“Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in.” — Carl Sagan
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I think we should allow Trump to choose Iran’s next leader as long as the rest of us can choose America’s. Because it’s clearly far too important a job to be left in the hands of Americans.
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holding old timer bats so they can still feel like flappy lads is some real heartwarming stuff
I'm good with cats and dogs
It's pretty easy to just hang with them and play some simple games without too many rules to remember.
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Our data belongs to all of us. We need to know how the NHS deals with our data. We need the right to say no. No to sneaky data grabs and no to Palantir 👇
https://goodlaw.social/3gc7
You'd never guess he's a wrong'un..
I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it
Starmer, Shellbrooke, Taylor should be ashamed.
Desperate, they know their time as MPs is up so they're lashing out hoping to score some political points.
@greenparty.org.uk is going to replace them!
The majority of the UK is with me, no more illegal wars!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Must read from @gsamaras.bsky.social
"Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences. Every headline, every clip, every click adds weight. This is how the line gets crossed"
www.politico.eu/article/medi...
A fence with the scratched in words “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Quite bold for a yard fence in Lancashire
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It would need to be daily too. Morning edition and late edition.
The truth of the matter is that the success of British multiculturalism and the fact the majority of people are comfortable with it is a barrier to the efficacy of the divide-and-rule strategies of the right.
A long time ago
Alfie is a good lad..it's plain to see.
Kyiv.
Late evening.
Air defence is shooting down drones.
I say it like,
“The weather is fine outside, just cloudy.”
That’s what four years have done to us.
Protect peace.
Don’t let war become normal.
Green MPs Hannah Spencer, Ellie Chowns, and Carla Denyer standing in the House of Commons chamber
Hannah Spencer being sworn in as an MP
Earlier today, the new Member of Parliament for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer was sworn in.
Cushty! x
It's 'the' shitshow.
It's kind of global..
The options that the US and Israel have engineered for Iranians are increased repression from the Iranian state or full state collapse. Anyone who thinks liberation is on the other side of these bombs, I don’t know what to tell you.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
