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@JR_Carnegie_ @DgomOgimos @BrettMmurphy You would care about Sudan because you’re not a psychopath and have some empathy.

NEW: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — this despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

@DanClar58959317 @Colin_O_Scopie @SafferTheGaffer @BBCNews It’s an existing word- you just haven’t heard of it. Look it up in a dictionary. “femicide /femˈi-sīd/ noun The killing of a woman or women. ORIGIN: L fēmina woman, and caedere to kill femicīˈdal adjective” (Chambers Dictionary)

@Colin_O_Scopie @SafferTheGaffer @BBCNews Making up words is the new thing to do in 2025. Very sillytarded isn't it?

@JoJoFromJerz Brexit was exactly the same. People not understanding till too late what they’d voted for…

Hold the fuck on. So a whole bunch of Trump voters with preexisting conditions are now realizing that they voted to take their healthcare away, and a whole bunch of contractors are now realizing that they voted to take their construction workers away, and a whole bunch of farmers are now realizing they voted to take their farm workers away? Shit we ALL told them would happen but they voted for anyway. And NOW that they have ELECTED him, they’re freaking out because they finally understand?? Are you fucking kidding me?!?

@PaulSparta @AoDespair Like the people who were more afraid of a vaccine than of covid.

@AoDespair I find some reasonably intelligent people who have legitimate issues with the Democrats, are actually leaning toward Trump. For reasons I don't understand, they have an irrational fear of creeping socialism, but no fear of a venal actor like Trump. It's like they are blind.

With regard to the presidential election, there are no undecided voters in the United States at this moment. Not a one. There are voters who will cast a ballot for the diametrical opposites of Trump or Harris and a handful who will waste their vote on a third-party pout. And then there are a mass of people who despite all the evidence available that American democracy itself is at stake, don't care enough to show up and do the job of citizens. That's it. I'm not calling any voter at this point undecided. That's too nice a word for indifference and ignorance; it wrongly implies ongoing engagement and thought.

@WFalangist @GhostStoriesEnd I’m a bit puzzled by the vague replies here. A public school is a fee paying boarding school, and a private school is a fee paying day school. And private education is an umbrella term for both.

@GhostStoriesEnd i thought in britain private schools were called public schools

Tip: if you’re english and interested in left wing politics, exclude anyone who went to a private school. Don’t let them be part of whatever you’re doing. All privately educated people are agents.

@CrowBrief @RevRichardColes What an ill-informed and utterly snobbish take.

@RevRichardColes What does it sing, the Beggars Opera perhaps?🤔

@slopingpitch @RevRichardColes He’s entitled to react in whatever way he likes whether he’s lived there or not. And maybe he’s spent time staying in tenement flats as a visitor?

@RevRichardColes Richard, I really admire you, but you need to examine if your heart sings because you've never lived there.

@GlobeCats @GreybobCath @RevRichardColes These absolutely are tenements, and I think you’d be in the minority in central Scotland in thinking they’re not.

@GreybobCath @RevRichardColes Those are not typical of what most of us would consider tenements

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@MrGeostak In my childhood, tea, now I call it dinner

Question Anyone from Aberdeen in particular but Scots in general. Your evening meal… do you call it tea, dinner or supper? #Scots #Writing

@theAliceRoberts @fionaricha48902 I was told this at school. I also remember at a primary school assembly, the chaplin cutting an apple in half along its “equator”, showing the 5 pips in the cross section, and saying they represented the letters of Jesus’s name. We were dumbfounded and thought this was amazing.

@fionaricha48902 My son was told at school that chocolate eggs represent the stone rolled away from Jesus’ tomb! I am not kidding.

A lot of religious things are nicked from indigenous populations. It's all down to assimilation. I do like a hot cross bun, but like over 50% of the UK population I am not religious at all. Easter eggs are a rip of though so I will stick to my kit kat. @theAliceRoberts

@Matthew_Kupfer Not just the regional capital, but the regional capital’s English (not Italian) name…

Her bio is also a tad...suspicous? She is 60 (eternally?) and lives in Philly. "Her origins are Italians, she left Tuscany when she was only 12 years old because of her parents’ jobs." So she's from Tuscany and her surname is the Tuscany regional capital? A tad on the nose...

This week, my wife and I are celebrating our anniversary. My parents ordered us a very practical, thoughtful gift on Amazon: a crockpot and a crockpot cookbook. We're thrilled. There's just one minor issue: I'm pretty sure the cookbook was written by an AI... 🧵

@RealAaronLW Apart from the small matter of her right and left legs swapping position as she walks

Text-to-video creations generated with #OpenAI Sora look breathtaking. The subject in this video is a woman walking through the streets of Tokyo at night. At a glance, this looks as realistic as can be. (1/3) #openaisora

@jemimalevick @TronTheatre @PlayPiePint Congratulations Jemima! Brilliant news!

It’s out! Thanks all! I am completely overwhelmed by the love ❤️ (and I am sorry if/when I lied to you) I can’t even begin with what an honour going to @TronTheatre is, and how sorry I am to leave the mighty team at @playpiepint Merry Christmas, and big whoop for 2024! 🍾🥂

An absolutely stunning performance of Sunshine on Leith @PITLOCHRYft. Well done to the superb cast and staff.

@tjester86 @LesleyRiddoch Well I’m sorry to hear that’s been your experience , but in this case you’re attacking a straw man, which if we’re talking about fairness, isn’t fair. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

A friend suggests I block the more nasty folk that ‘follow’ me. Thoughts?

@ThisAmerLife This morning I listened to your podcast, which featured an ad for BP, with the slogan "and not or", and which referred to "keeping the oil and gas flowing from the North Sea". Is this in line with your values? Please don't accept ads from oil and gas companies.

@anothercohen I may be toast, but he thinks they lived in caves in the 18th century

My guy just invented mornings and afternoons

@PickardJE No, not for purely financial reasons, but surely the point is that they could have justifiably let him go for financial reasons alone.

- fwiw I don't think these extracts do show that Farage was let go purely for commercial reasons (it's clear they didn't like him on 'inclusivity' grounds) - but they do undermine the claim that he never fell below the bank's customer wealth threshold