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While pretending to be a 16-year-old. That doesn't sound at all concerning.

Certainly call for Epstein's clients to face justice but don't downplay Maxwell's role. According to Guiffre she was Epstein's procurer, groomer and facilitator and also a repeat active participant in rapes, including Guiffre's first rape. There's no place for a "but".

If you see this, quote with a vampire that is not Dracula.

If you see this, quote with a robot that isn’t from “Star Wars,” “Star Trek,” “Doctor Who,” or “Transformers.”

If clothes are a social language, surely this RW Grifter aesthetic just as valid as e.g. punk, with its own sartorial vocabulary that reflects the values of the subculture, communicates in-group messages and so on ;)

Time has eaten
the works
that were in
the desert

and which
Ozymandias
intended
for glory

Those legs tho
Phwoaarrr
So vast
and so trunkless

Their first year was the time to break their ill-advised rules and focus on fixing at least some things people *can* feel - I'd have gone for new housing, the courts and care but there were options. They'd have faced fury at first but need/ed results people can feel 2 years before the next election.

I for one definitely knew my dad's cousins as "First cousin once removed Doris" and so on. And didn't at all have to Google to find out what my Auntie Doris' actual relationship to me is technically called.

Of course he does. He's probably even submitted a fess but couldn't keep to the character limit

Oh, shit

I read a reply to this question that was basically that there are plenty of Chotiner interviews where people don't come across as arseholes because not every interviewee is an arsehole. And arseholes lack self-awareness, so...

Statue of Edward Colston, slave trader, being toppled during the BLM protests in Bristol, England

Colston being dumped in the docks by a crowd of protestors

The statue displayed in M-Shed museum, prostrate and heavily defaced with graffiti, and now part of a permanent exhibition about protest in the city and the city's links to the historical slave trade.

Still so proud of my old hometown's solution to the "but it's part of our history" crowd

Mightn't any "exodus" likely be among people who weren't on payroll stats in the first place, though? The "self employed" whose jobs are disguised as contract work? Changes in that population (in either direction and of any magnitude) wouldn't show in those stats? And they'd be the first to be cut.

But the thing is: ads aren't made to meet quotas or policy goals but to sell stuff. If they have diverse casting, it's because it improves perceptions of the company/product - i.e. that's what people *actually* like to see. If many people were really put off by it, it simply wouldn't be there.

It's also the sort of advice that should have been kept for a private word rather than a public post, much as his advice suggests. It's very funny.

Just don't think too much about the relationship between mom and pop there

What if I'm the alternate

The knuckle-draggingly stupid part is that if consumers didn't want diversity in ads, it wouldn't be there. Ad execs don't sit there wringing their hands over inclusiveness, and ads are *expensive*. If casting isn't statistically representative, that's because it's what people want/expect to see.

Heinz Himmler

Omg it's true, I thought that was blood but it's tomato sauce isn't it?

I'll tell you one thing, he's not building a playhouse for the childr - actually good god he might be

I was going to suggest that "microwaved whole" belongs much further along the disintegration axis but now I'm worried about "countless nights." Do you need someone to talk to?

Ooh looking forward to this one!

I still can't wrap my head around this being the new normal in the US. It's all happening so fast.

A slide from a presentation. There's a map showing where the research was carried out; it covers most of the world but with vast gaps in Africa and the Middle East. The text reads: RepCore® Nations 2025 Research scope- 4th Year Target: General population - residents in the 38 countries included in the fieldwork, over 18 years of age and with an Internet connection. Countries analyzed: Top 60 economies by GDP 2025-14 additional countries The overall ranking refers to the 60 countries with the highest GDP, as analyzed based on public opinion of the G7 countries Methodology: 15 minutes online survey Fieldwork period: March-April 2025 Sample size: 61.798 individual interviews

Hmm, this slide seems to suggest that the overall ranking is based on data from the G7 countries, even though the research was carried out more widely? Odd if so. Still, with 15-minute questionnaires, it's got to be very superficial.

I'm not sure why a lot of the reporting says "G7". The RepCore Nations research was conducted in 38 countries. It also covers a lot more than economics (though the methodology isn't very transparent, or at least the publicly available info is a bit thin, so I'm not commenting on its usefulness).

I know you said it sarcastically but to be a local politician who is the object of a vast negative national campaign, personally attacked by both Fox News and the President, and still have such a low negative rating? Blimey. It's basically "only Trump's base actually disapprove."

That was meant to say Bobby but if the typo fits

An archive photo of children in hospital beds in what seems to be a large circular room with windows all around. It is the Little Jim Ward of the San Francisco Children's Hospital, founded in the 1870s. The picture is from 1938.

Since our Booby is a San Francisco lad, here's a picture of some presumably healthy children presumably enjoying a healthy post-prandial rest at the San Francisco Children's I'm Guessing It Must Be Hotel

God I hope the overwhelming evidence of actual fucking Nazis everywhere is some kind of weird Bluesky artifact because this is getting too frightening.