conversation on holding people to account. Whereas holding people to account does require answering Nadine's question.

True, and to most the questions you pose are more important to most people, but it's not like Nadine isn't make a fair point that is going to be relevant to the what happens to the citizens of Israel and Palestine in the short term