Tom Perkins

Comment says "this may be the worst thing that has happened to Charlie's Kirk this year."

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

This is how we win.

:)

We’re witnessing vintage Corbyn with this new party stuff. A man in pure flow state. Simply unplayable at this level.

The Knights Who Say Ni****

JUST TAKE MY MONEY!

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Reporting any adult man giving A Level results advice to teens

Not even joking when I say the educated urban bourgeoise need to develop class consciousness. So much horrid shit throughout the developed world comes from them internalizing that they are illegitimate in a way the “noble” and “authentic” peasants and proles are not.

a screenshot from a food ordering app showing a picture of chicken nuggets and the text: "Chicken Pops Small, itchy, blister-like bumps caused by the varicella-zoster virus; common in childhood."

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I think an underrated problem in most countries is that lockdowns drove around a quarter of the country crazy, this quarter is pretty well-distributed across the population, and it makes going 'look, these guys are NUTS' much harder a political attack than it used to be.

One of the funniest news diagrams I've ever seen.

I only know what I'd do without Brian Wilson.

Tho the best quote about Finsbury park attacker

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

“chicago pope” is one of the shows jack donaghy greenlit when he was tanking nbc

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Great book. Found it in the school library when I was 13ish, and remains my favourite of the Cold War Gone Hots by far...

Christ, better not tell the stormers of the Bastille.

I'm the guy who designed Windows 11. My concept was 'All the same buttons, slightly different places'. My other job is changing where things are in supermarkets.

so painful watching a loved one gradually succumb to LinkedIn

Important reminder:

The fact that there might be a conclave so close to a movie about one has really motivated me to finish my screenplay "The Tech CEO Who Died of Diarrhea So Explosive The Coroner Said He Had No Lower Back to Speak Of"

(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")

Wow the German exit poll

I mean my German is rudimentary at best but I don’t think this means “he was sending his heart to the crowd”

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms | Johnny Ryan The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council...

Kinda like asking a drug dealer to remove the cocaine from their milk powder, but it's an idea - Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising – and polarising – influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselves

For those despairing over the increasing information chaos online, there's several simple, brilliant, easy-to-argue suggestions in this piece by "Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible" author Peter Pomerantsev: " www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Some absolute monster has made a scotch egg, but with a whole potato instead of an egg.

"Hello. Police? Yes. I'd like to report a serious crime, please"

A time for truth and reconciliation Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

This article - ahead of the FT paywall - is free to read and it really is an astonishing, unmissable insight into the mind of its author:

A cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows: 1 THE SCENE: is BBC Television centre or wherever that is these days. HARRY STYLES is getting out of a limo to enter a studio. An autograph-hunting FAN accosts him. Also, a DATE STAMP appears ‘on screen’, like it used to do in the X-files, reading: OCTOBER, 2024: Maidstone Studios, England FAN 1: That’s Harry Styles! FAN 2 [Approaching Harry]: Can I have a selfie, Harry? 2 FAN: What are you doing at Maidstone Studios on this finbe day in mid October, Harry? 3 HARRY STYLES: Why, I’ve come here in mid-October to record ‘Jools Holland’s New Year Hoote-‘ 4 *FSHW* [Harry Styles is suddenly vaporised by a LASER BEAM] 5 [We see the culprit; a hi tech flying DRONE has zapped Mr Styles to death. The drone has a camera eye on the front of it] 6 [Cut to: JOOLS HOLLAND in his Hootenanny lair, watching a screen which has just alerted him to the elimination of Styles] [Legend on screen]: ARTIST ELIMINATED HOLLAND: Goddamn it 7 HOLLAND: Why can’t they keep their mouths SHUT? 8 HOLLAND: Tim Davie! TIM DAVIE [Director General of the BBC]: Y-yes Jools? HOLLAND: Who’ve we got left for this year? 10 TIM DAVIE: The Boomtown Rats, one of Sister Sledge and Marc Almond HOLLAND: Almond *again*? 11 TIM DAVIE: We’re running out of artists to call, sir… M-must we keep killing… so many…? HOLLAND: You know the rules, Davie. The secret of the Hootenanny must be protected at all costs. All who divulge it… 12 HOLLAND [close up on his evil face, eye twitching]: Must be eliminated

An explanation, for tonight