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It's gonna be AI Trump as Slim Pickens riding the bomb isnt it

Living with the grim certainty that nuclear Armageddon will be preceded by an X, The Everything App™ video montage post featuring clips from Oppenheimer, Class of Nuke 'em High, Dr Strangelove and the All Your Base/Set Up The Bomb meme from Zero Wing.

From Mulder and Scully to Marge and Homer: your favourite TV couples Slow-burn office crushes that left you weeping, sitcoms that made you fall in love and vampire shows that changed you for ever: Guardian readers pick their ultimate television romances

Bravo Mark Hardy from Leamington Spa for nominating Margo and Jerry www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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It was the time that this guy was all over Twitter

Trump's catchphrase was literally "You're fired" and he cant even deliver it anymore

We have 5% VAT on our energy bills (which millions struggle to pay) but 0% on flying - for those that can afford holidays abroad (as well as energy bills).

It’s absurd.

Flying is a tax free zone, no fuel duty, no VAT and actual duty free shopping as a perk - it doesn’t pay its way, it’s a subsidy for the better off. Five million people live in poverty in our country, half of us never fly - we need to get real about this.

Journalists

I'm old enough to remember Labour telling us repeatedly that we need economic growth because without it, they wont be able to do anything else. Now they tell us that anti-growth immigration policies are needed for the same reason

The media's thirst for "blunt truth-tellers" pointing their fire at Democrats and a complete absence of any appetite for the equivalent on the Republican side would be laughable if it wasn't so consequential. NO ONE is asking for Rahm Emanuel except people writing columns or running Third Way

Side note, but it is still striking how little Reform actually look like the rest of Britain in basically any polling and yet their base is treated as quintessentially authentic.

In Defense of Effeminate Boys If anyone had suggested that I might really be a girl, I don’t know how I would have responded. By Ben Appel

If medical authorities have a rigorous way of distinguishing effeminate boys from transgender kids—or of distinguishing transgender kids from proto-gay kids—they aren’t saying. I have met a number of detransitioned gay men who tried to live as women for a time because they and their families were so averse to homosexuality. According to a 2019 report in The Times of London, staffers at Britain’s foremost gender-identity clinic joked darkly that, as a result of the facility’s work, “there would be no gay people left.” A statement last month by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons noted that there is no validated way to assess whether a child’s gender distress will persist over time or disappear without medical intervention. A lack of good research and recordkeeping means that we may never know how many patients who would have been considered effeminate gay boys not so long ago have undergone medical treatments for gender dysphoria.

Absolute trash. The author did not speak to a single medical professional and the article does not contain a shred of evidence that effeminate gay boys are being bamboozled into thinking they're trans.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

[first day undercover] Can you speak up I’m wearing a wire

Breakfast cereal going back to it anti-masturbation roots

This illustrates exactly why we shouldn’t be adjusting policy based on these forecasts. They aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

What's the most number of MPs a party has lost in a general election?

It seems increasingly unlikely that humanity will survive Boomers clinging to power.

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

Titles that begin "What really happened..." are like those that start "Whisper it..." in that what follows can be reliably dismissed as horse shit

Barbaric behaviour to deal with an imagined problem, that's what this government now stands for.

Rapid escalation in already high Muslims as 'the enemy within' rhetoric on both sides of the Atlantic. Vile and dangerous

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen.

Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

"Seize the immigration narrative from Reform" is simultaneously the saddest, dumbest and funniest political strategy I've ever heard

This will amount to a significant hit to GDP growth and a potential staffing crisis in the NHS and care work sector – with zero political credit, because the goalposts have been shifted away from "net migration" to *all* migration.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal

Take two seven year olds in a primary school in the Prime Minister’s constituency.

His Dad is a banker
Her Mum is the cleaner at that bank

Is the Government’s Ipoproposal that richer child gets permanent status at age 10 while in primary school & working class classmate not until they are 22?

If Reform had won, Labour's statement would be that this result is a stark reminder we need to listen and learn from voters who rightly feel betrayed by modern politics.

But the Greens won by a comfortable margin, so it's: these voters are stupid and also sinister and, ugh, Muslims

That such politicians believe that they are the ‘serious’ ones is tragicomic.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started