Good news, everyone!

And, you know, there’s a book, Settlers - very tough book, folks, very powerful - talks about who really owns the land. And if you look at Greenland, Denmark didn’t build it, okay? I don’t see a lot of Danes there. I see ice, I see minerals - very important, very valuable. But maybe, folks, maybe it’s not about who takes it, maybe it’s about who it already belongs to. Very interesting. We should think about that.

lmao comrades, I got fired but they're asking me to go along with the story that I chose to resign because it'd make my boss look bad

I had shingles like 8 years ago, dear god, fucking awful experience

I’m a silly simple person and I’ve rediscovered Andy Rehfeldt’s cover versions from years ago that still make me giggle - for example, the Smooth Jazz version Lamb of God’s “Set To Fail”

I know I’m gonna get fired this week, I’m torn between the stress of a job search and relief that I’m leaving a truly toxic environment. Fucking exhausting.

The really fun bit is that it was San Francisco challenging the EPA in court for this

Professor Anthony King, Chair of War Studies at the University of Exeter - 1:12:30 - Jeremy Vine Show

Just heard a guest on the UK’s biggest radio station (BBC Radio 2), during mid-afternoon programming, making the liberal case for aligning with Trump on Ukraine and that the war is unwinnable, even with US support. The UK and Europe should adopt a “polite” version of Trump’s foreign policy. No pushback at all from the interviewer - even soft endorsement of it.

Misread that as “cites Rogan” for a second

Sum Of All Fears movie adaptation but not masterminded by an Austrian with a hidden swastika watch

You were only supposed to blow the bloody Nordstream!

I brought up internationalisation concerns in an architecture review meeting recently and a senior engineer at my company told me “oh AI will solve all translation problems for UIs in 5 years, we physically won’t need to build that”

So I’m at this very important, very powerful dinner at The Whitehouse, and this guy - total egghead, glasses, weak handshake - he starts going on about ‘Britain Woods economics.’ And I say - excuse me? Britain Woods? Sounds like a golf course. Sounds like a very nice course, maybe not the best, not Augusta, but nice. And Mr. Egghead says ‘No, sir, it’s Bretton Woods, post-war, global financial system,’ and I go, no no no - you’re not fooling me. You’re talking about Tiger. Because who dominated the global economy? Tiger Woods. You see it, folks? Before Tiger, golf was small, sad - then boom, global empire, China, India, everywhere. Sleepy Joe had a weak, weak swing and a terrible economy - Kamala was out there - FORE! FORE! But we're fixing it, we're bringing it back, like Tiger on the comeback, like ‘05 Masters, chip shot on 16, just rolling, rolling - boom, greatest shot, greatest comeback

You reminded me of this lovely Tony Benn bit from back in the day

there is no final victory, there is no final defeat

Lmfao, the legend returns

Excellent thread comrade

In case you (or anyone else) hadn't seen it, here's the great EyupLovely calling McSweeney about Keith getting someone pregnant