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my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The New Racism is just as serious in its potential impact as the old, but it is far, far, far, FAR more stupid. 'The calibre of racist has gone sharply downhill' sounds like it should be the start of a joke, but it is also: just demonstrably true!

Recipe comments are actually good sometimes (on www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/smok...).

I’ve met a few racists over the years who seem to love saying London is dangerous or “they don’t recognise the place anymore” and all of them were so fucking obnoxious I thought of stabbing them so they could finally be happy

Decades of hard-won progress erased in a few short years by a handful of politicians & newspaper editors who figured that non-stop screeching about asylum seekers and trans people was the only way to maintain electoral consent for perma-austerity while every part of the state visibly rots.

It must be galling to people working in sweets development that the pioneers of chocolate bars basically got it bang on with their first gos.

Blood sugar monitoring. I’ve gone from having to prick my finger and pit the blood in a detector ~4-6 times/day to constant, accurate results from a sensor I apply 1/fortnight.

Royal family must have been so confused that Meghan wanted to cut off a close relative for simply being a nonce

Arguing with libertarans on Something Awful’s Laissez’ Faire in 2008 proved this for me. Well yes you have a set of axioms that ‘prove’ seatbelt laws are violence, but they also ‘prove’ that so is being required to feed your kids. Rigorous, logical, meaningless and self-indulgent debate.

ANDY BURNHAM: say hi to our new campaign to reduce noise on public transport, HEADPHONE IT IN!!! ... 6,789 replies later ... no I'm not saying that, I just think it would be a good idea to know where your nearest fallout bunker is

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

Hey, isn’t it weird that no mainstream media outlet has really engaged meaningfully with the revelation that centre right groups with close political links were not that far away from conducting a mass public execution and they’re neither remorseful or even slightly regretful of it. Anyway

It has a submarine!?!??! Guillotine.

Here's a photo of a helicopter landed on Joanne's 227 foot support yacht that follows around her 290 foot main yacht

It has come to my attention that many people are unaware that the person who figured out that the private key was 4 was a Something Awful forums goon: forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.p...

22nd of Owltober! It's Chewbacca in Owl form. Perth Wildlife Hospital posted this Australian Boobook with the caption "The look I give the vet nurse before I receive medication for my eye ulcerations." Want to donate to PWH? www.pwh.org.au/donate/ Source: fb.com/432678804735... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

The same disastrous policies, but timed so they get less bad publicity. This government really thinks we are mugs.

The invincible airplane

On this day in 2017, I went to BBC TVC to collect my auction lot from the big sell off. And there I met the BBC2 idents of my youth. Star struck.

asking politicians if they denounce the brotherhood of nod

Yuzu Kato ‘Borrowing from the Tiger’s Majesty’.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

i am honestly just so sick of everything being run by the biggest fucking losers in the history of time

One of the many things I love about El-Sayed is that he's willing to engage with someone hostile if it gets them to admit the premises behind that hostility, to the extent that it becomes impossible to avoid the underlying bigotry. You want to go there, fine, but he's gonna make you own it.

by Haruka Kawakami

Transphobe: I just respect biology and science Also Transphobe: Humans were invented in 499,998,000BCE By John Human when he wanted to make a chimp worry about mortgages

I’m thrilled to announce three new professorships in compressed air thruster ethics, compressed air thruster policy, and social impact of compressed air thrusters. we are also headhunting a Vice Provost of Thrust

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

Developed in the last years of the Second Committee, the Everest pattern now known as the Sagarmatha experienced some of the bloodiest infighting ever witnessed in Union's history. Both SecComm loyalists and revolutionary forces fielded countless variants in fratricidal struggle.

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

once again reminded how the designer of the furby sincerely believes they are alive radiolab.org/podcast/more...

The whole Arday scandal and the reaction to it makes perfect sense when you assume that, for those responsible, the death of a young black person of some modest prominence and influence was a good outcome, they're glad it happened, and would like to do it again.

Proud of Trump for canceling the livestream execution. Now the condemned prisoner can be blapped to the max with dignity and respect.