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You have to wonder whether Putin had any influence over the Starlink ‘slowdown’.

A little more news about a demented US president scrabbling around to steal a little more wealth. How pathetic to see someone too dim to be capable of recognizing the idea of “enough”. As it is, billionaires all make being disgustingly rich sound merely, well, disgusting.

It’s Trumphog Day in Iran and Netenyahog Day in Gaza. They probably don’t feel that different.

So how did Trump’s minions fix up the sudden flood of immigrants from Morocco into Spain?

If only, rather than “artificial intelligence “ they had chosen to call it “imitation intelligence “!

America is a gentleman and doesn’t keep its word. With apologies and thanks to GK Chesterton

Happiness is significantly enhanced by being too lazy to “have a lifestyle”.

Interesting thatAI translations seem to be even more inaccurate than older translation apps.

International trade -an adult speaks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bgU...

Just listening to reporting on Trump’s latest brain farts, only to realise that there is a single underlying message - America’s word is no longer good.

🔥 Despite Reform’s surge, the overall swing in local elections in the East of England region was towards the broad left. Don’t let the media noise fool you. The right didn’t advance - it fragmented. Here’s how...

VE Day. Appropriate remembrance, or "Let's make war glamorous again"?

things you won't hear much in the immigration debate: it's already fallen (see Sunder's thread) + OBR assumes net immigration 350,000ish for its forecasts so we should be discussing 'why the economy needs this many people, who should they be, & if you want fewer what does that do to growth'

The Internet Archive backing up Web pages and digitising public domain material is great. Inventing their own digital lending library and rules, offering current, copyright work to anyone for free without writers' consent or payment like legitimate libraries is not. That's what landed them in court.

Trump as pope was entirely predictable. If only we had a handy Borgia to deal with him as a handy snack before lunch.

Apparently, Bill Gates's daughter has let slip that he has Asperger's Syndrome. Sorry, Bill. Did you think it wasn't blindingly obvious? And it's not as though it's anything to be ashamed of in any case.

Is Hegseth actually a Trump love child?

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

So that's how they did it! Second grader economics! It's time the rest of us stopped financing the US National Debt and enabling America's greedy and unsustainable lifestyle! www.ft.com/content/e025...

Good one!

When America sneezes, the rest of the world just says “Just wear a mask, you asshole!”

If we in Europe are moving ourselves away from the US and all that goes with it, could we make reCAPTCHA high on the list of things that we will just have to do without?

Disrespectful to Greenlanders not to wear a suit.

Congratulations to Greenland’s new government and Premier-elect Jens-Frederik Nielsen. You deserve partners who respect you and treat you as equals. And the European Union is proud to be such a partner for you.

Dear America, If you didn't decide to be an ugly country, why did you choose a gang of monsters to be your rulers?

Trump administration: Send in the clowns! Don’t bother - they’re here.

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This is incredibly stupid by Meta. As a result, Careless People is now a bestseller in the US and while I may have read it anyways, Meta's clumsy attempts at censorship left me with no choice but to order a copy. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Note to whoever writes those "I'm not a robot" tests. I'm British, so I don't know what a fire hydrant is. Nor am I familiar with a crosswalk. Time to get over the idea that you people still speak English. You speak American and it is NOT the same.

Message for those currently rampaging through the US administration: Any stupid dumbfuck can move fast and break things. It takes a team that is both hard-working and clever to make things in the first place.

Zelenskyy is a man of bravery and integrity - who the free world looks up to. Which explains why Trump & Vance cannot stand his presence.

It's my understanding the current administration was humiliated by its betters today, an observation that will be evergreen for the next three years, ten months

I have just been listening to the Oval Office public hazing session for Zelenskyy. Does King Felon the First not realize what an a**hole he sounds like?

George Monbiot is being very naughty this morning. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump may or may not live out his term of office but the damage he has done to his country’s reputation already will take decades to fix.

Dear America, Once you have chosen King Felon the First as your new ruler, how do you think the succession will flow? Not a great choice, is there?

I have just been listening to BBC reporting of Israeli-Hamas negotiations. Everyone seems to possess endless amounts of shock, horror and fury. No one seems even to have heard of compassion, except a couple of hostage families. It’s no wonder there is zero chance of any kind of peaceful solution.

I was right. Trump is getting played by everyone. Russia played him, then Zelenskyy baited him… … and now he’s increasingly isolated. Video —> vm.tiktok.com/ZNd1TkXa1/

Time for a caricature of Putin showing orange stains on the buttocks?

Why do we in Europe still tolerate American military bases on our territory? We wouldn't tolerate Russian military bases, and America is no more a friendly nation than Russia.

Valentine message from Europe to the US: Roses are red. Violets are blue. We know we got problems. The answer ain't you!

Zelenskyy and his staff are still drafting a response to the Trumpery “peace” proposals. The “off” is pretty firm now, but the other word is still up for grabs.