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The sad thing about anti-Biden Democrats is that they will, in the main, be isolated from Trump's most draconian policies. It's definitely a pulling the ladder up behind you type of deal.

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Southgate continuing to win in the face of armchair managers demanding he get fired is filling by heart with joy.

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It's me, I'm the guy who is screenshotting your skeets to pass to others without clicking Like. Your hate empowers me.

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Let them fight

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Except this guy. Streeting is a shit

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What is with Labour putting competent experts in charge of things. That's not how it's done in this country.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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By far the weirdest thing that has happened to us since moving to the UK is discovering that Nando's is not some shitty fast food joint but it's in fact a proper restaurant with good food. We went in as a joke, but were shocked with the high quality food and bottomless drinks.

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Is their non-existence of those candidates actually confirmed anywhere? I'd seen lots of investigations, but no conclusions.

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The Tory version of aid for the developing world
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/07...

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From the shirtless bears my skyline sends me, I'm not sure their algo can detect that little amount of exposed skin. They're basically wearing fursuits.

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The meeting where website designers decided that "the newsletter" was going to come back in such a big way that it should take over the whole screen after 30 seconds, was fucked

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It's the Observer, not the Guardian. They're just published in the same place.

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I like that The Guardian printed a rebuffing piece. It's gotta be weird as a Graun games journo seeing hang-wringing stuff in the Observer alongside your actual considered games writing. www.theguardian.com/games/articl...

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Tony Blair is back in the news having fucking terrible opinions. This is the dark side of a Labour victory. Is it too early to pine for the Tories? To a time when he fucked off back under a rock?

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Same reason movies are funnier with someone else I imagine. We're social creatures

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The best the Highlands get is a Tory in sheep's clothing. They deserve better than this.

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Woah. France. Yes

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Sickos.jpg

www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

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Has predictive text got worse or is it men?

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Reform just picked up a fifth. A little cat turd on the Friday evening

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Labour wins by a landslide Youth voters vote Lib Dem / Greens / Independents Yeah, First Past the Post ain't going anywhere

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Second Coming? I like it

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Reform: 4 Seats Greens: 4 Seats So I imagine media coverage will be entirely equal between the two parties, right?

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Poole went Labour by 18 votes. Voting. It's good for you.

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Diane Abbott fought through all of the Labour toxicity to take her seat with 60% of the vote. Maybe she should've done a Corbyn and run as an Independent, because that's not a Labour seat, it's an Abbott seat. Oh to be blessed with the strength of character and will of that woman.

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Remember, for all Labour's crowing about their new way and their changing the party for the better - they got fewer votes than Corbyn did in either election. Corbyn represented a Labour with values people could get behind. Starmer represents "not-Tories" which is no basis of government.

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Rees-Mogg gone is something I'm not seeing enough shit about. A cancer at the heart of UK politics has been excised.

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Our Green candidate, Iris Duane, did incredibly well in Glasgow North, coming in third and hoovering up more votes than almost all below her combined. She had one of the best showings of the Greens in the whole of Scotland with a fantastic result that paves the way for a lot more in the future!

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Sekiro is just Dance Dance Revolution for Kurosawa nerds. Which is why it's great

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Labour took Hendon from the Tories by 15 votes. Turns out voting is cool and good.

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I know. I don't think that's your actual ballot man, come on

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I see you put an X in the reform box 🤔

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Democracy done. Got to meet our lovely candidate outside too. Going to savour this small window of happiness before the clouds roll in again

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Nice that Starmer campaigned for Labour leadership with the promise of electoral reform, but now he's in a position to win with FPTP he thinks it's the right system that gives us strong governments. What a shit.

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This was the future we gave up. When they let our parents on the internet, we lost it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvT...

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My main true hope is that Corbyn takes Islington North. I'm happy to be voting for the Green Party today, but wishing I was able to vote for Corbyn daan saaf.

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Sadly, 5 more years of "not tories" will still be 5 more years of "yeah, but kinda like tories anyway really".

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Today is the last day of Tory rule. Wild.

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I can only imagine the people who don't like the Dawntrail story have never had a friend who just wanted to talk because "they've been going through some shit". Sometimes it's not about you, ya know. Sometimes you have to be there for someone else.

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Hashtag Bathlife. I'm sure the gulls have seats on the council. They run that place.

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America deciding it's actually a monarchy is certainly an interesting way to go through a Monday afternoon

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America. What a joke of a country.

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Sylvaneth on the shelf this edition

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One of the best parts of the masterpiece that is Nuts in May, is when the farmer thinks they're idiots for buying unpasteurised milk.

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America's issue is that votes don't change things, money does. And to get enough money to change things in America, you have to be an utter bastard.

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I bought three different types of mixed nuts packs and combined them all thinking I would make some sort of ultimate nut snack. Instead I just have a load of almonds that taste like dust.

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The MiniDisc community will not be silenced

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Bluesky's Discover algorithm is so strange. This week it decided I must be incredibly into CD and Vinyl collecting and had been fire hosing those accounts at me. There's so much on that topic that it made the feed useless.

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Grandpa Joe, cinemas greatest villain

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So the New York Times doesn't want the convicted criminal out of the race? Okay, yeah, they're a legit voice for sure.

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