ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are helping disturbed people plan mass shootings and other violence, our new investigation shows

The vibes at the Scruton Cafes* in Budapest must be at an all-time low. *A chain of cafe/bars inspired by British conservative philosopher Roger Scruton. Est by the Hungarian govt-backed Batthyány Lajos Fnd to help the Orbanist right connect with the youth. They have not succeeded (My pics, 2025)

Warning the BBC Leader's Debate and Swinney and Sarwar both coming across really poorly by dodging direct questions and trying to just bury other leaders by talking over them until they give up trying to speak. It looks awful, I have no idea what debate strategist dreamt up this approach.

I know someone who works at the intersection of federal funding and advanced medical research, and this is absolutely correct. We will never be able to quantify the amount of suffering and death inflicted by these people, but it will be with us for a long time.

the replies are just what you’d expect 🙃 www.reddit.com/r/Prosecutor...

Starbucks union leader recognizes how meaningful it was to have Mayor Mamdani on their picket line in January. “We need you to delete the Starbucks app from your phone. No contract, no coffee.”

At the Union Now event in NYC where Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, union leader Sara Nelson and others will be speaking

One of my cousins in Texas teaches music. She’s just switched schools and needs some money for a group rug and some beginner keyboards. This school serves a historically underfunded group of kids. Help out if you can! She’s just shy 250ish.

[Stevie Nicks voice] Trianon

Is there a name for the form of succession planning where the CEO systematically undermines every potential successor, especially the most prominent/obvious ones, because the CEO's actual plan is "I run this place until I die—and then I don't care if it collapses"? Asking for a global superpower

"Anthropology of Iran" articles published in the last decade from AnthroSource archives

Amazing to see Al Franken partisans surviving in the wild, it's like seeing a coelacanth.

“This is Al Franken all over again” you’re goddamn right it is

Fuck Eric Swalwell, fuck Al Franken, nobody is entitled to women’s bodies and nobody is entitled to a seat in the federal legislature. It’s not fucking television, you don’t get to skate for a few seasons because you have such dedicated fans

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

“Botlicker” is a fantastic term for the fascist-enabled wannabe tech barons of today.

They really think no one can build a guillotine anymore.

if I was in Gaza and had the ability to make money to survive by scamming people in the imperial core, I’d do it without a second thought

Ohhh the *big* accounts smelled blood 😂

krolik is a fucking fascist larping as a communist and has no sense of fucking boundaries and makes everyone in fatfur uncomfortable. literally was kicked out of a server for threatening violence and then threatened violence after being kicked.

“but maybe they really do think I have potential!” Here’s my test for that: wear an engagement ring (or do what I did and get married at 24 idk). Get your husband (enlist a friend) to pick you up from work in front of them. The reaction will be telling.

if you made a CEO work as a dishwasher for one week they would go mad like a Lovecraft protagonist confronting an unnameable entity in the cellar

Last boost for tonight

It's not really a day for announcements -- but my translation of Diao Dou's 刁斗 short story "Squatting" 蹲着 is in The Penguin Book of the International Short Story, edited by @rabihalameddine.bsky.social and John Freeman and out today.

“When the world is graced by people with Horse Autism” for 世有伯樂 is outstanding

Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat it; those who do study history are doomed to imagine future students of history getting to their period and going “oh ho ho ho fuck yeah”

I am so angry. Two Durham, NC kids - 11-year-old Genesis and 6-year-old Denis of Burton Elementary Magnet School - were taken by ICE at their regular asylum case appointment, and immediately deported without due process. Follow SiembraNC on IG or FB or @siembranc.bsky.social for next action steps.

Step 1. Create narrative that certain groups don't deserve to keep their children. Step 2. Steal children. Step 3. Sell children. Step 4. Use profits to fund legislation that keeps families in cycles of poverty, and *also* fund forced birth legislation. Step 5. Repeat.

I need y'all to connect the dots here. If the adoption industry makes profits, and those profits can only continue as long as there is a "supply" of children, then what do you think family policing is? It's a procurement industry *for* the adoption industry.

