Masky McMaskface

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!!!

There’s a particular kind of national exhaustion that comes from being repeatedly told that the obvious isn’t real.

Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?

All the warnings about border chaos were called ‘Project Fear’ during the Brexit referendum campaign.

You. Just. Announced. A. Blockade. Yesterday.

Trump says his life was better before he became president. Dude, everyone's lives were better before you became president!

it's wild to live in a timeline where the Pope says absolutely normal stuff that I've heard in Church since I was a little girl, and people are like "this new Pope is so woke."

BREAKING NEWS: The Angry old man on my street took down all 3 of his Trump flags this afternoon. This is in the top 5 best days of my life.

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside. She couldn’t afford her bill. This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America. The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box. Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success. Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix. Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths. There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name. The first man’s country has the higher GDP. The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon. MAGA America calls that losing. Ask anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

"I'm just contemplating the fact that one moron, one psychotic moron, one capricious idiot, has completely bollocksed up the global economy not only to the detriment of his own people, but the detriment of the planet. ... It's like how much more of this can the planet take?"

it’s almost as if many hungarians voted for the guy they don’t totally agree with to keep an absolute lunatic out of power. hmmm what a concept

No One Knows What Is Causing This Coughing Sickness Thing Where You Get All Hot And It Even Seems That People Can Pass It From One Person To Another

💯💯💯💯

I genuinely don’t know how these people got all the way to the referendum without putting their tongue in a toaster.

“The Pope is weak on crime” is a top 5 dumbest thing any world leader has ever said.

Increasingly, the claim 'we voted for Brexit' is misleading, at best. Take my son & elder daughter, 27 & 24, they didn't get a vote in the 2016 Referendum. Their gran & grandad did, but as is the way with these things, they are both dead. How many more years to be asked again?

Thank you America. You went first. You showed the rest of us that right wing populists are full of shit, achieve nothing and will drag nations into the abyss. Your example might have saved Europe from a dangerous shift. Good luck in November, my friends! 🫡 You got this.

Isn’t it just magnificent? With the snap of a finger, the moment he lost the election, Orban instantly became completely unnecessary to his former "friends." Trump didn’t say a single word about the crushing defeat of his favorite whom he and his administration had been effectively campaigning for just days earlier and ignored all questions from journalists. In the Kremlin, it’s even better: they pivoted in mid-air in an instant, and suddenly Orban was never really their friend. And Hungary, it turns out, had "always been unfriendly" all along. He’s no longer needed, and off he goes to the scrap heap.

I will no longer say things can’t get dumber because obviously the universe interpreted that as a dare.