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Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
September 16, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”
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I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
August 15, 2026 at 6:20 AM
I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses
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Lewis Goodall can talk shit about vape shops as much as he wants but they’re the only guys who know where and how to get eclipse glasses
August 12, 2026 at 10:57 AM
Lewis Goodall can talk shit about vape shops as much as he wants but they’re the only guys who know where and how to get eclipse glasses
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The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
August 7, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.
The only thing that ever stuck with me from any IT lesson across a decade of lessons was ctrl+v, and that's only because of my year 5 teacher's Schwarzenegger impression mnemonic - "remember, we 'paste ze vallpaper'"
I was a tech-savvy teen - my dad was a PC hobbyist who had us building servers and LANs from the age of 12 - and my GCSE classes in ICT (the term IT hadn't been adopted yet!) were hilariously outdated.
In 2002, our textbooks still said "one day, five million people will be using electronic mail".
In 2002, our textbooks still said "one day, five million people will be using electronic mail".
Even if the government is right to be betting the house on AI (and I suspect the way things shake out will be different to what we expect), this is likely to have the problem Computing as a subject has always had in schools, ie it’s pretty much instantly out of date.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 29, 2026 at 10:02 AM
The only thing that ever stuck with me from any IT lesson across a decade of lessons was ctrl+v, and that's only because of my year 5 teacher's Schwarzenegger impression mnemonic - "remember, we 'paste ze vallpaper'"
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And as Alex says, this is easily fixable by any government which wasn’t happy with institutionalising this bigotry across the country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:23 AM
And as Alex says, this is easily fixable by any government which wasn’t happy with institutionalising this bigotry across the country.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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give greta thunberg a gundam
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
give greta thunberg a gundam
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Mad to do this sort of campaigning when you’re the pitch hitter for the government’s transphobia
Streeting: “When I look at our main opponents at the next general election, I don't see a battle between left & right, I see a battle between right & wrong. I see a battle between progressives & reactionaries. I see a battle between patriots & nationalists. I see a battle between hope over hate.”
September 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Mad to do this sort of campaigning when you’re the pitch hitter for the government’s transphobia
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The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.
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we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
August 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
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I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.
The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.
August 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I think it really should be emphasised that what happened here is a tall woman approached a 14 year old to ask if she needed help, and the mother, not the girl, freaked out and is now calling for a ban on trans people being allowed to work with kids.
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London is full of cults that prey on mums in the name of “wellness” offering a crock of shit that includes homeopathy, reiki for infertility, and cranial osteopathy for newborns.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
August 6, 2025 at 9:52 AM
London is full of cults that prey on mums in the name of “wellness” offering a crock of shit that includes homeopathy, reiki for infertility, and cranial osteopathy for newborns.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
They’re all dangerous idiots and called stuff like “Womb & Bloom”, “Mother Moon” and anything with “Village” in.
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Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
July 20, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return
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When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.
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July 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
When is this going to end? What is there to even say anymore?
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anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
July 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
"There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers." - William S Buroughs
My column this week: how if you want to understand the forces shaping politics, both at an electoral and ideological level, you have to understand videogames:
If you don’t understand Nintendo Switch 2, you won’t understand the modern world
No savvy politician can get away with treating gaming as if it were a passing fad
www.ft.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers." - William S Buroughs
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HISTORY MATTERS. Thanks to a recent acquisition, we now have primary source evidence that Wally Bear's father really isn't wearing pants, and it isn't just an artifact of the NES' palette limitations. We could never have unearthed this without the support of generous donors just like you.
June 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
HISTORY MATTERS. Thanks to a recent acquisition, we now have primary source evidence that Wally Bear's father really isn't wearing pants, and it isn't just an artifact of the NES' palette limitations. We could never have unearthed this without the support of generous donors just like you.
If there was a team whose job it was to go around different local authorities and organisations swapping out spinning hard drives for SSDs it would probably be the biggest productivity boost to the British state in 20 years.
So British DOGE's search for wasteful spending discovered that... councils need more money to update their IT systems? www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
June 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
If there was a team whose job it was to go around different local authorities and organisations swapping out spinning hard drives for SSDs it would probably be the biggest productivity boost to the British state in 20 years.
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doing a MAGA Great Leap Forward where i set up a 5nm lithography process in my backyard
May 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
doing a MAGA Great Leap Forward where i set up a 5nm lithography process in my backyard