Does that mean everyone at the WHCD can't be trusted? Yeah, it means exactly that.

Honestly: if you're a journalist and you network or socialize with the class of people you're meant to hold accountable, everything you say or do afterwards is and should be suspect. Forevermore. No exceptions.

Starmer has died of Starmerism and will be buried to the right of the Overton Window. He is survived by his widow (Mandelson), his two children (zionism and transphobia) and his beloved paymasters.

U.S. news media is incapable of calling a lying racist fascist any of those things if the person in question holds power or influence.

hate to hand it to the guardian too much but this is very funny

I shouldn't be surprised to see how the TERF crowd are bawling Starmer was persecuted.

Basically, everybody who is going around today talking about how they don't understand what went wrong with Starmer because all of his evils and apathies were about the 'right' things is trying to talk over a clarion call to _get their shit together_ or get gone like Keir did.

This. And I say that as someone who thought Corbyn was a narcissistic disaster for left wing politics and voted for Starmer thinking surely at least he could manage a piss up in a brewery. Instead, cabinet and donor projects pushed aggressively over the public good.

everything i've seen about starmer on the outside looking in for years really shows him as emblematic of one of the curious types of the 21st century, somebody who wanted incredible power over others but not for any particular vision. wanted to be able to reshape society, and that shape is "eh idk"

If we try it and get demolished, we pretend we didn't try it; the loss is proof we need to try it If we try it and barely win, that's proof it's the only way to win To doubters, I point to the one time we won big this way 35 years ago Do not point out the massive win the one time we didn't try it

We'll never know if it's not smart, unless we only try this and never try anything else. I'm sorry to all you purity-test leftists but that's just called being a grown-up.

You cannot follow a radical with an incrementalist and expect people to feel like good things are happening. Especially when, for many people, they weren't!

So you've got this kind of spin doctor in the UK too? This makes me feel better, as a yank. If you cherry-pick the data and squint just so, you can make the point that Blair and Starmer were basically Attlee.

"The most progressive presidency since LBJ" ok dude so that's comparing him to three (3) democratic presidents, good job

If it makes you feel any less crazy, these people don't even believe their own writing. They're just declaring innings early and hoping nobody looks too closely at the scoreboard. Professional turd polishers.

We had our share of Centrist Dads lecturing us on how Biden was actually the most progressive presidency since FDR, with absolutely no sense of shame. Every counterpoint is met with "That's a pet issue, we must look past your purity tests"

This is actually the key point. When it’s this hot, you need to not just drink straight water. You also need to replace salts and sugars that get lost through sweat. And now you can buy electrolyte mixes at the store orrrrrr you can do this! but you do need to do something beyond straight water

Important global political advice: if your political party has an ambitious white man with a square head and impeccable hair who is certain he knows exactly the correct ratio of bigotry to win a majority, you need to drop him and all of his consultants directly into the ocean

how does Whoopi do this job every day

Similarly, Starmer himself should've learned from the 2024 Democrats. Who should've learned from the 2016 Democrats.

For my newsletter I wrote about how Kier Starmer should serve as a warning for centrist Democrats in the US. It's a real crystal ball moment. www.burnsnotice.com/its-the-cent...

If you increase public spending and tax the rich, and also make their or their friends' lives miserable because they can't use a fucking bathroom, guess which one they think about on a daily basis.

Low-key liberal accomplishments coupled with high-profile policy concessions to the right and aggressive conservative virtue signalling — this is exactly the strategy moderates have recommended for Democrats here, of course. Didn't work too well. Maybe some lessons there.

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

All the people "puzzled by why Starmer is so disliked" are then doing a follow-up where they go "but people are giving a hundred different reasons rather than one!" Yes. That is why he is so disliked.

remember when disney execs stopped an episode of moon girl and devil dinosaur from being aired because it revolved around a trans girl wanting to play sports? makes a trans allegory like TADC generating millions of dollars in profit that much sweeter

I’m gonna say it. DO NOT and I mean DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS THAT ARE DEEMED SUSPICIOUS ESPECIALLY AND I MEAN ESPECIALLY ON DISCORD. If someone asks you to help you with their “game”, that means someone js trying to get your account compromised. DONT FALL FOR THIS SCAM!!

