Here are some sexy Valentine's Day aubergines for anyone who needs to see them. (Much more in alt text😊)

Just going to leave this here

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Just been watching Small Prophets and it's fabulous, but I've got the voice of my mum in my head and she's OUTRAGED. Years ago she wrote a treatment for a film about a suburban woman who takes up alchemy, and it was glorious and sweet and whimsical, and everyone told her it could never be made

It's irritating how the iPlayer Olympics coverage puts massive spoilers on the thumbnails for their highlight reels. I'd quite like not to know who won a race before I watch it

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

"WE'VE ARRESTED TWO THOUSAND PEOPLE BY MISTAKE"

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Me, a centrist Guardian columnist: "Ha! My latest take. As far as I know, there's no means for anyone to know what my previous takes were. That's a relief as it is imperative that no one finds out that politics to me is like jangling keys in front of a baby".

One of the funniest things I have ever experienced was being a passenger as my brother-in-law parked in a multi-storey. He paused, mid-manoeuvre, turned to me & said (deadly seriously) "I ALWAYS know the length of my car..." then drove it straight into the wall. He didn't speak again for HOURS.

Jesus Christ

Fucking hell. This is, somehow, uniquely monstrous.

I love how these athletes just keep speaking out, refusing to be silenced despite the monstering and death threats they're getting from Trump and his cronies

There are more attoseconds in one second than seconds since the big bang.

Watch this video of the 1980 GOP Presidential primary debate between George HW Bush and Ronald Reagan when answering questions about immigration issues. And then think about how farthe GOP has fallen and how low they have dragged America in the past 45 years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysmg...

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

Amber Glenn won Olympic gold on Sunday. That same day, she left social media because of death threats. Her offense: she'd told reporters the queer community is going through "a hard time." The headline called it "backlash." www.readtpa.com/p/the-thresh...

Just had to submit a refund request on Steam. All I wrote was “I am far too stupid to play this game” Refunded an hour later, thank you valve

Meanwhile, in Milan

this looks like when the plane crashes in the Andes and you have to eat one another but someone fancies themselves a chef and they're psychotic

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Tucking tutorial

Very good News Agents episode on student debt. I knew quite a bit of it but there were still some eye-opening figures there. You get such weasel-words from governments on this issue - like justifying the fees because graduates make more money, then setting interest rates that rise with earnings

Five trans children died by suicide in 2019-20, 4 in 2020-21 then 22 in 2021-22. This is the truth, from official Government data, that Wes Streeting desperately tried to cover up.

A new classic from yesterday

“Every single woman had been in the facility about three weeks and had been living in the same articles of clothing for three weeks…Their clothes had not been washed. They had not been offered fresh underwear or fresh clothing. Some of them were literally still in their snow boots from Minnesota."

Nice crossword clue someone just shared with me. _ < 20? (10) ( @alistairking.bsky.social I think you'll appreciate this one)

I need everyone to know that on the crochet subreddit the mods made a big post about how they're taking a week off because there was too much fighting/political posts. so there's currently no mods on r/crochet and people are being absolutely insane

Ooh my latest article for @spectrum.ieee.org has been published! It's on a refrigerant-free freezer, developed by researchers at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) 👩‍🔬🧪⚛️ spectrum.ieee.org/subzero-elas...

BREAKING: “Justice Served” In Epstein Case - #BrokenNews youtu.be/DEHeex3VaOI

My favorite part is when she yelled out "It's Melanian' time" and then Melanied over everyone.

Because my wife works in theatre and my mum worked in film I've had a lot of these. I once had a very nice hug from Billie Piper. Also once gave a very drunken thumbs-up to Steven Moffat for getting Neil Gaiman to do a Doctor Who episode (in the days before we found out Gaiman was a wrong 'un)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I'd love to see Keir Starmer say "Yes, we did know about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein, and we thought this might be helpful in our negotiations with Epstein's other great friend, Donald Trump"

Incredible testimony at a municipal meeting, opposing ICE purchase of a warehouse, supposedly without the knowledge of the local political leadership. Urge reading the whole thread of community reaction in what was a hard-R district. But definitely watch the entire 2+ minutes of this.

A new systematic review has found that trans women on HRT have the same level of fitness as cis women and don't retain any advantage in sports. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Seriously wondering if they had a chatbot write the discontinuation message. Seems like the kind of boneheaded thing they might do. Anyway, they're backpedaling so fast they've only redirected the online notice on the main site and UK still shows the original message. www.reddit.com/r/adobeanima...

"We could have handled and communicated this better" meaning "we had no idea what level of backlash we were about to experience, we've had thousands of cancelled subscriptions, and we have to frantically pretend we didn't mean the thing we explicitly said"

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

This is making me think about cross-subsidy, which used to support a lot of writers. AutoTrader used to subsidise the Guardian's journalism. Bestselling books subsidised all the others. I'm sure even the BBC's best dramas subsidised its more niche offerings. But then people got all excited about...

Looking at a Tumblr post where someone is being flamed for their "two-ingredient pie recipe" where the ingredients are store-bought pastry and store-bought pie filling, and wondering how much you have to break the ingredients apart before it counts as actual cooking. #PieOfTheseus

First Macromedia Press book on Flash…spring 1998.