Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives

I've said this many times before so forgive me. But horseshoe theory is to political science what astrology is to psychology: a system uniting unrelated & different things in a way that confirms personal biases

The Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West

I spent a lot of the 2010s explaining that the anti-woke terror was the rage of old men who are going to be dead soon, knowing that when they’re gone, the blue-haired, variously-gendered kids will inherit the Earth and start chucking their most cherished bullshit into the bin. And whaddaya know?

I see you've written this article again

I can't figure out what he's supposed to be saying at the start, it sounds like "Our number one priority is protecting, erm.... and that's why-"

Money for Nothing is right

Basically two groups in Labour right now:

-soft left types starting to realise they followed the herd when they probably shouldn't have and are thinking they might have fucked it.

-Blue Labour types, grenade in one hand, pin in the other screaming that if they're going you're going with them

Poland's Wedding to the Sea - Wikipedia

In case anyone mistakes that as a joke en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland%...

Headline: Poland will eventually seek its own nuclear weapons, Tusk says. Pic of Tusk

If Poland gets the nuke it's going to marry the nuke like when it got access to the sea and it married the sea

Labour home sec Mahmood in some concentration camp for refugees wearing a something a bad guy in star wars would wear

What am I wearing to the press conference about how we're stripping human rights from the inferior races who have been undermining national unity with the help of Marxist traitors? I've got a sort of Nazi SS officer type thing, would that work? Perfect.

Everyone in the UK knows about "The Blitz Spirit" when after a few days of being bombed by the Germans, the British people gave up and realised that the Germans simply wanted to save them from a tyrannical ruler, so they rose up and overthrew Winston Churchill. The End.

You were incredibly fortunate to have never heard of him until now. Sorry for ruining that for you

Picture of a lady scientist working on some kind of pain liquid for anti-child bombs NOT ONLY SOLDIERS* The way people see us is not just defined by what we say, but also by the kind of words we use and the images we show. Today, most people think of NATO as a soldier, ready to fight. Although the military aspect of our identity is an important part of who we are, some people will find it easier to relate to other aspects of the Alliance. * For the purpose of this brand guide, “soldier” refers to all service personnel, including sailors, airmen and marines.

Blue tinted photo of Obama and Gordon Brown and others chatting at some summit or somert Text: "Our Language - how do we say the things we say" Below this is a quote ripped from Maya Angelou "People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you made them feel" ffs

It's an interesting snapshot of corporate woke, but for a nuclear-armed military alliance. It's filled with platitudes, cynical stock photo choices, and tin-eared stolen endorsements from civil rights heroes.

Picture of a lady pilot looking off into the distance thinking about empowerment Text: "Good to know Psychologist Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel prize for his work on behavioural economics. He demonstrated how 95% of the decisions we make are guided by intuition and instinct, not by rational thinking. Although we like to see ourselves as rational creatures, our emotions guide us more often than we think. If we want our communication to be effective, we have to reach the emotional and instinctive side of people (the 95%), not just the rational 5%. Interested in reading more about how intuition guides our decision-making? Key books on the topic include ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman and ‘Pre-Suasion’ by Robert Cialdini.

Blue tinted photo of Canadian soldiers in sat chatting with a couple of local kids from the country they invaded.

NATO brand guidelines (2017) happily promoting neuromarketing techniques that aim to skip the rational part of your brain and target you in your emotional limbic system

Maybe the cold, emotionless logic of mutually assured destruction made people think "if NATO were a person" they'd be a psychopath

Bryan Johnson, the man who won't live forever

After losing in court one can now safely mention that the Müller brand of milk products is owned by an AfD (Germany's officially declared "extreme right wing" party) supporting billionaire. Whose giant family relocated to Switzerland in 2003 btw, to avoid 30% inheritance tax when he passes.

The undeniable energy of a man who logs his wanks on a spreadsheet

Screengrab from the film of a video game called Hit By a Car

Watched ExistenZ at the weekend, can't believe it predicted Arma Reforger

There used to be a persistent illusion which I sometimes got in comments on this piece, that Trump was not a warmongering president. That he was going to end the USA's forever war foreign policy. I laughed at that at the time but as Trump now plots military invasion and annexation of several countries at once, its hard to see how anyone ever really believed that. Even before the assault against Venezuela and abduction of its President, Trump's foreign interventions had been violent, illegal and widespread. That's not to say that previous US presidents hadn't done the same thing, Trump's drone strikes specifically built on the extra-judicial murder program developed under Obama. Every US president since WWII has engaged in illegal military aggression, invasions, assassinations and anti-democratic coups against elected governments. This is the bread and butter of US empire. But what is especially frightening is that we now have the third US president in a row with visible signs of dementia, and this president seems to have ambitions to be president for life. So the chaos and possibility for world-altering disaster only increases. Venezuela, Iran, Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Greenland... just some of the countries in the sights of this violent and expanding empire. And the response from our lickspittle prime minister is to ask how low we should bow. -- Last year I found out the US secret service has now unveiled its own armoured golf cart to follow Trump around as he puts and potters. A wise, long-term investment since every modern president, except Carter, has been a warmongering golfer. What is it about golf, an incredibly wasteful environmental nightmare and preserve of talentless rich arseholes that makes it so appealing to presidents and CEOs? We need to ban golf until we figure out what is going on.

Golf Cart One (2018) I made this 1:12 scale model back during Trump's first presidency.

More photos: spellingmistakescostlives.com/golfcartone

Wall-to-wall bangers from the Atlantic today. A website designed specifically to turn smart people into idiots

The Hell Bus | Projects | Darren Cullen A pre-apocalyptic satirical greenwashing marketing suite on behalf of Shell

www.royaldutchhell.com

Fake Shell ad that says "we're making a future for driverless cars" next to two cars full of skeletons in a desolate wasteland.

Poster about the future of transport from the Hell Bus

Rachel Reeves is back on her bullshit again

cameraman_jim on Threads: "I’m beginning to think Keir Starmer is playing a blinder."

It's so difficult to tell the difference between a leftist shitpost and an earnest centrist

Screenshot tweet of Rubio on Fox, quote: "That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions. They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology which is an apocalyptic one."

Post from @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social "EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…"

Every accusation a confession latest

Hey, do you reckon we're tending towards fascism in this country?

Graph of Times poll 1st march 26: Reform 23% Green 21% Con 16% Labour 16% Lib dem 14%

join.greenparty.org.uk

The trans women in women's sports thing annoys the fuck out of me because trans women were first allowed to compete as women in the Olympics in 2004. This was the policy for at least 6 summer Olympics, at which not a single trans woman ever won a medal.

Steven Swinford • @Steven_S.... 2m The US accuses Britain and other allies who did not back airstrikes of 'clutching their pearls' and 'hemming and hawing about the use of force X Pete Hegseth: 'Capable partners [like Israel] are good partners unlike so many of our traditional allies who ring the hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force'

We shouldn’t be helping this proud and boastful fascist government with their catastrophic and murderous new war regardless, but the fact they are so openly contemptuous of us just underlines that we should be telling them No, regardless of what they request.