In the news

I know it's in the Musk thread.

But Elon now owns twitter.

Let's see if Ye makes a come back.

Definitely not.

Ok. Great?

Not really, I was hoping he'd bail. But maybe it will be the gamble that breaks him.

Would be even better if he breaks twitter tho.

Maybe he can use one of his rockets to yeet Twitter into the sun

Nice thread challenging this nonsense

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1586254433243258881

Private schools are to the Telegraph what the Triple Lock is to the Express.

What the actual….

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-63442399

What a tragedy :(

Horrifying, isn't it? Those poor people.

Fucking hell.

Slowly crushed to death, in utter panic.
Stuff of nightmares…

I’m Korean, so needing to check in with my cousins and extended family in Seoul…

I hate crowds.
Why are people so attracted to them?

When I was a kid, maybe around 8 or 9, I scored a crucial goal in a football tournament and my team mates all jumped and piled up on top of me when celebrating. I was at the very bottom and wasn't able to move, shout for help or breathe in. It was one of the worst things I ever experienced, it may sound crazy but I genuinely felt I was going to die.

I've had a phobia of being crushed by people ever since and tend to avoid crowdy places.

This news made me feel genuinely sick, that's the stuff of nightmares...

Thoughts and prayers with South Korea at this time. Take care and hope you family and friends are safe and well.

Hope your family is ok, awful news.

Wtf?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/firebombing-migrants-dover-kent-attack-b2213785.html

All I could think of was

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It made me think of Children of Men

Eurghhh. So overrated

What? The film? Which I thought was very good. Or putting people in cages? Which I don't

I also found it overrated, but some scenes seemed very prescient to me. The number of migrants could well x100 when crop failures and droughts multiply in coming years, and locking them up in camps will be standard procedure. There are already camps of 1m+ because of Palestine/Israel and Syria, but we pretty much ignore them here. Maybe soon there'll be camps of that size in Italy, France and the UK?

So Brazil looks like it is suffering from a solid job of voter suppression, crazy how much they are happy to di it in plain sight

The first pollsters have called it for Lula. Fingers crossed!

Looking like Lula won anyway.

Now confirmed. Hopefully there is a peaceful transition of power.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/31/12-hour-party-people-manchester-tells-the-night-day-cafe-to-abate

Good to see this making the front page. Really infuriating. So much of what made Manchester interesting when I arrived in 2010 is just...gone. There's loads of blocks of flats though and I pay nearly a grand a month rent outside the ring-road, so there's that.