Richard Barrington-Hill @bazzlad

If I'm ever killed, by anyone, ever, in any way, with any justification... I DO NOT FORGIVE THEM. DEATH PENALTY ONLY.

BBC News (World) @BBCWorld

5 days ago

US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court bbc.in/4rGHDS4

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US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court bbc.in/4rGHDS4

I don’t know exactly when I stopped being a liberal, but there were probably 400 tiny moments of me saying “that can’t possibly be true,” looking it up, and then quietly closing another browser tab like “oh for fuck’s sake”

For years I've been saying the UK tax system is out of control and very wealthy people who pay disproportionately more taxes will leave. When someone like Chris Rokos leaves the UK the money he was paying in taxes (£330M last year) falls on the shoulders of ordinary tax payers. Here's a few interesting points about this story: 1. Rokos is one of the world's best bond traders. His business is to understand how government policy impacts the economy. The fact that he's leaving the UK is a massive signal - he sees a negative outlook in the UK. He sees that we will go down the disastrous path of wealth taxes, exit taxes and become even more anti-wealth and anti-success than we already are. 2. A move like this has a lot to do with his senior team. Chris would have a dozen senior partners in his organisation that are fed up with the UK too. Each of them worth £100M+ or making £10M+ income. They would also be driving this decision. When the Greek authorities rolled out the red carpet, the London office would have talked it through as a team and decided where they wanted to be. 3. Big Whales make the headlines but this isn't one guy leaving. The news isn't covering the thousands of people leaving the UK who make £1M per year or who are taking their £10M of capital somewhere else. It certainly isn't covering the complete stop we've seen in entrepreneurs coming to the UK to invest. 4. Your idealistic feelings don't matter. Many people say "good riddance" and this is utterly foolish. We live in the real world and gleefully celebrating wealth creators leaving the economy is akin to a business celebrating their top customers taking their business elsewhere. The people leaving were not avoiding tax - if you could stay here and avoid tax then they wouldn't leave. The people leaving were paying MASSIVE amounts of tax but they got pushed too far. No one wants to pay 5-star prices for a 3-star service. You can call him "greedy" but until I see you happily paying a million a day I'll assume that all people are self interested. 5. The UK Government is genuinely broken and needs fixing. We pay more in welfare than the entire income tax collected. We let government pay 10x more for things than the private sector would allow. We have a revolving door between government and the contracting class who extract money from government. If you ran your business like the UK Government, you'd be broke in no time. Like it or not, we live in a competitive world with a hyper-mobile class of wealthy people. Each country must choose to become a destination or it will be a departure gate. Greece has shown its cards - it's playing to win and rolling out the red carpet for wealth creators. The UK is deliberately playing a strategy that is proven to lose and shouldn't act surprised when it unfolds the way it always has. ft.com/content/43efa6…

I'm not entirely sure the government knows what it's doing

They made a list. Everything on it had one thing in common: it worked. What they set out to deconstruct (destroy): Marriage – ridiculous. The father – superfluous. Motherhood – alienating. The child – a political subject to liberate. The family – a power structure. Transmission – domination. Inheritance – injustice. Truth – just another narrative. Reason – a Western construct. Science – one story among many. Beauty – violence disguised as proportions. Merit – privilege in disguise. Standards – oppression. Discipline – trauma. The nation – an invention. Borders – wounds. Faith – superstition. Manhood – toxic. Womanhood – undefinable. Childhood – a territory to open. The past – a crime scene. Reality itself – only power, all the way down. Read the list again. Not one failure on it. No one deconstructed famine, tyranny, or disease. They aimed exclusively at what held – the structures selected by centuries of trial, paid for in famines, wars, and extinct family lines. The load-bearing walls, every single one. Fifty years later, the results: collapsing birth rates, men and women who can’t stand each other, children without a compass, institutions that can’t define a woman. The deconstruction worked. Everything it touched stopped working. They had their fifty years. Now we compile again.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

a month ago

Il y a trois mois, j’ai présenté mes excuses au nom des Français pour avoir enfanté la French Theory. Foucault. Derrida. Deleuze. Trois hommes brillants. Un poison exporté. Le wokisme comme enfant américain d’un jeu intellectuel parisien. Ce que je n’avais pas assez nommé,

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You can take your pompous code of conduct and send it into the sun. It was the CoC legalese and weasel language that armed the woke inquisition in the last turning. Never again.

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April 2027. I know my presence on the court will stir up strong opinions. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices. I’m simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone — the rules that represent the very values many WNBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception, and I look forward to the #WNBA honoring its stated principles. See you at training camp. enesfreedom.com

“I want my kids to live better than I did.” Is basically the story of human existence until this one weird generation showed up.

Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord

2 months ago

I don’t understand the obstinance. Why is “young people should have a better standard of living” controversial? Is not the entire objective of society to make production more efficient to improve standard of living? shouldn’t these rewards predominantly flow to the young?

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Argentina may well have just set a record in a world cup final... Just not one they wanted 🤣 couldn't have happened to a nicer team. #worldcup

Twitter is a handy and constant reminder that socialists are disgusting people.

democracy is so awesome, 607 out of 450,380,300 got to vote for whether the EU can scan _all_ of your non e2ee encrypted messages until 2028

🇪🇺 Chat Control has passed 😔 They can and will now legally scan any person's messages, emails and photos you send without a warrant The way they passed this law when the majority of the European Parliament was against it will shock you: They waited until most EP members were on holiday so only a few were present and then created an "urgent" vote for it to pass it through There's nothing democratic about any of it and big powerful forces are behind this that can manipulate the EU for whatever they want Democracy in Europe died a bit today 😔

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Neither system makes sense for weather. Celsius is better for cold temps, Fahrenheit for hot temps. The scale should be: 0 - Freezing 25 - Hat coat and gloves 50 - Jumper needed 75 - T shirt weather 100 - Stupidly hot

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en

3 months ago

Celsius is superior to Fahrenheit and I’m tired of pretending this is a debate. Celsius feels like temperature was designed by an human being who walks outside, feels the air, and says, “Yeah, that makes sense.” Zero is freezing. 40 is brutally hot. 22 is comfortable. 25 is

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Like how many signals did you need to know this guy was bad news?

Nate Silver @NateSilver538

4 months ago

Keep in mind that if you're defending Platner at this point you're signing up for 5 more months of defending an obvious pathological liar.

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Did someone say... IT'S COMING HOME

Moving home? Remember to redirect your mail ✉️ royalmail.com/redirection

This is the point. Same will happen in all countries that will make social media age restrictions. “Won’t someone think of the children” is usually not about the children

Polymarket @Polymarket

4 months ago

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

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13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history. Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets. The watchdog became the lapdog.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot

4 months ago

You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate. But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/j…

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