The "remake Game of Thrones Season 8" petition is laughable if you see it as organized whiny fan entitlement, sure, but tbh I think it's not that deep: more that a throwaway joke went viral and tapped into a widespread dissatisfaction

The fundamental themes of ASOIAF, as I understood it, were a critique of epic fantasy's most popular trope: the chosen one who triumphs and brings about the return of the king.

MMT has always been about centering inflation risk in the federal budgeting process. If you're not rigorously evaluating major legislation (tax or spending) for inflation risk (and mitigating that risk preemptively), you're not implementing policy in accordance with MMT. Start

The perfect website is html files ftp’d to a server and cached by a CDN. The more you stray from this ideal, the worse it is

dudes, i might be insane but i swear i just reloaded a post and saw a retweeet go away and the already tiny number of likes go down. lol i should go to bed soon. this site is wild.

i really did not think i was important enough to be downranked, but i guess i made a list somewhere. 😂

Folks, birthright citizenship isn't just some interpretation of a few weirdly phrased passages in the 14th Amendment. We had birthright citizenship BEFORE the 14th Amendment. It's actually one of the oldest and most fundamental principles of American law. 1/

Now we're back to 30% wind, expect Neil to not mention energy for another few months.

The argument for courtyard blocks: >Young families require a big house with a yard. >Courtyard blocks supply young families with a big house with a yard without sacrificing density and commercial integration. >We should build courtyard blocks to make cities family friendly.

The irony of this sweatshirt is that you can’t buy it because gofundme is trademarked by the company that profits from commercialized medicine lmao fuck us

3️⃣Companies can charge sky-high prices for scarce fossil fuels. But you can’t do that with abundant wind, solar, or water—nothing stops a competitor setting up nearby. Gov should fix this market failure with a big tax on oil/gas profits. Instead, they’re doing the opposite....

periodic reminder that when financiers say software engineers should "be in it for love and not just for money" it's because they want to pay you less

A lovely thing happened out of the blue today - Miriam Margolyes phoned me to say how much she loved my memoir - she must have saved my number from when we did Vag Mons about twenty years ago - anyway it’s 99p on kindle til 6th of Jan - my pleasure

🎉 It's our 18th birthday today... and we have SOME NEWS #AnswerMeThis

🧵 Think it’s important to say loudly that there was never a media/political cover up of Pakistani grooming gangs. What we actually had was a media/political culture of indifference and disinterest in vulnerable & socially marginalized children being raped & abused by anyone. >

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR? Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

Something strange is happening in Chiswick. A lot of the people who I was told don’t and won’t cycle appear to be cycling when safe infrastructure has been installed. 🤗

sean thomas knox They have noticed that you're a rapey* wanker† yes. * wrote a novel to tell your side of being taken to court for rape by a partner: archive.is/S985D † proudly thanked Boris Johnson for your seminal publication on wanking yourself into hospital: archive.is/20230818094747…

Labour cutting disability benefit when literally TEN DUDES could cover the cost without even noticing it. WE NEED POLITICIANS WHO WILL TAKE ON THE SUPER RICH

Hi Beer52.com ❤🇺🇦 why are you making me listen to a fucking endless ad spiel before I can cancel my subscription? Do you want me to get you blocked by my bank? You want the credit rating ding?