Interesting piece on the psychology of transphobia and the need for a clear, rigid boundary between men and women, a hangup of TERFs and indeed society as a whole. Suddenly remembered something I read about when researching Sinophobia: bigots' terror of mixed race people. Rohmer, Lovecraft, Fleming.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

The money was always there for the good things.

Reform's shadow agriculture minister keeps quoting mein kampf and the Green party compared him to hitler: both extremes are responsible for Nazifying our politics

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

Had a sudden revelation about Catch-22 last night while watching Atomic Blonde?! dreamer-easy.dreamwidth.org/1622406.html

Two days ago a sitting US Senator was pepper sprayed for protesting ICE and it didn’t even become national news.

I keep getting this Guardian story mixed up ...

"No we don't have any pictures of the Mona Lisa, but thanks to AI we can show you what a computer thinks the Mona Lisa looks like."

first time a crew loses someone in the spill zone their assumption is always: it's gonna be damn near impossible to recover them. except then you send out a few teams and all of em come back with the body. one team has two, saw a dozen more out there. then you start noticing the little differences

“how many words are in each chapter of your book about particle physics?” “well, how long is a piece of string theory”

polanski shouldn't have apologised over hypnoboob gate. someone hired him to treat chest dysphoria with hypnosis. it's a good thing to do. every other party is enmeshed with a league of billionaire paedophiles. he tried to make someone feel good about their boobs. what are we talking about

tfw you realize how the trans rights protests are going to go in the UK.

In the UK we're really good at pubs, higher education, and the creative industries. And this government are trying to kill all of them. (rehashing my hot take again)

Another day, another set of reasons why replacing Starmer with Burnham is utterly pointless given all the things we are annoyed with Starmer for.

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

It is with great regrets that I cannot go to Don Jr. wedding. I would love to be at the wedding of Don Jr., who is my son, and to the woman, but too many important duties make it impossible, including the war, which we have won, and also Grogu movie. Many Grogu duties. Grogu will be at White House.

After transitioning more than 20 years ago, never once having a problem in a public toilet in any of the 15+ countries I have visited or lived in since, it really is jarring to have the government encourage my total removal from public life. But I will not change how I live at all.

I experience discomfort and distress every time I share a bathroom with somebody who went to a private school or lived for any time in Cornwall. please @EHRC can you segregate the posh and Cornish people away from me

Congratulations to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on somehow making Theresa May’s Conservative Party the most socially progressive government of the last decade, I suppose. Really impressive to be that fucking ghoulish a person.

pikachu has never been so shocked

Spectre head induces political upset with video of secretary Filomena Holes becoming eaten in confrontation with shark

people are always like "oh my god, this actor would be a great doctor who" and its just someone who wore a coat in a tv show once

honestly this is on us for not nuking silicon valley the day they pitched 'what if money but darker'

we're done man. hope you had fun

We asked Roland Barthes whether the author was dead

Yesterday Far Right leader Tommy Robinson and his followers openly called for Islam to be removed from the UK and us Muslims to be remigrated. If he had said this about Jews, quite rightly, there would be a national response. But it has been eerily quiet today.

"I'M A MAN ON THE EDGE. ANY CLOSER AND HE GETS IT! I'LL FUCKIN' DO IT!"

Caroline Lucas and Andy Burnham were in the closet making proportional representation and I saw the proportional representation and then the proportional representation looked at me.

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

Don’t trust someone who doesn’t have VLC on their laptop.

wow if only there was an organisation that could dig labour out of this deep pit of ideologically impotence it just magically appeared in because of no specific existing organisation

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

me in 2015 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister vs me in 2026 hoping Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister

Please retweet.

Honestly I love this shit. Try to come up with a legal distinction in your head to justify only doing this in your opponent's constituencies. Seriously, it's a lot of fun.

what the hell did I just read

I'm gonna get put in woke belmarsh when it turns out the "chronic condition which means I can't cook rice or read poetry" is real

The Wes Anderson exhibition at the Design Museum is very good, but I’d recommend you ideally go with your wife who worked on a couple of the films features, who can point out all the bits she worked on, and you can smugly smile with pride and take lots of photos.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Released as a single 35 years ago to this very day, R.E.M.’s Shiny Happy People. I was nine when it was released. If you’d told me then that 30+ years later I’d spend a couple of hours designing a parody of The Shining poster, I’d probably tell me to grow up. Kids can be so ruddy perceptive.

me when i don't have any policies or ideas to improve people's lives and then i lose an election by an unprecedented landslide

wanting to bone your personal trainer is like 2/3rds of why personal training works

obama: democrats need to start talking slowly and plainly to the poors about how rent is too high stupid poor: are they going to do anything you lower rents if they win in the midterms or 2028? obama: *cashing a check from netflix for more money than any of us will ever see in our lives* what?

People go on about the importance of player agency but I think its better to recruit players personally rather than via a third party 🤷‍♀️

Lest we forget. #StarWars

Let us take a moment of silence to mourn, each of us in our own private way, for Mon Mothma's hair. #Andor