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Continuity Corbyn hipster analyst. He/him

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
Tweet by Robert Peston @peston Shabana Mumund is one of the outstanding politicians of this generation. She is admired across the political spectrum.
Miliband's promotion of radical net-zero policies has earned him enemies among some trade unions. With Sharon Graham, General Secretary of Unite, saying his appointment to the Treasury would be a noose around job creation in Britain.
In a series of messages with CBS News, the administrator of the HAYI Telegram channel, writing in American-inflected English, justified the attacks using Christian and Jewish philosophical references while omitting the Islamic nasheeds (chants) and theology typical of jihadist media. Analysts also noted a total absence of Persian in the group's communications, despite its alleged alignment with Tehran. Shortly after being questioned by journalists about the group's structure and funding, the Telegram administrator deleted their account.[35]
Header for a Times article by John Maier. How to tame AI's soul? hire a philosopher Find minds are employed to ensure Claude and GPT share our values the stakes are high.
MP Financial Interest Luke Akehurst (Labour - North Durham) Original Source (4th August 2024) 2. (a) Support linked to an MP but received by a local party organisation or indirectly via a central party organisation Name of donor: Daniel Neidle Address of donor: private Amount of donation or nature and value if donation in kind: £2,000 for election campaigning Donor status: individual (Registered 23 July 2024)
Space Exploration Technologies Corp NASDAQ: SPCX Trading at $152.17 dollars down by 35.9 (-19.10%) over the past five days. Includes a graph showing the trajectory of the share price in its fall.
Picture of Kier Starmer with Ursula von der Leyen with the caption "we are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day"
Plenty of the grievances that animate Gen-Z socialists do stem from real issues. Inflation has been too high, rent in the big cities is now often unaffordable and AI could upend the labour market. Dismissing these worries would be foolish. Yet Gen-Z socialism is wrong about how to fix the problems of capitalism. It must be resisted, because it is a profound threat to prosperity.
Polling summary: 45% of Britain say they would support an immigration scenario whereby no more new migrants were admitted, and large numbers of recent migrants were required to leave. But what do they mean by that? Support/Oppose General lower numbers: 63/32 No new migrants, some existing migrants leave: 45/44 One in, one out: 42/37 No new migrants, existing ones stay: 32/37 Current immigration levels: 22/63 Increase in migration: 12/76 NB: Have tried to summarize best I can.
Photo of a PC screen showing a Google trends search for Cole Allen with a spike at the current date and one on the 20th March.
FRED Graph 1980-2025 Full time weekly median earnings, 1982-1984 CPI adjusted dollars. Starts at 330, drops to around 310 in the early 80s then back up to 330 in late 80s then drops to 310 again in the 90s before shooting up to 340 around 2000. It then stays relatively static until 2015 after which it shoots up to 390 before dropping in 2020 then recovering post COVID
A photo of the first model of BMW X5, a dull SUV
Guy at townhall meme, a guy in a blue shirt and a heavy brown jacket with a pamphlet in his pocket standing up about to speak.
Screenshot of Daily Telegraph article: Con Coughlin Iran is on the brink of collapse. The regime that has terrorised its people for nearly five decades is being destroyed. It's no time for the world leaders to lose their nerve.
