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Britain is never going to have a serious conversation about the fact that one of the queen's final acts in life was to knowingly spend millions protecting one of Jeffrey Epstein's top collaborators just because he was mummy's favourite special boy.

She was a cruel, out of touch piece of shit.

Mexican authorities killed the leader of one of the country’s biggest cartels, answering US calls for tougher action against organised crime and setting off a wave of retaliatory violence. ft.trib.al/XYUVAfi

good gear

I gotta say I’ve never seen signs more that we are in an AI bubble than a venture capitalist backing a Scott Adams AI to begin with. Like he is putting MONEY into this?

they remain good bits

Any history buffs want to give these cool cats a hand with a technical detail?

I said “Oof!” out loud ONE picture in

No! NO!!!

fr what is the sea of grey ??? these buildings are resting upon

reminder another reason to do alt text is that the same good alt text also helps people who don't know the same cultural references as you look stuff up. what show is that? who is that actor? what's happening in that scene? people are here from different generations, countries, interest circles etc!

For starters, there are counties - the historic subdivisions dating back to the Saxons, mostly ending in 'shire. These come in wildly varying sizes, and even more wildly varying degrees of local pride. They're not a very helpful distinction for identifying where you live, because competing with the historic counties is the infuriatingly similar system of administrative counties for local government, which uses a slightly different map. Residents of Saddleworth for example can't, under pressure, say whether they're in Greater Manchester or Yorkshire. This isn't helped by yet a third definition of 'counties' used in British addresses. Royal Mail uses their own map to avoid splitting postal towns that straddle traditional county borders. This puts, for instance, the Essex town of Ugly Green in 'Hertfordshire'. And these incidentally are entirely unrelated to the Post Office's postcodes - a system initially set up in the 1960s for the benefit of postal workers, but which has since become indispensable for sat navs, emergency services, estate agents and rival street gangs. And these postcodes don't match up at all with phone codes. There are parliamentary constituencies that don't match up with local government areas, NHS areas that don't match up with police areas, and so on and so on.

This is a great and very accurate tranche of text about the weirdness of Britain’s geography and how we care to label it.

Source: This Way Up, by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman

I have boontavista brain and cannot but hear the stinger for their Dutch news segment: “I’m from Holland—isn’t that weird??”

Hmm!

Dutch article about the weird influencer named Clavicular

It's funny when they do this in German, but it feels like the Dutch are even more willing to go all-out

I continue to love the synth scoring of this show. And when they use music that matches

my brain is struggling to follow wth is happening in this Industry ep.

but i’ll tell you what I *always* love to see: a rube say a bunch of stuff to the worst tabloid producers imaginable then toss off, “this was all off the record btw”

and then hopping on BART to come fix me

🧵

that’s the escapism part maybe

oh the last many hrs of discourse - morning!

very funny, and very sad indeed

while it kills us

ikr i may have to let this radicalize me

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i’ve been burned too many times, hence taking my nascent interest to the pwhl. everyone is on notice

Yanks Hate This One Weird Trick

not me tho, bc I can’t log off but I would love to miss the drama

😭😭😭😭 i’m sorry my brain is sleepy bc Im too far west of you and all i could think reading this was “Mormons”

That’s cute! I’ve no insight there, but I want to share this figure-hockey mutual skate clinic (the reverse will be suggested if you watch this one) bc they talk about their skill differences!

all sorts of religious ppl are still into this from what I can tell, but I fear it is a Challenge for a host of reasons otherwise 😔

yes

having caught up: hard agree. I used to keep journals up to date and now I do a lot more of This