They blatantly cut the guy off whenever he tries to speak beyond his unspoken "script" (and that reporter gave the impression she was deathly afraid she'd be fired for this). Media has been captured, full stop.

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If "neighborism" is gonna be a real Leftist Ideology it needs a Dead Old White Man to defer to during all infighting. May I suggest:

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

A TIMELESS MESSAGE. WASH YOUR DANG HANDS

There is nothing more upsetting than a gigantic, red, genetically-guaranteed-to-be-aesthetically-pleasing strawberry that tastes like nothing at all

all of méxico is in chaos today, please try to support and check in with your family and friends ;_; especially if they're in Jalisco, Nayarit, Michoacan, and Tamaulipas (and Baja California!!!!)

Can confirm: we are taught the greatest sin is being rude. So not only does it mean that "polite" abuse & bigotry (or even impolite abuse & bigotry if it happens in another room) get to slide, but all you need to do is paint another group as inherently rude and they "deserve all they get."

This is also occupying my mind. BAFTAs knew, they could have mitigated this; they could have given him a green room, a seat further from a mic, they could have cut it from broadcast if *literally* nothing else And they didn't. They *chose* to let 2 Black men be slurred, and then chose to air it.

EAT YOUR VEGATABLES, YUGI-BOY

I am starting to perhaps……. maybe…….. possibly………. wonder if the MAGA movement may not care about women’s sports as much as they claimed in the run-up to the 2024 election……… will need to conduct further research

I just sincerely hope they don't fall into the same trap a lot of people online seem to with "hmmm this uses common writing conventions, it must be ai!" My m-dashes got in the old fashoned way*, thank you very much *ok i programmed in a new auto replace bc i hate alt commands

Clinics and hospitals are capitulating in advance and with no warning, cutting off trans people of all ages. Fascists made it clear from the beginning they are pushing for our extermination, and the people we’re supposed to entrust with our care are betraying us. This is dire.

I am in awe of short story/flash fiction writers. What do you MEAN you can spit out all these ideas and make them fulfilling and interesting in 100-5000 words? My ideas are all tough and stringy until i let them marinade in cerebrospinal fluid for 6 months & they come out with 50k words clinging on.

You can make fun of Bluesky for a lot of stuff but the second you bring out the “active daily users” graph you lose because I’m afraid that’s nerd shit.

Tragic situation but solid album art

White Evangelicals Stealing Brown Children Again, No One Surprised

This is important y’all. This is our chance to save the stars.

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

there's no shortage of trans women artists drawing trans women in beautiful and dynamic ways. once again failing to represent trans women with love and care in your heart is a skill issue

While we're all on the subject of "ha ha you dumbshit Americans don't have socialized healthcare," can we stop a minute and ask why even in most countries with socialized healthcare that the concept of luxury bones is somehow universal around the world?

One of my favourite descriptions in older literature is "a person of strange fascinations". Depending on context, it means they're either a weird sex pervert or a colossal nerd, and it's handy to have a phrase that can mean both of those things because in my experience they're often found together!

I sincerely hope this man continues to make tradcaths mad by acting in ways completely consistent with catholicism, but my fellow lefties remain aware that he is likely to keep acting in ways completely consistent with catholicism (pos AND derogatory)

I’ve gotten mild pushback on my blog due to my skepticism over AIs supposed complexity but I just keep being proven correct

in a social order where sex is constructed as a subject-object power relation (something one DOES TO someone else as a means of subordinating & feminizing them and affirming one's own masculine power) then yeah duh of course the right is horny for alt women, trans women, femboys, etc

Don’t have nightmares.

"There is no white culture": denies the cultural flattening and erasure white supremacy relies upon, good. "We [white people] don't have a culture": embraces that flattening, naturalizes/universalizes speaker's culture, is the equivalent of an American claiming they dont have an accent, bad.

Yeah, that line stuck out to me, too. Like... right there, the paper is editorializing and framing this as if trans people aren't actually a thing. Just people who "identify as transgender."

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

Broke: "DISCLAIMER: the author does not endorse any of the reprehensible actions written in this story. It is merely a narrative tool, so don't worry ;)." Woke: "Oh yeah I definitely am super into the torture stuff, thats why I wrote it. I'd write more if I could but I have a job"

PBSKids depicting a frenulum piercing. Alysa's power

Really great design that i just... can't look at Google form results on mobile. Perfect fucking system.

in many ways the tech trajectory of the last several years can best be described as 'the struggle to invent a computer that can click on an ad'

I don’t mock anybody as fiercely and unrepentantly as I mock people driving this thing. I point. I laugh. I gun my (superior) engine. I don’t let them into traffic. I don’t let them pass on the right or the left. I will out my car back into park rather than give them next for a parking space.

"But you can't make all those people US citizens" Why not? It shouldn't be harder to make people safe and secure in this country than it is to commit crimes against humanity.

"thin places" are locations where the veil between the physical and spiritual worlds is said to be particularly thin.

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem.

PSA for Discord's new age verification! If you get hit by it and refuse to give them any ID or face scans as you should, here's a way to just... bypass it. Go to Settings - Family Centre and then just enter a date of birth that's 18+ It's really that simple. Give them nothing.

Watching a documentary on mammal origins and the experts keep referring to these early animals as "our ancestors" which is correct, but it just makes me think "O ancestors, what is your wisdom?" Shrew-like critter: "hide in burrow, cuddle mate, eat nuts and seeds" which is also correct.

they’re radicalizing guys name colt shelby who work in the oil and gas industry

In many cases, the Flock destruction was clearly intended as a public message, as in Eugene, OR, where the saboteurs left note at the scene that read "Hahaha get wrecked ya surveilling fucks." The message was carried on the local news. At the end of the year, Eugene terminated its Flock contract.

Also then he wouldn’t have any money, and I’d pay $2,000 to make that happen

fellow leftists: when someone says to a politician "why are you not keeping to your campaign promises?" it doesn't help to go "lol did you really expect them to?" bc often the answer is no. they didn't. they're just trying to invoke some public accountability. stop being jerks.

I very rarely listen to music and play phone games and HOLY SHIT pausing my music in another app to play your tune for your ad should be illegal

You know, I'd never considered that I could bird shitpost my way into learning audio production and composition This knowledge may have ramifications, Later

Colorblind caveman when the tribe tells him about nature: