Seriously Meta? You think people want a special AI slop feed?! techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/m...

🧵Spotted on the School Holidays in Aotearoa New Zealand: A young human (7?) swaggers into the library with Nana. He's got three book bags looped over his arm and is wearing a very serious expression. Pausing by the door he says: "I'm going to be a while. These bags hold a LOT of books." (1)

Gen X plea to digital world - please stop having video instructions for things that can just be explained in a dozen words or fewer

I see my son has optimistically put a switch 2 in my amazon basket. Nice try, kid.

Also: when a government acts brutally and lawlessly and immorally, but tells you that pointing those things out incites violence and terrorism, that government and its agents are entitled to no respect or credence.

Something positive for a change www.worldofmoose.com/products/civ...

Strange goings-on in Borough...

Boomer demands to speak to manager www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

American right wingers: 'Have more babies! But you can't take any pain relief when pregnant. And we'll arrest you for murder if you have a miscarriage. And you could die if you have any pregnancy complications bc we'd rather you & the foetus die than just the foetus if that would save you. OK?'

OK Boomer

My 14 year old just now - 'If Harry is short for Harold, why isn't Barry short for Barold?' Asking the questions that matter.

An important counter narrative to the recent headlines — actual journalism about the daily lives of asylum seekers in the UK www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I dunno BBC, maybe something to do with you giving a massively outsized platform to Nigel Farage for the last decade?

Had another awful thought about the next UK election - even if Reform doesn't win, there'll be a lot more MPs whose primary news source is X. Like MPs who literally believe kids are getting 'transgender' lessons every week or that Muslim newsagents refuse to sell poppies etc

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

FGS, BBC - he did not make any comments about Charlie Kirk, he, quite justifiably, *criticised the government* and was, quite unjustifiably, pulled off air because of it. Please don't use headlines that imply it was anything else

The ever-excellent Tom Nicholas provides the background as to why we've ended up in this depressing political position in the UK youtu.be/okOEMgu2iZQ?...

the most sexy thing a wife can do is tell her husband where something is for the hundredth time without sighing and rolling her eyes

Kirk positioned himself as a champion of free speech, even hate speech. His death is already being used by those in power, including the president, to attack free speech on the left & silence dissent against our MAGA-controlled government. @rabbisandra.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rabbisan...

Oh I see various American newspapers are writing about the perils to women's rights and free speech after years of treating all these threats as though they're just cheekily 'unconventional' politicals, not genuine threats to democracy carried out by dangerous and hate-filled demagogues

What has the US regime got against the makers of Tylenol, then? www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

bear: rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr rawr me: this bear's repeating

On recognising Palestine - some people are 'But Hamas this' and 'terrorists that'. I just don't care anymore. I care about people , bereaved, starved, homeless stateless people. I don't care what their leaders did or who they voted for. I care about justice for them as human beings.

It is wild to see women out there who will watch women's literal, actual rights and wellbeing thrown in the bin but say 'Well, at least these guys know what a *woman* is!'

I'm sure I'm not the first or even the hundredth to say it, but I have a feeling the world might be kind of better for the Rapture if it takes all the people who think it's going to take them

Just found out that the Rapture people are saying it's really gonna happen this time on Tuesday. On Rosh Hashanah, noch! 🤣

My leftist/anarchist trans teen and I seem to have alarmingly similar social media feeds given we've already seen the memes we're showing each other half the time

I'm wearing these boots again so I guess that means it's autumn now

Trump has pushed leadership and political reaction down a rabbit hole into a bewildering, menacing ‘wonderland’  | Claire Jones

My father-in-law has been to an agricultural show in Sussex because he used to like them as a kid in South Africa, and the photos are giving me such 80s British TV on a Sunday vibes

Clearly a very dangerous criminal who should be locked up and deported for the safety of everyone in the USA

Trans people: can we have rights? Conservatives: no because we're killing you. Centrists: No because you're the reason we can't have unity in this country. Liberals: No and this is why we have Trump, because you're so selfish. Leftists: No because we have to focus on real problems first.

Really worth a watch - this woman shares with such honesty and clarity her journey away from MAGA and Christian Nationalism youtu.be/vXQa7jW_QmY?...

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

We get quite a lot of colds in our house, so I tend to keep a box of tissues in our bedroom and all shared rooms. My husband however, never notices this and keeps moving them with him when he has a cold. Every time *sigh*

I find it really funny when I criticise capitalism and someone comes along with 'Well I hope you enjoy COMMUNISM seeing as you think it's so great' and then I can tell them my mum grew up under Communism, so I do not have any romanticised ideals of that one either, thanks

Since this is Trump, the boss referred to here must be Putin.

Slow hand clap for Mr Very Stable Genius

Interesting how people can get in trouble for just quoting what Charlie Kirk said, but Libs of Tiktok gets away with fluttering her eyelashes & saying 'I'm just showing what they said' (to legions of people she knows will go on to aggressively harrass and threaten those private citizens)

'Join the army and bring America Peace at the barrel of a gun as you enforce crackdowns on anyone the government thinks isn't doing the right kind of Freedom'

I always find it utterly nuts to see women who think that the tiny possibility of a trans women being in the next toilet or changing cubicle is a worse threat to women's rights than governments curtailing our bodily autonomy

Quick, burn all your Antifa membership cards. I'm havin' Pete climb the tree and take the clubhouse down. And don't do the secret handshake in public and whatnot!

Just realised the likely way the US regime will throw elections (if they happen at all): 'To prevent the Dems stealing the election we'll place ICE agents at all voting stations to remove anyone who looks like they shouldn't be there'

normal country doing normal things

A lot of people only seem to be talking about 'America's escalating political violence' after one politically-motivated killing of a RW figure and 2 attempts on DJT, compared to, you know, the whole of January 6th, the Hortman killings, the Pelosi attack and countless threats and attacks on Dems

People persistently and deliberately fail to understand that DEI was never about 'lowering standards' to allow the 'underqualified' in. It was about giving some people *the extra resources they needed to meet those standards* that more privileged folks could take for granted

Was reminded of this classic photo of my late cat - this was much she just loved hugs 🤣