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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

“The message from Caerphilly is very clear to me: One-third of the vote is not enough to get Reform elected, if the other two-thirds get their act together.”

A man called Jeff invented this, and he has a whole story behind the 'inspiration' for this notepad, sorry productivity system, which involves a fisherman and banker

How do you not feel embarrassed that you've just reinvented a notepad?

YouTube video by maxinebendix Kitty 3 - with Patricia Routledge - BBC

All these tributes to the wonderful Patricia Routledge and not one mention of the wonderful Kitty, as seen on the wonderful Victoria Wood show.

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Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

Medieval London church is balanced 45 feet above ground in 'never before seen feat of engineering'... as skyscraper is built

Glasgow: 'Hold my beer...'

I can’t remember who said it but “it’s bit like saying you don’t have to be a vegetarian to be in the Green Party and you don’t. But you do have to be comfortable hanging out with vegetarians.” Same here you may not be a racist but you sure are happy to hang out with them.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Charlie Kirk was, amongst other things, extremely homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic and Islamophobic.

Assorted commentators "he had varied interests"

I don't think it is callous of me to observe that it is weird to see the PM of the UK, the leader of the Opposition of the UK, and the ex UK PM all putting out solemn and devastated tweets about the death of a podcaster who is only a big name if you're constantly on Twitter

Charlie Kirk wanted to talk about Trump and Epstein

We should honour this guys wishes by talking more about Trump being on the Epstein list.

I remember being taught about good Germans and bad Germans, the brave few who resisted the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the masses who enabled it. Now I wonder if there weren’t a huge contingent desperate to stop it but without any sense of how to do that.

The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Just to expand a little. Suddenly in the US there are a large number of people who find themselves with arbitrary power over many others but no experience or training in how to use that power. The results are cruelty, brutality and the demonisation of the vulnerable and marginalised.

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

The absolute cream turnip of hypocrites.

Vivi @SealYamamura X.com as a lesbian, yes, we are very mad, please no more beautiful women dancing in skimpy outfits, we hate it @JoeKinseyexp.4d Joe Kinsey The purple hair lesbians have to be furious that SEC sororities ARE BACK 187

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Shoutout to the individual I saw on the way to friends tonight who was driving an impeccable wine-red convertible with the top down and a goose in the passenger seat wearing a colour-coordinated bow tie. I hope you had a great night.

Many more insightful and thoughtful things have already been said about the Online Safety Act, but one thing that strikes me as particularly weird is the government, within a very short space of time, telling 16-17 year olds “You’re old enough to vote, but not old enough to look at boobs online.”

We are very far over the cliff here folks

Some shit Elon musk spouted

He's not wrong, once ai and robotics has destroyed the environment and taken all the money, there won't be any people left to suffer from hunger, disease and poverty.

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Hulk Hogan and Harry Potter have a lot in common

* Very meaningful when you were a kid
* Changed the landscape in many ways
* Continued to be bankable way past their prime
* Critical analysis of the work finds it surpassed by so much more in the same field
* Legacy ruined by massive bigotry

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Oh, "bullocks."