Telegram screenshot 🇮🇷❌🇺🇸— Tasnim news agency has released a list of offices and infrastructure run by top US companies with Israeli links whose technology has been used for military applications, describing them as “Iran’s new targets”. As the scope of the regional war expands to infrastructure war, the scope of Iran’s legitimate targets expands it said. －The companies include Google, Microsoft, Palantir, IBM, Nvidia and Oracle, and the listed offices and infrastructure for cloud-based services are located in multiple Israeli cities, as well as in some Gulf countries. @SimurghRes
Claude code wiped our production database with a terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions, homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
Poster with a picture of a newborn baby being held. Corner: Just say no Main text: She needs a maternity unit NOT an alternative voting system. Say NO to spending £250million on AV Our country can't afford it. NO to AV
Bluesky thread Andromeda of Mara you keep saying that but ppl on Native Bsky have been talking about you and your shit for awhile I didn’t dig anywhere. you keep claiming it like a shield because you think if this is targeted then the content is irrelevant to me your just another racist white man Will Stancil look, I'm going to bed, but if you actually cared about anti-Native prejudice I think you might be more reluctant to invent bogus accusations to use as a political cudgel against liberals you dislike
Astronaut meme So it was all insider trading? Always has been
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility deployed decorum to mask agenda's cruelty"
Andrew Gwynne set to stand down as MP, clearing way for Andy Burnham The MP for Gorton and Denton in the northwest was sacked as health minister over a... [rest is hidden]
Times Letter: Cutting family ties Sir, I was very pleased to read Sarah Ditum's article on estrangement ("Stick with family, whatever it says online", comment, Dec 24). I am a relationship and family therapist and have witnessed a rapidly increasing number of young adults cutting ties with parents, siblings and often their entire families. We seem to be living in a culture where it is acceptable to go "no contact" with one's parents. There are support groups on Reddit and Tik Tok where heartless attitudes and often cruel behaviour towards parents are actively encouraged. Going "no contact" can apparently be viewed as an act of heroism and a sign of independence, while parents are left devastated and heartbroken. I am an estranged mother of five years. I worry that we are rapidly moving towards a society of self-absorbed and entitled individuals who have no time, affection or care for their parents. The notion of family seems to have been utterly devalued by some online influencers who are shaping young people's attitudes in a detrimental way. Alexis Pfeiffer Psychotherapist, relationship and family counsellor, London NW7
Spectator headline: Nigel Jones - The teenage Farage story misses the point Subtitle: All schoolboys were once obsessed with Hitler 9 December 2025
Screenshot from Instagram of a two masted wooden sailing ship. $998,000 Brigantine Pirate Ship
Post by @adambienkov.bsky.social All the supposedly progressive people saying 'Nigel Farage's racism doesn't matter. His fans love it'. It matters whether the leader of the party leading all the opinion polls is an outright racist. It matters if he called black people 'wogs' and said 'gas them' to Jews. Not everything is a game
Poster with text: I don't know who needs to hear this, but it was President Joe Biden who secured the release of 140 hostages in Gaza. Trump? Just 28. That means Biden was responsible for 83% of all the hostages freed. - Yet you'd never know it from the way the media talks. If anyone deserves the title of "peace president" it's #46 - not the guy bombing fishing boats in international waters and sending masked agents to terrorize Americans. @chrisdjackson occupy democrats
I've joined the conservatives, no it's not a joke let me explain A sharp leftward turn in politics has put us in debt crisis. One party has a chance to reclaim the sane centre
Bsky thread Occam's advisor: Yup Jamie: Please can we hear some of your controversial thoughts Occam's advisor: not on command Hidden rude post Jamie: did you know and it's true this, Ron Jeremy can cum on command Jamie: I'd like to change this to come on command. cum is the stuff. come is the act
Cover of the Smashing Pumpkins Album adore. Mysterious goth girl on the right hand side, "Adore" in the bottom left corner.
After 1957, the USSR built 2.2 million units every year. Due to the institution of basic housing rent,[3] rent only made up about 5% of a family's monthly budget,[4] although in Moscow, the average family only spent 3% of their budget on rent.[5]
Graph of Turkey's per capita PPP GDP (Current $) 1990-2024. Line starts at around 8k remains static around 1990-2005 then rises slowing down around 2020 before accelerating again to around $47k.
Dr Hibbert from the Simpsons lamenting another broccoli related death.
Tweet from me: "Lindsay Hoyle is both extremely weird and a genocide apologist (at a minimum)" Quoting another tweet from me: "Lindsay Hoyle is still a waste of space" As a bonus to alt text readers that tweet quoted another tweet: "Lying is fine, but heaven forbid you wear chinos. What a waste of space Lindsay Hoyle is."
Ms Harris said that she and her husband,Doug Emhoff, had tuned out the news for months after she left office, joking that she was "just not into self mutilation.";She said that she had watched cooking shows instead.
Tweet from @PippaCrerar Earlier today, Richard Hughes, chair of the OBR, got to the heart of a significant problem with British politics, which is that politicians don’t feel able to be honest about what is achievable. “The UK public finances are in an unsustainable position in the long run. The UK cannot afford the array of promises that it has made to the public,” he said. We have an ageing population and a creaking public realm, plus the climate crisis. Yet despite these long-term challenges, for too long people have been led to believe they can have it all.
NHS Ended junior doctor strikes, helping to cut NHS waiting lists in London. Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth across London. Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited this year, supporting NHS services across London. Set out his long-term plan to rebuild our NHS for good and transform services across London over the next 10 years. Transport Ended train strikes in London, delivering for passengers. Launched new legislation to bring the UK's railways back into public ownership which will improve rail services across London.
