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They’ve folded like cheap cards. A little pressure, and there’s no courage behind their earlier ideas.

Text from Cs Lewis the Magicians nephew describing the world today: was a pool, and when you ver t world where a dying sun shone over the ruins of charn. There is no pool now. That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning." "Yes, Aslan," said both the children. But Polly added, "But we're not quite as bad as that world, are we, Aslan?" "Not yet, Daughter of Eve," he said. "Not yet. But you are growing more like it. It is not certain that some wicked one of your race will not find out a secret as evil as the Deplorable Word and use it to destroy all living things. And soon, very soon, before you are an old man and an old woman, great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy and justice and mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware. That is the warning. Now for the command. As soon as you can, take from this Uncle of yours his magic

Never mind the Orwell references…

Turns out C.S. Lewis knew too.

A decent guide for whether or not the decision was right, then.

Thick as mince, rude, and arrogant. What a combo 🙌🏻

Everyone knows we need more positives right now!

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Should have followed up with “If Canada move in to take Alaska, what would you call it?”

You are so good at this.

End of days.

She’s embarrassing.

The intern is still working on the spreadsheet, duh. 🙄

One of the areas where the EU’s AI Act is particularly useful. I don’t know if such a thing exists in the US, but maybe it should.

🙃

Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

Imagine looking up from the dock and seeing JO’B on your jury… 😱

Along with the return to plastic straws, really tackling the important stuff.

Great vibe 🙌🏻

I’ve been very disappointed in this Government so far, can’t even be sure they were the least worst option.

Steps like a goose, honks like a goose…

Ah, the politics of unity and peace on full display.

With a view like this, I can stay in my bubble with great pleasure.

Hahaha is that real?!

As best you can, ignore him.

Ah, the old evergreen, multi-purpose post!

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic.

(posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

A screenshot of the Die Zeit website. It is a photo of Musk in black and white doing the Hitler “seig heil” salute - but the actual salute is blocked out by blue material on the left hand side of the photo. The headline is underneath.

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it.

Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was.

Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

So the first-ever convicted felon president just pardoned 1500 of his felon co-conspirators, after we kept saying over and over that maybe it wasn't a good idea to elect a felon as president and that maybe we should imprison the felon when we had the chance? Got it.

🙏🏻

RIP

Headline stating: I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down - Ijust didn't expect them to be such losers by Rebecca Shaw

An early contender for headline of the year…