open borders

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

The internal combustion engine

Holy shit, this is even more insane than I thought. Of course there's a demand ceiling for durable products you fucking idiots. Once you have an Instant Pot, you don't need another Instant Pot. ai-2040.com/supplements/...

It is once again time to repost this classic.

talked to Mitch McConnell today. apparently Rush Limbaugh is a terrible roommate and being impaled while writhing among the endless flames of the underworld takes some getting used to, but says it beats being a turtle on his back while he was alive

“Thought you were supposed to be against hate and intolerance” nope. I’m for justice, and that requires hating injustice and those who seek to uphold it. You can’t be tolerant of people who are intolerant of your mere existence, because that’s not tolerance, it’s submission.

Who do I need to pester to have 'Pride and Predator' pitched? Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth argue and squabble as an invisible alien stalks them across Longbourn.

I've said this before btw, but that ketchup bottle that killed alex salmond genuinely did more for scottish women than joanna 🍒 and her "GC" mates like JKR ever did or ever will do.

Luca Brasi.

the cool thing about Kate Forbes attending that conference is of course that by doing so she has actually completely breached a boundary that even Abla never dared do, which is to hang out with actual open racists

That's my Marvel Villain origin story. Just joining up with the flag smashers, not just because they're right, but because it's my new life's goal to beat Tony Stark to death with a brick.

okay so Sturgeon genuinely didn’t have any reason to be suspicious of the purchases

These calls for violence are only going to keep escalating unless we actually start to fight back against this rhetoric.

This is so fucking funny.

Comorbidity sommelier Sabeen Bhatt, 30, recommends the ADHD you’re pretty sure you have as an accompaniment to the depression you absolutely have, explaining that the extra neurodivergence enhances the depressive flavour of feeling totally ill-equipped for life on Earth.

elementary school: slavery caused the civil war high school: complicated economic issues caused the civil war College: slavery caused the civil war Grad school: the civil war was a struggle between feudalism and capitalism Your 30s: the civil war was a metaphysical struggle between Good and Evil

A thread

A definitive class analysis of the modern far right:

Protesting for labour is a greater crime than firebombing refugees and doing a pogrom.

Shout out to any other gifted kids turned burnt out adult diagnosis ASD/ADHD.

McTumminy Hort

We don’t have an immigration problem, we have an international male violence problem that continues to go unaddressed and honestly I’m getting really fed up with the constant refusal to just call it what it is.

A lot of good commentary on how the police's messaging on Belfast is so much better than the media - depressingly true! - but it's also not new. Police Federation chair Liam Kelly described last year's violence in Ballymena as “mindless, unacceptable and feral” and “a pogrom” *at the time*.

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

DOCTOR: "So what seems to be the problem?" PATIENT: "Mmhbbhhggr hhruuh engghhuu." DOCTOR: "I'm sorry I can't understand, but don't worry. Great singer Bob Dylan is in town. Go see his show and no matter what ails you, you'll feel better!" PATIENT (sadly): "Ehg ddnghh m'm Bddnnn."

They’re packaging it like this so it looks like a shallow trend, but Gen Z has gone through two financial crises, a pandemic, rising fascism, active shooter drills since they were toddlers, and are now being told by the oligarchy they’re to be replaced by robots. Socialism is the logical conclusion.

sorry but you would have to be absolutely out your box to travel to the usa for any reason right now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

fuck absolutely everyone involved in getting us to this point, trans women are women, trans men are men, non binary identities are valid and sex and gender can both be changed "biologically" if any such meaning can be usefully attributed to that phrase

Through supreme effort of will and the concentrated energy of 10,000 years of human sacrifice, the Emperor finally manages to move his rasped lips and truly speak. He asks for a Pepsi. The last Pepsi was made 18,000 years ago. Nobody knows what it is. Trillions die in the resulting religious schism.

What if Dr Seuss was not allowed within 500 ft of a school

Thinking about a @thwphipps.bsky.social classic

Mass missile attack on Kyiv, been going since at least midnight. Interception so loud and close it woke my whole family up, and still ongoing.

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

Oh no! How sad! What a shame! Anyway. Successive UK govts have completely failed to take any action on reducing gambling harms. Tax it and tax it to oblivion. If not, devolve authority over betting to Holyrood, the Senead and Stormont so we can do it properly.

Did you know, David Attenborough was actually David Amunborough for many years until he created a controversial monotheistic sun religion and changed his name accordingly

Had a revelation this morning. Criminals always choose Squirtle because the cops use Growlithe.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

This is the "cumulative disruption" measure in the crime and policing bill. As I said last week, the police are primed to see all protest as disruptive. I mean, it's kind of the point of protest. This really should be a much bigger deal.

Oh and this from the impeccably-sourced @paulhutcheon.bsky.social. "If Labour, the Lib Dems, Tories and Reform reach 65, insiders say the pro-UK parties would vote for Sarwar as First Minister, despite Swinney leading the largest group."

Commentary here from @kennyfarq.bsky.social very relevant again.

Labour doth protest too much about this evening's revelation of Sarwar sidling up to Offord. It's believable because they have clearly been briefing that they planned to do exactly that.

actually what you outer rimmers don't understand is that the galactic empire is literally thousands of lightyears wide so it is literally impossible to organise a coherent civic life. i am very smort

tech people used to tell optimistic stories

leninists responding to normal people will never not be funny because it's like being condescended to by a fetus. you're barely a person and certainly not a sapient one

This can be turned around. This /must/ be turned around. Not by declaring that social democracy failed, because the other socialist alternatives were, you know, either not meaningfully real or basically worse than any life under capitalism. But by defending what we have and growing it.

this is the most infuriating part of the harry potter discourse - if you're going to watch it, then watch it, god knows millions of people played the stupid game but if you know enough to be aware of the issues, you don't get to ask trans people to absolve you