Remember when I said his entire notion of governing devolves to wanting to speak with the manager at all times, not realizing that he is the final manager of the entire world

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’

To be clear, what is being proposed here is to axe the main mechanism for getting Britain’s homes insulated - which is by FAR the best way to reduce household energy bills in the long term 🤦‍♂️

…and also, just incidentally, an absolute non-negotiable requirement for meeting UK climate targets 😬🥵☠️

Mamdani's electoral map in 2025 (blue-yellow) looked exactly like Adams's map in 2021 and Cuomo's in 2025 looked exactly like Sliwa's in 2021 (blue-red). In other words, Cuomo was the de-facto GOP candidate and the people who voted for him were GOP supporters, not people who voted Dem in 2021.

Absolutely insane.

Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.

Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.

The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Photo of NBC’s exit poll data (from my work laptop, lol) showing Mamdani splitting the straight vote equally with Cuomo, but taking the LGBTQ+ vote by more than 5:1. Even though the LGBTQ+ slice is only 14% of the population, they were a LANDSLIDE in his favor.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Actually one of the weird things in the article I read about it was the marketing guy saying (of last year’s AI effort) “look it tested well” which is surely the truth but a bit of a “marketers only say this when they’re VERY distressed” moment

PSA for today and every day:

once again struck by the way the left always has to moderate itself in left wing areas in case it puts off moderates elsewhere and the right just... never thinks about that? at all?? and no one calls them on it???

Literally everyone code switches. I don't use the same voice when I'm sitting in a committee meeting as I do watching Rugby in the pub, for example.

Anyone who thinks they don't do this has never listened to themselves speak.

"Alabamans voted for a pedophile to starve them in a failed attempt to prevent me from occasionally wearing a skirt" is one of those factually true statements that makes me feel like I am having a stroke.

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No hell hot enough.

Dignity and respect or fucking nothing.

I was deeply disappointed at the time. I think it was a case of just not being noticed as opposed to getting actively ignored/buried, but I think it was an important report that should have been picked up by more media.

Sadly, my reporting work has always gone down that way.

If there were a competent opposition party in this country, the only message we’d get is that a starving, desperate country where your only hope of safety is blind allegiance to a violent, capricious autocrat and prosperity exists for only his inner circle is what GOP governance looks like

Gemini makes your mobile device a powerful AI assistant Gemini Live is available today to Advanced subscribers, along with conversational overlay on Android and even more connected apps. Aug 13, 2024 5 min read

*Stands outside of google's offices in the rain hoisting a boombox above my head blasting Nine Inch Nails' "I Do Not Want This" at top volume*

I have this sentiment a lot these days

if the defense needs an expert witness i've tested sandwich rotational speed extensively and can say horizontal velocity is not a significant factor in their coherence until you reach 30+ RPM

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

photos of a stunning, modernist underground station with a tweet reading: "Sydney's Gadigal Station has been named by the Prix Versailles as one of the World's Most Beautiful Passenger Stations for 2025. The prestigious global design awards commended the station's innovative architecture, sustainable design, and seamless functionality."

People can and should have nice things.

If someone writes a report saying "we build transport that is too nice and that's why projects are expensive and that's why we don't build more of them" then not only should their analysis be discarded as junk but they should be pilloried.

If you wanted to do metal detectors for long distance train journeys but not commuter lines you'd need a project to build a comprehensive national high speed network.

Financial Times • @financialtimes.com Follow For the first time in a decade the majority of British adults believe the generosity of the welfare system stops people from supporting themselves, according to the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen).

Perhaps spending decades terrifying the public with relentless tall tales about the pampered, idle poor has been deleterious to creating a decent, pleasant society

this is true and it would be good if nominally-progressive politicians considered this dynamic whenever they vote to give more weapons and surveillance tech to their local cops, who are invariably a political base for right-wing politics

Daily reminder than when transphobes claim trans women are more likely to be sex offenders than cis women, they are citing a paper where the vast majority of “sex offenses” committed by trans women were prostitution convictions

They’re bragging about forcing destitute trans women into prostitution

Calling on my ancestors for guidance but the only one who answers is a weird eutherian rodent-mammal from the early cretaceous period. "EAT BERRY SLEEP UNDER ROCK" it says. Pretty good advice

This is what I mean when I say that present-day covid denialism is right wing. It was a plan born of corporatists and wholly adopted by centrists and even leftists eager to pretend the pandemic was over, which should immediately give anyone thinking about it pause.

Yes, this is it - BORING!

The US captivated global fascination while it was this place where a future *never seen before* was being created.

Now it's just trying to adopt and resurrect stuff that's painfully familiar to the rest of the world.

We know how this goes - we already have it at home!

*living in a society where everything costs too much and the only thing to do in most places is buy stuff* ugh why do these kids keep buying things. don’t they know they should never, ever buy things so we can blame them for a sluggish economy