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I mean I think that is a deliberate joke

but I think he's both sincere and thoughtful about his positions even when he comes to sometimes mistaken conclusions, not a doctrinaire like Corbyn

an underexplored dynamic in Green policy is Polanski going through some stuff personally with regard to leftism, Judaism, Zionism, and family. he's a Jewish boy from Salford who renamed himself as an adult after the Jewish character in Goodnight, Mr Tom who gets killed in the Blitz!

yeah the Yorkshire Ridings were abolished in the 1970s, they used to be a subdivision of the county (but nobody had used it as a general term for a constituency in a good century or so in the UK)

extremely good, thoughtful, funny critique of the state of romantic fantasy.

Now excuse me I can't sleep until I've traced the Platner and Gertner lines back to their origins, just to spite that monster Brimelow

someday I've gotta write about how people mistake wargames for things that actually happened.

that is what a lot of people want but like a lot of things people want it's bad for them.

but I also worry that a lot of people seem to use it as an infinitely affirming companion, which is ... very much not good therapy.

we're getting, unfortunately, a fantastic natural experiment in 'mental health with regular chatbot use/mental health without it' that I hope people are compiling the data on. What we don't have yet that I know of is one professionally and responsibly *designed* as a therapy aid.

but key to this is that people clearly *want* that support, as they're using tools which are not in any way designed or safe for it for that purpose. Which suggests that a priority might have to be designing and getting to market a therapy bot with much greater safety controls.

I think the problem here is not the idea of a tool for support in itself, but the nearly-complete lack of regulation of that support. Now, to be sure, there's plenty of bad therapists. But very few of them tell you to kill yourself to be with them.

"Anyhow, there is this about such evil, that it opens door after door in hell, and always into smaller and smaller chambers. This is the real case against crime, that a man does not become wilder and wilder, but only meaner and meaner."

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations Files released by US justice department detailed relationship with child sex offender

Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King

Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed

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this is why we keep a genealogist on staff here at bsky.

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it does seem like he would almost certainly have trotted this out when the tattoo was revealed otherwise. And that Jewish magazines which have taken an understandable interest in the story would have noted it.

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the source appears to be a neo-Nazi website, via Ryan Grim.

forget walruses, had this guy ever met a dog

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

At root this is the most depraved thing about right wing evangelical Christianity: asking god for forgiveness is about meaning it and proving through your actions that you mean it, not “God whispered to me that I’m all good so shut the fuck up about it already lol”

The fundamental issue with the group chats is not that the members are Nazis, but that there’s no actual consequence for participating in a Nazi group chat. And why would there be? Their potential bosses are fine with it.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

amichai.

Oh you're an independent minded rebel who doesn't play by the rules? Fuck you. You've ruined society. Society was right to reject you. No more lose canons. No more outsiders. I want by the book squares running everything and to have more power.

the British don't say riding, I think it's a Canadian thing

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this. Please.

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reaching out to God for comment.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group.

“Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes.

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the one who loved horses, the one who was a great goalkeeper, the one who kept a diary every day, the one who held her sister's hand when they walked to school, the one who read Harry Potter in English, the one who collected old coins, the one who drew rainbows for her grandmother ...