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Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same

Edge case: Frankenstein's monster earns a doctorate

My best friend & I used to do this in Pizza Hut when we were teenagers. Little walls of cucumber slices all round the edge to make a higher bowl. We got told to stop!

Reacting to Labour's devastating loss to the Green Party in Gorton and Denton, Keir Starmer claims that only Labour can unite communities. I agree. He convinced Muslims to vote for a white working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish man.

LOOK

THERE'S A LION

OH MY GOD

THERE'S A LION

waking up zzz-w-what?! where am i? you're in the trolley problem! i thought i would be the one operating the lever... no, that's someone else @alexkrokus

Yep

1935

So now Keir Starmer is being a whiny sore losing dick about the by-election?
Does he have ANY ideas he didn’t steal from Reform?

Apart from... absolutely everything else about this... marvel at the sheer graceless dickheadery of congratulating a new MP on her victory by saying "Clearly this election was not about who would be the best MP."

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Unbelievable article with totally misleading headline.

Head of BBC News says she gave Farage more airtime than he was entitled to. She was pro-Reform.

Journalists in the newsroom opposed giving him extra unwarranted exposure.

This is described as being anti-Reform.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

So, wait, by "sectarianism" we mean "Muslims tended to not vote for overtly Islamophobic parties?" And that's the fault of.... the party they did vote for and Muslims?

"I’d promised the tenants that we would not let up on this story, especially when many of them got in touch to ask us, in the absence of any clear communication from their landlord, whether they still had a place to live."

Journalism is a public good.

LMFAO I LITERALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHY THIS HAPPENED AND I CAN CONFIRM TO YOU IT'S ENTIRELY 100% ON THE PART OF WHOMEVER PROGRAMMED THEIR PHONE SYSTEM THIS WAY 👇🏽🧵

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

New study of media collision reporting from @patrickrerat.bsky.social

"Cyclists are placed at the center of the narrative, while motorists are either omitted or reduced to their vehicles... Making these biases visible is essential for challenging motonormativity"

findingspress.org/article/1575...

The response I got from the BBC when I enquired why they had described an incident in which a driver was suspected of deliberately crashing into an ebike, killing a passenger & maiming the rider (the driver has since been jailed for causing death & injury by dangerous driving,) as an "e-bike crash."

"Let's be blunt. Let's be brutally honest with ourselves. When you lose an election in a democracy, you deserve to. You don't look at the electorate and ask them, what were you thinking? You look at yourself and ask, what were we doing?"

Keir?

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

Road traffic noise linked to immediate heart and blood vessel stress A new study published in the journal Cardiovascular Research shows that a single night of road traffic noise, at levels that are typical of those living in a city, causes stress to the heart and blood...

Cities aren’t loud, cars are loud (and stressful). - expanding on @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Gorton result: Labour tried to become the nasty party. Big mistake Labour’s failure in the Gorton and Denton by-election is down to Morgan McSweeney – but he’s already been sacked. Either the party changes course, or it faces wipe-out at the general election

"For all that Goodwin complains of being blocked by “a coalition of Islamists and woke progressives”, the reality is he just wasn’t popular enough to win. If Labour and the Greens had split the vote exactly evenly he would have finished third, not second. Maths has never been Goodwin’s strong suit."

To be absolutely clear: this is the lowest percentage of the vote in a by-election for the Conservatives or Tories since the party was founded at the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

okay, here it is, the five key takeaways from this by-election:

1. Denton Kebab House
2. The Crispy Cod, Denton
3. Reddish Tandoori, Gorton
4. Cottage Chippy, Gorton
5. The Continental Takeaway, Denton

When I've been out and about, I've never had a trans person approach me to try and turn me trans. I've never had a Muslim try to convert me.
I have had Christians invade my space and shove leaflets into my handbag or my hand. They can't take no for an answer. Only one type of indoctrination here.

No, they just think everybody they don't care about will die so there will be enough for everyone who's left.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

you know how no one says "I can't come to the phone right now" anymore

they took that from you