we focus a lot on how these are galvanizing events for the good guys but don’t sleep on how demoralizing they are for the bad guys, too

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

We do love a good protest sign 😊 Fantastic turnout today in London for the march against the far right @togetheralliance.bsky.social

Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID "into the wood chipper" which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & "Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help." Actively helping destroy govt agencies.

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Clean the air. Stop minimizing infectious disease.

"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it" YES OMG YES

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

when I teach about the connection between ableism and anti-abortion laws in my classes; I use myself as an example of a methotrexate user who wouldn't be able to access my meds, let alone rheumatological care, because of these kinds of increasing restrictions

What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

“Everywhere I went in New York people openly loathed the very sight of me. So naturally I concluded that the entire city had gone crazy and I left. There was no other possible explanation.”

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Why is it so seismic for the Covid inquiry to state this week that ‘Covid is airborne’? 1. It means that we never had the correct advice to protect ourselves and still don’t! Covid hasn’t stopped being airborne. 2. It means so much could have been prevented. 3. It means healthcare has been …

“It’s inevitable” “you can’t roll it back” “you just have to accept it”

America's housing and homelessness crisis is not a natural disaster. It is the result of political decisions—about wages, zoning, public investment, tenant rights, and who the economy is built to serve.

The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly. www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...

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Jesus when he comes back to Earth:

Great message about stuff we’ve left behind in the past, for good reason.

Flambéed his ass 🔥

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood. trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️ republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️ “sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️ naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️ villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️ powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️ list goes on

no I guess we won't acknowledge that this is all stolen from human writers

I am convinced that if you asked all the employees in my department how much they use or are enthusiastic about LLMs, it would inversely correlated to performance. The top rated people that I've talked to refuse to use it, the bottom performers use it all the time. AND IT SHOWS.

My hottest mental health take: A lot of depression and anxiety is situational, and warranted, because people live in shit circumstances. They’re poor, without resources, etc. and the reason it’s become popular to blame “mental health” is because it’s a way of evading responsibility.

More bad news for humanity. People claim to want to stop global warming but, as with COVID, they don't want to be inconvenienced or have less FUN to accomplish that. Just as we should be demanding clean air, we should be demanding that corporations change their behavior. Less plastic, for starters.

IF Gavin Newsom is on a ballot THEN me and many others will refuse to vote for him THEREFORE instead of bitching at me and others like me YOU should take the *years* you have and make sure that doesn't happen if you actually fucking care BECAUSE my position is immutable

My top 3 being in the top 3 and my top 5 in the top 6 is an incredible result, tbh. #Melfest #Mello #Melodifestivalen

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BREAKING: Trump was just asked if Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home: “I guess… Like I said, some people will die.”

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

There is no disguising it now. Mahmood (and the Labour party) are just evil bastards

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before Labour is a far right party

never, ever, ever, ever accept "how will you pay for it?" as an argument against social programs.

I know this is very funny but also pretty striking that our government lies about literally everything, including stuff that's easy to prove. Any Dem who ever sits down to make a deal across the aisle with this captured Congress, you're a dope.

Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.”

Doesn’t really get much more 21st century Britain than this: it’s a nightmarish disaster that produces nothing but murderous catastrophes, and it’ll only get worse now, but we absolutely cannot change anything about it, are you crazy?!

Funny that the BBC should amplify Trump's attack on Starmer when they could have fact checked Trump instead and pointed out that ignoring your allies' wishes is something that Churchill was quite comfortable in doing... bsky.app/profile/chlo...

Starmer should go full Churchillian and blow up every US jet on a British base or an American base on British soil to prevent the Iranians capturing them. It's what Churchill did to the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir in French Algeria in July 1940 to prevent the ships from falling into German hands.

I am concerned to see the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, and that the UK has allowed the US to use its bases for strikes on Iran. No matter how the Prime Minister tries to redefine offensive as defensive, this is a mistake.

Brilliant video on housing affordability, homelessness, and what happens when the only new housing you build is "luxury housing" by @justineunderhill.bsky.social youtu.be/rQW4W1_SJmc?...

Says everything about mainstream media in the West.

The Green Party has won more elections than Reform have. Why are Reform constantly on TV and the Green Party is ignored? The electorate says it should be the other way around.

It's more obvious when they use bombs, but it really should be stressed that this administration had already killed well over 400,000 children and 200,000 adults before they even started using their military. The scale of death here is difficult to wrap your head around.