Rick Crawford

Seems more like an 'and' than a 'but' here

I'm worried about this because narratives about "ai failures" are like catnip for some people, and, as such, they provide useful methods of evading responsibility, methods criticism can become culpable in when it centers technological politics.

Basically all of the bad economic news this term is because the president deliberately decided to do something moronic. He is much more personally responsible for this than most presidents are for the downturns in their administration.

Picture of Keir Starmer and Donald Trump with headline "Trump's just chosen Britain's next Prime Minister - he's proven Keir Starmer is finished"

The Express. Openly supporting a foreign power trying to subvert our democracy.

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

Can’t wait for the Benghazi 2.0 hearings to happen over abandoning US Officials and Diplomats across the Middle East because a child rapist and money launderer is being blackmailed to start a war on behalf of Benjamin Netanyahu.

These people are fucking dimwits and they embarrass us as a species.

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Here’s Bootsy Collins teaching how to funk it up.

May your day be as funky and fresh as Bootsy would want it to be.

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It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

The Russians think now or never, while everyone’s eyes are on the Middle East.

Sadly, it wasn't fun to stay.

bro google search is cooked

There is a good aside on that point in this video.

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The US hasn't actually declared war. This was supposed to be a special military operation.

💥 WOW - this is HUGE news!

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This census data is for me the secret decoder ring of so much of what’s been going in the US in the last 20 years.

Downthread Kevin gave this context: “In 2006 and after, new home construction collapsed, and that's what moved it far from trend.”

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

I think I got it? I was just riffing off what you and James said. Sorry if it looked like I was disagreeing with you.

Unquestioning support for the USA and Israel means unquestioning support for the USA and Israel.

Mandatory :

It's a peculiar thing. The BBC repeatedly gets into a mess, but meanwhile, Ros Atkins again and again does the kind of job that no one else does and which represents the best values of the Corporation - simply by laying out the facts clearly and calmly.

It will never not blow my mind that I’m a YouTuber who won’t accept money from, like Better Help or whatever bc I find it unethical and meanwhile all these multimillionaire Oscar winners are doing spots for online gambling and TurboTax. Like bro how much coke do you need

I don’t disagree, but also: a lot of ink is being spilled to try and ‘explain’ the Labour position, as if scepticism about Trump’s ‘plan’ for Iran is an unusual or hard to fathom conclusion.

Holy shit. Poland? Poland is breaking with the Americans on this????

This is one of the best TV series ever.

And just recently I was wondering why on earth it’s only Andrew Lincoln and Jack Davenport who ended up with big careers, when the entire cast deserved them.

It’s very hard to pick a single passage to give you a sense of just how fucked up this is.

He's obviously right. The Tory position on this is nuts. Why on earth would you want to tie yourself to a President who is clearly not capable of rational decision making and has no idea what he's doing?

It's already not a popular conflict + it's only going to get less popular if it drags on.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.