The GOP Platform: Protect the fetus; starve the child. Honor the soldier; abandon the veteran. Enrich the corporation; fleece the worker. Quote the Bible; ignore the verses.

Adjudicated rapist says what?

to be more positive: if I made a list of my top ten books all of them would be terry pratchett. pick one at random.

Love this one. The blue LED youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M?...

not to be the golden oldies guy, but lets be honest, wheel still GOATed

Update dammit is-he-dead-yet.com

Imagine if a journalist simply asked "how was your son's wedding?" and let him confabulate away how very beautiful it was, all the people who shook his hand at it, etc

Maybe next year I’ll go to UKGE

Anger aside, the EHRC guidance is in no way "clarity". It is a complete cluster fuck. It opens the door to even more discrimination against trans individuals. It absolutely allows for discrimination based on how someone looks. It is entirely unworkable in every way. It's an utter shitshow. 7/

So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Any answer that isn't "we refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram and we'll see you in court" is, in my personal opinion, entirely unacceptable.

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

The difference? Human connection. Early internet/web made connecting to all sorts of people, communities, events possible. Queer kids immediately began to treat the web like "their favorite aunt." AI, on the other hand, is a project about destroying human presence and connection.

Lol yes remember when everyone booed email at the graduation ceremonies? Me neither. The Dewey Decimalites learned about the card catalog in 1st grade and by 12th grade we were teaching our parents about search engines. All of that shit was useful. AI is for lazy incurious chumps and perverts.

dude i’ve been in tech for decades. i know scores of developers and engineers. they are the opposite of “thrilled.” none of us are “luddites.” your smug attitude about AI squares with the industry as a whole though so points for staying on-brand.

It's been fascinating to follow AI industry's journey from "it's smarter than your experts!" to "at least it's cheaper than a human" to "your annual token budget ran out in March"

[Sighs wearily, taps sign, glares at UK derisorily over glasses]

#CarlSagan Putting in easy to understand terms how we knew the #Earth was round in ancient Egypt. #flatearthers #science

Comedia

A little reminder for Andy Burnham. There's no middle ground between people wanting to exist and people who don't want those people to exist. Ironicly, those positions are a binary. You can't exclude trans people from public life in a fair way. You can't do a genocide on us compassionately.

A world that doesn't suck is possible

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

I’ve been hearing anecdotes about cost frictions with AI adoption but whoa

A timely repost. A friend transitioned 30+ years ago. Our circle was puzzled, uncertain, ill informed, but without today's toxic attitudes in the media, most supported our friend because this wasn't about us. We soon realised what made us friends was unchanged, and they were right about their gender

On the tube

yeah this is a freaking dumb premise "we're running out of new ideas" but yeah good point, have you tried dealing with insane income inequality so people can like create instead of scrapping to survive while other people go to space for fun and hoard all the means of production? man fuck all this

They're going to lose more. Fuck Labour. Fuck their bathroom bans, their persecution of immigrants and refugees, fuck their support for Netanyahu's genocide, fuck their sexism, fuck their Islamophobia and antisemitism, and fuck their climate denial, too. Vote Green instead.

Google I/O summary - shipping an LLM to your Chrome whether you want it or not - destroying search once and for all - pervert glasses 👍

This clip did amuse me a bit.

💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

A Path to Justice — A cartoon by Nick Anderson

Immigration obsession is all about racism. We need to be clear about that. People who don’t give a toss about public services or housing have not suddenly become public spirited.

Everyone in the Trump administration doesn’t appear to have aged psychologically or emotionally beyond 13.

John A. Klinner Ariana G. Savino Ashley B. Pruitt Seth R. Koval Curtis J. Angst Tyler H. Simmons Benjamin N. Pennington Robert Marzan Jeffrey O’Brien Declan Coady Nicole Amor Noah Tietjens Cody Khork The thirteen lives lost.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Those pupils are way too parallel for my skills. Mine usually have one perfect eye and one grotesque horror that's caked under layers, weirdly bulging, and staring off in an unnatural direction. Modern and sci-fi minis where they're wearing shades are always a relief.

Their wealth is so vast yet they can't even see that they could change the world for the better so easily by radically sharing it. The ultra-rich could fund a no-strings UBI and be remembered as heroes instead of hoarding villains.

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

watching the tech industry burn out all the people i know who actually care about delivering things that aren’t perpetually broken, all at the altar of infinite velocity, is making me utterly utterly furious.

On a more domestic UK politics level, it shreds Starmer and Labour's credibility when it comes to their claim of being serious about European defence and foreign policy. Whenever Starmtroopers accuse Greens of being soft on Russia they'll get waivers for Russian fossil fuels thrown back at them.

As Tetiana Yakovlieva, the last surviving member of her family, buries her two daughters that Russia murdered in their home in Kyiv, and Russia openly threatens Latvia at the UN, the US and UK respond by giving Russia money because higher fuel prices make some people a bit grumpy. Fucking disgrace.

I live in a big one called the United Kingdom and it pretty much works most of the time.

Apart from being a gutless bigoted weak nasty man Starmer's claim to be a friend of Zelenskyy with photo-ops full of hugs and smiles didn't last long. Any PM who panders to the Trump regime and betrays Ukraine must have a political life expectancy measured in days. He has to go. No ifs no buts.

Is it morally defensible? No. But is it a coherent response to a difficult situation? No. Ah, but is it effective in bringing down fuel prices? Ha, you're not going to believe this...

BoardGameGeek fires veteran advertising manager for rejecting campaign due to firsthand experiences of demonic possession: boardgamewire.com/index.php/20...