Saddest time *for white people* * Police killings are lower than they were a few years ago when Biden was in charge. Vigilante killings of Black people are much lower than during reconstruction, or even the 80s👍🏿 * Everything is better than during slavery👍🏿 * Homicide rates lower than under Biden👍🏿

Son of Mango fashion chain founder arrested in Spain over death of father

*"Land mines don't kill people. Good guys with land mines stop bad guys with land mines" *Hey look, whoops, that little girl just stepped on a land-mine

I've been attempting to be braver in sharing my work lately. It is scary! But I put a bunch of work into this and it should be shared cause these ladies had such interesting lives. 🗃️

Holy shit they painted over a Wyland Seattle folks. Orcas mural on the Edgewater.

The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

I love a story with a happy ending

I watched hundreds of criminals storm and ransack the capital live, now those muthafukas are getting paid. Meanwhile I'm spending hours budgeting for fruit, vegetables and crossing my fingers for ketchup because despite being disabled I get less and less SNAP while prices rise. FUCK THIS COUNTRY 🤬

*Well, given that the Chinese were the world's pioneers of coal-use in 3500 BC, maybe it's high time they got over it

The former Fox News host turned to a colleague and whispered, "What weaponization?" www.huffpost.com/entry/jeanin...

Happy birthday to Grace Jones

Grace Jones (Los Angeles, 1986) Photographed by Greg Gorman

Eight years ago I had a signing for Willow Sparks at my local B&N. Pretty gross to see it go down like this—spitting in the face of literally every author and their books that literally keep you in business. 🚫 Get absolutely fucked, what a shit move.

minnesota gov. tim walz has signed a bill banning prediction markes (kalshi, polymarket). first state-level ban of its kind. (sports betting via traditional/mobile sports books is still illegal here too)

Drawings of exploding fireworks from 'Illustrated Catalogue Of Night Bomb Shells' – an English-language catalogue produced in the early 1900s for the international market by the Hirayama Fireworks Company based in Yokohama 🗃️

Farage with dogs, Farage with babies, made in Vietnam and all fake #FarageBung fullfact.org/politics/ai-...

Investigators reviewed video, incident reports and internal emails after a whistleblower said corrections officers were isolating mentally ill detainees. www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/r...

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Seems appropriate, fake ai images and stories for a fake politician.

This analysis of 'what's wrong with the Labour party' from Nick Harkaway is 100% spot-on:

This is no hyperbole. This is the truth.

If your OER making you sound better than you were is disqualifying, hoo boy lmao [Note for normies: All OERs read like you're a superstar, what your bosses *actually* thought of you is buried in obscure semantic clues and the last check box the senior rater picks at the very end of the form]

"Speak up, speak out, get in the way. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something." —John Lewis

GOP Rep Randy Fine, Laura Loomer & Tommy Tuberville all have blood on their hands in the terrorist attack on the San Diego mosque. They should be investigated to see if any connection to the terrorists. These are vile people who should be stripped of citizenship and deported.

Erik Visits a (Non)-American Grave, Part 2,141

This made me happy. The sentence, the article, the whole damn thing. 'The ordinance establishing the Main Ridge Forest Reserve declares that it was established “for the purpose of attracting frequent showers of rain upon which the fertility of lands in these climates doth entirely depend.”'

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

You really owe it to yourself to listen to "Jones the Rhythm" by Grace Jones (ft. Ian McShane), on this, Miss Jones's 78th bday:

In honor of the Divine Miss Jones's birthday... Here's a wonderful anecdote from my 2017 Ian McShane interview, about how McShane ended up recording the bizarro opening narration of Grace's 1985 album SLAVE TO THE RHYTHM, stoned as fuck, because Orson Welles was dead: authory.com/josiezone/ci...

NEW: Sen Michael Bennet (D) says he will not appoint Gov Jared Polis to the Senate if Bennet is elected Governor. Bennet calls Polis' clemency for Tina Peters "disqualifying"

Anyone Jewish or Muslim or atheist or simply non-Christian has no dflifficulty taking this as the implicit threat it is intended to be

Welcome to "regime change day" in Hungary, where the new MPs are taking their seats today. Sixteen years of uninterrupted Fidesz rule finally end.

Now in opposition, Orbán used the occasion to clean house: a full 25 of the 42 Fidesz-KDNP candidates who won a list seat will not be taking it up. That includes three who'd been in parliament the full 36 years since 1990: Orbán himself, Lajos Kósa, and László Kövér, who was Fidesz's first member.

The Islamic Center of San Diego, the site of a shooting on Monday that killed three people, is highly diverse, a visitor said. Its services are in English, because attendees come from all over the world.

Is this one of the biggest open bribes offered in history. Modi talks about tackling 'corruption' every time there's an election, while this is what passes for his foreign policy: convincing the most powerful and wealthy nation in the world to drop charges against his oligarch pal for $10bn.

Lord, I wish this were just bad fiction. No, it is peak Silicon Valley jerkoff, and the #BrokenTimes' wanker--rather, writer--joins in. True journalistic masturbation. Just awful. Silicon Valley’s Answer to Declining Male Fertility? Sperm Racing. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/m...

Normally I'm extremely suspicious of nostalgia, but this is just plain true.

The ticket buying labyrinth makes me so mad. How much are the tickets? Can’t tell you here where we’re announcing it, please click here to find out… *three different websites later* there are 5 different tiers, click here *click* please click here to reserve a spot for when we announce the prices

A snail having breakfast in the Isleworth boatyard at this moment.

And people wonder why fertility rates are declining? Not only are kids hellishly expensive, not only does the US do so little to help parents, but now parents get prosecuted for any crimes their kids engage in. wjla.com/news/local/j...

I think we really need to do something about misogyny in this world, and more and more it seems to be not just a matter of justice and social functioning, but existential for the human species.

Setting aside the horseshit ethics here, if I wanted an AI-written book, why the fuck would I go to a Barnes and Noble to purchase it rather than just have AI write it for me? Like, it's one thing to be a bad person but this is also bad CEO-ing. bsky.app/profile/the-...

Intellectual rigour is not a major feature of UK politics across the board. Has not been for some time. Which is not to say this piece is wrong.

primary every centrist democrat

self-medicating by thinking about what I want to do in August for my 45th birthday and strongly considering renting an inflatable movie screen and popcorn machine to set up in a park and force everyone I've ever met in my life to pull up with their camp chairs to watch the 1992 film of "Noises Off"

Thanks. Also a long time favorite. Not sure if you read the comments under the OP but I felt a bit of kinship lol

Trouble is, the UK has been on a very bad path for a very long time & anyone pretending there's a way back to how things were pre-Brexit is selling you a pup. The EU gave the UK exceptional freedom, it wasn't enough, they left, if they come back they'll be treated like Belgium & everyone else.

I do really want the UK to try to rejoin the EU and for the government of the time to have to explain to their populace that actually, the previous arrangement they had was really exceptionally good & they'll never get it again. So long, pounds sterling.

It's election day! Here’s what you need to know before you vote: https://bit.ly/4nDZEP2

When this kind of person publishes this kind of study, almost invariably they compare cis men with cis women and then insist that trans women = cis men. Which seems to be what's happened here. And... that's not even how the "biology" bit works.