The Labour Party on Instagram: "This is what real aura looks like ✨"

The comments are absolutely mauling them

If you don't have Instagram, check the comments on this post, for a kindly Hexbear has rehosted the video there.

I fear Ukraine have let the cat out the bag

someone dig up Captain Tom

he's got one more war left in him

holy mackerel

in all fairness BLM being co opted by white liberals has outed a lot of old school rappers as total libs too

I haven't seen it, I've been looking for good reviews. The default thoughts are... Propaganda, classic film where Americans destroy a country and make a movie 20 years later about how bad their soldiers had it. Obviously it's got that part, but other than the ending I've heard about, is it really that propagandous?

Even if it's just a shallow 'war is bad' film

Obscenities were apparently hurled as Mr Bessent ridiculed Doge’s work and Mr Musk dismissed the Treasury secretary as a “Soros agent”.

The Elon/Trump fallout saga is going to be awesome

Idk if this is the right comm but whatever, this should be stickied

Internet archive taking a lot of fire from all over at the moment, this one's by corporate record labels.

I know petitions dont do much, but there's not a lot else that we can do for them other than donate, so come and sign the petition:

https://www.change.org/p/defend-the-internet-archive

I can't stress how valuable Internet Archive and their magical Wayback Machine are.

Yall fw Althusser?

I do heavy

edit: damn just found out he went insane and killed his wife

Ok, it was yesterday... 25 January 1995:

Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace. Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who called him "Nazi scum", allegedly heckled Cantona as a "foreigner".

Cantona's maternal grandfather was from Barcelona, and fought against the forces of fascist general Francisco Franco during the Spanish civil war, before being forced to flee to France after the nationalist victory.

Years later appearing on the BBC, Cantona was asked what the highlight of his career was. He replied "When I did the kung fu kick on the hooligan... I think maybe it's like a dream for some, you know sometimes to kick these kind of people. So I did it for them. So they are happy."

At the press conference afterwards, he cryptically said:

"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."

I'll allow their use of AI.

Sadly they've got a Ricky Gervais video as the ai subtitling sample, but then again it is his anti Hollywood golden globes speech... which was essentially controlled opposition.

Nevertheless.

EDIT: Translation - 'quid' means £1 ... British slang.

Not saying I have the time to host it right now, but there's a lot of 'free' money to be made in referral links to various offers. Most of these offers truly only take about 5 minutes.

Some are a bit more elaborate but still easy - and technically better paying than many of our jobs per hour, I bet. Don't expect it to cover your rent of course, but an extra 30 quid here and there really racks up. I've seen lots of people make an extra 1500 yearly by essentially doing nothing.

Anyway, with these referral links, not only might we all end up a little better off and less stressed, but I think it opens up much more 'mutual-aid' ability - I certainly feel more generous when it's 'free money' that I'm giving away.

Currently, I'm using referral links from total randoms on Reddit, meaning half of the referral money is going to some Reddit bloke, when actually it could be going to one of us, or even towards hexbears maintenance fees. If a hexbear admin had a referral link to all of these offers, they could end up with 200 quid in their account from just one post...

I get there's probably privacy issues with it, but to me it seems like a good idea.

My aunt's got an old slightly broken laptop. She's got a new one. No one has any need for this old one anymore. It has no selling value. Etc etc etc.

I know I can put an SSD in it and run it on Linux to make it run smoothly as a laptop for emails and word processing etc, but I already have a crap old laptop for exactly that.

What sort of fun things can you do with an old laptop? I'm talking like, using it as a whole new device. Maybe using it as a 'TV Box' of sorts - getting some radio apps, and hacked streaming apps... Or loading up a bunch of PS2 games on it... or having it as the jankiest personal assistant, with timers, and calendars, and all that.

You know what I mean.

I love pointless gadgetry.