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In an era where the tech industry’s promises of innovation and disruption are increasingly scrutinised, Conservative politicians' continued advocacy for the “Netflix model” seems more and more vapid, writes
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Of all pseudo-progressive discourses, this genre of “traffic calming and bike lanes are oppressive to working class SUV owners of colour :( :( :(“ is by far the most obnoxious example. It’s just fetishizing class aesthetics.
In the 20th century the factory was the site of the most intense class conflict. In the 21st century it is the automobile, writes Michael Lind.
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The thing with "if voting changed things they'd ban it" is that historically it WAS banned for most people and it was an extremely long and hard fight to expand the franchise
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The article itself is a pretty nuanced look at a long-term polyamorous relationship but I’m just gone at the photo choice that makes it look like this lady keeps her partners in a terrarium
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Related, I think an awful lot of left-wing ire for the YIMBY cause is stuff like this, that a bunch of young centrist professionals have done more in a few years to change housing policy and discourse than decades of traditional leftist organizations and non-profits managed.
BREAKING: Toronto City Council has voted 18-7 to end single-family only exclusionary zoning, allowing duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes in all residential areas of the city. They become the largest city in North America to do so.
📍Toronto 🇨🇦
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Between these Noel Clarke allegations and what’s been said about John Barrowman’s behaviour it’s not a surprise Eccleston wanted off DW in 2005 is it
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The wealthier you are, the more likely you are to own and drive a car. That’s extremely obvious if you think about it for more than ten second but everyone just ignores that and makes shit up because cycling to work is seen as something only middle class hipsters do
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The family of Yaroslav Hunka is in hiding in the wake of a political firestorm tied to his service with a Nazi unit in the Second World War, according to a family friend.
That same friend says the family didn't know Parliament would honour Hunka.
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And the poorer you are, more likely you are to get run over or get respiratory diseases linked to air pollution, or be reliant on public transport to get anywhere. Wouldn’t know that by the way middle class journos talk about urban planning!
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The real problem with "the BBC/Channel 4 should work like Netflix" is that Netflix is massively unprofitable and always will be.
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Suddenly leaving your job hosting a prime time morning show with a nothing more than a "Poochie died on the way back to his home planet" announcement on your Instagram story is not what happens when you've simply fallen out with your co-host
Phillip Schofield has stepped down from his role presenting ITV's This Morning after rumours his relationship with his colleagues had broken down.
@mattfrei
reports.
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Eric Feigl-Ding is a scaremongering, attention whoring grifter who is eventually going to get banned for misinformation and a lot of important people who know better will pretend they never followed or retweeted him.
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Really underrated how the modern conspiracist far right is just a massive protection racket for grifters and rapists.
The person who posted this "low stakes conspiracy theory" on Reddit 8 months ago is probably having an interesting day.
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@IHateNYT
@sam_d_1995
Why do people think high school bully tactics make them look like the progressive ones
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Thinking morosely rn about how Deep Space Nine, a show that premiered 27 years ago this year, remains the high watermark in sci fi television for addressing and saying something productive about race
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@BeijingPalmer
Bit odd to see someone with a filipino flag in their title talk about Japan as the victims of the conflict
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Potentially bad-taste take: don’t be surprised if at some point in the next few months, Trudeau very suddenly calls a press conference and resigns.
BREAKING - Justin Trudeau and Sophie Grégoire Trudeau have separated, according to a post she made on Instagram
#cdnpoli
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If the implication is that the Sun almost drove the most senior news reporter on British TV to suicide with a false accusation that they didn’t bother to check then this makes the phone hacking scandal look like a typo in the church newsletter
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Starting to think now that SAGE members who brief to the press scary stuff about future lockdowns et al should just be fired. If someone at the MoD leaked to try and bounce the government into a foreign policy decision this wouldn't be a discussion.
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Historical leaders who had a worse first two months in office than Liz Truss:
- William Henry Harrison
- Lady Jane Grey
- Karl Donitz
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lol
Simply amazing.
