Thérèse

working on a feature on a similar character at the moment and the advance TL;DR is that these guys are pretty good at making themselves feel unavoidable and intellectually overwhelming, when their reactionary views are very often just incredibly pedestrian and unoriginal, it's their main strength

Picking up tips about how to run an oppressive regime.

that lawyer was me.

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The world is being unkind to many. Do as we do and fight back with kindness where you can.

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I have become That Annoying Human who responds to any mention of AI or LLMs by intoning 'please remember computers cannot fucking think, and, all these LLMs on the open internet are busy munching up your data, you fool'

I am tiresome, but correct

Maybe the most powerful thing from @zackpolanski.bsky.social right now is seeing him not be afraid of the right, even when he is surrounded on all sides, it feels like. I think this calmness under pressure is really working, because lots of us want to be less afraid

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

Well done!

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

She looks like Mrs Slocombe.

Worth thinking about …

It's not just higher taxes that should be getting pinned on Farage and Reform.

PRO-TIP: Live your life in such a way that nobody celebrates you being shanked to death in prison.

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

Falling like flies. 😬

Goodnight screen goddess and style icon. 🙌
Diane Keaton - R.I.P.

Cartoon by John Deering.

At the end of the summer season Cheltenham Lido drains down the pool and re-fills for winter cold water swimming. But before that, they open it to dogs for the weekend. It's Mabel's favourite day of the year.

What five events defined your childhood?

The first moon landing
Vietnam war
People setting themselves on fire in Prague, the US, Vietnam.
RFK and MLK being shot.
Seeing Lady Penelope's car in Teignmouth.

I thought she was swept to power by people who weren't impressed by mountains of uncollected rubbish in the streets. Our entire history might have been different if Callaghan had gone to the country in the autumn.

That, or Rhodesia becoming Zimbabwe, until Mugabe made it terrible, which wasn't Thatcher's fault, for the most part afaik.

I'm not surprised. Primary school fascists must've put 1000s of children off drinking the stuff.

Quite nice down here in Cornwall. 🤣

Reminded me of passing cars. The cover was nice though.

Foxes didn't piss on our school milk as far as I know but it was often curdled at my primary school and they usually made us drink it, although the chief dinner lady/minder/villain did apologise on one occasion when it was really lumpy. Revolting.

Exactly. Absolutely disgusting.

Quite nice down here in Cornwall. 🤣