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BUT WHO RADICALISED WHO?

The Unsubscriber’s Tale Part Two

There's not a lot to thank Musk for - certainly not anything he's done on purpose - but the fact that some interesting writers have retreated from Twitter to Substack is one.

This excellent piece from Aaronovitch questioning the right's shibboleth that they've been radicalised by woke liberals is well worth a read because I think many people realise it's true, but not many could make the case as well as he does.

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The World's Smartest Man Doesn't Want You to Read This on Twitter

Let this sink in.

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One of the things I keep coming back to regarding Republican reaction to Trump’s indictment (or in Trump terms, “indication” I guess?) is that he hushed these stories of sleeping with porn stars because he thought that moral Republicans would object. This wasn’t an action aimed at Democrats.

But the fact is that most of them didn’t care which suggests that Trump overestimated the morality of Republicans. Considering Trump is effectively a moral nihilist and Republicans love to think of themselves as the moral majority, I find that interesting.

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Saturn Devouring His Son enjoyers rise

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i liked that video of a pig blowing bubbles but i thought i'd like it more if it played the amen break during it

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So 'balance' on the BBC now means not telling the truth about wildlife destruction in case it upsets people on the right, and sports presenters not having opinions in case it upsets people on the right. Cool.

Fine for the Chair of the BBC to facilitate a loan to the sitting Prime Minister for some reason. Weird.

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ChatGPT likes Dark Side of the Moon.

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Scaffolding

Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding;

Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.

And yet all this comes down when the job’s done Showing off walls of sure and solid stone.

So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be Old bridges breaking between you and me

Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall Confident that we have built our wall.

Seamus Heaney

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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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I don't think I'm ever going to top this.

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It's definitely not the only factor, but I'd say I'm 50-60% happier now I don't check Twitter every day.

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My question for the government on removing certain workers's right to strike is: this is a valuable right you're removing from people, how are you going to recompense those it affects above and beyond the current pay dispute?

[rolloroberson]

George Harrison and Paul McCartney harmonizing during the recording of the Beatles’ Octopus’s Garden at Abbey Road studios in 1969. Photographed by Linda McCartney.

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Alan Sugar on making The Apprentice: ‘If I was a candidate, I’d win every time’

‘I’m actually polite and sensitive in the boardroom. But that doesn’t make good telly. So the monkeys at the TV company pick the moments whe

Could be because you’re the judge?

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Nurses’ union ‘could accept 10% pay rise’

RCN leader Pat Cullen says 19% demand is just a ‘starting point’ and calls on government to meet it ‘halfway’

How embarrassing that the nurses have had to say publicly they'd accept 10% when, if the government had negotiated with them, they could have taken credit for talking them down