After months of a Koch-funded, climate-denying, carbrained, right-winged freakout over "15 minute walkable cities," support for 15 minute walkable cities is ...
... above 75%.
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Professors putting their own publications on the syllabus
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@MisterRatt
@PerthshireMags
Hey remember that time Nadia Whitthome was fired as a carer for at for talking about how there was a PPE shortage at her care home, one which they later admitted was entirely true?
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@lefttwick
My understanding is that this crisis is happening now because loads of people bought these wildly unsuitable dogs from illegal puppy farms during lockdown
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@SzMarsupial
Always got the impression that both both sides of this argument massively overstate how common and prominent kink is at most pride parades anyway
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@jasebyjason
I remember Liz Truss did this by talking about how she went to school in Leeds.
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Have been thinking a lot lately about how one of the biggest social and cultural sea changes of the last 10-20 years is bullying becoming far less tolerated and acceptable
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I think a big part of the rise of transphobia in Britain is a whole generation of older feminists and activists who had little engagement in activism who were thus caught flat footed by MeToo and had nothing to say about it, and are trying reassert leadership over the movement
Considering all the endless advice women are given to prevent rape, if it worked we would have ended rape by now.
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@BallouxFrancois
Basically in the next few months/year an awful lot of left wing and liberal people are going to pretend they never cheer-leaded all the mission creep and authoritarianism that led to this
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The bit in Past Tense where they point out that Jadzia is treated way better in 21st century Earth than Sisko or Bashir because she's an alien who looks like a white woman is the most subversive and cutting thing Star Trek has said about science fiction maybe ever
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The salty left-NIMBYs have found this tweet lol
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@GGutgurgle
We should also be building a lot more dense housing in cities to allow a greater number of people to live near where they work, agreed
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Very historic, but Yousaf winning 52-48 with the entire party establishment and most of the cabinet and MSPs behind you, with your opponent being literally Kate Forbes, that’s a pisspoor result
Humza Yousaf is elected leader of the SNP, and is set to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's first minister
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One of the biggest undercurrents of conservatism going forward is going to be “it should be illegal for my kids to cut me off”
But nothing is a bigger factor in family strife over politics than woke brainwashing on campuses. I heard story after story about kids who no longer speak to their parents after going away to college.
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@MenshevikM
I think an issue with Bernie Sanders becoming president is that the most consequential thing a president does is appoint lots of people and Sanders kept hiring people like Gray here
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Inflation is in double digits and half the country is going to be in fuel poverty in four months
Government Pledges Single-Sex Toilets Across Whitehall By 2025
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a lot of (lets be honest, white and male) people are very myopic about what their vote means and ignore that they and people like them never had to struggle to get a ballot
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We can talk about America's civil rights movement and apartheid but most indigenous people in Canada only got the right to vote in 1960.
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Imagine being one of the actual historical black pharaohs and being told that in 3000 years filmmakers would rather make something about the Greek who lost the whole kingdom to a bunch of Italians.
From Executive Producer
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comes a new docuseries exploring the lives of iconic African queens.
QUEEN CLEOPATRA follows the story of Cleopatra, one of the world’s most famous and misunderstood woman.
QUEEN CLEOPATRA is available to stream May 10 only on Netflix
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@ElonMusgraves
Underrated how a massive undercurrent of conservative politics going forward will be “it should be illegal for my kids to cut me off”
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@agraybee
Angela Davis thinks that prisons are bad, unless they are build to hold political dissidents, in which case they are fine
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@revhowardarson
Don’t normally think it’s good to question other people’s claim to being queer but when you make it as personal at Nair has your obvious stolen valour is fair game IMO
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Seeing a lot of comparisons between Liz Truss and Kim Campbell and I think they’re very unfair.
Kim Campbell led in the polls for two months before everything fell apart.
