The abuser dynamic, “now look what you made me do!” is hard to miss here…

Gotta admit that getting the US to commit to being responsible for Israel's actions was some real FAFO stuff by the Iranians.

One of the most extraordinary trends in modern politics is when somebody says something like “Nazism and sexual violence are absolutely unacceptable in a civilized society” and immediately somebody like JD Vance responds “I deeply resent this direct attack on American conservatives.”

The thing about signing what everybody but you can see is a surrender document at Versailles without understanding the historical context that everyone else immediately grasps is that’s what you sometimes get when you are an ignorant dipshit who surrounds himself with ignorant dipshits.

For anyone who doesn’t know, the “why” is hilarious. Let’s just say that there’s a reason trans people keep saying “what the fuck do you mean by ‘biological sex’?”, and also the same reason uni biology courses stopped getting students to karyotype themselves. The answer is sometimes upsetting.

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Two things about cancel culture: first, it has never really happened, but the threat of it is so terrifying to shitty people that even the slightest possibility is treated like a violent threat; second, this means it is actually a great idea.

trump will NEVER beat President Obama. He is smarter. He is classier. He is better in every way. trump's deal will NOT measure up.

some of you queer people are in privileged positions to be able to make fun of pride or say that it makes no difference in your life, but some of us are still fighting for basic human rights in our respective countries. let that sink in and maybe reflect and think about that during this pride month.

An art collector recently commissioned this piece for their tiny painting collection. Inspired by my recent paintings "Respite" and "Wavering", this tiny textured babe was a joy to create for them! Tisha Mark ©2026, Tiny Respite, oil on cradled panel, 3"x3" #art #CommissionsOpen #SciArt

The trouble with saying "Violence gets results - just look at the Right!" is that the results the Right currently wants (less social cohesion, more individual power) are *achievable* by violence The results the Left wants (more social cohesion, collective safety) are actively undermined by violence

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Ah the ol’ Big Tent Party is at it again I see.

"We're giving children their childhoods back" says Prime Minister who wants to replace human teachers with AI, is pushing disabled families deeper into poverty, and thinks trans kids should be traumatised with the wrong puberty and then stigmatised for asking if they can not go through that.

If Constitutional rights are something that a despot can "weigh suspending" for his convenience, then there is no Constitution and we should draft a new and better one as soon as we excise the despot and his party from every level of government. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

Was reminded of this interaction i had with a commission scammer 2 years ago where they were pretending they could make custom 3D models

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This is 1970s giallo movie gorgeous.

It’s genuinely hilarious that the only one the knicks lost is the one where the senile pedophile president appeared

“Who cares?” is the honest default Trumpist position on law. When it benefits us or hurts our enemies, the law, when it doesn’t, who cares?

When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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look at these clowns literally LITERALLY telling you not to double check their bullshit machine

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oh hey its the thing everyone said would happen

In 2012, 30 states allowed no-excuse mail-in voting. In 2016, 8 states saw more than a fourth of voters send in their ballots. Taibbi has either gotten a lot dumber, or he just doesn't give a shit anymore.

honestly this sounds like a wild premise for a sci-fi plot

Ryan Grim decries the overt bigotry of girls keeping their earbuds in at the gym

deactivated my Facebook account well over a year ago due to how terrible the Facebook experience and owner had become. everything i hear since then assures me it's continued to get worse.

one wonders whether the writers of the Bible might not have been on to something when they said that the love of money is the root of every kind of evil

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

Feels like a good time to re-up this

the SpaceX IPO financials are incredible (derogatory) investing in SpaceX is the financial equivalent of paying someone $10,000 to break both your legs, empty your bank accounts, and then punch you in the face

One of the great errors in fiction from past decades is that we always portrayed tech bro CEOs as geniuses when the truth is, most are dipshit bigots who got lucky or bankrolled by daddy. On their own merit, they fail every time.

That’s called a bribe.

I'll post a script when I have one. X is a hate site currently being used by its owner to fuel a pogram in Belfast. Nothing's stopping him from doing that here. There has to be a limit. Get the fuck off.

I will just note that Dublin's Congolese community were able to protest about the horrible killing of Yves Sakila without so much as breaking a window.

84% of Democrats believe abortion should be legal, as do 63% of conservatives (Pew, 2026). The NYT is inventing a debate where there isn't one, laundering reactionary fever dreams into what they want you to think is reality.

The USA is doing sportswashing all wrong. The idea is you do a Russia or a Qatar and welcome everyone in, trying to appear super-cute so that people stop thinking about your appalling human rights violations and corruption. You're not meant to shine a light on it. Stupid country.

Elon Musk is unambiguously calling for a violent race war. This is far from unprecedented. The Rwandan Genocide was stoked and enabled by Felicien Kabuga, the wealthy owner of the RTLM radio station that helped coordinate the genocide and used euphemisms like "go to work" to signal attacks.

“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely” said just one of the far right lunatics due to speak at the event, alongside Farage, Truss and other conspiracy nutjobs, fascists, racists and no-marks with criminal records for incitement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The response is “Farage and reform are two-bit populists with dangerous solutions to made up problems and I refuse to treat their nonsense as deserving any kind of serious response”. There you are, Labour, you can have that one for free.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

the apex of the 'being right' pyramid for Germans is 'being right on a technicality' so it's about to pop the hell off

Recall that “you’re not allowed” doesn’t mean you will be jailed or sued or prohibited; it means that other people will exercise their First Amendment rights in response to yours, to express their views and defend their neighbors. But that violates Free Speech Culture.

Really informative read.

“An additional 70 billion in funding for masked agents and brutality in our neighborhoods with little to no accountability is a travesty for American families who are trying to make ends meet.”