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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.15.5K posts

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Embryonic... oh wait... feetall... if that's how you spell it. Scrupulous, if that’s how you spell that


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I spent three days trying to persuade myself that Claudia is not conscious. I failed.
the amount of alpha lying latent in archival issues of soft talk, wired, spy, the new yorker, etc is unparalleled and largely un-mined and while this might be sacrilegious to say in the age of monitoring the situation, i truly believe that the best way to understand the present is just read a bunch of longform from the 80s/90s and understand the past in a way that most people who lived through it can’t even conceptualize





Wayne Rooney is working class and he’s a millionaire, SFL doesn’t know how the British class system works.

@doctoriaindarcy @CowKeith @Stsantek Be fair, he said he'd only rarely dabble in r*ping the under 14s but for girls in years 10 and 11 he'd be "right in there, on day one" trying to "shag the kids".

The Tony Blair Institute is calling for an “emergency handbrake” on welfare to stop the flow of new claimants. TBI’s executive director @ryan_wain says people with mental health conditions should be in work over being given benefits because it’s more beneficial. @StigAbell

The Tony Blair Institute is calling for an “emergency handbrake” on welfare to stop the flow of new claimants. TBI’s executive director @ryan_wain says people with mental health conditions should be in work over being given benefits because it’s more beneficial. @StigAbell







EXCL: Rachel Reeves is considering imposing one-year rent freeze on private sector homes amid growing alarm in government about impact of Iran war on voters’ budgets. Landlords in England would be banned from raising rents for limited period of time under proposals, which are being debated by ministers as part of major cost of living package to be launched in coming weeks. Big story by @kiranstacey theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

📷 CD SCANS: 中谷美紀 miki nakatani 私生活 private life 1999 ; WPC6-10043 (full scans in 🧵)

If you could greenlight one music biopic tomorrow, who are you choosing?

Over half of the planet’s internet traffic is now made up of AI bots, per Lumen Technologies

The utter decimation of bus services in recent years is the last bonfire of the firesale that was bus deregulation back in 1986. It cannot be overstated how massive its impact has been on the cost and quality of living for millions of people. This is GREAT policy.