NEW: Around 1,000 Palestinian students who've received scholarships abroad remain trapped in Gaza as Israel controls the borders and won’t let them out. Hundreds of the stranded students gathered in Gaza City on April 20 to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing so they can attend school. 🎥

"there were no moral panics about the internet in the 90s" are we sure about that. are we absolutely positive

The best leak stories are those about officials who become angry about leaks so they try to find the source of leaks and then their furor over the leaks … leaks

Whoa damn www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

“…because Ms Tickle was excluded from the Giggle app because she did not look sufficiently female according to the respondents.” And this is what would happen to many cis women if the EHRC gets its way with its guidance; women barred from toilets simply because they do not look ‘female’ enough.

🧵 A new Byline Times investigation raises fresh questions over Nigel Farage's claim to have driven the far-right out of British politics.

Stop bullying trans people

They shouldn’t be using it anyway

Drought fears in central/southern England, dry April leaves rivers low. 1trn+ litres of water a year lost to leaky pipes, 41.4trn litres since privatisation. Companies paid £85bn+ in dividends. Sewage in rivers. No national grid for water. Investment neglected. People fleeced. Nationalise water.

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

No one can match Third Way’s dedication to keeping the corporate wing of the party punching left. buff.ly/MFOAJ9O

Great coverage on a really well done report on how the Trump administration has weakened addiction science, putting people at risk. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A pair of press organizations are using their power as shareholders of media giant Paramount to demand that its owners David and Larry Ellison produce records related to two recent acquisitions. buff.ly/UVCvFNJ

They should have done a pinkie swear instead!

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Seriously, you guys? AI slop again? "CLLOSED" HOSPITAL? A three-armed girl? AND it's yet another screenshot with no sources, just a bunch of claims? I'm blocking every dingleberry who Liked or Reskeeted this garbage. Our side REALLY NEEDS TO DO BETTER THAN THIS GARBAGE.

Yes, in show/movies/games. Erotic Fanfics he's typically 18-21.

2 years from now the BlueSky mods will dig this up and give you 4 strikes to ban you on their day of choosing. Likely when LibsOfTikTok wants you banned.

Dismayed to find out the person who refused to ban LibsofTiktok from Twitter after she got a bomb threat called into an elementary school is not a good person

Thanks to Mike Stephen and @wgnradio.bsky.social Outside the Loop for having me on to discuss my @injusticewatch.org & @boltsmag.org story on Cook County prosecutors fighting to block exonerated people from being formally declared innocent.

US: “Counterterrorism” Now Officially Means Targeting Trans People

Newer forms of media are always denigrated in favor of more culturally established ones primarily for that very reason: their newness. It's cut from the same cloth as the tired trope of the newer generation being somehow deficient.

The remains of a U.S. soldier who went missing during military drills in Morocco were recovered in the Atlantic Ocean, the army said. Military teams are searching for a second missing soldier. n.pr/4dcORq7

I can't believe we're going back to this kind of discourse but: Using references isn't cheating Using 3D mannequins and photo references is STANDARD, even for professional artists Shaming people and pushing them to draw exclusively from memory is harmful and can set back people who are learning

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

There was (it's suspended) a pro-trump bot going around reposting any post containing Trump's name. It's operators would have been in for a shock if the saw what it reposted. I hope they kept logs so they can see what we think of him here.

Before Mother’s Day, a group of senators raised the alarm about the “appalling and horrific treatment” of pregnant and nursing people in immigration detention. “There are virtually no legal safeguards for pregnant women in federal custody.”

Truck crossed the center, hit the bicyclists head on and almost hit the car behind them. This level of driver incompetence is beyond belief. Notably, these bicyclists were going near the speed limit.

CNN reported Tuesday morning that the Department of Veterans Affairs has opened investigations into employees who attended Alex Pretti memorials and spoke to the press.

The Golden Calf Exodus 32 "When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods[a] who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him.”

An AuDHD woman has come to “sorely regret” telling everyone who’d listen about the Barbie Dreamhouse she started building six months ago, it has been rumoured.

I suspect that before long they’re gonna need to have TERMINATOR 2 style robot gun turrets at these places

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

The United States' pandering to Lost Cause crap ("aw, we love you; besides, Lee and Jackson were noble while Grant was a drunk and Sherman was an asshole") did SOOO much damage in allowing this shit to keep simmering and never become 100% shameful. #politics #history

To be clear, they have had proper consistent shadow positions in Borderlands for Pandora's unusual orbit from the first game. This hinted at the start of the first game that something unnatural was going on with the planet for nerds that noticed.

Trump Lying 9 to 5 - A Bucky Goldstein Parody

If the Stratos data center is built, a BYU ecology professor told The Tribune, the effects would be catastrophic. Evaporation would spike. And the dewpoint could vanish, with devastating consequences on wildlife, plants and the fertility of the land.

They're just straight up calling autism a social contagion now. Exactly the same thing they did to trans people.

The first, and finest, political graffiti I ever noticed was in a staff loo in California in ummm '73...Nixon era. "Republicans! It's no use trying to crap here - your arsehole's in Washington!"

SCOTUS Voting Rights Act opinion based on faulty data. Kevin Morris, a researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice: “In zero out of the last three presidential elections, did Black turnout come anywhere close to parity.Alito’s claim is simply not factual.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"I voted for Donald Trump because he is a successful businessman who always makes money."

He is wrong here: People who had multiple illnesses often got the secondary illnesses AFTER the initial COVID infection. Additionally, a surprising portion of the population is walking around with chronic bronchitis and/or chronic pneumonia. Does he really not care about these people?