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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 3h

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Like its not unusual for perfectly ordinary latinos to have german surnames we are not all living in a weird nazi colony down south

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Its also meaningless i have german latin american ancestry and i have 0 connections to germany in general

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Its sad to be so lonely that you can only have a relationship with someone else via a financial bond and i think its a common occurance among men sadly

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

If you are reading this i am not talking about you but its not uncommon as a woman online for lonely guys to try to give you money if youd just be their friend and its rly sad tbh

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

A friend dated a cam girl for a while like ten years ago and the thing she mentioned that I wasn’t expecting was how much of her job wasn’t sex work but talking to lonely guys, so this isn’t particularly surprising to me.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 2d

The latest from Young Men Research Initiative: Young men are increasingly using OnlyFans to have someone to talk to

open.substack.com/pub/youngmen...

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Gales needy ass genuinely does not come anywhere near lazel saying shes attracted to your MUSK....all timer line

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 1d

People keep telling me the UK is so over and they're going to move to Dubai and, like, fine. Go on then. Would you like directions to the airport?

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 1d

You definitely shouldn't move to Dubai, writes V&A director Tristram Hunt on.ft.com/46MfW1t

Don’t move to Dubai — this is still the place to be

[FREE TO READ] Better to buy the dip and celebrate the UK as an enduring cultural behemoth

on.ft.com

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Gale: please give me a completely easily findable magic item or i will die and also destroy the world around me

Me: uh ok i guess

Gale: wow. Nobody has ever been this kind to me ever. Is this...is this true love?

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Gale is a crazy person who falls in love with you because you basically go sure i will give you a 20 pounds so you explode and kill everyone around you

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

They also dont care what shape the opposition to him takes because fuck it its far away

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

Just the ugliest most garrish solar panels youd ever seen

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 1d

I do wonder if some leader should do the right thing for the planet and propose to call a big field of solar panels trumps golden fields and just insist that if he embraced solar hed be known as a golden god

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

This is also what gordon brown used to say in the 00s

Sky News @news.sky.com · 2d

BREAKING: Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome
trib.al/9dnbz9X

Hamas official thanks Donald Trump for peace deal but warns Tony Blair not welcome

Dr Basem Naim also said Hamas would step aside to allow a Palestinian body to govern a post-war Gaza.

trib.al

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

But also like even shakespeare stole ideas who cares...i understand the argument that theres a lot of mid to bad books out there but that has always been the case. Arguably even agatha christie are mid books that made incredibly big

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

See idk i dont see any actual difference between this and another mid sff book? The fact it originally started as a fanfic doesnt make it worse to me than if it had begun life as a writing class exercise

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 2d

This is the correct take, by the way. Why I have come around to some form of a wealth tax is not because I fantasise that it can pay for the government programs I want (it won’t) or moral disgust at wealth (don’t care), but because of very rich people using their money to warp the body politic

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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Christoph Harig @charig.bsky.social · 2d

Just because someone isn't Trump, doesn't mean they are the last hope for liberal democracy

Yes, Machado does lead the opposition against an authoritarian leader

But to temper your excitement: she also just spoke at Spain's far-right party VOX conference alongside Orbán, Kickl, and Milei...

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

Its so funny diane abbott basically just wrote up a solution to labours immigration and security issues (spend more) and the labour right instead of copying it with the right vibe just decides to use ai to turn immigranrs to data or something

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

You can very easily fold the two together with just a bit of skill e.g:

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

I think you are right but i also think calling being annoyed at the bully derranged just plain wrong

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

I dont think its derranged! Its stupid but its not like we are out of proportion. He knows hes gonna get a rise out of the people hes scoffing about with the worlds dumbest arguments

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

(I probably shouldnt bc its a waste of time. But its not derranged to be annoyed at guy who writes columns to annoy people like me)

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

I dont think i am derranged for responding fuck you at someone flipping me off across the street

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah..hes got that john major gray man tea he was elected to make politics boring again. Having an exciting communications team would come across unauthentic or just like create a direct opponent

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Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 2d

Also tbh in the parties resemble their leader, have you ever seen keir starmer making an excitable case for anything?

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