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A Dan Kaszeta thread: ✅
A sauce thread: ✅

You know it’s going to be fun to read and informative!

From a social sciences research perspective, may I just say mumsnet is lit.

Also Penelope: explain the part where you spent seven years hanging out on a Mediterranean island with a super hot goddess. And the year with the super hot witch before that.

Odysseus: let us agree to move forward.

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it

“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”

Tax flying (level playing field) and use the money to upgrade rail/subsidise tickets.

Why do trains in the UK cost so much at peak hours?

It's mostly NOT due to privatisation

It is because the UK state has not invested enough in its network to up capacity, and even today does not subsidise operations very much

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POUR IN MORE MONEY

you love to see it!

While we consider what has caused our society to go so far off the rails we should consider that everything important and/or good now costs a full year's median income while everything stupid and/or evil has the illusion or reality of being free

I want a better president.

Generally speaking, getting a driving licence makes you a better cyclist, and being a regular cyclist makes you a better driver.

A man heads to a window seat in a pub. He puts his pint on the table. He takes off his bicycle helmet and places it beside the drink. He sits down. He opens his bag and gets out a book. He turns to a page. He takes a sip of his pint. His shoulders relax.

he never looks at JD that way

Very neat! Hope I’ll be able to catch games from overseas! Big up, WPBL ⚾️

U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

The Trump Admin will fire you for having a Pride flag on your desk but downplays & normalizes swastikas & nooses?

Over 400,000 Americans died fighting Nazism. Hundreds of thousands died fighting slavery & Jim Crow.

This is a slap in the face to every American who died to defeat bigoted ideologies.

ready for baseball season

Part of the problem with public discourse on immigration in the UK is British people being totally ignorant of the process and terms and making silly assumptions, as Chris rightly points out

In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.

Portsmouth Mariners checks out tbh

my boy understands the assignment

*taps mic*

If Dems are in “the files,” then they should be prosecuted too. I don’t give a damn how important they are, how much money they have, or what their politics are. If they are in there, PROSECUTE THEM!!

It's not complicated. All we want is equal justice. NO ONE is above the law. ⚖️

(this appreciation for small cars is not in conflict with the fact that less cars overall is a good future to aim for)

current gripe with cars… and I say this as someone with an MPV/minivan!

small cars rule (and I miss my F55 Mini which was ‘big’ anyway)

Basic light pollution diagram showing four different streetlight set ups ranging from more light pollution on the left to less light pollution on the right. The most pollution option, labelled "very bad" is a street lamp with a round uncovered bulb on top, making a sphere of light in the air. The next option, labelled "bad" has a tiny cap on top, that limits the upward pollution a bit. The "better" option is mostly uncovered on top, limiting pollution above the streetlight. The final option, labelled "best" has a full shroud overtop, limiting the light to only below the streetlight, where it is needed for pedestrians and vehicles.

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics"

guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

if I were a senator retiring I would be ungovernable and would be making legacy content (laudatory) instead of legacy content (derogatory)