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When a country’s falling apart, there’s one tried-and-true distraction: blame the foreigners. It’s the oldest con in politics.

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Scroll TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter and you’ll see the same refrain: “COVID stole my youth. COVID gave me depression. COVID destroyed my life.” Young people, barely out of high school, act like they survived trench warfare. They act like missing two years of normality equals permanent psychological damage. No, COVID didn’t “destroy your life.” It ... Read more

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Office satire at its finest — when bored employees turn fake sick days into Bullshit Bingo. Dark, funny, and painfully relatable corporate chaos.

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Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the museum nobody wants to admit exists: The Museum of Dead Attention Spans. In this hallowed hall, we don’t preserve dinosaur bones or ancient pottery — we preserve the corpses of our ability to sit still and think. Every shattered attention span is catalogued here, fossilised...

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Apparently, according to Google, one of the top ways people stumble onto my site is by typing “assholes online.” Now, I don’t know what’s worse — that people are out there actively searching for assholes, or that Google thinks my little corner of the internet is the promised land of bums. Either way, here we...

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Scroll TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter and you’ll see the same refrain: “COVID stole my youth. COVID gave me depression. COVID destroyed my life.” Young people, barely out of high school, narrate their existence like they survived trench warfare. They act like missing two years of normality equals permanent psychological damage. No, COVID didn’t “destroy your...

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Mainstream German politicians keep repeating the same mantra: “The far-right will never rule here.” They cling to the idea that the lessons of history, the safeguards of democracy, and the strength of the political center will hold the line forever. It’s comforting. It’s also complete bullshit. Take it from me, someone who has lived in...

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If there’s one thing Europeans agree on, it’s that the European Union is an easy punching bag. Farmers block roads and scream about Brussels. Politicians blame the EU for everything from butter mountains to bent bananas. Pub bores rant about unelected bureaucrats. It’s the world’s favourite scapegoat: too slow, too bloated, and too meddling. Everyone...

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Once upon a time, “woke” meant being awake to injustice. It came out of Black communities, tied to civil rights, police brutality, and systemic racism. To be “woke” was to be alert, conscious, and unwilling to swallow the lies society feeds you. It was a badge of awareness. Fast forward to now, and “woke” has...

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Transgender people make up a small percentage of the world population. Estimates hover around 0.5–1%. They’re a minority of a minority. And yet, if you listen to the news, politicians, or your ranting uncle on Facebook, you’d think they were single-handedly dismantling civilisation. Bathrooms. Sports. Pronouns. Drag shows. Children’s books. Entire elections are now fought...

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