Richard

On the upside, we are now very very close to fixing the perennial problem of "the squeezed middle" by one more economic shock simply eliminating them all together.

Well, it could be partly market rates - easier to sell when conditions improve - but also government should probably stop refusing to do good things in case newspapers who hate everything don't like it.

i'd love to know what was going on at the biden department of justice for four years

Evergreen message from the Financial Times to its readers www.ft.com/content/88c8...

sometimes i miss the secondhand paint fumes on the other site

i don't think it's that crazy it's a lot harder to use public money to build a complicated interconnected grid of rail infrastructure than it is to use private money to build a bunch of big warehouses. like i don't think it's great only one of those is possible but what i do not think it is is crazy

If Lula wins, obviously the best thing about it is that the Amazon will be protected and the heat death of planet earth won’t be accelerated. But a close second is the knowledge that Neymar will be really sad about it

Jair Bolsonaro still unsure whether to go for a celebratory trip to the hospital or a consolatory trip to the hospital

Everyone thought Lula was cooked, hopeless. Then he bought a phone and started posting and now he's gonna get a 4th term. The lesson is to never stop posting.

I remember many yrs ago one of my regular customers asked another of my regular customers "I seen you in Shields th other day with a couple of [racial slur] teenagers, what was that about that?" And the other guy replied "Do you mean my fucking grandchildren?" Never seen a man visibly shrink so fast

I think she is ready to leave the groomers.

We watched Nuremburg last night. Good film, not perfect, but very enjoyable. Rosie what the fuck are you doing?

1. And ultimately, I did think about Age of Empires II, but only so I could remember how much worse it is than the obvious best game of 1999, Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier @batariangal.eurosky.social

still crack up thinking about this

oh that's the good stuff

I don't want to be forced to disclose what I put in my burgers bc making them with rat meat is so much better for my bottom line as a small food business

The engineering behind the stunt is admittedly pretty cool, right? The fan car stuff, all that downforce. But what happened is they shitcanned an actual roadster they'd been working on for nine years in favor of what is essentially a Top Gear bit

Made Willow a coat nest on the floor of the cafe and she’s spark out 🤭

Why Matt in particular is a awful person to have so much clout with elites is because he comes at “follow the data, the vaunted data” and then just lies

They repeatedly covered Trump's appealing promises that he had no way to enact as if they were real and Trump's unappealing promises that he would have the direct authority over as if they were fake - even writing stories farcically confirming Trump's attempts to distance himself from Project2025

This vindictive targeting of career civil servants by Trump fascists precisely because they had served honorably was one of the things clearly at stake in 2024 - Trump promised it - but the media instead gave more coverage to the imaginary idea that Trump had a plan to lower prices to 2019 levels

To reverse my usual schtick, conservatives who claim to believe getting their way on immigration is an existential issue for the viability of western civilization are weirdly unwilling to pursue that goal by eschewing flagrant corruption or being more moderate on taxes & health care.

Oh no it's all going to happen

mfw Liz Truss has been round for tea

"Defence Secretary Wes Streeting has urged the public to stockpile bottled water"

Incidentally it is genuinely absolutely bugfuck insane just how obsessed Republican campaigns have become with transphobia this year given how utterly non-salient it is and I really can’t help but wonder how much of this is due to Elon Musk personally

Did you know: the truck flip in The Dark Knight was improvised! The stunt driver was “feeling a little silly” and did something he assumed would end up on the gag reel, but Nolan wasn’t paying attention that day and put it in the final edit.

That's fine, and your views are as valid as anyone, but... when you popped up to tell people that the place they live is awful, what responses were you *expecting* exactly?

"We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the bridge and the second hall. The pool is up to the wall at West Gate. The Watcher in the Water took Óin. We cannot get out. The end comes soon. We hear drums... drums in the deep. They are coming"

holy shit this is actually brilliant

"Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy says he didn't know PHP existed until yesterday morning"

always nice to meet American tourists who have not previously encountered other humans, standing in an inconvenient place at a major London railway station with no hint of awareness they might be in anybody's way

bluesky users who are triggered by finance people posting charts and going 'oof' might want to look away now. French 10ys - eeshhhh mon dieu zut alors, etc

i personally don't believe you have to smile to look stylish. for instance: IG charlie_the_griffon

This question could more accurately be phrased "Why are we asking the people who benefit most from a policy to contribute towards it?", but when you do that it looks ridiculous, especially from a Labour MP.

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The good news for progressives: the power of the right wing media has been usurped. The bad news: it's been usurped by something even worse.

Some fantastic Anti-Bedtime Left replies to all this. 10/10

“Fascism rises from desperation, a crisis of essentials” no it doesn’t. No it isn’t. It rises from guys wanting to look cool and be cruel