i wasn't using it but it is such unserious site things that access to the Quiet Posters feed, which is part of the functionality the site has advertised on official accounts just broke for 300k people because it runs out of the tech advisor's personal account and he's a thin skinned AI baby

As I've said before, it gives me no pleasure to say it but we will all end up on Mastodon

The Travelling Whaleburys

Getting way overexcited about this new project & will be gutted if I can't get finding. Like, dyk that Europe's 'alternative milk' food culture is over a century old! That's older than a LOT of the things it pretends are traditional foods!! A Chinese guy was making soy camembert in FRANCE in 1910!!!

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

a) Nobody wants to see a manager having a strop. We’ve all seen a manager having a strop. Boring. Not impressed. b) Everyone looking at this, surely, thinks Starmer has no proper right to act cross about it because the entire situation is HIS FAULT, HE DID THIS.

This lofty language has two key caveats: (1) they feel an obligation solely in terms of "defense," not more broadly, such as common welfare, public health, or even democracy; (2) they admit a "debt" yet offer no repayment, instead demanding the exact opposite, that the country pay them even more. /2

Every generation of arms merchants has its own version of this claim: someone else will do the bad thing, so it's not bad when we do it. "Theatrical debates" is meant to contrast thinking about the appropriate use of violence as mere performance art, whereas killing people is sober realism. /3

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

"'Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth,' said one Labour insider. 'Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.'"

i think it’s SO SUPER TELLING that a lot of this manifesto, which demands that we allow Silicon Valley to enact fascism and endless genocidal violence at home & abroad out of a “moral debt” to the govt that funded its rise, is expressed in the language of anti-wokeness and cancel culture discourse

It's harder to measure but I feel like RFK Jnr shutting down funding for MRNA research is actually up there with DOGE cuts and this latest Iranian war as a contender for Most Evil Things Trump II has done. Accounted properly, this regime is really wracking up 20th-century-dictator kill counts imo.

Bloomscrolling!

Well I sure am glad we’re selling out great chunks of state functionality to these fash bastards.

This sort of stuff is why I have zero patience for the nagging “time wasters” blame-shifting propaganda the dept of health churns out. It’s pervasive in people’s thinking about the NHS even when they’ve experienced things like this first hand!

"I trained this chatbot on literally every science fiction story ever published. You'll never guess what it says about whether genetically manipulated humans will one day have to battle machine overlords throughout the solar system."

Who's there, boy? Who's at the door? Is it Banquo? Is it Banquo, boy? [to guests] He thinks he sees Banquo

WHATS UP YOU WET MOTHERFUCKERS

i'm just worried that keir starmer is going to fire *everyone* who knew that peter mandelson was a wrong'un, and the unemployment rate in the uk will reach 99.99%

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

If I was Starmer it would be getting me through the day. In tough meetings I would be thinking "at least I've got the Mandelson compromat file to read this weekend". What kind of person has that kind of document and doesn't read it? No friend of mine for sure.

Thinking about this it's not even human. Developed vetting is a notoriously invasive and humiliating investigation. If you were told they were doing a deep dive into one of your colleagues' sordid secrets and that you were allowed to read it, you'd be looking forward to it for weeks!

[during bsky outage] Oh no I can’t see the posts [after bsky outage] Oh no I can see the posts

This is a question for the Americans, particularly those who think of themselves as familiar with weird old British stuff. Does the phrase "here's what you could have won" mean anything to you? I'm trying to see something.

literally no word of this is a lie or wrong or even exaggerated for comedic effect. This is (a short version of) very exactly what has happened. This is not a joke.

These are LGBT people who've been forced to flee because of their sexuality, and at St Nicks they've been able to connect with their faith and themselves in a way they never thought possible, and they've embedded themselves into the community, and now they're being moved with days notice? Horrific.

Once again the government are moving asylum seekers who are members of our congregation, with almost no notice, to cities hours away, and no matter how many times it happens I don't get any less mad.

Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.

Marco Rubio exits, with commentary from One Man and his Dog.

Thierry! Disaster! #rallycroatia

This deep sea creature is as sharp & clear as broken class, & can grow as long as your hand. This giant amphipod, (Cystisoma) only has two colored body parts: the dense orange stomach/egg pouch, & two MASSIVE eyes, which are a glittering holographic orange layer completely covering its head. 📽️ MBARI

round two

we need jazz dogs flood the timeline

I think the number one, two, and three reasons for Israel's public relations crisis is that it's doing this to four separate countries simultaneously

A short timelapse video of clouds and sea action yesterday evening.

The global ruling class lacks the cognitive capacity to internalise Donald Trump. He's stunlocked everyone, they're all just hoping if they play dead he'll go away.

Fucking heartbreak tonight. Mini Moog (9yrs) telling me there’s a new kid in his class he’s made friends with. He’s Lebanese and his family fled after their house was hit by a bomb. His best friend lived next door and was killed by it. This is what the headlines and tweets are. Fucking dead kids!

All countries MUST withdraw overflight, landing or refueling permission for US planes, with immediate effect. Too much is at stake to just wait and “hope” Trump will back down, or someone, somewhere in US system will intervene to stop him.

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

what do we want? OBJECT PERMANENCE when do we want it? WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

me: why does no one take my threats seriously? my threats:

When I saw the headline I assumed it was another article about boys struggling in school. It's kind of telling that even a story about rampant misogyny centres men as the ones experiencing a crisis.

"they faked the death of the world's oldest gay tortoise to scam out bitcoin donations" honestly anyone responsible for me saying that series of words should never see the sun again