Fraser McQueen

friends fear he's lookin at weird guys again

we must imagine squidward happy

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive? Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."

DEPARTMENT Homeland Security @DHSgov The stakes have never been higher, and the goal has never been more clear: Remigration now.

‘Remigration’ is a term that comes out of the European far right. Its use by the DHS account is a sign of democratic and epistemic collapse

I like a Smint as much as the next man (maybe even more), but it's really upsetting to me that you can get them as the snack in a Tesco meal deal as it implies there are sociopaths out there eating a whole pack of Smints one by one after lunch.

OH MY FUCKING GOD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The thing to understand is that there is a particular contingent within Labour who assess their own performance not based on the support they get from the right (which will always be, basically, none) but on how much they repulse the left. So they turn into Reform, without actually getting votes.

My niece gave me a tung tung tung sahur toy

Honestly watching UK politics in 2025 as someone who knows anything at all about France in the last 20 years or so has to be one of the most frustrating experiences

It goes without saying that this is morally unconscionable, but it's also tactically idiotic. This has failed any time it's been tried. Centrist liberals have 0 ideas beyond enshittification and being the 'lesser evil'.

This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.

Spending my research time filling in the document that explains how I've been spending my research time 👍👍👍

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made it to reading week lads

A socialist Muslim elected as mayor of New York - if only Dick Cheney had been there to see it 💔

I know I'm not the first or the most insightful to say this, but it's endlessly fascinating to me how reactionary centrists are incapable of seeing that the problem isn't the style or the delivery method but the (lack of) content.

I would easily win at a spelling bee, it's only three letters long ffs

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Workshopping a new bit where I ask people if they've heard of a Netflix show called "Tiger King"

A top tip if you don't want to look like a sadact who sends emails on Friday night is not only to schedule them, but to do it for times like 10:27 am on Monday morning so it isn't obvious. This is how I maintain my air of effortless cool.

Not a weight I'll ever be close to again!

6 years (!!!) today since this poster dropped. Remember looking at it and thinking the guy looked kind of skinny. What wasn't apparent is that he's about 9 feet tall and I ended up looking like Scrappy Doo on the night. What a world. Can confirm this is still how I look, no I won't prove it

Enough slop on my for you feed

The UK studiously ignores the war in Sudan because its strategic allies have vested interests in the conflict and continue to profit from it. Then the UK refuses safe routes to Sudanese refugees, forcing them to make potentially lethal channel crossings, and attempts to deny them asylum on arrival.

never apologise for cross-posting. always double down

8 POINTS CLEAR

Me when i'm saying 'spring forward, fall back'

When, despite somehow working as a political journalist, you got your understanding of all the terms involved from op-eds written 2016-2019.

Impossible to concentrate on anything when you know Spongebob is bob l'éponge but squidward is called carlo

I actually love to teach language because, even as a Woke academic, it's one of the few opportunities you get to be like 'hello everyone, today we're learning about pronouns'