All together now...

There are always a lot of folks around politics whose genuine desire to help blinds them to how counterproductive their contributions are. Knowing you're imperfect isn't enough to know the ways in which you're overconfident in your convictions. Conviction is no guide for insight. Quite the opposite.

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

The parade of these clippings from Prof Roberts is borderline hysterical. This is exactly the devil’s bargain with meaningless hierarchical celebrity that television routinely demands. Clunky slips aside, I like Rylan as a presenter, but I wish we’d notice how fucking weird it is.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

This poll in The Times is still open.

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This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Stinky tofu
Guardians of the Galaxy
Chelsea Dagger

We got maybe half an hour into it and realised we just didn't care

Cruelty is their entire point.

Thanks to vaccines measles was essentially completely under control decades ago.
Now, thanks to a culture that sees scientific illiteracy as a badge of honour and has let smug new-agers hand rebelliousness over to the far right, we're back to the 1930's.
It's basically cultural child abuse.

Also... Stopping folks watching things isn't their purpose.

You realize Moore was absolutely right about the infantile nature of the exercise of trying to distil life-lessons from Superhero stuff. Even worse when people do it with his stuff and utter despair when it's Thiel.

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.

antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one

i suspect that, as is usually the way with these things, this will increase the value of these particular watches. As opposed to the regular ones, which I suspect will be almost valueless after they've counted the first few minutes beyond Donny Fartpant's presidency.

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Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

Nigel Farage will only eat tampons with meat in them.

Two greenish-hued comets are swinging through the inner solar system this fall, offering a rare chance to spot them in the coming weeks.

He's posh, though, so he'll be fine.
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