Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

utterly comical how quickly it became apparent that the Nobel Peace Prize committee screwed up. they're going to have to give next year's to the frog

No justice. Utterly disgusted for the Bloody Sunday families. An obscene decision and a dark day.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... There's no justice. There'll never be justice.

Normally football wouldn't catch my attention, but my great grandfather was president of Aston Villa in the late 80s, so I felt an overwhelming amount of responsibility to write to them. Validating these genocides is not something I believe my family would want.

The new @terzijdehorde.bsky.social is really really good. Any chance of a London show sometime? #MetalSky terzijdehorde.bandcamp.com/album/our-br...

The choices of gender-based salutation (translated from German) on the bahn dot de booking site are absolutely wonderful. Mister, Woman, Neutral salutation. And are you a mere Dr., a Prof. Dr., or an exalted Prof. Dr. Dr ?

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

twitter is currently a frankenstein combination of 4chan and tumblr. we all know this. but bluesky is a different beast that i don't think people born after ~2004 fully grasp. bluesky is a frankenstein combination of tumblr and somethingawful

I'm going to be honest, while I know exactly why these people are doing it, I genuinely think their strategy of associating Jewish people *specifically* with the ongoing Palestinian genocide is a horrendous strategy that will imperil the safety of ordinary Jews in the long term.

Lots of us lived through the horrible, isolating, immiserating and downright terrorising culture produced by Section 28 the first time round. It has a lasting impact on me even now. And we'll be damned if we sit back and watch you do to trans kids today what was done to us back in the day.

I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4

Post a concert pic you took! I keep on meaning to take my favourite ones I've taken and put them in an album. God knows I have enough of them.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

Let's be clear. The proposal to deport hundreds of thousands of people born in Britain to parents legally resident in Britain, just because they are black or brown, is not 'right populism'. It's the cornerstone policy of the 1970s National Front.

CN: extreme transphobia Last Saturday, my husband and I were stopped in Camden by a very drunk man who'd obviously been on that day's fascist march. He asked us where he could find "a transgender" as he "fancied a shag". It was a truly horrible encounter. We said wtf and walked away.

freshly boxed cat for you all

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

watching UK mainstream media yammer incessantly about "threats to free speech" because an influencer in america got shot with not a single word about the !!!NINE HUNDRED ARRESTED PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS!!! and I don't even have an adequate metaphor for how fucking pathetically cynical it all is

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

very strange to check UK news websites and see that the top story is not anything happening in our country, or anything about ukraine, gaza or so on, but some american podcaster getting shot

The stuff Jeffrey Epstein’s friends felt comfortable saying and drawing in grotesque detail with their names attached knowing they would not face consequences is the kind of thing I think of when I think about rape culture and how sexual violence against girls and young women is actually glorified

This coming Saturday! Whatever else you might be otherwise up to or thinking of planning, a whole day of craft beer and metal will be way better I guarantee.

I hope I did your fever dreams some justice!!

@whmpodcast.bsky.social emergency episode on the Ice Cube War of the Worlds when??? Please I am begging you

that new Deftones album is fucking great isn't it. damn

my explanation for why fascism upends economies is largely because markets needs facts to function properly and per the formula the american fascists are doing their best to destroy truth. it is also why i keep saying generative ai is a fascist project to distort knowledge and learning.

With only 8% of Democrats backing Israel’s genocide, there’s emerged a buyer’s market for empty performative outrage: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

James Dobson dying is a staring into the middle distance type of event. You have likely directly suffered bc of him. Few have done more to harm humanity at large in the past few decades. A principal architect of our current nightmare. No redeeming aspect. He was a rat made entirely out of plague.

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The Left was right about slavery, child labor, women’s suffrage, World War One, Civil Rights, LGBTQ rights, Vietnam, apartheid South Africa, the invasion of Iraq, Joe Biden’s mental health, Kamala Harris’s disastrous campaign, and Gaza. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-lef...

Introduce yourself with the last five concerts you attended: - The Grey (Cage Fight headlined but I ducked out 2 songs in. Not my thing but The Grey were *incredible*) - Deftones (one of the best shows I've ever seen) - Iron Maiden (ehh it was fun) - Vengaboys (oh yeah) - Froglord 🐸 A nice mix! 😅

So for in-app subscribers from iOS now, Substack takes 10% and then Apple takes 30%, and you (the writer) can’t opt out. You can opt out of charging all that rent to your readers, if you want. Get out of substack, folks! It’s just a platform now, and it’s just gonna keep getting worse.

It’s really rich of John Boyne and JK Rowling to think they speak for me and my rights and values. So maybe they should just go nurse their intolerance and bigotry in private.

Oh my god the tap water in the north west tastes SO MUCH BETTER than in Essex/London

If you know any Arab journalist or writer such as myself please be aware that were we in Gaza right now: 1- Israel would seek to murder us and 2- the NYT would publish a piece explaining why we’re bad people Our loved ones would still be mourning for us while the NYT goes on the offensive

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate.

As a black metal enjoyer: lol where to start!!!

Quick little fact check here: Israel has armed the Burmese military for decades, including during the Rohingya Genocide. Protesting Israel’s genocidal regime directly and materially benefits the people of Myanmar.

Having a Madame Bovary summer is all about: -cheating because you're bored -imagining what Paris must be like -little treats you can't afford -ignoring your child -knowing exactly where the pharmacist keeps the arsenic (just in case) -hiding in bushes

our Kiki is ridiculous and there are no coherent thoughts in her entire little head ❤️

Happy International Cat Day! This is Kiki and she is beautiful, perfect, silly, super soft, and the biggest baby in the world. We adore her so much! Look at that spotty belly, I cannot cope.

JK Rowling was the twist I don't think anyone could have anticipated but those of us who witnessed the 2013 Suzanne Moore meltdown in real time and the subsequent consolidation of british commentariat cultural grievance knew exactly what was going to happen

I have a new essay out in Splinter Mag! On Adam Curtis, 'AI'-generated Focus Groups, and data-centric ideology as understood through Walter Benjamin's "Capitalism as Religion". splintermag.com/Simulation-o...