Really weird to be a Gen Xer who lived throug the Rs' moral panic and social stigma of teen pregnancy in the 80s only for their open and unapologetic position now to be that teens should be pumping out more babies, by force of law if necessary

Kudos to Humanities and Social Sciences Communications for retracting the paper based on egregiously flawed "national IQ" data, and doing it so quickly: paper published in January, retracted in April. Let's hope Springer now retracts all the other NIQ papers in its journals

My latest "Chris writes an @aftermath.site blog that makes me lose between ten and fifty dollars" post is an ode to one of my favorite tools: the PZ-58 "Neji-Saurus" screw extraction pliers by Japanese tool brand Engineer. aftermath.site/engineer-pz-...

Been getting a lot of use out of this one lately

captcha that asks you to identify which posts are jokes before replying

emperor's tailor pulls out of landmark twelvety-nine bajillion pound deal to establish a "world-leading" clothes emporium

Ah, it’s the creation of a frequent GB News guest and has been promoted heavily by the Mail, The Sun, GB News and The Mike Graham Show 🤮

What you actually want from an MP is someone who takes more time than the average person to understand the complexities of a given issue. Do we get that very often? No. But that’s a different issue.

Voting purely on the majority view is not the point of a representative democracy. And those reflexively saying this is brilliant idea seem to be ignoring how easy something like this can be brigaded. It’s not better than a Twitter poll.

Apparently students at Stanford have been lying about being Jain to get out of having to buy the otherwise-mandatory meal plan so Stanford released Jain meals to force them to buy the now-mandatory-again meal plan stanforddaily.com/2026/04/06/j...

Not only is X a toxic hellscape that's bad for your brand, it also doesn't make any sense when you look at the metrics. Only the worst bubbles up, so unless you're posting the worst, focus on other venues that are significantly more productive for you.

Because, of course, most nerds cannot tolerate a collection of stories from different sources written at different times that are broadly similar but have key differences, despite thus being how every folklore and legendary hero developed organically. bsky.app/profile/wolt...

I say main version because the posthumous compilation of a coherent Silmarillion published 4 years after his death took from any sources written over about 40 years and meant some choices were made that Tolkien wasn’t certain of.

He literally wrote about watching these seemingly good people transformed into that by war in his letters, and one of his main versions of their origin (used in the Jackson movies and all following media) was innocent elves tortured and corrupted into them.

Well, it's not for a lack of screaming grief that we're not all free I can tell you that much THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE FUCKING SPRINKLERS

Carceralists idk idc I can't fucking SEE I'm so heartbroken YOUR JOB, IDoC Spox NOELLE RUSSEL, IS DOING PR FOR PEOPLE WHOSE JOB IS LITERALLY LOCKING HUMAN BEINGS IN CAGES AND FORCING THEM TO WORK AGAINST THEIR WILL AFTER THEY WERE KIDNAPPED AND TRAFFICKED THE INMATES ARE *ALWAYS* IN DANGER

American caceralists: We took these people from their homes and communities and locked them in cages and we took books and letters and in person visits from them and we took the tablets to replace the books and letters and in person visits Also American caceralists: Why do they keep setting fires

MAYBE IF EVERYONE INCARCERATED WILL USE ANYTHING IN THEIR CAGE TO "KILL THEMSELVES" THE PROBLEM IS NOT STUFF IN THEIR CAGE BUT THAT IT'S HUMAN BEINGS LOCKED IN FUCKING CAGES

THIS IS NO WAY FOR HUMAN BEINGS TO TREAT OTHER HUMAN BEINGS U CAN'T JUST TAKE EVERYTHING FROM PEOPLE & THINK THOSE PEOPLE WILL BE BETTER OFF FOR IT "[IDoC spox] Russell told 13 Investigates. “We are taking away anything that needs to be plugged in and needs electricity. While this might seem..."

"[IDoC] work crews began removing electrical outlets from inmates’ cells throughout D-cellhouse, taking away their direct access to electricity that’s used to power TVs, computer tablets, fans, hotpots and other electronic devices permitted in their cells."

Most anti-communism boils down into two really key bigotries in 2026 - racism or transphobia. Hatred of Palestinians is racism, dismissing the needs of immigrants is racism, blaming the left for why things are failing for the Democrats is often just transphobia. A lot of ableism is rooted in racism.