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@kw_stapleton_
@M1zzzaa
Most political tiktok a blur into one for me: superior, borderline manic delivery combined with the creeping realisation that at least 50% of what’s being said is untrue
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Guys I don’t think this is funny anymore
The 19-year-old passenger "wasn't very up for it" and felt "terrified" about the trip to explore the Titanic wreckage, his aunt said
He ended up going because he was eager to please his dad, who was passionate about the lore of the ship, she said
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The commentary about the double standards about the reaction to Ukraine vs. treatment of wars/crises outside the West is a repeat of the discourse re Missing White Woman syndrome, where we always end up implying its the victim's fault for being pretty, white and dead
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@charles_kinbote
@jpbrammer
I especially liked when someone said therapy had been good for them and she replied "um well you can't make sweeping judgements about the entire field based solely on your own personal experience" without a hint of irony
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Also she only did that one famous Panorama interview. Doing a big American-style international press tour dilutes whatever you have to say and makes you look extremely cynical
This why Diana is GOATed anyway, she practically called for Charles to be removed from the line of success when she did her panorama interview. Didn’t hold back, gave us haunting gothic imagery with her black eyeliner and pained facial expressions. Best to ever do it
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There’ve been stories for AGES about how Trudeau has become completely demoralized and disengaged with the job, plus how badly last week’s reshuffle went down with his own party, it does all feel like someone on his way out
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@PostLeftWatch
I remember reading years ago some writer saying that Bill Maher isn’t a liberal, he just hates people from Texas.
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@BeijingPalmer
The death penalty is wrong for at least six different reasons but defence attorneys don’t make a terribly compelling case against it IMO
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Controversial opinion as a layman not in America: Nate Silver has had a better pandemic overall than most of America's public health establishment
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@merovingians
There’s something bleakly poetic about how any actual 21st century revolution would be dismissed by people who claim to want one as a CIA op
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These people all think that they would’ve been heroic ACT UP activists during the AIDS crisis, when they would’ve been the people peddling conspiracies about antiretrovirals.
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I keep coming back to how it is in no way a coincidence that the satanic panic scares of the eighties almost perfectly coincide with the early emergence of allegations of systemic child sex abuse in the Catholic Church and other major denominations
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@erinotoole
Feel like this might be a remotely convincing argument if you hadn't spent the last week openly embracing the Hilliers and Sloans of the world.
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@BeijingPalmer
every day the war in Japan was prolonged was another day Japan was raping and slaughtering the Philippines, and many other nations too
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Past Tense, Far Beyond the Stars and Badda-Bing Badda-Bang feel like the writer(s) actually sat down and talked to black people about their experiences in sci-fi. The fact that this is even remarkable says fucking reams about the science fiction as a whole and none of it good.
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@rev_avocado
I think younger conservatives being more vulgar and violent is directly linked to there being less of them and less accepted by their peers than with older conservatives
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@lefttwick
My least favourite bit of Glass Onion was when Janelle Monae turned to the camera and said “I’m a socialist but a slightly different kind of socialist to you” and then voted for Elizabeth Warren.
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The more I think about it, it’s incredibly gratifying to learn that Dawn Foster cut so deep that it’s still eating Giles Coren alive years later.
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Netflix lost five billion dollars last year, Amazon and Disney Plus are loss leaders for massive conglomerates. TV streaming doesn't make money and it never will.
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@BeijingPalmer
I think Buttigieg, as a gay overachiever, also reflects how it’s no longer fashionable to be homophobic or shove nerds into lockers.
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Shame Britian's libel laws are so skewed in favour of wealthy wrong-doers.
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It’s always funny how Americans talk about podcasts, unaware that video never killed the radio star in Britain, and epically because my mum literally did a thing on BBC radio that would’ve be done as a podcast in the States a couple of weeks back
The company behind "Pod Save America" is starting a British version of the popular liberal show. The first episode of "Pod Save the UK," which will be hosted by Coco Khan and Nish Kumar, is set to arrive on May 4.
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@DPJHodges
Not sure how what he’s saying translates to giving succour to Donald Trump, unless saying Corbyn was useless was giving succour to the Tories somehow
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@merovingians
Very weird to see this sort of “after Trump, our turn” stuff when thag strategy totally failed the first time when Sanders couldn’t get over the line in 2020
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@RufusSG
There's an article I can't find now where the writer observed that a lot of moralistic opposition to stuff like contraception and vaping is about the fear that a big society-level problem can be solved without people having to change behaviour.
