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People in the UK seeing their bills rise by £693 (54%) per year while Shell reports £900 PER SECOND in profit is an absolute disgrace
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“Inventing a guy to be mad at” already exists but I truly think a key use of AI will be self-radicalisation. Imagine posting this. The Grok logo is literally there.
Greta Thunberg on a yacht wearing a keffiyeh and sipping a cocktail epitomises the premise that 'pro-Palestine' is a lifestyle accessory for wealthy progressives.
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yeah totally, bet you can't even spot the difference
Nice line from @Keir_Starmer in the House of Commons: "She didn't simply reign over us she lived alongside us."
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Twitter data suggests most of the people buying Twitter Blue are promoting three things: right wing politics, cryptocurrency, and porn. washingtonpost.com/technolog…
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Jeremy Clarkson, the man who assaulted his producer because he couldn't order a steak, says his mental health is fine
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"Who knew Terry Pratchett better, his daughter or some random TERFs? Impossible to say" - Sarah Ditum
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We are in debt, therefore let’s make it harder for young people to learn and get to work. I am very smart.
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"You should never slap someone just because you disagree with them but you should be able to try and hit them with your car"
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Extreme take but I think kids should be fed even if it doesn’t make them better at maths
What do the studies say about 'free' school breakfast clubs?
Scientists assessed 25 studies around the developed world and concluded "The average impact of breakfast provision when aggregating all studies on attainment is null".
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Capitalism does not and has never assigned value correctly, which is why nurses and teachers remain underpaid
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It’s on every £100 between £100k and £125k, not "every £100 you earn", but Matt wouldn’t say that because then it wouldn’t enrage people as much
An insane statistic from the UK:
If you are a "high earner" on £100,000 - £125,000, you only get to keep £38 of every £100 you earn
-The Telegraph
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I was today years old when I learned percentages are reversible.
So 6% of 50 is the same as 50% of 6, which is a lot easier to work out
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No he doesn't, the government is not a household, it borrows the money from itself.
This is (again) propaganda.
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Less than half an hour apart. It is absolutely shocking how much this government hates you
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Judge Christopher Hehir did not want to send a police officer who raped a woman to jail as an "act of mercy"
Judge Christopher Hehir sent five climate protesters to jail, and denied any of their defences, saying they "crossed the line from campaigner to fanatic"
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"The dead cannot be measured by the standards of a world in which they never lived"
Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 and died in 2015, and historians say during that time there were no trans people at all, not a single one, no don't go check just trust me
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Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, who consistently voted for equal gay rights, same-sex marriage, and pledged to put LGBTQ history on the school curriculum, received 85% of Muslims' votes in 2017
Labour Batley campaign source says:
“Basically built a new electoral coalition in six weeks. Lost the conservative Muslim vote over gay rights and Palestine, and won back a lot of 2019 Tory voters”
“This result shows we’re reconnecting with the wider electorate again”
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When you're a child, they'll teach you war poetry. When you're an adult, they'll arrest you for understanding it
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I know we're just supposed to politely memory-hole this, but none of these scandals would have happened under Jeremy Corbyn
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kids knowing they were straight since starting puberty at like 12: good, fine, normal
kids knowing they were bi since starting puberty at like 12: bad, tragic, must be stopped
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Rishi Sunak: "I would never dream of giving up my British citizenship"
Also Rishi Sunak: "for tax purposes I'm an American"
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“This attack was again designed to cause fear among people inside the centre, who were at prayer at the time”
but at least it wasn’t terrorism, because they didn’t spray paint anything
Viable device thrown through window of Belfast Islamic Centre during attack, police say bbc.in/3T1yHq8
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Additional context:
It's a bomb.
bbc.com/news/articles/
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The Guardian: "why do we expect such a conformity of opinion?"
Also The Guardian: *deletes interviews that do not conform*
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"The people I know who are gay (and one transgendered, I think -- like the dwarfs, I don't ask people what they're not prepared to volunteer) are ... quite amiable about people's sexuality so long as they don't act like a jerk" - Terry Pratchett oocities.org/fasterthanlife_…
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this has big "feminism would be more accepted by men if they just changed the name" energy
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Headline: "Lesbians pressured into sex with trans women!"
