Appalling. Monstrous.

Gender is Performance

If we could place a 2000km wide black disc on Mars, we could turn the whole thing into a giant poppy. Surely this is the incentive the British space industry needs?

The media won't tell you this but the majority of women who use the Hampstead women's pond ate fully supportive of trans inclusion and have voted that way. So why are the transphobes trying to overturn their democratic decision in the courts? From @nionwomen.bsky.social

Dick Cheney must have thought “A Muslim mayor of New York City? Over my dead body!” And he was right.

Big day at U.S. District Court in D.C. where Sean Dunn, the D.C. Sandwich Guy, is on trial for misdemeanor assault of a federal officer. Border Patrol agent Gregory Lairmore is on the stand narrating surveillance video of the sammie toss. 'Now he’s struck me with the sandwich,' Lairmore says.

Youtube comment of the day: "Just think, if the politicians in america would have been smart enough to annex the entire country of mexico [in 1848] after the unconditional surrender, and we wouldn't have the problems we have today.Thanks joe biden"

we've finally answered humanity's most ancient question, "What happens after you die?" the answer is JD Vance fucks your wife

Laurence Fox wrote a song about Charlie Kirk, and this is the only comment on it.

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

oh my god

Ozy Ozy, sneering smile, O'er the wastelands of the Nile; What immortal hand or eye, Could wipe thy fearful history? O, what distant antique land Felt the ire of thine hand? Of what works must we despair? What new king, dare seize the chair? [1/3]

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business. If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s. Here's one! toastedseattle.com

Wish me luck—The Scottish Boy (+ a new, similar book!!!) is out on sub to publishers, hoping to find a new home post-Unbound. The book sold out 3 print runs & did big audio numbers on word of mouth, so I hope a new publisher can build on that. If you liked the book, pls RT 💕 synopsis in alt txt

Got thrown out of Hobbycraft for being transphobic, lads > tell us what happened, Bex I got thrown out of Hobbycraft for being transphobic > yeah, but why? I was being transphobic > in Hobbycraft? yeah, it was in Hobbycraft

TERFs now moaning at Hobbycraft. I would normally say they should get a hobby but apparently not 😅

Cackling at @mikeflanaganfilm.com trying to remain composed as Garth Marenghi describes the plot to his script for Bitchfinder General 🤣

wow really helpful, thank you new york times

Westminster journos reporting from the by-election where reform came second

1993: Stephen Lawrence is murdered by racists. 1999: The MacPherson Inquiry recommends recording of non-crime hate incidents. 2005: After the Discrimination Law Review, non-crime hate incidents begin being recorded by UK police. 2025: Mainstream transphobia ends a harm reduction policy that worked.

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums. Thank you. An Aston Villa fan.

Is this the greatest music video ever? @eleanormorton.bsky.social and I discover what might be the sexiest/spookiest performance of Tim Curry's career in The Worst Witch (1986). linktr.ee/readthat

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Guys new scamming method on bluesky. Please share this around. Dont fall for this stuff Block, move on.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

May you turn into your own Steve Bell cartoon [Iraqi curse]

The first three words of "look at this asshole" is always "look at this". Don't give Bastards free PR!

British.

Novels are just comics consisting of one picture and an overwritten caption.

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office. For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

I like how in Heian era Japan, the nobility used snippets of poetry to communicate ideas (much like "when in Rome--") and you were seen as deeply cringe if you didn't understand the references And now we just have Dril tweets for that

2025

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Luis Buñuel was born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne and died on the same day that Krull was released.

The C11th St Paul's Cathedral that burned to the ground in the Great Fire of London could have had a Stradivarius violin played in it.

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Halloween postcards are now available 🎃 9 haunted titles, 2 freaky bookmarks - only 10 possessed dollars 💀 mail this one to your dad! paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/product/pape...

damn

The local crows have a great game they play on windy days, where they all grab on to the ends of branches and hang on while they get blown around. They're having a great time judging by all the shouting. (There were more than this but I cropped out the buildings)

A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. /Pratchett

1/ Whatever you think of digital ID, the process matters. And in 2025, this is still how we make big public policy. 👇

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Look what we have here then.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again