Magsmanston

Is it left wing Americans or right wing Brits saying that spices aren’t British? I can’t wait to refuse to find out.

Needs to work like tennis. You have 2-3 challenges a match. You keep them if you're right, lose them if you're wrong.

Hah. Related point: bsky.app/profile/mags...

I don't know what's worse. The open racism, the clear miserable life they're leading or them giving the American "UK food is rubbish & curry doesn't count because of my weird racist blindspot" bluesky discourse ammunition.

Think we’ve crossed a pretty major threshold – and a very bad one – if a journalist working in the lobby for a major newspaper group can tweet like this without professional consequences.

This is true of all troll accounts, big or small. Which is why the smart advice has always been: do not feed them.

Obviously stupid (beyond the basic “this can’t be the case, you just have to win the argument that the electorate were lied to about what is possible”) because the psychology of taxing people’s increased income is just as bad - nobody ever says “I feel rich now, please let me pay”.

I mean, we only have a few, and everyone already thinks they're identical, so 🤷

Nearly everyone (bar one?) featured in the video is male.

First injection to stop HIV approved The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.

On course to end new HIV cases in the UK by 2030.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov: “Putin told Trump that Tomahawks will not change the situation on the battlefield, but will damage the relations between Russia and the US and the settlement in Ukraine.”

So the Tomahawks are both not scary but also scary enough to change everything. I wonder which one.

Can't help but notice that the video is a bit of a sausage fest...

This is obviously stupid, but the really strange thing is that RFK believes trust is a feature of totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism has nothing to do with trust. It demands obedience. Democracy, on the other hand, requires trust: you elect people you trust to lead you.

“In what universe is the world’s richest Fascist funding the UK’s most prominent Fascist not a massive fucking story???!”

Well said, @sturdyalex.bsky.social

The lack of proper media coverage of Musk’s interference in British politics is a huge collective dereliction of journalistic duty.

Yep. And the counterargument to 'we never did it properly' is to point out that doing it harder would necessarily lead to worse outcomes, not magically better ones!

Farage got everything he ever wanted. And none of the responsibility for the outcome.

#YouveGotRedOnYou

Seems to be US / South America specific where they relay very distant towers via satellite: bsky.app/profile/agre...

"please bring this document with you on the day of your test. this is a confirmation letter for your life skills test. YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

seeing as we're all talking about the proposed language requirement changes for visas: here's the email my wife was sent for her B1 test in 2018. imagine spending about £800 in total across 3 tests, and you're met with

"YOU TEST DAY INFOMRATION"

Ugh. I think you might be right.

Threads is even *more* like this.

Yeah - they do realise we literally have to set fire to that stuff in order to move, right? Electric motors run a *lot* cooler.

Yep.

Also re: the danger people seem to have a bit of a blindspot. As if we haven't been directly piping flammable gas through the house, or having a tank of extremely combustible material outside for almost 100 years now.

Battery fires are bad. So make sure you monitor them & have alarms.

Yeah the 2 tier internet is coming. People will be able to sub to reliable substacks or video producers. Maybe even to be able to prioritise (or see at all) friends in their FB / social feed. And almost all the free stuff will be AI froth.

Can we stop calling newspapers and tv broadcast news "the mainstream media" yet?

But. Her e-mailz!

This is what makes me so cross about the renewable naysayers. They're all basing their scepticism and guffawing what about-ism on data from the 80s.

Warrabout if it's not sunny?! Ay? Ay?

Ay?!

AAAAYYYY?!?!?

Everyone knows at least one person (normally, but not exclusively, a guy) whose gone properly mental due to net rabbit holes.

We see public figures regularly go mad and destroy themselves.

And we have, at a policy level, just decided to put our fingers in our ears and go nahnahnah

Yeah it's very irritating that 90% of these things people think sod be taught are in fact usually taught.

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