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It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

And yet, on all evidence...

We just thought we’d repost this video from last March before the Keir Starmer of it all goes out of date...

Thing I hate: Australian sellers on @discogsofficial.bsky.social selling in US dollars. Many seeming bargains which are anything but.

This is fake. Everyone knows that Peter Jackson died falling down the stairs at the red carpet premiere of Return of the King and never directed anything else.

If your Dad (or anyone else you know) watches this it's important to cut them out of your life for good.

Unfortunately, this offensive "blood libel" nonsense is parroted by many defenders of Israel's Kahanist government.

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

This is a flat out horrifying article. It may be too much for some to read. But this should be documented, and we should know this is happening.

A budget detail many missed last night was how the Albanese Labor government is addressing what it calls social cohesion. It is cutting $9 million from the Australian Human Rights Commission, the independent body that protects and serves every community equally.

Punch Brothers have shared "Song of the Water Kelpie (unsung)," a new track from their upcoming album, 'The Unsung Adventures of Punch Brothers,' due July 24, and this performance video, directed by Josh Goleman. youtu.be/d-NMzPPnCoQ

What is there even to say anymore?

We can’t afford to take any chances. It’s time to sink the hantavirus ship, and all other cruise ships. No survivors.

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Via DropSite: Leaked bodycam footage exposes Israeli cops' brutal assault upon Palestinian Israeli prosecutor. Israeli cops stormed his flat, pinned him down, “beating [him] mercilessly,” despite no resistance. The prosecutor underwent surgery for injuries to his eye and kidneys and a broken nose.

*old man voice* I bought the Hi Scores EP (SKA008) when it came out on vinyl, obsessing over those few tracks until Music Has The Right To Children arrived. So it's amusing/dismaying seeing all the people amazed to be alive when a new Boards of Canada album comes out! It's a good'un though.

You basically have to read this whole thread

The rising 'children need to get used to being uncomfortable' anti-neurodiversity discourse is at once evidence of improved visibility & understanding (which always provokes dissent), & also lazy, pathologically incurious, harmful propaganda, mostly not from frontline teachers, pushed by the media.

Deliberately targeting water sources to harm civilians is a crime against humanity.

Upgrade my M1 MacBook Pro from Monterey 12.7.6 to Tahoe tomorrow Y/N? Unfortunately an increasing number of apps I quite like no longer support Monterey, but also a couple of apps I love don't work reliably on Tahoe (TotalFinder, TotalSpaces). But I think it's time I bit the bullet. #scared #holdme

You can help Hammam's family survive Israel's genocidal siege by sharing & donating. They're homeless & sick with intestinal & skin diseases from destroyed sanitation & healthcare. His disabled brother Abood has a broken leg & urgently needs surgery, & his mother needs meds for asthma.

"and somehow, this AI knows that what I have typed is correct"

BJP brownshirts on the ground in New Market, bulldozing meat shops and causing chaos. This is my city. Right in the centre of Kolkata--all the troops & cops occupying Kolkata under regime orders standing by. I've passed by those shops in New Market so many times. My heart is broken.

The results from India's elections are indeed bleak. A disastrous defeat for the left. A massive mandate for Hindu fascism. Terrible, and very frightening for minorities and for the poor.

What will never happen is Starmer tackling or even calling out the revolting antisemitism of the right wing press - because he thinks of it as his real electorate.

I would just like to say that I miss being able to use "it's not [x], it's [y]" as a rhetorical device, which everyone now knows is widely overused by AI. Because, you know, sometimes it's actually a good linguistic setup. But I'm still using my damn emdashes.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump and all their little minions are mass murderers and should be taken into custody.

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

absolutely incredible thing for bret stephens to say out loud

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The eldritch horror of contemplating what this guy's DJ sets sound like

This is probably the most straightforwardly egregious example in the article. This woman is voting Reform in order to strip her disabled stepson of his benefits. You couldn't make it up.

"This shocking Good Law Project podcast looks at the way US tech company Palantir ended up at the heart of the NHS, specifically, the covert influencer marketing campaign that was run to 'smear' Good Law Project... A terrifying and important listen."

Ahmed has had 2 donations in a month because he couldn't get online & was busy trying to get his severely ill father treatment. His father urgently needs healthcare that's unaffordable under Israel's genocidal siege. You can help by sharing & donating, Ahmed is just 17 & struggling:

'Rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy say criticising Israeli government is not disloyalty but a Jewish obligation ...' 😮 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's from not having a screensaver, everybody knows that

FRIENDS Here's my great big story about my experiences deep in the guts of the "wind turbine syndrome" debate. What I fucked up, what I learnt, and what it tells me about the growing fears around data centres and inaudible "infrasound" Make some tea, sit down, have a read (thread coming later) ❤️

It's #BandcampFriday of course and thanks to the post from @steve4s.bsky.social a week back we know that Siavash Amini aka @capgrasman.bsky.social is safe where he is in Iran. But since it IS Bandcamp Friday that means you should kick down some for his work on there. You'll be glad you did.

I can't emphasise enough how important the submission by my brother @timhollo.bsky.social to the ill-conceived Royal Commission on Antisemitism is. The lateral antisemitism from fellow Jews is something Tim & I have dealt with for a long time, even before either of us used the term "anti-Zionist".

no gas company left behind ❤️

Authoritarianism demands absolute conformity to function and any deviation from their imposed status quo is a threat to their existence. Trans and neurodivergent humans are, by nature, a threat to authoritarian existence. I’m personally happy to pose a threat.

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

There's no debate which is improved by the intervention of Tony Blair. This is ableism. It frames anxiety, depression and ADHD as things people just need to get on with, with no acknowledgement of how damaging that attitude is, or how hard it can be to be recognised and diagnosed in the first place.

Q: Why does Trump prefer boxer shorts? A: Because of the extra ball room.

Reagan actually got shot at the same hotel and never asked for a ballroom

David Brat is the wurst choice they could have made

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one. You know what's unnatural now.

I've tried but I've never really liked The Mountain Goats, but he's great to follow on social media.