Owain Sutton

Their brains are cooked. They are seeing things that are not there. They can't imagine people in the water for leisure.

It happened again

Pete Buttigieg Doubles Down on Comments About the “Fairness” of Trans People in Sports “I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously."

He's talking about bigots, let's not mince words.

A city where a 10 year old can’t safely bike to school alone has failed.

Ultraprocessed Food Still Makes Up More Than Half of Americans’ Diets

"Sandwiches, including burgers, contributed the most calories..."

Sandwiches and burgers are not ultra-processed! I am losing my mind.

Also, anything that's produced in mass quantities is made "via industrial methods" including a lot of stuff that's good for you! It's a meaningless distinction.

Home Office could send children who cross Channel in small boats back to France Unaccompanied minors would not be deported – but children travelling with adult relatives could be sent to France under the scheme

Based on the Home Office's track record of mis-aging unaccompanied children as adults it is pretty much certain that, no matter what they claim, they will deport unaccompanied children, along with families with children. Everything about Labour's policy is atrocious.
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Michelle Gomez issues Instagram statement after Harry Potter casting backlash Actress Michelle Gomez has responded to backlash after she was cast in new audiobook series Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions.

So one of the crazy things you can do if you're a Beloved British Actor is NOT agree to be in a Harry Potter thing.

The way you do it is:

1) Don't agree to be in a Harry Potter thing
2) See 1)

Hope that guide helps all the Beloved British Actors out there unsure how to do this. 👍

Saw a transphobe on Facebook arguing that Sandy Peggie's racism shared in her *work group chat* are her "private thoughts" and should not impact her employability, fuck me, these people are insane.

Wait, so the woman who Rowling and her cult of hate are targeting atm isn’t even confirmed to be trans, and might simply be being targeted for the crime of being too tall?

Try telling me again that they aren’t a hate movement and that Rowling isn’t an active danger to people

Transport Minister announces all vehicles will pay electronic road user charges All drivers will pay for NZ’s roading network through electronic road user charges rather than petrol tax, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says

​New Zealand will replace its gas tax with road user charges based on distance, time, and weight.

"Weight" is an intriguing variable. Will owners of massive SUVs and utes need to pay extra b/c of their environmental and safety costs? (They should.)

Someone please call Dante, we need him to invent a new level of hell for the people in charge of the Homeland Security Twitter account.

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

Not only does Trump not have the power to call a new census - it’s also worth noting this authoritarian precedent: Comrade Stalin didn’t like the results of the 1937 Soviet census, so he purged the statisticians and ordered a new census, undertaken in 1939, which yielded numbers more to his liking.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

This took me a few tries as it is not an easy thing for to soeak about. However, it feels necessary as this administration begins to erase us from history, and once again, play the victim of some giant “hoax”.
I mispronounce Maxwell’s name, but this take was as good as I could get

Stephen Colbert is going SCORCHED EARTH right now. To RFK Jr: “Fuck you, you roid-addled nepo carnie! Fuck you, you roadkill-munching Luddite human slim jim!”

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against 'unreasonable rent increases', relisted her four-bedroom townhouse in east London for £4,000 a month

Wow.

This is bad, but dear lord above whose genius decision was it to make a landlord the Minister for Homelessness?

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I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"What those woke Quakers seem to forget is that we live in a free country. If I can no longer decapitate whales to harvest their cranial fluid for candlewax, then democracy is dead."

✍️ - Ruyi Wen for @mcsweeneys.net

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The government has been bragging for a year about their insatiable desire to cover every inch of grass in the country with cheaply built crappy blocks of flats. So why are they so rattled about this allotments story?

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

I for one am a bit surprised we haven't already see the Swift estate threatening a law suit.

If there's one thing that could rally basically her entire fanbase behind her, it's this.

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Serve your country! Defend your culture!

Just in case it’s not already clear that ICE is a white supremacist thug army, Homeland Security is recruiting with a “defend your culture” slogan.

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

Tesla engineers built a proprietary tool to flatten patties for the smash burgers with crisp browned edges, held together with caramelized onions and cheese, which seemed to be on most tables. It lent the dish a superficial whiff of innovation, but the burger didn’t stand out in any meaningful way.

The Tesla Diner is a perfect metaphor for the whole Tesla brand: a bad facsimile of something that already exists, made by people who don't understand what they're recreating, with a thin veneer of superficial futurism on top, for people with no taste or self-respect

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It's amazing what evidence based policy can do.

The evidence that the 20mph limit is working fantastic from the point of view of saving lives and saving the taxpayer money in Wales is overwhelming.

You can be annoyed about it.

But you can't argue that it isn't doing what it was supposed to do.

Well, that was serendipitous, seeing this while Fraserburgh lighthouse is visible from the ferry I'm on!

They're cos-playing D-Day, without even realising it.

different genders to the same Hindu gods, on different pupils' ipads. The penny didn't fully drop, but it shifted a little.

"Ignore the AI overview, AI makes things up" was something I kept on saying to this year's Year 6, each time they were looking for info online.

To a brick wall, until one day Gemini decided to randomly assign 1/2

I feel like every single day I need to post a reminder: if you ask an LLM about itself it DOES NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT ITS INNER WORKINGS and WILL NOT TELL YOU ANYTHING ACTUALLY ABOUT ITSELF. It just (as it always does) will make up some plausible sounding answer.