hey has anyone at the olympics offered an even vaguely nonracist explanation for this

everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks

"rich asshole who stops a multi-billion dollar project and causes an international incident to protect his lucrative duty-free gasoline concession" is really the perfect exemplar of parasitic trumpism. think of how wealthy the american people would be if we shook off all these bloodsuckers.

It is incredible how people will just find a way to tell you that bullying is okay

"please subscribe" left is honestly a great term because a lot of beefing does really boil down to content access and who is perceived to be entitled to it

I would also guess that the increasing awareness of autism in women and girls is also a key factor to this. More people are aware of how autism presents in women and girls compared to when I was misdiagnosed as neurotypical as a child. It used to be so stigmatised and that was just for boys.

This is why I do not like Stancil haters.

LGBT, mostly because it was a word derogatorily thrown around in my high school and I’m still not really comfortable with it (And some other intellectual and semantic reasons)

if you insist on making every part of your life content, it only makes sense that you'd have to figure out branding for low-effort sustenance

One of the most corrosive aspects of consumer identity just wholly swallowing politics for a ton of ppl is a belief that governance is this product that we receive passively rather than a process that we actively shape through ongoing participation

Looking back from 2026 the first Fantastic Beasts film is a fascinating time capsule because a) its one of many failed attempts by rival studios to launch an MCU-style franchise and b) Eddie Redmayne’s character is so obviously an Eleventh Doctor knockoff it’s not even funny

Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.

the thing about traffic congestion is that it doesn’t cost money to solve it, but rather the opposite: solving it with congestion pricing *raises* money that’s because a critical mass of car trips are very low value and it’s essentially a coordination problem to get them off the road at scale

This site is absolutely chock full of people who have the precise sort of middling intelligence and mindless zealotry that the witch trials were started by and it probably cuts into your circle

less alcohol consumption is probably good, i am less thrilled about the idea that social drinking seems to be reducing and replaced with nothing / being online

Seriously, don't flatter yourself. This is just the perfect cocktail of delusional and self-aggrandizing. These companies are trying to crack down because they don't want to kill the algorithmic golden goose, and nobody wants to be called into court & asked "so why does your platform allow CSAM?"

I am struggling to think of any country this describes that doesn’t *also* let homeless people die on the street.

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Apropos of nothing Bad bunny naming "all the American nations", including Jamaica and the forgetting the rest of the Caribbean says, uh, a lot

Rough thought, but some of the so-called "critiques" of the "performativity" of using knitted hats and yarn sales to fund mutual aid in the face of ICE occupation hinge on the organizers being women and performing stereotypically gendered work. It's premised on a sexist devaluation of "women's work"

Yes. People love to paint Corbyn and Starmer as opposites but there are throughlines over their tenures atop the Labour Party: corrosive, faux macho bullying, horrible appointments made for loyalty rather than competence, a sneering indifference to racism & gaslighting of its victims

quite funny that the entire Labour party has been spending months saying "let's wait for our Welsh and Scottish colleagues to be massacred before doing anything hasty" without really thinking through if anyone outside of England could hear them

Can’t believe Mark Carney is going to have to resign over appointing Karla Homolka Ambassador to Japan

Yes, that’s right.

The remarkable thing is Labour have basically made 'anti-child poverty' and 'climate change' the two core missions or this Government and... ... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.

The way Chris pincher has been basically been erased from boris downfall is really instructive in Westminster culture and how these people get away with it

Reflecting on this, I think everyone should have the experience of getting documented proof that yes, in fact your enemies are conspiring against you.

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

Sometimes I browse AH new books to see random unexpected indie and self-pubbed stuff - I do that less now the category has fifteen new slop books a day, it's demoralising and leaves me constantly, wearyingly paranoid about everything else

I have yet to see any evidence that there is a market for AI-generated books outside of people being tricked into thinking they are not AI-generated books. AKA, it is a project of scamming and deceiving people, and really should be treated as fraud

anyways. someone said that bay area cnl is basically the neolib version of psl, and i think that's right. these kinds of self-marginalizing actions are, in many ways, deliberate: they alienate outsiders, but in precisely that same moment they solidify the in-group's solidarity. that's the point

There are only 2 real responses to housing scarcity. You can either build enough homes to accommodate everyone or start drawing up a list of “undesirable demographics” to exclude. I know which side I’m on.

A glass cliff so tall and transparent they got two women for it

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

I’m struck by how FPV drones have revolutionized both cinematography and warfare roughly in the same time

Nothing makes one prouder to be British than someone resigning in disgrace because we still understand both those words

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

icymi

Nerd Tardis.

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

The people posting an AI cartoon of themselves...you realise the rest of us are looking at it like you're a child who just approached the grown ups table. 'whats this? you as a cartoon is it? With a little cup of coffee. Oh wow.' We're ruffling your hair and telling you to go back outside and play

i honestly believe one of the most psychologically dangerous things you can do is hang around with people who pretty much agree with you on everything

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

So the story of the honourable Sir Keir acting the same as that lying cad Mr Johnson ends with the same constitutional outrage of his team threatening to dissolve a parliament from which a viable new government could be formed, solely to threaten his internal opponents with losing their seats

Dan Levy

Choosing to believe that Chris Williamson lost some kind of bet which is why he has been forced to propose this: