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To Faragism, vegetarianism is probably either coded as "foreign" (given that it's particularly common amongst Brits with roots in particular bits of south/east/south east Asian diasporas) or coded as "communist" because the guardian publishes articles about it

Firstly "huh! I haven't seen Paul since X", so firstly, a hello from the other side lol

Secondly, I was about to ask you if you could give me an inside tip on the lottery numbers lol....

This reminds me that my peak burnout moment as a first year doc working a "challenging" rotation in the midwinter was dreaming and entire wildly busy shift, and then waking up and realising it was all a dream and I then had to drag myself into the hospital for real

two men in suits are talking and the words we need to go deeper are on the screen Alt: two men in suits are talking and the words we need to go deeper are on the screen

@stephenkb.bsky.social's subconscious when the column deadline is approaching

Or if you give the SNP 80% of the Scottish vote the model *still* returns Edinburgh South as Labour lol

I just attempted to put the Lib Dems and Greens on 19% into electoral calculus and I kid you not it spits out an error message saying the electoral share is "INFEASIBLY LARGE!"

Talk about *literally* breaking the models l

The short answer is no. Genuinely, I have close friends down south who are genuinely surprised that the SNP has been in office since 2007 and is rapidly approaching "LDP in post war Japan" levels of lengthy term in office

Look I don't know if ChatGPT has a Francophone equivalent of "delve' as a tell sign for AI generated slop but I refuse to believe that AI wasn't involved in creating this

Russian treasury officials currently asking DeepSeek "WTI price in Chinese Yuan" followed swiftly by "how many ball bearings per barrel of crude"

Europe (as in western elites, not either of you obvs) seriously underrated and continues to under rates the degree to which the continents defence had been underpinned by Ukraine's national character becoming "it is better to die free than live under Putin's jackboot" during and after EuroMaidan

William Stewart Halsted invented the modern North American concept of residency training at Johns Hopkins *whilst perennially hopped up on cocaine* and no one seems to acknowledge that medical training in many parts of the world still assumes Halsted-level hours without (obviously) the stimulants!

Genuinely think Disney is going to try and retcon Gaston with "oh he's only a twit because XYZ bad things happened to him and made him jaded etc"

As opposed to "sometimes, bullies/terrible people exist, there is no backstory, no justification, they are just plain mean"

Twitter/X follower count brain really convinced a lot of people that the purpose of social media was clout as opposed to "it's a hobby"

Also, the health secretary publicly referring to the profession as "juvenile delinquents" is textbook "a cheap headline today you'll be paying for, for years"

Particularly given this cohort still remembers the profession being dunked on/sneered at by Hunt!

Authors of HTSI/How To Spend It: *continue writing advice on Hermes scarves and Michelin starred dining in Tokyo*

People with terminal X/Twitter culture war brain: "this is Woke"

"Stephen Bush thought with Resist HBO characteristics"

Tangential to this, it is absolutely wild and kind of hilarious how *the Financial Times* which is the literal house journal of stockbrokers & financiers has somehow wound up coded by some as the vanguard of Woke2

Was thinking of this after seeing that a Swedish pizzeria opened in London recently and sells pizza (for example) pizza made with donner meat, which itself exists as a concept because of middle eastern immigrants who settled in Sweden...

Food is truly the Large Hadron collider for culture

@deliciouslegacy.bsky.social there has to be a podcast episode in this...

The *layers* to this are incredible.
The fried fish in fish & chips was brought to Britain by Sephardi Jews. The chips arrived from France/Belgium in the 1800s. British style chippies exist in Mallorca to cater to tourists and (pre-Brexit) retirees in Spain. The Alam brothers added spice from Lahore

The Pakistani brothers making a splash in Spain with British fish and chips Majid and Mani Alam opened The Fish&Chips Shop in Barcelona to satisfy a late-night craving. From there, they’ve built a foodie empire

Tis the season to spread interesting food stories. Today's pick:

Barcelona has fallen in love with Fish & Chips because of two Spanish-Pakistani brothers wanted to bring home the taste they remembered from trips to British chippies in Mallorca

hyphenonline.com/2024/01/15/t...

Five Woke2 Families

Starmer Ultras be more offended by cabinet level inaction/effective complicity in racism more than the accusation of inaction/complicity in racism challenge (impossible)

Like, you could just as easily pitch "HOI4 mods are molding the next generation into being pro breaking up Russia and Tuvan independence" lol

The notion of PI games as a rightist radicalisation engine is wild given that Bluesky leans liberal left and is stuffed full of people who'll drop HOI 4 memes without blinking lmao

The rightist radicalisation engine is real, but it's not PI lol, it's the place nearly everyone here self-exiled from

The government literally has the majority to prescribe ethnonationalist gutter racism of this sort as hate speech, and it does nothing... despite proving very capable of proscribing all sorts of things when it wants. The logical conclusion at some point is the leadership is pro-ethnonationalism

Meanwhile my main beef with this site these days is that Starmer Ultras *really* can't stand anyone objecting to the incompetence and complicity/fellow traveller-ness with ethnonationalism that the Dear Leader is overseeing and so jump into the replies of anyone who criticises it lol

The website that proved invaluable for passing on pandemic information (as well as a degree of professional solidarity in dark times) simply stopped working! If you wanted to pass on a paper you felt was of vital importance to colleagues, no one would see it!

Speaking as someone whose main twitter experience skewered more towards medtwitter than any other subculture before leaving, the site felt pointless when your own mutuals stopped see your posts and you stopped seeing theirs. Even beyond politics, it was simply non functional