people reading Dante’s Inferno in 1321

No, seriously, #makeaterriblecomicday #makeaterriblecomicday2026

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For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

oh my god

A blocked CDC study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published in JAMA Network Open, a well-established medical journal. The study found the COVID-19 vaccination cut winter emergency department visits and hospitalisations by around 50% Source: www.phillyvoice.com/cdc-covid-19...

Reflection is now criminal trespassing.

Oh noes. Won’t someone think of the extremely cashed up.

TLDR: Substack promise that if you leave their site (e.g. because you no longer want to give part of your income to venture capitalists) you can take ALL your subscribers with you. The catch: ACTUALLY you can only take some of them. The rest will think you've vanished & no longer do any writing.

"Some might perceive an obvious trap in your political opponents counseling you to alienate your own core voters, but Labour hasn’t seen it yet." Quite. Excellent piece.

But I've been reliably told the war has been stopped like eight times already

Is it reassuring or deeply fucking annoying that the supervillains screwing us all over seem to be regularly and laughably incompetent

NEW: Thiel's Dialog society privately told members their data was stolen in a cyberattack. But WIRED found it was just readable to anyone on a misconfigured web page. Its lawyers sent us a legal demand to hand over the data. We passed.

We’re really gonna regret wasting the name “Watergate,” huh

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

In Spain Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez has prioritized job creation, wealth redistribution & green reindustrialization, with minimum wage increases, progressive taxation & a big, sustained programme of public investment. In 2024, The Economist judged Spain to have the world's most successful economy.

Your regular reminder that Ayn Rand, who was a stupid person with hateful and selfish ideas, died on public assistance that a government social worker helped her sign up for. In the real world, when Atlas shrugs, innocent people die.

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

In this case I suspect correlation *is* causation

oh no, who* would have expected Karl Stefanovic would be a fucking halfwit palling around with nazis? *everyone

Sir Kier Starmer, supposed human rights lawyer, fought a beige battle against the trans community in his two years as PM, inserting culture war politics into healthcare, denying science showing the positives of transition and standing by as his goons introduce trans segregationist guidelines.

Immediate banger.

Some bosses say full-time, in-person work boosts productivity or collaboration. “Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego,” write Adam Grant, Marissa Shandell and Courtney Elliott.

people are tired of being told we have to play by the rules when the other side doesn't even acknowledge a rule book. we want politicians ready for this moment. ready to fight. like, actually fucking fight. put your body on the line like the PTA moms in Minneapolis did. no more bullshit.

Well worth reading or listening to. An incredible level of damage in just a few years. The US won't recover from this decline in my lifetime.

If you’d like the gist of this article a small-time blogger covered it two years ago www.motor1.com/features/713...

I am finishing Graham Greene's 1938 The Confidential Agent and there is literally nothing about the fundamentals of energy geopolitics and the deafness to appeals about justice THAT HAS CHANGED. 🧵 [corrected thread]

Today, limiting warming to 1.5C is cliff-edge impossible (the purple lines). Starting in 2006 (the highlighted yellow line) would have merely been hard.

Brilliant eulogy speech tonight by Vica Bayley for John Kudelka.

In 2019, the magnificent and sorely missed genius cartoonist Jon Kudelka told the whole world everything it ever needed to know about Pauline Hanson. #auspol #LestWeForget

Kudelka (RIP) may have left us but his shop keeps going. Here they are from an insta post at Dark MOFO

18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).

The cardinal rule with Trump is he agrees with whoever he last spoke with and since he signed the MOU the last people he spoke with was Iran

Swimmers look the plunge in the annual winter solstice swim at Long beach in Hobart. The event marked the close of Tasmania’s Dark Mofo festival. 📷: 1–6 & 8: Rob Blakers/AAP / 7: Ethan James/AAP

"[Justice Jeremy] Johnson did not allow the defendants to tell the jury that they were facing being sentenced as terrorists ... [H]e undermined the role of the jury, in effect deciding on matters which were for the jury to decide — principles of immediacy, value judgements, and reasonableness."

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

Hey babe, wake up:

#PeteWhishWilson Nobody is talking about this... We all need to wake up to this! The rise of #OneNation is so off the charts it defies usual political explanations. #Greens won't let this potential foreign interference slide by unchecked. Nothing less than our democracy is at stake. #AUSPOL

History has hatched in London. For the first time in over 360 years, pelican chicks have successfully been born in St. James’s Park. These four new arrivals mark a monumental milestone for wildlife in the heart of our capital.

A stunning 2,000 year-old #Roman bowl made of translucent blue-green mosaic glass 🩵 Looks like it contains the cool turquoise blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea! 🌊 Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart 📷 by me #Archaeology

Trump threatened to resume bombing and threatened to murder Iranian negotiators. Killing negotiators under the flag of truce is pure perfidy. "You close it, and you won't have a country," Fox News said, quoting Trump. "You won't even make it back to your f—ing country."

holy shit the pokémon company is making a stop motion animated series with aardman animations? i may have to watch the everloving shit out of this…

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"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

Perpetually convinced not enough of the world loves and worships Grace Jones as they should

Elon Musk’s audacious SpaceX IPO has made him a (paper) trillionaire. But the road ahead for this secretive, debt-laden company is not going to be smooth, writes Stephen Mayne. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/15/s...

Look, it was green in Logan’s Run.

Your brain was never designed to doomscroll this much.