Since it's been talked about so much recently. Let's take a look at the raw pencils for JRJR's maligned ASM 1000 cover. The pencils show a leaping Spidey bounding into the air with a star filled night sky behind him. The shoulders may be a bit too high, but overall this is a solid pose.

Vermont has banned AI chatbot therapy, passing a law that requires a mental health professional to conduct therapeutic services.

Once the wheels started turning, Yasuhiko’s scope for prequel material expanded beyond just Tachi, Hamon, and Ral. Really, he wanted to dedicate a considerable portion of these volumes to Char and Sayla, who’s backstory was largely omitted in the original series.

“What’s with this guy? I had to ask myself about the bit player who’d failed to snag my attention during the original. No way he was just a guest character, there and gone in one episode. To Ral and Hamon, he was no mere stranger. Thus began the impetus for the “Past” Arc." - YAS

Fun fact: The decision to dedicate several years of his life to a prequel to First Gundam occurred when Yasuhiko was writing the Ramba Arc. Something about Tachi, Hamon’s subordinate (of all people), got him thinking about how these characters all got together.

I hate Ai being used at any point of a production but I cannot understand why people think it sounds better to say that you only used it at the early stages of pre-production. That's the fun bit!! The ideas bit!! The creative bit!! The bit that makes your story YOURS.

Our Hoist kit fits the new AOTP Transformers Rachet figure. #updates #transformers

‪ I didn't spend too much time on this, but here's a stitched together scan of the Byston Well map that came with the Dunbine PC-98 game. The Wings of Rean takes place off page to the east. (And I think Garzey's Wing takes place off page to the west. Garzey's location is less clear)

The Mecha Kaikan panel times are live on the (WIP) schedule for Otakon 2026, so I can finally start hyping up my panel. Come to the Mecha Kaikan on July 31st at 3:45PM to learn about the life and works of Yoshikazu "YAS" Yasuhiko! conventions.leapevent.tech/schedule/Ota...

Everybody is looking for someone to save them from having to do the difficult work, and that just means both dangerous political idolatry AND putting off the work and making it harder when it finally becomes impossible to delay any longer

To anybody doing console wars posting over the Steam Machine's price I have some very bad news about what's going to happen to your preferred platform's next iteration...

The right of Labour are monsters. But that doesn't mean the left of Labour are persecuted "butter wouldn't melt" angels. And I'm fucking sick of seeing how easily the British left get strung along by a few honeyed words, after which they abandon all scrutiny and just become human shields.

Reduced to the simplest possible terms, art is a series of choices made to reflect an artist's creative intentions. AI cannot intend anything and the prompter has deliberately surrendered the ability to choose, therefore nothing AI creates can ever be art.

look folks we're never getting anywhere until we eliminate this system that encourages the shittiest people alive to buy anything they want and transform it into a weapon in their service

an advanced society doesn’t bomb children

This hits the nail on the head

Please help defend Minnesota heroes who tried to thwart the ICE gestapo, and often succeeded!! They're being persecuted by this authoritarian clownshow Dept. of Justice. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

We are going to win, so push harder, become even more ungovernable, keep touching the forbidden scum ponds. Keep sticking your clever fingers into the gears of fascism. Keep being an absolute pain in the ass for your city council, your local villainy, I know you can do it! I believe in YOU.

This is why I can't be doing with the Tories in exile whose seeming sole concern is the blues took away their access to the fast EU passport lane. Fucking disgusting watching these people with no regard for trans lives act like Starmer's aggressive campaign of persecution is a non concern.

1) this IS a colossal, malicious, fascist failure from major institutions in journalism AND 2) a problem amplified by having a known nuisance-suit abuser in the Oval Office backed up with the absolute legal immunity granted by the Supreme Court of the United States of America