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STARSTRUCK SEASON 2 FUCK YES!

Love spending a load of time writing a detailed complaint to the Housing Ombudsman about my housing association making me live with a sudden (totally wrong) £2,700 bill hanging over my head for 6-8 weeks, plus literally ignoring formal complaints, only to check reviews of the Ombudsman itself..

Yes, ha ha ha, yes!

RFK talks about autistic and Arabic people the exact same way. He assumes they are not capable of ordinary or extraordinary achievements because of who they are. He considers them sub-human because they are not like him. This makes it plain that his is a white supremacist eugenicist project.

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

1. Lol at this post getting the intolerance flag. 2. There's always a CXG song.

"You may find yourself posting a US map divided into regions by the number of Cheesecake Factory locations, coloured by their vote in the 2024 election, with Jeb Bush, his head replaced by a Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake, enraptured by the result, and you may ask yourself, how did I get here?"

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

If only they'd held up little cardboard signs saying they opposed genocide.

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

Alongside the ambient stuff that's harder to avoid, whenever I see/hear about people using a fire, especially indoors, incense, gas hobs (though that's more NOx) etc., I really wonder if they realise how terrible it is for your health. Inhaling smoke is bad for you, even with no tobacco involved.

University of Nottingham, right now, is cutting 560 jobs. Do we need to rebrand universities as very large, very clean, land-based oil rigs to get government support?

This morning, I wrote for @wired.com on how the games industry can no longer afford to chase the extremes of AAA dev, especially when it comes to the human costs in terms of layoffs. This afternoon, EA closed one of its biggest studios. Thoughts to all at BioWare now facing a brutal job market.

I remember the first time I flew (mid/late 20s I think?), and the moment where we actually took off I had to suppress the urge to go "woah!!!' out loud.

Today's decision by Labour to approve new drilling in the North Sea is climate vandalism. It's a betrayal of all of our futures, and Labour has abandoned all credibility in the fight against climate change. This is a victory for Shell over the people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

lol

And he won! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

imagine every Labour representative was asked to answer for their policy of deliberately harming trans patients in the same way Green representatives have been bombarded with questions about Israel this week

Andy Burnham’s government has ordered the NHS in England to deliberately harm trans people

Utter bigotry, which Labour, including Andy Burnham, is unfortunately absolutely fine with.

labour mp clarifies: yes, trans people must be banned from hospitals

Roses are red. Tires are flammable...

He can do no wrong

Wait, that result was in *Blortles*?

"Democrat voters"

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: What Women Want for Tax Purposes

With the customer obviously being played by Olivia Colman.

Amber Ruffin on Dropout yessssssss.

Yet again, Labour showing itself to be the single most racist and hostile anti-asylum government in living memory. It can take decades, if ever, for refugees to be safe returning to countries they fled, and that's when those countries are stable which Syria is not www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As someone who was in a vaccine trial in the UK, I remember them having to redo the whole consent process to add some totally publicly available information to the documents, yet somehow the University of Southern Denmark, Guinea-Bissau’s government, and others involved in this claim this is fine..

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

Average British columnist

Fine, I'll call the Texas FBC field office.