Jake Staines

I don't think most men like him actually want a woman to stay married to them. That's commitment and responsibility and giving up on novelty.
They want to fuck pretty young things and get children as a legacy and most importantly they need to be the ones to leave the woman, not the other way around.

I don’t have much truck with most justifications for staying on X, but I will accept “I’m Joyce Carol Oates and I’m needling him into profoundly humiliating public self-exposure”

The man even managed to come back from the political grave to have a second shot at Prime Minister in the fifties to get his hand in at a bit more oppressive imperialist violence before bed.

3 panel comic Panel 1: A desperate, panicking Blue Guy screams into his phone: Come Quickly! The AI companies are in trouble! Panel 2: A Pink Guy, also on the phone, replies: Oh Shit! I’m on my way! Panel 3: Pink Guy is relaxing in his living room, having a lovely cup of tea. He has no intention of going to help save the AI sinking slop ship.

me when the AI bubble bursts

Headline from BBC News: "[LIVE] BBC chair to respond after director general and News CEO resign"; lede "Samir Shah is expected to apologise for the way Panorama edited a speech by Donald Trump, after Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign."

Can someone explain to me why this thing that doesn't affect any normal people's lives and is only really cared about at all by a small number of Neo-Nazis on Twitter is the biggest, most prominent item on the BBC News front page this morning?

...I don't even need to know what specifically you're talking about, in which country or category. It's just a generic statement for the 21st century.

The fact that fighting the Nazis was the right thing to do - especially in retrospect - was a happy coincidence that allowed Churchill and others to retroactively launder his entire career into that of a freedom-loving moral titan. Hitler was probably the best thing that happened to his reputation!

I didn't say we did. One of Hitler's many great misjudgements was that the UK might possibly be brought on-side simply because it had so much in common in approach, but the UK was never going to share what it had with foreigners. Franco wasn't expanding so he wasn't a threat.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

I had seen one mention prior - amusingly, on BBC News. And promptly thought "oh wow, what a pathetic non-story, is this the best they can do these days? Who honestly could give the first hint of a shit about that?"

Just wait, they'll replace him with the reanimated corpse of Joseph Goebbels or something.

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What an incredible surprise, who could ever have imagined.

Why aren't we just doing this all the time already? Oh yes, the Daily Mail.

Really fundamentally very strange how the default response of these apolitical patriots who definitely aren't far-right thugs to any and all criticism is that anyone questioning their motives must necessarily be "left-wing".

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Quite - hence "Streeting of all people"! But he does seem to have realised faster than the rest of the cabinet that mimicking Reform isn't going to keep him in a job in three and a half years' time.

The most worrying part of it to me is that Streeting of all people is the first major figure in government to finally realise that people who vote for or are members of the Labour party actually like left-wing positions. What's wrong with the rest of them?!

Unsurprised, but also it's a pretty naïve approach. The longer they prop up the parasitic billionaire class, the more people are hurting, the more that kind of accusation is just going to have people start questioning what's actually so bad about radical socialism.

Nobody should ever have to hate trying to look after a family member! Fenris Games sell an amazing range of bases, scenery and miniatures for early-20C/Cthulhu settings, Gaslands, fantasy, and sci-fi (particularly Aliens-themed) gaming. And Ian's a good bloke.

If the polls are looking like I have the choice between a Labour MP and a Reform MP, then sure, I'll grudgingly "flock back to Labour".

But if they keep up their current bullshit another three years that's not likely to be what the polls will be looking like at the next GE, is it?

In other news, the world's creepiest man is still incredibly fucking creepy.

(Since, you know, I don't think there's a person alive of any political persuasion who thinks Trump is too *honest* to have rigged these elections.)

"Is Trump too stupid to have rigged these elections - or too arrogant?"

crude photoshop of an older dungeons & dragons rulebook cover with the game's title replaced by "Where's your fucking poppy?"

graphic of rpgs to blow up a parliament to. (which don't quite meet the criteria of incitement to violence) pictured are The Dee Sanction, Spire, Wreck the Halls, and Brinkwood

hahaha jk jk... unless?

Link to "The Most Detailed Map of the New York City May[oral Election]", subtitled "See how New Yorkers are voting, precinct by precinct".

I totally misread this here as "See how New Yorkers are wrong, precinct by precinct"...

I mean, the House of Lords in and of itself undermines public confidence, conflicts of interest or otherwise.

Every now and again otherwise-disinterested nobles deign to prevent some terrifying government overreach but not nearly often enough to offset the huge democratic deficit.

Absolutely furious that they appear to have completely forgot gunpowder treason. We're too busy hating Catholics to be bothered with poppies until *after* the fifth, obviously these people despise British culture!

The fundamental basis for pretty much all right-wing politics is "but it's OK when we do it".

Some of them wanted to exterminate large numbers of people, but also importantly fascists only come in two flavours: those who don't believe the rhetoric but use it to gain power otherwise well out of their (usually incompetent) reach, and those who are simply incredibly stupid and gullible.