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Ronnie Blakey
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Scottish and bald
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The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I see exasperated Sensible Moderates complaining that this government has no project, no theory of what it’s doing and no good ideas. I suggest this is because we have for a very long time been hugely rewarding politicians whose key skill is telling *lobby journalists* what they wanted to hear.
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Me: (Just a regular ordinary lawyer, and definitely not a crackpot pursuing a wacky personal jihad) The gender wars
November 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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REPORTER: Can you clarify the timeline of when the suspect was granted asylum?

KASH PATEL: I believe Kristi Noem put that out, and that's a DHS matter and I'll refer it to them
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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As noted elsewhere: is somebody going to ask Michael Gove about this, or should we chuck it on top of the big pile of things Michael Gove doesn’t get asked about
November 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.

She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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there's one in every friend group

Wondermark #1360; Set the Calendar to Shuffle
November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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This shows you that it doesn’t matter what’s actually happening: what matters is what’s on the radio when people drive to work. And this government is surely the disastrously disproven test case for the proposition “the British press can be appeased via crackdowns and authoritarianism”.
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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It is IMO not possible to operate any kind of meaningful democracy when your national press is a joke and a travesty, but your mileage on that may vary. I think it’s incontestable that it is impossible to govern well and effectively, while being in hock to these pantomime clowns.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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‘You, Boy!
Go and racially abuse everybody you meet
…but not in a hurtful or insulting way!’
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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A cultural piece from me for a change.

I went to the "immersive light show" at Edinburgh Castle. It was tacky and offensive. Why are we perverting our historic sites for the consumption of (mostly) American tourists?

www.thenational.scot/news/2564683...
This 'immersive light show' is offensive to Scotland's history
A cartoon lion stands at the entrance of Scotland's most important historic military site.
www.thenational.scot
November 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Lucky enough to have been able to read this ahead of publication (Feb 26). It is extraordinary, one of his very best works.
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Every one of these posts makes me giggle at the very serious pundits who say BlueSky is in a bubble
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office."
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons.

share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
share.google
November 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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August 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Taking after The Ol' Man!
November 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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With all the noise being made about the US/Russia peace plan the admin is trying to foist on Ukraine, it’s important to understand why the full-court press is happening right now. Why Orban is attempting to speak for the EU…
Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM