They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Doing the Return of the Joker rewatch and was reminded of a top 10 post

Hard to say that when people keep asking her to clarify and she’s like “trans women want to eat your children and cis women are actually men and the only real woman is me, the lady who writes under 2 different male names for money”

John Lithgow will be remembered only for being a piece of shit, his obituaries will spend like 4 paragraphs describing his role as a colossal piece of shit and then hurriedly mention like one of his previous roles. "Before being a huge piece of shit, he voice-acted Lord Farquaad in Shrek."

Diego Riselli

so people do get that this "change in the israeli death penalty policy" is actually just another term for "turning palestinian jails into mass extermination camps," right that's something people understand, right

Like, I keep seeing these headlines describing the new Israeli policy goal --- mass murder of jailed Palestinians, who are often thrown into those jails for no given reason -- and they are talking about it like it's some technocratic tweak No It's prepping for a Holocaust against Palestinians

Ds could identify, investigate, & promulgate findings on a Solyndra-level scandal every week if they wanted. Display every cheat, every sidestep, every ethics violation, every hand in pocket. The objective is pointing out the spare reality of a "Trump Economy", which is just theft from taxpayers.

There should be a few hundred furious DOJ people in the national capital region, start there. Knives are sharp. You want to hire people who think their opponents should swing, not anyone obsessed with alumni weekend or hanging out at The Ned. You need true villains. Can Ds even think accordingly?

"Oh, it seems very bad that the Pentagon is dangling "access to deal flow" to Wall Street, hiring them in as AD personnel on an extended pay scale, letting them loot the Treasury, then they all waddle back to their home office, scot free. Should we stop this, or just hire more donors' friends?"

It would be wise if Ds in Congress were thinking about hiring staff who understand the technical details behind the crimes the Republicans are committing. There might be a once-in-a-generation opportunity to go after financial self-dealing, war crimes, ICE, etc., but only if Ds have the muscle.

Resident Evil XCOM is a great idea www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w7E...

The Troggherd had a dankalicious time at @mightyfounding.bsky.social's first event. Good vibes all round, ran so smoothly you'd think they were veteran TOs! London crowd is always great (even if it's a sharkpit for an old troggbrain like me) Best Sports + Paint Nom! Full writeup in alt text

In Atlanta:

A company founded by a man who doesn't believe in democracy and which is aiding Trump's destruction of the American republic and whose UK arm is run by the grandson of Britain's most famous fascist, which helped him get his job, criticises "ideological groups." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

news.osna.fm/israels-knes... Palestinian only. Israeli military courts have a 96% guilty success rate against Palestinians

This grinning, leering spectre is the deputy speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament. Death penalty for Palestinians ONLY, has passed a vote in the Israeli Parliament 2/2

A woman holds up a noose and a lethal injection, celebrating Israeli plans to introduce the death penalty for Palestinians. Her husband holds a gun labelled 'occupation', a plane labelled 'expulsion', and a house labelled 'settlement' 1/2

Come on now, we have to stop pretending these are the good guys when it is clear for all to see they are monsters.

“Not our war.” Starmer’s right about one thing: Farage would have us in it by teatime. The same man who cheered Brexit as sovereignty now wants British blood and British fuel queues for a conflict he’d never fight himself. He’s not a patriot. He’s a propagandist with a pint.

Earnest post: Drivers in Britain are absolutely psychotic and entitled, but the legitimacy issue not helped by the fact councils v. Often ask third parties to handle the entire process so people are speaking to a 19 yo on minimum wage who is trying to cover up for incredibly disorganised leadership

Generally the way: (x) is an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory which only lunatics believe OH MY GOD (pointing) WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? Anyway, as I was saying, this is old news and the officials responsible have moved on. We’ve got more immediate problems than troublemakers digging up the past

Given the general condescending nature of the press coverage, and the way the Lads are taking snipes, I expect by October the press will be reporting that Morgan did indeed fake his phone theft with the same tone they use to acknolwedge the weather.