Evidence: a social media survey of just 80 people, only half of which actually agreed with, from a group condemned by Pride in London.
This is propaganda.
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Genuine question in light of Gary Lineker: does anyone know what happens to the antisemitic “Jews control the media” conspiracy theory when a huge celebrity gets canned for criticising Israel’s genocide?
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I found the "spare £3 billion", it was sold for 10 grand
🚨NEW: Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones tells LBC's @AndrewMarr9 that he doesn't have a "spare £3 billion" to lift the two-child benefit cap and axing it would not "tackle the root causes of why people find themselves in poverty in the first place."
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Prince Andrew in January: I demand a jury hear my case
Prince Andrew now: actually, let's definitely not do that
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These are all the images so far from the James Webb Space Telescope - the furthest into the universe that humanity has ever seen
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Tony Blair saying Labour was wrong to support LGBT rights in the 1980s because it lost them the support of homophobes independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Tories: "Jobs like KFC are always there"
Also Tories: "I cannot get a job at KFC despite having worked at KFC"
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Anonymous renamed Putin's boat to FCKPTN and changed its location to 'hell' independent.co.uk/tech/anony…
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If you're wondering why this wasn't talked about after Jo Cox was murdered, it's because online abuse is not the culprit - but if you move fast enough, you can shock the public into accepting more authoritarianism
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The Daily Mail: We cannot encourage hatred of our elected officials.
Also the Daily Mail:
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"The public should have less information about their elected official's voting record" is a bad take
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imagine spending $44bn for more posts like this instead of doing literally anything else
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At a time of national crisis why is Labour getting embroiled in trans row? standard.co.uk/comment/labou…
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"it's just supply and demand" say people apparently unaware that the most valuable things in the world have been, historically, shiny rocks
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Your pledge to bill direct debit and pre-pay customers the same would save just £46 a year when costs are going up by thousands. You're absolutely useless.
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my favourite Nadine Dorries tidbit
Former Conservative minister Nadine Dorries defects to Reform bbc.in/4mNy54s
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Modern right-wing ideology loves paradoxes
A censorious 'free speech' advocate. A billionaire claiming he fights for working people. An immigrant painted as both weak and dominating. An eternal victim, who still holds a gun to the heads of children
Confusion is the point
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right now there's a labour focus group out there debating whether keir starmer should also have an affair
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When Jeremy Corbyn said that the left had "won the argument" over the last election he was mocked but now it's three years later and two thirds of *Tories* back nationalising the energy companies
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ben it's easy to understand: gender is identity based on social norms while sex is the thing you don't have with your wife
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"just eat a bag of pasta every day. what, you want to cook it? and have nutrients? bloody champagne socialists"
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Despite the headline, the Uni is offering support for students not "training" them because sex work is as legitimate labour as any other kind of work
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"you will be forever credited for seeing off the threat of Corbynism", yeah because things are going so well for everyone right now. You won't be missed
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Between 2022 and 2023, Lee Anderson expensed £7,620 on London hotels, £2,700 on rent and £2,044 on 'stationery and printing'. He thinks poor people are too wasteful with their money, when their tax pays his expenses theipsa.org.uk/mp-staffing-b…
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if there's one thing that's sure to de-escalate the situation, it's Britain shooting down a Russian plane
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a reminder that if you work in tech - or even if you don't and just have something you think people should know about - my email and phone number is in my bio, confidentiality and anonymity assured.
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labour and the conservatives should be so opposed that an MP cannot swap between them at a moment's notice imo
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At least Elon Musk didn’t do something really antisemitic like mispronounce Jeffrey Epstein’s name or put down a wreath
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"The BBC must be impartial about politicians helping companies pump sewage into the ocean"
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Thank you Gavin! I’m glad the government is finally having a say on what portraits students can or cannot have on their walls.
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the reason the Conservatives feel confident in raising the cost of living and attacking the poorest of the poor is because they do not fear someone like Jeremy Corbyn taking power any more
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It would take 26,305 months - or over two thousand years - of Netflix to be able to afford the average UK home
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personally I'm very excited that the guy who used Twitter to call Vernon Unsworth a paedophile without any evidence is now running the platform
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