Look Binward, Angel
An upcoming by-election in Gorton and Denton has the British political class confronting, and failing to learn from, the fact that at some point someone has to govern. In a war of bins versus posts, they've decided to go all-out with posting, firing up the Anti-Corbyn Machine against Zack Polanski and failing to grasp why the Green Party might actually appeal to voters. And in order to understand this, we've assembled Riley, Hussein, and November to cut through the noise. We also discuss a new podcast entitled The Rest Is Prison, which hardly needs to be explained!
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Is it actually a payday loan? My US bank did something like that a few years ago and it was just them giving me the money as soon as the ach posted but before it processed. Never paid interest or even opted in. They just emailed me one day and said hey you get paid on the 13th now congrats
Is it still legal to eat a full English brekkie with rashers and beans? Probably not 😭
Somebody saying the words "white Malcolm X" out loud sounds so much more insane than I ever could've imagined
Can I just say at the grocery store I work at there are Mr beast branded like.... Beef jerkies or maybe pepperette style meat sticks and every time I put them on the shelf I feel like I'm dissociating slightly
So, when you turn 18, I assume all your debt from the Mr Beast not associated with 666 certainly not on any way a dragon app is legally transferred from your sponsor and is then enforceable against you, correct? Nice to enter adulthood in extreme debt because of a string of Roblox microtransactions made when you were six This seems to me a significant legal grey area can you as a minor agree to enter into a contract that is only enforced when you become legally able to be party to a contract but agreed to prior? I think banks get around this by having you sign a new one when you are 18
Unless this isn't about the kids at all it's about opening a new vector of attack on the parents (or whoever is "sponsoring " teens 🤮)
I feel like I'm going crazy at the app part, I'm pretty sure I got a bank account/debit when I was like 12. It was at my parents bank so I'm sure that was how they got around the know your customer rule, but it was a real account that earned interest and everything. This is a solved problem!
Yeah I’m pretty sure I had a child saver account (that I couldn’t take anything out of) from age 8 or something that than graduated to a baby current account at like 16
New dog whistle I hadn't heard before. When reform lost Goodwin said it was because of 'sectarianism', in Britain this means a violent (at least in part) religious conflict with lots of terrorism. Basically what you were talking about.
Congratulations to Hannah Spencer!
Huh, a banking app where some adult other than your parents can set you up with financial independence. Certainly there is no sort of untoward reason non-parent adults might want to set u up with a way to send and receive money without their parent’s knowledge. I can’t imagine a single disgusting crime that would enable.
The mind reels with horrifying new vectors for abuse...
Hey so uh what the fuck the Greens won i guess
Is Riley’s last name really Reid or was that a joke?
It's Riley Quinn
Stochastic Hate Machine is hands down the worst NIN album.
Lindt Master Chocolatier 1 Operator 😘👌
re: mr beast et al just slapping their names on warehouse surplus goods - this is explicitly how the "lunchbox with popular children's characters on it" market was started. the aladdin company had a bunch of unsold metal lunchboxes in the warehouse. they struck up a deal with cowboy actor hopalong cassidy and slapped a sticker with his likeness on the side. instant success, revolutionized the industry, etc etc etc. the smithsonian has one in its "american history" collection. just now with mister beast and fintech, you know?
payday loans + klarna + cryptocons are bad enough but with the sponsorship aspect step sounds like in practice it will end up literally multinational Mr.Beast-branded deets and squares franchise
General insupportable allegation that sounds like the Emergency Broadcast System has been activated, must be an all-timer.
Viscerally unappealing
Also wanted to add that, at least in Lake Cowichan, BC, Canada, no one wants to buy the Feastables chocolates. There have been two shopping carts full to the brim with the candy bars on deep discount outside the grocery store for weeks. Even the raccoons don’t want them.
Growing more and more frantic as I wait for the resident Canadian host to correct the term “beanie” to “toque”, oh no oh no
"Lindt Chocolatier-1 operator" made me have to sit down. No one does it like Nova.
hold on, running an extremely loss-leading spectacular online media empire to sell sweet treats? my guy reinvented Red Bull
Day one in Parliament, Matt Goodwin needing to be physically restrained to keep him from eating Hansard
Can you please make the next merch discount code "ripcharliekirk"
what are you doing step account??
If the hint about this week's bonus feed about ninety seconds in is about the Citrini Research article from Substack, it's definitely worth a read before the post drops.
it's fucking terrifying that our economic planners take these insane fairy stories seriously. Like you control the means of production the least you could do is understand what you're doing with it rather than sort of pointing it all over the place like a child with a nerf gun
Check out the Anti-Photography apparel. Its made with a special pattern and color that causes it to destroy any flash picture taken of it, especially at night. Back during Covid I had a facemask with that, and I loved it. Great for protests.
