Why are people who villainize empathy bad at art? Gee, impossible to say.

Only British Vogue has the courage to publish true science as it was practiced in the 18th century Transactions of the Royal Society

I promise not to seal post all day but I DO promise to use "no scrolling, just rolling" or a variation for the foreseeable future. 🦭 #SeaSky

If for any reason you missed the stories about him I strongly, strongly recommend you do NOT look for details now. It is beyond gross, it is horrific, it is repeated, sadistic abuse of the worst kind. Just block him, forget he ever existed, throw away his books, his work is tainted beyond any reform

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

This is the thing. If everyone just goes ‘oh how awful’ every time there is further confirmation of an already incredibly well documented elite paedophile ring, but no accountability ever arrives, what on earth are we doing.

Takeaway: Any time the Trump administration says "AI" or anything about software or data, what you should hear is "repression as a service" This has 2 parts: 1. AI as an excuse to consolidate data 2. AI to execute orders that humans would refuse

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Every major website/company now: Yeah if we find out you post or look at a boob we will freeze all your accounts without warning The CEO of every major website/company over Gmail: Oh Jeffrey you are simply a hoot. Lovely spending time with you on Party Pervert Pedo Island Jeffrey Epstein: yeag ,

By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍

It just seems naive, to me, at a time when the US is gleefully burning every bridge, ripping through international law and norms, and declaring its proud return to a sadistic world ordered by brute force and domination, for people to say, "But don't you see? We rely on them for security."

It's almost as if recruiting for a job that's: -just men -anonymous -given total power over people -protected from consequence -can go anywhere -not subject to law -violence and killing are routine perks of the job ... attracts a certain kind of guy

"I am 5 years old" Shut it all down. All of it. ICE, DHS, Border Patrol, the entire Republican Party, all the fascist billionaires, X, Tesla, Avelo, and every Democrat who supports them. It's evil through and through.

When Cowman talks about actions & consequences to skirt the fact one of his dog lackeys performed the action of unloading a clip into a person producing the consequence of that person being dead, he is expressing a fascist tenet that their violence can never be subjected to law; only create it.

What I love about this is either you've seen the Trump post and a London mayoral candidate is tying themselves to a figure who is almost universally reviled in London OR you haven't and it reads as threatening to put London into an ice age

There's also no way of explaining this to the non-terminally-online without sounding insane. "...and so the penguin is a reference to American far-right memes calling for the US to take over Greenland." "But penguins don't live in Greenland." "I know."

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

I don't think it's ever been harder for people with mental health conditions and neurodivergent people to be in work*, because work has become such a micromanaged, target-focused, constantly dishonest nightmare, while life outside work is also terrible *especially office work, maybe

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

My man looks like an Oompa Loompa elder at an open casket.

TRUMP: I was the first man to speak French. bonjour I said one day and my doctor started throwing up. how are you doing that, he asked. it's medically not possible. I say baguette, the guy has a heart attack. very sad. his kids are orphans now BBC NEWS: reassuring words on the EU from Trump

The party line has gone from "women have to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or they'll be left behind" to "everyone has to start using genAI or genAI will be left behind."

Throwback to the time Tumblr thought my map of Scandinavia was a penis.

one of the reasons the current Labour party leadership - who are COMPLETELY INCAPABLE of enacting any form of policy despite having the biggest majority in decades - are so embarrassing is that they're student politicians. they literally just wanted to get elected they didn't realist there was a job

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

If a person is anti-trans it signals that they have an unpatched critical cognitive vulnerability. It’s such a *fundamental* failure of critical thinking about society and humanness that the person is left deeply susceptible to any and all other bigotries and conspiracy theories they’ll encounter.

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

When the fact that Tories used to attend Stonewall Award ceremonies and other LGBTQIA+ is being used by the BBC as a stick with which to beat them, I think we need to worry.

Gotta admire how committed Labour is to delivering a Reform govt. No opportunity wasted to make Reform's case to voters

It means those particular planets have been reserved by specific buyers

working on some new ideas for moon phases

Flodo: “I wish they need not have been eaten in my time.” William Gandalf Williams: “And so do all who live to see such breakfasts. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the plums that are given us.”

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

Some of this is grifting, but a bunch of it is pure fascist resentment: if I like or approve of something, this implies a liberal/judeo-bolshevik conspiracy to suppress it. The existence of such a conspiracy requires no evidence, it simply must be.

Again, absolutely consistent with decades of right wing politics: *they* have unlimited rights and freedoms, and when you oppose them in pretty much any way, you threaten them intolerably and they are fully justified in meeting that aggression by having the cops smash your face in.

Not much I do as rapidly as blocking a new male follower who only follows women.

it was at roughly this point that I began to get a sense of why the bus hadn't turned up

GenAI is a window-dressing project. Everyone either oohs and aaaahs at its parlor tricks or its deceptions while healthcare systems, insurance claims, and parole decisions are offloaded to algorithms trained on citizens’ expropriated data.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This is what many of us have been saying for years now, that the Israeli genocide is the same thing as cops in the US is the same thing as cops anywhere. Israel and the US in a closed feedback loop testing the boundaries and giving each other permission back and forth, liberal and conservative alike

The government should not only be stopping using the platform they should also be issuing urgent safeguarding advice to all institutions not to post pictures there.

I appreciate a lot of us will think "they've always been like this" but the utter moral decay on the right in the last few years has been notable. A shift from love the sinner, hate the sin fig leaf to "yeah, kill she/her, haha, pronouns in bio."

There is an essential & extremely generalizable point here. Critical thinking is a team sport. We all need metacognition buddies because human brains. It doesn't matter how quote unquote smart you are. Especially in the slop times. The most pernicious aspect of ChatGPT is how it isolates minds.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

There's video being reposted of someone being murdered by the US Government. Turn off the autoplaying video/GIF feature, if you don't want to see it by heading to settings>content and media.

it's "awesome" how legislators are falling over themselves to pass bills to make us all upload our driver's licenses to every random app to "protect kids" while looking at the Suicide Encouraging CSAM Machines and offering their finest shrugs

You know when we said it was a bad idea to put these people in charge of all our NHS data?

This completely. I grew up surrounded by migrants in my family and communities, and find the discussion in the UK, US and EU that reduces fascinating people into mere fuel for an economic machine disgustingly dehumanising👇🎯