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How much of a dilettante do you have to be do read a report about how the Met police are full of rapists and racists and decide it’s about trans people and “gender ideology”
@mrjamesob
Seriously, that's your takeaway from today's report? You could just as easily argue that the "confected outrage about rainbow helmets" has been justified: revelations about the deep misogyny in the Met raises serious questions about the influence of gender ideology on the force
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@gayest_tone
Okay so we’ve shifted the goalposts from an amorphous group of ideologically aligned people “liberals” to the Democratic leadership, a specific small group of people.
Not going to defend the latter
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That stuff like this is serious public policy is just evidence of how corrosive all the myths of Silicon Valley are out in the real world.
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Is it possible to underestimate this guy? I keep thinking Elizabeth Warren's line about moderate politicians, how she didn't understand why someone goes all the trouble of getting into politics just to talk about what we can't and shouldn't do.
"Silly" to give more support on energy bills now, says Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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The t-shirt isn’t the hate crime or personal attack some Tory posters are making it out to be but I always cringe a bit when actual elected Labour politicians do this
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While everyone salivates over a certain forthcoming mugshot, let’s all remember that Mugshots. Stay. Online. Forever. and that actually ruins regular people’s lives—people who are presumed innocent. Signed, an exhausted public defender.
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Also this attempt to reassert leadership and discredit younger, pro-trans feminists is also a reaction to how MeToo outed so many of the friends, colleagues and employees of this generation of feminists as sexual predators.
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The ONDP’s comms team are cooking but nothing will ever top this
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Picard’s speech at Dr. Crusher’s retirement party
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Very telling that people like this are nostalgic for the bit of the pandemic when everyone was banned from leaving the house and thousands of people were dying of a untreatable disease with no vaccine
remembering the halcyon early days of the pandemic. there was a brief moment where everyone was motivated to do their part in getting it under control. people were caring, kind, considerate.
we had a real opportunity there to create a real social change for the better…
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That’ll be her answer to every pensioner who can’t afford to heat their homes this winter too
Starmer is 60 and Truss is 47.
She should answer every PMQ with ‘Ok Boomer’.
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@IHateNYT
@sam_d_1995
Like what’s the play here, yeah Sam looks a bit gawky in his profile pic. Sorry it’s no longer socially acceptable to shove nerds into lockers
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@BeijingPalmer
Remember that viral tweet asking what topics and stances are totally accepted IRL but almost taboo to support on here?
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She’s literally eighty and the people wanting $600 are senate republicans but hey, got a lot of retweets
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@MaxKashevsky
I think we forget what insane stunt-casting Eccleston and Piper must’ve felt like in 2005.
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@L0m3z
“Karen” went from “useful shorthand for a very specific type of awful person” to “lol women amirite”
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Hey remember when British Airways paid for national hero Sir Tom Moore and his family to do an all-inclusive holiday in Barbados in the middle of the pandemic and while he was there he got covid and fucking died
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That Atlantic article about King Charles is very funny, you're expecting it to just be American liberal sneering and instead it's just incredibly racist
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The future of the monarchy is going to be interesting because Prince William currently gets an *very* easy ride from the press that he absolutely won't get as Prince of Wales, let alone as King, and he comes out with abhorrent crap like this quite a lot.
#ICYMI
: Prince William said it's rather normal to see war and bloodshed in Africa and Asia but not Europe, during a visit to the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in London today. "It's very alien to see this in Europe. We are all behind you," he told the volunteers there.
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@leftistlitwick
You can’t explain the 2008 and 2016 elections without knowing that in the ‘08 primaries Obama ran on taking on the big banks and agriculture monopolies and then for the most part… didn’t
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If Nora “Canada shouldn’t have gone to war with the Nazis” Loreto thinks Oliva Chow��s housing plan is bad, then we’re on the right track guys
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