The Irish government has released a report on the benefits of the pilot for a Basic Income for the Arts, and in a total shocker, it seems like it was good for the country as well as the artists. Nobody could have seen this coming. #SpeirGorm #UBI www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Look I'm not the man to do this but if somebody isn't making a supercut of Rapturetok influencers realizing they have to remain on this dogshit planet right now then I don't even know why I have a computer anymore.

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

Agree with every word of this, <from behind the sofa>. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Digital ID is a worse idea than ever. All your data won't end up in the hands of the Government, no even worse it goes to companies like Palantir who sell it to whoever for profit. You will be bombarded with ads and phone calls and your information will constantly be leaked.

“His force comes above all from the cowardice of others.” - de Gaulle on Hitler (1938)

My theory about the autism/neurodivergence panic? Yes it's rooted in transphobia and the eugenics of people on the spectrum who need assistamce with ADLs...but it's also linked to a disdain for a very vocal, hyper competent, demographic of skilled people with injustice sensitivity.

Kamala Harris: "It feels chaotic, but what I would offer you is what we are witnessing is the swift implementation of a plan that was decades in the making. Project 2025 didn't just drop out of thin air. That's a product of decades of work. Federalist Society, Heritage Foundation ... "

Right, off to take some paracetamol and give myself an autism.

And guess whose state is stuck in the middle of this shit...... www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

GWAR becoming the target of a right-wing cancel cycle is genuinely one of the funnier things i have witnessed in a few months

Land of the Free, y'all, where you can be cuffed and hauled away by four cops because [checks notes] an old lady doesn't like how you're sitting.

Side view of a dahlia #coloraday #pinkmon #eastcoastkin #bloomscrolling #photography

Choose your weapon? I choose zucchino rampicante! My favorite squash! Yes it grows almost as big as me sometimes. #gardening

This rapture shit is always very funny but man, I'm seeing reports of people quitting their jobs and selling their cars over it, and past a certain point it all starts getting a bit Heaven's Gate. I feel for their families. Kids are gonna wind up on the street cos dad thought god would beam them up

Nigel Farage pledged yesterday to remove all non-British citizens from any form of welfare access - including permanent residents who have contributed. Zia Yusuf then exempted those with EU settled status from the policy - so the slogan is now a false one. Reform have forgotten about Ireland too

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

Trump off on one, speaking at the White House: “In Cuba, they don't have Tylenol because they don't have the money for Tylenol. “They have no autism. Tell me about that one.”

For 6+years non stop, they have demonised every single one of us as predators, paedophiles and child mutilators. There can be no “conversations” with these ghouls.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

I’m not completely against the idea of geoengineering as one small part of a response to the climate crisis, but it’s a bit like trying to counter the damage of smoking cigarettes by taking some untested drug that MIGHT kill off parts of your body, instead of . . . y’know, stopping smoking.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

This is like latter-stage Caligula, except, instead of shagging his sister and elevating a horse, Trump is claiming paracetamol causes autism. (That said, he surrounds himself with plenty of inbred people and put a donkey's arse in charge of the CDC, so...)

If you can't stop your product from mass producing this stuff, your product should not be available to the public.

Every single day.

Basically, Farage is promoting fascism. I don’t see how anyone can deny it.

Farage and their psyops are very well created. Evil and medacious, yes, but they know what they are doing. It doesn't matter what the details of anything he and Reform say, as long as we are all bombarded with the word 'immigrants' all day, every day. It's to create racism and hate.

What is particularly "funny" to me is that universities before the current regime (even with all their diversity and ostensible progressivism) reliably posed no threat at all to capital or the national dominance of regressive politics, and yet that still wasn't enough somehow.

if you read nothing else today, please read this important article by harry litman, former us attorney and deputy assistant attorney general open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

I saw something that said 11.5 million. I’m waiting for an official source, but even with the cited numbers I saw, this tells us, Latine creators, the audience is there and we don’t have to change who we are. We just need to be our authentic selves and create.

It’s already at almost 80k. Won’t take much to get it over 100k. We can get more specific about our objections later (for example, the issue of gender markers), but might as well have an out and out “NO” as a starting point!

Universities and research depend on a large share of staff who are foreign-born. They’d lose lecturers, researchers and vital fee income. Government finances would collapse. Migrants contribute more in taxes than they take out. Deporting them means lower revenues and higher emergency spending.

If the folks marching in London today got their wish and a Reform UK government deported everyone not born in the UK, here’s what would happen. Instantly, over 15% of the population and 20% of employees would be gone overnight. The shock would hit GDP, tax revenues and public services hard. 🧵

Farage is a sick bastard, churning up hate for his own selfish reasons. I can promise you that applying for ILR and citizenship is an expensive process and we give the UK government many thousands of pounds, as well as paying tax like anyone else.

You know why ethnic minorities in the UK always feel second-class as if they're never safe in this country and could be asked to leave at any time? This is why:

DO NOT participate in #blueskyblackout2025 I'm nsfw artist and other nsfw artists are asking you to SHOUT! Bsky wants to censor us so the worst thing we can do is censor ourselves! Publicly shame them, use the feedback button, and post about it using the tag #bskycensorship Silence is compliance!

Moby Dick is a novel full of amazing depths and beautiful, aching strangeness. You could read it a hundred times without ever truly knowing it. And sometimes Melville just calls me out directly, the bastard:

'Forgive them, they know not what they do' should be checked out by a theologian. Is she really equating Charlie with Jesus Christ?

God forgive me for what I'm about to write but this looks like bukkake

We have gathered here to mourn the murder of one of our own and to encourage the murder of many others

BBC just uncritically airing JD Vance spewing lies at Charlie Kirk Christian fantasy rally. JD Vance saying a bunch of stuff about how as Christians for Charlie they must speak the truth every day. Ok. How about start with the truth about the 2020 elections? That seems like a really easy place […]

When Paul Pelosi was attacked with a hammer nearly to the point of death - the NEXT day charlie kirk said 'some true patriot should bail him out', speaking about his attacker. Fuck charlie kirk, fuck the idiots 'grieving' him, and fuck you. I refuse to give you what you deny others.🖕

Bet MAGA collectively, to a man and woman, don't know the name Anthony Borges .... but they all know the name Charlie Kirk. ==============

I don’t think comparing Charlie Kirk to the guy a city sentenced to death because he was the most annoying guy they knew is sending the message you want it to here

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Their intentions are very clear.

If your novel is set in the recent, pre-cellphone past and your plot depends on a dilemma that would now be resolved with a simple phone call, make sure the reader understands that by having a character say, "Too bad cellphones don't exist yet."

We want as many inclusive LGBTQ people as possible to buy tickets asap. Let’s peacefully (of course) show these gloating bigots just what they will ‘celebrate’ Please spread the word- asap.