I’m really looking forward to reform’s neo-crimson permanent assurance-style campaign of violence across the Uk…it will be a nice little distraction from what we’ve got going on over here
I heard Openclaw and for a bizarre moment thought you were inventing new Warrior Cats
Mr. Beast teaming up with Jared Leto so kids can get payday loans is the most cursed shit I've heard today. At least I hope it is.
shirt idea is good
Can you use a less shrill and unpleasant redacting beep?
Yeah I request a jungle 'wheel-up signal' sample
Release a Puddle Flavoured Candy bar! OOH or Savory Vape flavour. Please note the spellings I have given out of respect 🍬
I would rather have big tobacco target to kids again than this Step shit
Yeah nobody looks cool gambling, especially outside of a casino
Genuinely shocked Riley knows who A-Rod is. Does he own a winery or something?
If this is how I find out A-Rod is Canadian—
Not sure if yall listen to "ghost stories for the end of the world" podcast, but their episodes on Jared Leto (and his puppeteers behind the scenes), make his involvement in that scheme incredibly dark.
Yeah, just never combine the words teen and Jared Leto together, but especially with this financial stuff this should raise some eyebrows
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‘eating a fish skeleton like a 1930s cartoon cat’ is incredible
you know what they say about organising a caliphate, it’s just too many evenings
Re adversarial clothing: i have a jacket with a qr code that has the eicar test string. Its a non-virus that virus scanners treat as real, so wherever your software stores the decoded info gets grabbed by antivirus and deleted.
MrBeast, "Beast Games", "Beast Tech", look I don't say much for the UK usually but none of that would fly here because of the combination of the name and the occupation
THEY LITERALLY DO TEACH PERSONAL FINANCE IN SCHOOL!!!! AND IT DOESN'T REALLY WORK BECAUSE IT'S A PRACTICAL SKILL THAT CAN ONLY REALLY BE LEARNED BY DOING!!!! AAAAAA
The real question is, which is the more impressive accomplishment...being the first senior royal in like 400yrs to be locked up, or his great uncles contribution to the Irish space program.....
Polly Toynbee is the funniest Guardian columnist and I will die on that hill. If you go back to 2024 all her articles are like "KEIR STARMER IS A DIGNIFIED SOCIAL DEMOCRAT AND HE'S GOING TO FIX ALL THE PROBLEMS WOOOOOO!!!" and now whenever she writes about labour it's always with a tone of genuine bafflement "why has my best friend, Keir Starmer, personally betrayed me :(((("
2024: "Celebrate: we have waited so long for the routing of the Tories. A rare moment of pure political joy" 2025: "Enjoy your victory, Nigel Farage - because it could also be the start of your downfall" 2026: "Is No. 10 seeking its own destruction? Why else would it botch its council plans and hand a victory to Farage?" Also bonus from 2024: "Europe is lurching right on immigration. Despite Farage and Sunak's best efforts, Britain will not follow." heheheheheheh
Also, I'm a despicable continental so I may be misremembering this, but didn't the Corbyn defamation campaign end up... not mattering? Like, the Labour right just ended up throwing him out of the party formally for the same fabricated antisemitism bullshit that they're using to turn the country marginally more dictatorial now, right? It was never about any sort of public opinion. They can't really do that to Mattie Lubchansky, chairman of the green party, because it's not their party, unless they do something REALLY undemocratic. Can't wait for that contradiction to slow-cook their brains over the next few months.
The defamation campaign along with a bunch of other things contributed to the shattering defeat in 2019, it was shockingly effective to the point where the nation's centrist dads genuinely still believe that Corbyn was a sort of mad Islamist. Like the BBC did an 'investigation' called 'Is Labour Antisemitic'. The ultimate result was to create an impression in the minds of much of the public that Corbyn was 'controversial' and 'just going a bit too far'
Mr Beast burger is still active at least in Germany sadly
I prefer the nomenclature "The Andrew formerly know as Prince"
The candy bar that kills you instantly
The hogs YEARN for Milo (I hope his tour is pleasant and profitable).
I miss jerk vanderklerk as well, I hope he's doing ok in whatever unrelated thing he's up to
to this day I do not know how to calculate the circulus of a radiangle
Lines like "a sea anchor dragging Reform postwards" are what brings me back to the trough every week 🙏
“Lindt Master ChocolaTier One Operator” is crazy work November
not the Step account but the account that stepped up
The OpenClaw stuff is just the stupidest version of Eclipse Phase istg. Like, ordinary text is a basilisk attack against that 'AI'.
In Labour Right they don’t say “I love you” they say “I’m going to parachute you into a safe seat” and I think that’s beautiful
Quick question, if I've shared my bank account details with a company like Google, is it possible they've ingested this into whatever their AI Monstro Elisasue is called?
I wonder how you would test for this. Like how would you prove they put it in there from their end?
She gort on my Denton til I by-election?
Bin-lically accurate angels.
Bröther may I have söme pösts?
No...