You do not get to draw the line for society. You absolutely get to draw it for yourself. If you are not willing to do that, you are abdicating one of your fundamental responsibilities and privileges as a thinking being. That is the one thing they can never take away from you.

I keep using the term "non compos mentis" to describe Trump because that's how he's acting. It's beyond his longstanding history of total ignorance, habitual lying, and constant exaggeration. He's genuinely disconnected from reality and often incapable of expressing coherent thoughts.

Sky box is broken

The SIDES (© LexG) were once a defining feature of character acting and especially in classic cyberpunk. You cannot have cyberpunk without the sides

I have rarely been as hooked by any story as I am by the opening paragraphs of this in the BRILLIANT FT magazine (it’s always good but this week particularly perfect):

I am on the shuttle train to the terminal, why the fuck are you trying to sell me flights?

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

Delete the dead’s browsing history?

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos. Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

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And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Gonna be honest the number of CCTV cameras is not fine but its not something I can really do anything about.

For a minute I thought these were the Civ 2 advisors

One more day then I can ignore Britain for three glorious weeks

'We're clamping down on deliveroo cause migrants' and not 'we're clamping down on deliveroo cause they're exploitative wankers only profitable off the backs exploited workers' isn't very laboury.

The Treasury chucks 50p in the direction of the Finchley Road, stares expectantly for 10 seconds, then shrugs its shoulders and walks away saying "we can't just keep throwing money at the problem".

the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse

The UK is not a papers, please society. It is a 'can you navigate a Kafkaesque thicket and/or get someone from a middle class occupation to sign your papers please society'.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

At my Costco today

Brit-Cits have nothing to fear

As a former resident of Planet Deus Ex in the dim distant past this remake is legitimately a crime

I've long supported some kind of ID card, and the initial Labour Together proposal was IMO a v good way of doing the 'how do you do this in a way that avoids it becoming a Home Office thing', but wow the government is not managing the politics of it well.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

"If there’s any fact we know about history, it’s that everybody’s been moving everywhere and having sex with everybody, forever." — Paul Spickard, professor of history, UC Santa Barbara

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

If you want to support the cool TTRPG things @marshdavies.bsky.social and I are trying to do this year then it would be hugely appreciated if you purchased our amazing low-prep one-shot Blood Cotillion, or one of our other TEETH RPGs! Thanks so much. teethrpg.itch.io/blood-cotill...

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

This isn’t a hot take this is just basic facts Also the cavaliers were assholes

Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack latest from the Financial Times 😬😬😬

Not a huge surprise this culture produced revolutions, is it

More classy yet also fossiliferous ceramics from the V&A's collections: an earthenware dish made by Daphne Corke for the Chelsea Pottery, London (1953). Accession number C.73-1953. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O19230/...

Andy Burnham serves red meat so delicately it would get a Michelin star

"Children don't remember what you try to teach them," Jim once said. "They remember what you *are*." Look a child in the eye when you speak with them. Don't talk down to them. Love and support them. And remember: they're smarter than you think. Oh, and make them laugh. ALWAYS make them laugh. /7

Dream big--but get busy! Once Jim was on TV, he worked hard and eventually created his own brand of puppets--The Muppets--as well as a distinct style of performing. He was so good, in fact, that by the time he was a college freshman in 1955, he had his own TV show on NBC, SAM & FRIENDS. /3

Jim Henson would've been 89 years old today. Commemorate his life and legacy by celebrating creativity, diversity, imagination, peace, and just plain silliness. Walk with me a bit while I talk about Jim and his work--and leave your comments about what he means to you. Right this way. /1

I was on BBC Radio 5 today with Adrian Chiles, Kate Slotover and Emily H Wilson, talking SF book recs from about 1 hour into this link. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“You just lost The Game”

I love voting for new Lego ideas, even though I rarely buy them. I want this one so badly though. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

I have to assume this means he keeps everything hidden behind fabric and just thrusts wildly as she runs past.

The China Vehicle Collision Repair Technical and Research Center posted this video of their new battery ejection system for EVs for when they experience thermal runaway, and I cannot stop laughing. Good luck whoever is to my right! #cars

This is definitely what a soldier and sailor wants to see after a few months at the front so I guess it works?

Two Roman finds from Rottweil (my beautiful hometown 😊): vessels in the shape of boars, dating 2nd century AD. They were used to hold oil. 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

It is day 445 and Starmer has relaunched the progressive fightback approximately 8 times so far.

I DEMAND ROYALTIES

Oasis? THAT OASIS? WHAT THE FUCK?

If you like Thief (1998)'s aesthetic but thought "this needs to be a high adrenaline first person combat platformer with an emphasis on speedrunning in the vein of Neon White" well I have good news for you Bloodthief exists and it is exactly that done very well

How do we destroy the organically arising anti-austerity movement, repel as many people inspired by it as possible and replace it with bung-hungry conservative reactionaries? Well, we have ways.