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If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer.
This thread explains why.
1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power.
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The UK's Online Safety Act is a licence for censorship – and the rest of the world is following suit | Taylor Lorenz From the US and Australia to France and Italy, those seeking to obliterate privacy and restrict content are on the move, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

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- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no

I think about this comic at least once a week

See also: the immediate rise of hand-wringing about birth rates following the repeal of Roe v Wade.

Fun fact: innovations (or “innovations“) in productivity and efficiency never actually cut down on working hours. They only massively boost the expectations put on workers with regards to what they are expected to be able to achieve during those hours.

See: when personal computers became common.

It is actually so fucking annoying when people tell me “it’s too late to solve climate change” as if a) all 8 billion people on this planet are about to drop dead and b) if we oriented the economy around need instead of profit we wouldn’t be able to get things under a reasonable level of control

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

I think that we should be talking about what Trump is trying to do to trans people in the context of the Nuremberg laws.

I wanted a better-quality video with better subtitles, so I took the time to make one.

I actually want a social revolution that will render the sex difference culturally irrelevant, but I will settle for fewer tradwives as a start.

Creating a whole scene isn’t really minor, especially when it was creating work an artist could’ve provided for them, probably at a not-astronomical cost. Indie filmmakers know that when you don’t have the money for something, you don’t put it in the movie.

Can we stop pretending that South Yorks Police shit the bed in Rotherham because of "political correctness", rather than because they're fucking incompetent, but decided to blame it on "political correctness"? When have the cops in the UK ever shown themselves to be scared of being seen as racist?

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"...certain altars and stones suggested forgotten rites of terrible, revolting, and inexplicable nature, and made me wonder what manner of men could have made and frequented such a temple."

H.P. Lovecraft, 'The Nameless City'

The BBC's Civil War Over Gaza The BBC is facing an internal revolt over its reporting on Israel’s war on Gaza. Owen Jones investigates.

The BBC is in civil war over Israel and Palestine.

BBC journalists are in revolt over what they call "systematic Israeli propaganda" churned out by the Corporation.

My exclusive investigative piece for @dropsitenews.com 👇

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bbc-civil-...

Is this a pigeon meme: man as liberal media, politicians, academics pointing to butterfly as reactionary minority asking 'is this "the people"?

Why do I bother trying to analyse anything when it's just so obvious why things are going so wrong...

Having trouble remembering which axis is which? No problemo, just consult this handy guide!

the gradual replacement of “exchanging money for goods” with “exchanging money for a license to use goods as a service” has been one low key one of the worst changes of the 21st century

5 planes and a crow.

I took this shot years ago of local stunt pilots who practice here occasionally. The crow was as on his way over to my deck for peanuts and photobombed the shot. 😂 🌿🪶

What Is a Woman? (a response) Last month, I received an invitation to participate in a public debate about “gender and the definition of what it means to be a woman.”…

so I was provoked into writing a response to the ridiculous "What Is a Woman?" question. it's a 5 min read, no-paywall link, please share & give it lots of "claps" (up to 50) so other folks on Medium see it! juliaserano.medium.com/what-is-a-wo...

From @authorsguild.bsky.social: all fiction writers are covered by the suit to the extent that it turns out their works were used to train GPT. AG is collecting names of those affected but you can’t add names once the suit is filed. Please consider joining the Authors Guild.

This is amazing! Is it from a full comic?