And in a rare photo, I can show Rees Mogg practising his shark-jumping technique. His assiduous training has allowed him to reach hitherto unparalleled heights of hypocrisy.

Well make your mind up, Washington Post... which cause was it?

Yokohama, 2015 #BelieveInFilm

Farage's whole position is based on a massive falsehood, namely, that accountability [sic] at the ballot box is the *only* accountability he should face.

Strong vibe... (this time with Alt text)

And then a small child in the crowd said "but that man's not wearing any clothes!". And the townspeople looked, and saw that it was quite true: for all his strutting, the emperor was completely naked, and how ridiculous he looked.

h/t @projectliberty.io for this snippet. If the execs of AI companies are expecting Congress to legislate to prevent the use of *their* products to develop bio-weapons, what does that tell us about their approach to responsible research and innovation? RRI is an established discipline. No excuses.

Forced displacement of the civilian population; destruction of their homes, property and livelihoods; intimidation: there are so many ways in which Israel's assault on Lebanon - just like its assaults on Gaza and the illegally occupied West Bank - are war crimes under the 4th Geneva Convention.

That's still a nope from me.

Obviously that's not my cat. He's busy.

+1: my cat has a better grasp of cause and effect.

For a KC, this comes across as staggeringly incoherent - making these two statements within a breath of each other. I'd go so far as to say that having this man in charge of reviewing terrorism legislation raises issues of national security.

Who'd have thought? ;^)

You can also still see the ruins of a Teutonic castle in Viljandi. It's quite something.

I think this gives useful context. historythings.com/what-happene...

Hmm. I think I need to do something about my work/life balance... 🤔

You may notice a common factor emerging from that list. Hegseth and other racists don't like having to include brown people in their version of who won the war. This is the Ghurka section of the Commonwealth cemetery at Cassino; this section alone has nearly 200 soldiers buried in it. 2/2

This is the same despicable rhetoric Yaxley Lennon uses, and it's unforgivable. I'll show you the "invasion": it's innocent people fleeing the wars Hegseth is stoking for profit. (CW: death)

Say what you like about the Nazis: at least they didn't try and pretend their flak towers were dance halls.

Very neat summary of the lies, hypocrisy and "punching down" that are the very bedrock of Brexit:

Voting for people like this doesn't feel particularly progressive either:

I'm afraid you really would. Even more than five years ago, Yaxley Lennon whined on about it being "an invasion", and the reality was this. He normalised exactly the kind of sadism you're seeing now.

Different countries/topics, same issue. When these two skeets are next to each other in the timeline, I think the lack of transparency in western democracies is starting to look systemic.🙄

I believe so. He was already uneasy about it when it was introduced. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...