Here's the log of real median family income (I use a log so that equal proportional changes are equal in height) since 1947: [Graph showing family incomes rising quickly until about 1975 after which they rise more slowly] The first half of this figure is, according to Reinhart the era of financial repression. It's also as you can see, the era of the great post-war boom. Surely one's response to this history should be "Yay financial repression!"
Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, told them that the data showed the reforms were popular with voters, that Labour MPs should toughen up, and the government was pressing ahead regardless - according to multiple sources.
Article Screenshot Headline:"Revealed: Labour's financial woes as party unable to balance books this year" By: Luke O'Reilly and Tom Belger Picture: Keir Starmer with his wife at a Labour Conference
Satpal Ram is a British man who was charged and convicted of killing Clarke Pearce in Birmingham, England during a fight in 1986. His case has drawn some controversy due to alleged mistreatment by the courts and the British prison system due to his racial background.[1] Release Satpal Ram was released from Blantyre House Prison on parole in June 2002. His initial release, as recommended by the parole board in 2000, was overturned by the Home Secretary at the time, Jack Straw. His release in 2002 resulted from a European Court of Human Rights ruling which stated that government executives such as the Home Secretary had no right to overrule a decision of a parole board.[6]
Old Labour billboard with a picture of Gordon Brown and the words "Not flash,just Gordon"
Skeet from @cookedazuredemon.bsky.social: Are you a bot or a MI5
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In the report, Greenpeace argues that investments not just in oil and gas but also in renewables and green hydrogen in Morocco and Egypt “often perpetuate unfair resource exploitation, with wealth and benefits flowing to the Global North – while contributing little to local economies.” Green energy projects in Morocco and Egypt are it claimed “more about securing Europe’s energy needs than genuinely supporting sustainable development and a just transition in the Global South.”
Twitter screenshot by me:This must be the flimsiest crushing majority ever, it's going to just dissappear next election.
Which, of course, is as it should be. While there are a lot of reasons that many people find the 26-year-old alleged assassin sympathetic, you can’t just gun a CEO down outside a hotel in Manhattan and face no consequences for it. And Mangione, who is, by all accounts, an extremely smart guy with an Ivy League education, should really have known better. He should have known that if he wanted to murder someone – and get away with it – there were far more socially acceptable ways of doing so. Mangione could, for example, have got a well-paid job as a management consultant and helped supercharge the country’s opioid epidemic; chances are he would have faced little more than a slap on the wrist. He could have gone to Gaza and shot some Palestinian children in the head – in which case, not only would he probably face no consequences whatsoever, US lawmakers would probably go out of their way to shield him from accountability. And, of course, Mangione could have gone into the health insurance industry himself, and routinely denied life-saving care to desperate people in order to boost profits. That type of violence is perfectly fine.
Graph showing trends in support for "populist right" parties in 2014 and 2024. General trends UK/US Men: Rising, stronger support among older men, but also early 20s men. UK/US Women: Unchanged, rising with age EU Men: Rising generally, but falling with age. Eu Women: Rising, with peak support around age 40.
A hand holding a German Lebkuchen.
Requirements x86 architecture: For the 80x86 version at least a 386 processor is required, but a 486 is recommended. The Mac OS X version requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, with the developer tools installed. PowerPC architecture: Any PowerPC processor will do. 16 MB of RAM is required. The Mac OS classic version is expected to work System 7.5.3 and later. The Mac OS X version requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later (can compile for 10.2.8 or later), with the developer tools installed. On other operating systems Free Pascal runs on any system that can run the operating system. ARM architecture 16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any ARM Linux installation. Sparc architecture 16 MB of RAM is required. Runs on any Sparc Linux installation (solaris is experimental).
Screenshot from C64 game Midnight Resistance, human player is facing a tank against a city backdrop.
Screenshot of the BlueSky roast: The Space Yak: A Lament for the Left, One Post at a Time Sailing through the turbulent waters of politics with a side of tea cozy banter. "A heady mix of insightful socio-political commentary and ad-hoc musings that occasionally veer into absurdity.
Chart of Russian Ruble vs US Dollar for the last month. Ruble dropped by about 10% between 12th November and now.
Opinion: Ignore the online CV truth is. If anything, Rachel Reeves is over qualified to be UK Chancellor. -Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian
Married
Screenshot of BlueSky profile for Kemi Badenoch.