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If patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, then "performative pietism" is surely the panic room inside.

Imagine being a CEO of an US energy company and thinking that you work with close associates of the Trump family, only to find out that behind them is a sanctioned Russian company, really pulling the strings.

To any genetics scientists working on this and having a moral wobble: please sabotage the project by splicing in spaniel DNA so all Lucky gets is a multi billion dollar sock and cheese obsessed doggo.

Kicking the USAF out of Mildenhall, Fairford etc. would have a negative effect on the UK economy and would undermine national security - but it is a lot of leverage and what's to lose if the US is allied with Russia and pursuing illegal wars? It's time to stop being the unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Evil man-babies Trump and Elon have blood on their hands for hobbling Ukrainian air defense - they are ultimately as responsible as Putin for the death of that poor girl killed in her pushchair. I hope they spend their last years in jail.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

St. Petersburg data center down: the views of Dave from the pub who gets all his news off Facebook maybe just got 1% less toxic.

The ONLY car for navigating the collapse of American infrastructure

This is becoming very like that Mac coming out story arc in Sunny

Nonce glasses have no part to play in politics (or any other aspect of human existence)

Spot-on from Bridget Phillipson. 👏👏👏 bsky.app/profile/sund...

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

That's enough money for approximately 150 Iskander missiles. I hope those refineries burn...

- Attacking the ICC - Palling around with Russia - Broadcasting executions

I might be a little less distrustful of AI if the dudes promoting it, supporting it, insisting on it, and advocating for it weren’t the worst fucking people on the planet.

If Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk all agree that we have to slow down - and now - something serious clearly happened with a frontier AI model. Journalists should be digging in to this. We aren’t getting the whole story here.

Will gammony fuck heads please stop donating to Reform? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

MapQuest is back! Now for Ask Jeeves www.comicsands.com/mapquest-dow...

Infinity prawns and the Lovecraftian horrors of AI slop menus mashable.com/life/ai-slop...

Your periodic reminder that, however painful it may be, Europeans need to start sourcing homegrown alternatives to US tech giant products.Is TomTom still a thing? www.theverge.com/news/609772/...

None of these assholes who believe they are the vanguards of the "white master race" look like they could open a jam jar without having a tantrum. It was true of the SS and it's true of this lot too.

I think about Children of Men a lot, particularly the refugee scenes. I also think a lot about The Water Knife's internal refugees within the US after the water dries up in the West.

That very famous piece of greaser attire: the fedora.

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

Love that shady AI defense company makes tilt-rotor drones that look like Skynet designed them.

RIP to the incomparable Sam Neill

Your daily reminder (should you need it) that tech bros are a bunch of racist twats

Misidentified by LLMs - Former police officer in hiding after being falsely linked to Henry Nowak arrest www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

I'm midway through Sarah Wynn-William's amazing Careless People at the moment, the best book on leaving hateful cults I have read since Megan Phelps-Roper's Unfollow! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

I want a copy of this up in the center of my George cross festooned town www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

found a whole operation of unmanned youtube channels making completely unchecked long form slop videos where the ai voice simulacra regularly trips up & does this for a full ten minutes every time. all the very legit comments are like "NO! THATS NOT TRUE! YOU LIE HE DID NOT" & never acknowledge it.

In our meritocracy we're told if we work hard we'll succeed, but the reverse logic is if we don't succeed we haven't worked hard enough, & in that system immigrants and benefit claimants are seen as the least deserving, those who get something for nothing, driving a sense of meritocratic humiliation

The most meta brilliant thing ever would be if Riz Ahmed was the new Bond www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ap...

If Captain America ditched the suit and became Nomad in protest at Nixon, what fitting way would he protest the Trump admin? Put on a clown suit and shit himself?

All these AI Trump Jesus images and none are in mid-70s Jesus Christ Superstar get-up. Such a waste. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

How can a King Charles state visit go ahead when the president is essentially a war criminal?