Lads, people understand that “guy who is under extreme scrutiny for misconduct, accidentally misplaces incriminating evidence” is automatically suspect. They don’t think Morgan was burgled by the Loch Ness Monster.

Commentators sitting around snorting and hooting at the idea Morgan is probably up to no good doesn’t spring from e.g. a reasonable assessment of probability, does it. It’s so that the lads can all swoon theatrically in shock, when even more comically horrible stuff about Peter and Morgan comes out.

1) Why even poll this, 2) This isn’t “trust in politics”, it is “do the public recognise suspiciously convenient bullshit when they smell it”, and 3) Never give proven liars the benefit of the doubt! The most obvious stuff you would expect a randomly chosen punter to understand instinctively.

I don't consider McSweeney's phone 'theft' to be a conspiracy theory in the same way I wouldn't call the villagers conspiracy theorists for thinking the boy crying wolf is just bullshitting them again.

[OC] Bernhadetta, the Gunpowder Witch ~ 🔥💣🧹 In trying to replicate the power of dragon's fire she discovered black powder. Harnessing that power this witch became feared in any battlefield, always followed by her artillery-men. --- A new character for my Unnamed Knight Project.

This video has been killing me for like half the day now

"we should never do litmus tests" is one of those things that consultants think sounds smart but falls apart if you think about it for two fucking seconds

Terrible answer from Beshear www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just to be clear: “J-pilled” is referring to what the far-right calls the “JQ” or “Jewish Question.” It’s not at all specific to Israel but rather focuses on the influence of Jewish people as a group and often feeds directly into antisemitic conspiracy theories.

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

Imagine claiming to be a Star Trek fan while expressing disdain for at least 90% of what Star Trek is (and always has been)

"Mr Polanski added: “We have a plan to tax the extreme wealth being hoarded in this country. “We need to make sure that money can flow around the economy to where it’s really needed, like our schools.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2598196...

The BBC News website looks like GB News listing the nationality of any offender who isn’t white British… but when it comes to hiring offenders they are unsurpassed. The call is coming from inside the house!

people have covered all the usual stuff of how this just enables censorship and surveillance so i wanna say it's Cool how when mega companies fail and harm people, there's never any "-so we need to investigate them and drastically reduce their wealth and power". instead "welp, they said no"

I was told by Hillary Clinton that the reason younger liberals don't like Israel is because they didn't learn about Camp David on TikTok

Upsetting all the right people. 😂🤣

One of the really rewarding things about translating Earth Must Die was the many (many) conversations with @thewarlocs.bsky.social team making sure jokes landed and worked well in other languages, and that complex wordplay and topics made sense. Quality translation is not at all a robotic process.

Rod Serling turned to making Twilight Zone so he could use science fiction and fantasy to comment on social issues, because his 1956 story inspired by Emmett Till (then only the year prior) had network execs force changes to satisfy racists. Unlike Weir, he had points to make. Let's be like Serling.

Hard pass. These "won't someone PLEASE think of the children!" bills are always just Trojan horses for censorship of online speech. First it's "oh it's protecting the kids", then it's banning LGBTQ content because it's not "child appropriate" or whatever. Do not support bills like this, please.

This is all democrats can do. This is it. They can't actually hold these companies accountable or take them to task, all they can do is increase policing and say "there, fixed." This is because anything else would require dems to actually harm a billionaire which they will never do

Ben Gvir's equivalent in US politics would be literally if the leader of the Aryan Nations splinter group The Order were elected to Congress and given a cabinet position instead of dying in a shootout with the FBI. It's difficult to explain how much of a supremacist extremist Ben Gvir is.

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

A new contender for best headline

it all works so well when it spins in game!!! bulma's mom and that one lady in the tournament get the same treatment with their hair

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

"actually Kier Starmer is doing a really good job in incredibly difficult circumstances. He is a strong and credible leader."