The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

This ban should also come with an over 50s ban from Facebook tbh.

Making animated show and kids books featuring queer characters is more important than ever with the social media ban for under 16s in the UK, yet I feel this ban will be a sign that making that stuff will become even harder.

Mandatory age verification and the banning modern public towns squares for young people is, and forever will be, governmental and societal abdication of responsibility so that those in charge don't actually have to dare hold big tech accountable for the very real public harm they can foster.

I’m amazed they get to post these. I recall BC Transit/TransLink rejecting ad buys b/c they didn’t like the political sentiment in them (guess which direction the sentiment was)

They knew. They knew right from the start. That WHOLE DAY was full of Brexit voters saying: 'I didn't think it would actually go through-' 'I just wanted to send a message-' 'I want a second vote-' It was so miserable and infuriating to watch. And it just got increasingly worse from there.

I remember an interview that happened A SINGLE DAY after the vote. Vividly. A young woman spoke of her parents, both proud voters for Brexit. The vote result came in on the radio and she watched them both look up, suddenly with great clarity say: 'This isn't going to do anything for us, is it?'

Thousands have turned out for an Anti-Racism rally in Belfast city centre, organised by United Against Racism and supported by Trade Unions

Always a nice reminder that We outnumber Them, and it's not even close.

but only part of the backlash is the jobs or even the software high school graduates entering the workforce see that the country is too corrupt to function they watched you all lie for a decade before either fully embracing historically corrupt fascism or being too pathetic to stand up to it

People really will say, bold-faced: "Okay the village may be starving but how can you be sure that the baron castled on that hill who's hoarding more food that he could ever eat in 100 lifetimes and who has just proudly announced the completion of his 10,000th food vault is linked to the problem?"

The internet, 2026:

Done! happy with the colors

From "Julián", the new feature film by Cartoon Saloon studio (Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers...), directed by Louise Bagnall. Set to premiere this month at Annecy Festival. First clip >> deadline.com/2026/06/cart...

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

I wrote about one specific way AI is ruining my life defector.com/ai-animal-vi...

sylvia townsend warner in 1926, foreseeing the type of author who would use AI:

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame. Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.

the vision for positive masculinity is feminism.

steam's AI disclosure requirement is better than nothing, but not by much

Currently just over 2k signatures. We need 10k for a government response. If you are in the UK please consider signing this petition.

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

Trans people are harming no one. They aren't starting wars, they aren't stealing tax dollars for vanity projects, they aren't destroying democracy, they aren't undoing health and safety standards for corporate cronies. The people making these fucking laws are the ones doing all that.

Important context: the "late rapper's estate" is actually just a white record company exec who took over complete ownership after Tupac's mom died. The idea that his "permission" provides any kind of ethical basis for a deeply ghoulish practice is absurd.

Every single one of us will have to give the government our ID and have our internet access tracked and VPNs banned but at least 16 year olds can't watch YouTube unless it's cocomelon.

I will never interact with any AI product if I can humanly avoid it. You wanted me to give this tech a chance? Too motherfucking bad, you should have thought about it before you started plastering cities with these ads

Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.

a butterfly flaps its wings,

"If Farage is racist, how comes Black and brown people can join Reform?" Hand me the mic I'll take this one. Racists aren't allergic to Black and brown people. They're allergic to Black and brown people who don't defer to them. White supremacy is a performance that anyone is capable of

People love historical what if scenarios. What if JFK was never assassinated? What if the Nazis won in WW2? A scenario I never see discussed is what if the aids crisis didnt decimate the gay men of America in the 80s-90s? Its easy to forget 1 in 15 gay boomer men died. An estimated 300,000 deaths-

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

I love that the goriest torture porn in existence can just be shown publicly like this but apparently we need a new Hays Code for trans people (checks notes)... existing

If you didn't know this already have a fact to brighten your day. This is my cat Boris when he played Jones in Aliens. He was picked because he would hiss on camera because he was not a nice guy.

Rest In Power

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

even if you're like me who is a fucking wooden board you gotta follow people who are into being transformed into an inflatable goo dragon to exercise the plasticity in your brain into understanding that the internet shouldn't be full of people only talking about their chipotle burrito bowls

Damn. RIP to a real one.

"Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself." - Marjane Satrapi

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

The most important cultural lesson of the late 80s/early 90s

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

oh my god, no. goddamn it. I read persepolis when I was in high school. She was so cool, I remember wishing I had a beauty mark like her. I understand her husband recently passed away and her depression over this was overwhelming.... her legacy is going to live in every girl who's read her books.

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

Io Interactive doesn't need James Bond, they should make a BURN NOTICE game instead.

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White race riots randomly trashing local streets is a semi-regular summertime event British people just have to learn to live with now, apparently www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...