Sir Traline

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

I don't think you know what "efficient and run properly" means. You can't be efficient without bureaucracy, and all of this talk about streamlining is just code for firing as many staff as possible to save money.

It's like ripping random bits out of a car engine because petrol is expensive.

Because he had access to lots of money and sex trafficked young girls and socialised with unfuckable nerds and politics freaks whom he could ply with money and sex trafficked young girls.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.

They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

President Vance is preferable in the way a kick in the shins is preferable to a kick in the balls. A *lot* of Trump voters experience him as an entertainer first and foremost, and Vance definitely can't fill that role. It makes the overall right project weaker in the long run.

When Bruce Springsteen sang "at night, we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines", he was talking about people who log on to LinkedIn after 6pm to write fanfiction about how good they are at their job.

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like:

saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3

and a worker tier whose emails are like:

Dear Jim,
First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…

I’d focus less on the “Oh no, the factional lads are doing factionalism” and more on “This entire project was always an absurd fraud, and now it is nationally calamitous one and nobody knows what to do”. It’s the latter point that’s going to be more important, in the long run.

At this point I do sincerely believe this anti phone and social media drive is rooted in the "social contagion" idea of being trans. They do not think she died because she used her phone, they think she died because people in her phone convinced her she was a girl.

People are often like “it wasn’t a coup, it was completely domestic, take responsibility for your own failures,” ignoring the undisputed facts that Kerr was a director of a CIA front and Gough literally said Carter’s deputy Secretary of State visited him and apologised for the whole thing

Mr. Mamdani has privately tried to discourage his ideological ally from running. The mayor-elect and his team fear that another high-profile challenge from the left might compromise his own bid to push the Democratic establishment to support his affordability agenda. Mr. Mamdani also may want to avoid the optics of having Mr. Ossé challenge the House Democratic leader, who endorsed Mr. Mamdani in October after months of negotiation. The disagreement caused Mr. Ossé to be disinvited from Mr. Mamdani’s election night watch party, according to two people familiar with the matter, even though he has been a frequent presence at Mr. Mamdani’s campaign events. Instead, Mr. Ossé said he spent the night “with my constituents at D.S.A. events celebrating Zohran’s incredible win.” Mr. Mamdani on Monday sidestepped questions about Mr. Ossé, saying he was solely focused on preparing for his inauguration and would keep his “opinions just to the work of the transition.” Mr. Ossé’s plans to challenge Mr. Jeffries were first reported by The New York Post.

Oh, so Mamdani and Jeffries are best friends now, huh? He's cozying up to neoliberals and trying to get them to sign on to his policies. Foolishness.

You're not going to win victories for ordinary people by playing nice with the establishment. They are the enemy!

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

Is that good

Brianna was killed because she was trans.

This whole phones bad project is disgusting and insulting

I was watching this and waiting for her to claim she was shut down by some kind of shadowy trans lobby conspiracy, but it's not even that! She's somehow citing the fact that she *wasn't* hindered from pursuing an anti-trans line as proof of pro-trans bias?!

Capitalism is when innovation*.

*Making superficial adjustments which enables the discontinuation of the previous model so that the product is; less repairable, made of cheaper materials, more prone to failure, and ultimately quicker to replacement.

From left, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Sen. Joni Ernst, join hands at the March for Israel on Nov. 14, 2023, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Dems supporting genocide wasn't a red line for liberals, but apparently Chuck Schumer caving on the shutdown is. The time to demand new leadership was in 2023 when Schumer and Jeffries went to the March for Israel and stood hand-in-hand with Mike Johnson and Ernst, chanting "We stand with Israel."

A post on Mastodon by small cypress (@small_cypress@indieweb.social): As an art teacher I was worried AI would come up as an issue of "why should I learn how to draw when I can use AI instead." But the real issue is that my middle schoolers CONSTANTLY believe all art I show them is AI. Digital art. Photography. Oil paintings from the Western canon. "A human couldn't do that" Being convinced that humans can't make great art is kind of terrifying

I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.

The most powerful question a journalist could ask of the rich and powerful is "what do you mean by that?" with the tenacity of a kid asking "why?"

Which is why they don't.

If you have two parties, and one party wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics, and the other party wants to cooperate with them and meet in the middle, you have one party that wants ethnic cleansing and eugenics.

the BBC is the most effective propaganda outlet the UK-US Right has, including Fox News, something most brits do not understand

It’s not just Schumer.

The Dems job is to cave,
come up one vote short,
get blocked by the parlementarian,
mired in committee, etc

It’s why large Corps, billionaires & foreign countries fund thrm.

If they didn’t cave, lose, come up short
the Corps/billionaires wouldn’t give them a dime.

Do you think if I took a shit on the pillow of the reporters who write like this, they would say I "allegedly appeared to deposit a brown substance" or would they call it what it is

In other Lest We Forget news, at my friend's kid's U12 match today:

- Poppy decals for the kits

- Poppy cake post-match

- The planned pre-match *drone fly-over with trailing poppy garlands* was cancelled last minute due to weather conditions.

As you were, you normal, perfectly sane country 🫡.

"When businessmen boast of the capital they possess, in reality they are boasting that they have gained control of a vast pool of the labour of previous generations" - Chris Harman

lol

Labour's DOGE is in full swing! E180m+ clawed back from Covid/PPE fraud NHS England merger into DHSC = HUGE savings £50Om+ savings on consultants £25Om+ cut from NHS/social care admin Full quango review And MUCH much more to come!

Mamdani's victory shows us how we can defeat right-wing populism here in the UK: deliver real solutions, not empty slogans.

today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:

Every time one of these mass murderers dies without having faced any consequence for the massacres they ordered, the lives they destroyed, the societies they razed to the ground… I realize how far we are from a world with justice. Rest in hell Dick Cheney. Your legacy is death.

“Ireland is full” is something that people say in the only OECD country with a smaller population than it had in 1840

Not left, not right, but a secret third thing (fascist. it's fascist every single time)