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TheNational.scot Wes Streeting defends Lord Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein... Sep 9, 2025 The Independent Streeting says Mandelson 'not guilty by association' over Epstein birthday book, Streeting says. Sep 9, 2025

more ppl need to be pointing out that wes streeting is peter mandelson's protege and that he defended mandelson remaining friends with epstein after he was convicted.

a nice thing about when the internet was a bunch of little sites and servers was that it was a lot harder for governments to pressure "the chat provider everyone uses" to implement age verification.

you wanna pressure 300 separate IRC servers? good luck with that. but one company? easy

it's going really well. really well. at this rate i expect him to declare Full Confidence in himself within the week

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

finished Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo, a somewhat horror-ish VN that does a lot on a restrained budget and definitely lands *somewhere* in the post-Uchikoshi tradition. it fucks around with Cryptic Bullshit at times but i'm inclined to give it a pass. we need more of its like

If you're a business owner who fires someone you have assigned to an overseas job and you don't buy them a plane ticket home you should actually go to prison

Every young person sentence online reads like this to me now:

"Bro entered low-stim flow state doing a 10 min grocery rotation and got mogged by a friendly neighborhood cat 💀 Is proximity-maxxing essentials while touch-grass-pilled more optimal than suburb-meta carbrained bulk errands?"

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

i think if your point of contention is what it's called then we do not have a point of contention. not really. maybe i won't convince you of my philosophical position, but... one could glibly say i have faith that you understand the part that matters.

i dunno man. past a point i think you do the things i describe but just don't call it faith. i don't mean this as like a gotcha or something, i just think anyone who genuinely does a thing just because they think it's the right thing to do is showing faith, as am i to think anyone does that at all

there's nothing supernatural required! only faith, that there's truth to find, that there's good in people, that there's purpose in striving, that there's meaning in art. none of it need have anything to do with any god but sometimes that's a useful shorthand

Times report: Allies of Rayner said they believed that Wes Streeting, the health secretary, would be “ruined” by the mass disclosure of all communications with Mandelson in coming months. Streeting and Mandelson were close allies for years.

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

Political drama aside, when a Prime Minister cannot carry the House of Commons on whether government can be trusted on national security, PM’s authority is over.

Do not underestimate significance of MPs insisting on a parliamentary committee, and not government, to decide on Mandelson disclosures.

there's an einstein bit floating around somewhere that's something like, some measure of religiosity is the foundation of all true art and all true science, and in that sense alone i am a deeply religious man

i don't think this is wrong but i also don't believe a person can truly do good without some measure of dogmatic belief in an ideal. truth, justice, mercy, goodness itself... there is no empirical basis for belief in these things. it's just imperative. we have to believe that we have to believe

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.

in case people don't know: that's ethan mcmanus from the webcomic ctrl alt del. you probably recognize him from loss.jpeg memes. he looks a little different here because it's remastered version so they updated his design a little.

The young people will:
- Recognize Heavy from TF2
- Recognize Max from Furaffinity
- Learn about Homestar Runner dot Com
- Wonder what's so special about this fourth guy who is just every person they've ever blocked on social media

games getting worse because they're chasing the trends set by Mihoyo call that Genshittification

i think this is good and people hating are missing the actual betrayal, which is that you can skip the combat but you can’t skip the one million hours of forced slow walking cutscenes

this is the kind of conceptual slam dunk that makes it seem like lunacy that Nintendo weren't ready with some kind of translation layer to finagle their system-selling gimmick into a huge amount of game content, but i know just enough about The Computer to understand how much of a nightmare it'd be

it never fails to make me sad when i play a Switch game that uses a cursor/clicking interface on my Switch 2 that has mouse input and the two can't talk to eachother

i was gonna be like maaaan i don't wanna try a new thing but would you look at how cheap it is right now

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

i think even people who don't follow video games will just instinctively pick up on the idea that sony thinks that because horizon sold a squillion copies and live service games print money that horizon fans will line up to print money and they will get the consumer equivalent of the ick

people blew back on highguard without developing any real opinions about highguard because they have come to understand why games like highguard get made and they resent it even if the actual game is actually something they'd like

i think part of the reason this whole second-order genre of games gets so much pushback is because people can feel the effort to sell them on a forever evolving live service experience before selling them on a video game and they intuitively reject the effort before even considering the game

seeing todd howard cap off a nintendo direct sure does put the backlash to highguard in a new perspective doesn't it

the last full term for a prime minister in the uk serving as the head of a party that actually won the election was twenty years ago lol