The political class did learn one thing from Iraq, and it's that the massive, domestic consent-manufacturing blitz was a waste of everyone's time and effort. No one is going to stop you. No one is going to arrest you after. No one is going to take your career away. Why bother?

Peace is not a utopian ideal. #Peace is a humble path made up of daily actions, and is woven with patience, courage, listening, and action. Today more than ever, peace requires our vigilant and creative presence.

This is, unironically, one of the greatest songs ever made and quite possibly the greatest pop song ever created

EU strategic autonomy is howling like a hit dog every time Trump makes clear he doesn't particularly care about Ukraine, while not actually making any moves away from America, and then crawling back when it's time to defend Israel's inalienable right to do genocidal war crimes

“isn’t it crazy that cults went away” babe they’re online. they’re metastasized. people are walking around with cults in their mind.

ICE is stacked with politically radicalized young men who are quasi religiously devoted to the President They're consistently being given more power, and have shown 0 respect for federal law They're a ticking nuclear bomb in government

i was in the toy aisle with my nephew and saw a teddy bear that tells ai bedtime stories

Wouldn't it be possible to use that 16bn for the government to actually build houses themselves? You could sell at a fair price which would make it a self-sustaining process. Certainly better than essentially giving grants and loans to the private sector which is what this is?

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’” aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/17…

Lack of agency - people feeling the government isn’t in control drives the sense of malaise and desire for something different - HS2, or lack of, typifies it for lots of people. “We can’t even finish a train line” comes up often in groups as eg of what’s wrong with Britain.

Going to be very funny when, in 2400, groups of Central Asians and Siberians moving westwards join with Caucasians moving north from Syunik to form a new ethno-religious group along the Volga that ultimately populates much of Eurasia.

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

In a Balochistan desert cave there is a ISIS soldier reading Adam Smith

The Democratic Party is run by nihilists.

don't play with me...

If you're such a fan of Danny Boyle, how do you explain your tweets from 2019 accusing the man of being "washed"? We've also found no record at your home or online that you've seen the film Trance. What do you expect us to make of all this?

There has never been a better time to watch this video

Never touch this shit. It's cognitive heroin. It will ruin your ability to think, write, read. If this stuff keeps going we're going to have a deeply stratified society of people who rely on AI to think and those who don't and it won't be pretty.