phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
@crooksontherun.bsky.social
i cook, drink coffee, play tabletop and video games. despairing Labour activist. recovering atlanticist. no, i didn't notice that fucking typo. (he/him)
Did Trump write this himself? It's unusually coherent
December 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Oh good lord. Every time I hear more about LLM AI in general and Copilot in particular, my desire increases to switch to Linux just to get the heck away from this thing
December 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦
The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this:

The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Saints preserve us
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
British Juche is certainly...a choice
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Oh, so that's what you were talking about before, with the saying of idiotic things
December 2, 2025 at 10:50 AM
James, James, James, don't you understand? Nothing is ever these people's fault.
November 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
She has a point that there was no organised welfare system as we would understand it, which is why Acts 2 describes how "All who believed were together and had all things in common; they would sell their possessions and goods and distribute the proceeds to all, as any had need."
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
They've lost 2 MPs so there's a good chance that they're already there!
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
...becoming?
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
So, by that logic, people should also join Reform?
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
In the final analysis the clinching argument for PR might be "it can't suck any harder than this"
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Oh no, he's absolutely miserable. It's written in everything he says and does.
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Okay, yes, he absolutely shouldn't have done that. But at that time of night is it as bad as having driven drunk goodness knows how far on the motorway?
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM