Today in “log all the crimes, and keep ‘em in jail without bail until they’ve all been prosecuted successfully and serially”:

Previously on Me: I was boarding a transatlantic plane. In today’s episode: O hai rtn flt!

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

@katwhen.bsky.social apropos of recent discussion. Not convinced Richard Bignall has ever been north of the M8.

How hard is it to say “invading an American city with the US military is treason and the second we have power we will prosecute anyone who gave or obeyed an illegal order”

Have at it. The full list of cravens.

Not the worst words in air travel, but they’re not great. “Operating an entirely full service.”

Empty middle seat ftw on first leg of flight!

Off to airport for what I hope will be a mundane and run-of-the-mill week of work meetings in the US.

There’s a bunch of apps that will no longer update on my venerable iPhone 8 because it’s too old. They show as updatable, but the updates don’t complete. Not IMDb, though! No, that installs NO problem. And now all it does when it runs is say “your device is not supported”. What is the point?

Was clearing out some old boxes, and came across these.

Helping an 80+ patron try to navigate a web-based job application radicalized me. Not only should she not have to work at all, but something about watching her try to apply for a shitty job online when she’d never had access to a computer before filled me with incandescent fury at society.

Just been informed that today is THURSDAY and not Friday and that we have to do all this shit again tomorrow. Thoroughly unimpressed by this.

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

Wait a minute. Why aren't we celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's dissertation.

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Everyone is pulling their mask off these days. Note how people behave right now. It’s who they are.

American surgeon and US military veteran says what she’s seeing volunteering in a hospital in Gaza is worse than anything she’s ever seen. She reports many children under the age of 12 have been shot in the head.

Classic example of why the UK’s all-pervading football culture annoys me. “Home to seven premier league clubs.” In theory, that could mean nightclubs, book clubs, etc. But football is so baked in that it’s assumed everyone knows what it means.

Action movies.

This, it seems, is what the BBC had in mind when it drew up plans in March to alter “story selection” to win over Reform voters.

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Trans people are not a threat to women’s safety. Over 52,000 women have signed the open letter to say not in our name. Will you join them? notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

I just finished a reread myself, I definitely recommend people read/reread AGAHF. Cyborgs and ghosts aside, it's scarily prescient, incredibly funny and deeply moving. You also get to see two artists evolve, which is always neat!

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

And homophobic/heterosexist and all these things are so imbricated and intertwined.

Many media outlets hid the full truth of Trump -- his background in organized crime, his Epstein ties -- out of fear, only to be obliterated by him in the end. Had they not self-censored then, they might not be state-censored now. When you hide the truth, you face the consequences.

Fun fact about Yaxley-Lennon: he was barred from entering the US previously because of his extremist views, so he used a friend's passport to fraudulently enter, and was caught. In other words, he was literally an illegal immigrant.

In accordance with yesterday's post, we are now watching the Brosnan/Russo Thomas Crown Affair, and we are one heist in. It continues to be awesome.

Please forward all correspondence to: Mr Stevens Head of Catering The Canteen Death Star (Fully Operational) A Galaxy Far, Far Away

When people talk about AI these days, three things come to mind. Astrology, heroin, and guns.

For no particular reason, can I just say how much I adore the Brosnan/Russo remake of The Thomas Crown Affair? Top-notch heist porn.

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Regarding “it could never happen in the UK”, two things: First, you ever driven faster than the speed limit, and not been stopped/fined/prosecuted for it? Not all violations of the law are enforced equally, and if it’s not enforced, there’s nothing to stop you doing it.

Tod has a discord that offers help to healthcare workers who want to leave the US and move to Vancouver Island. You can probably find info on how to move to other parts of Canada but I'll be honest: I'm not sure why you'd do that. It's beautiful here and we sorely need you!

Putting this another way: “What was the word for people who collaborated with the Nazis but didn’t believe in their goals?” “Nazis. They’re called Nazis. No one cares why they did what they did anymore.”

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

No. You say you were whatever you like but you are racists.

Sorry, I’m just not gonna read anyone’s substack. I don’t know what kind of weirdo nazi shit is going on over there, but ya’ll need to get off of that site.

8 years ago today I realised a lifelong dream when my 1st book, Heroines of the Medieval World was published. Finally holding my own book in my hands was one of the best feelings ever. I owe huge thanks to Amberley Books, my family, friends and readers for the incredible support they've shown me

This is exciting. I was expecting to add maybe 4 or 5 titles to my list. But there are loads (see responses). We're seeing a renaissance of proper local journalism, not among the big companies, which mostly remain dire, but among independent publications founded by local people. Hope lies here ⬇️

How’s that Metaverse going, Zuck? The one that was such a sure-fire bet that you renamed the company over it?

I wonder how far we are from an Amazon Prime movie telling the story where Trump and Charlie Kirk personally took up arms to heroically thwart the libs’ 6 Jan coup at the Capitol and save democracy?

Passage (2007) by land artist Cornelia Konrads #WomensArt #Monday

Just a random rock, with a place to moor.

Over Sea, Under Stone.

This advert for. shanks lawnmower is not fucking around.

“Dude, where’s your boat?”

So we had a lovely week between Dundee and Arbroath. Now just having a quiet weekend before work resumes.