So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

this, too, is political violence

Cascadence, the game I made with @catonator.net, is out now on itch! Arrange falling blocks into 2x2 squares to clear them from the board. Play solo through 10 unique levels, or go head-to-head with CPU opponents in some fast-paced block battles! #FallingBlockJam mors-games.itch.io/cascadence

Yeah, holy shit. I just checked, mine and @shaxbert.bsky.social 's comments calling them out- which have 2.6k and 1.6k likes respectively, are just fucking GONE. Can't even find them by scrolling down anymore, they straight up 'hid' them. Fucking cowards. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Bluesky is a wonderful place that has flourished in large part because of its artists and intolerance towards facists/Nazis. The Updated policy currently going into effect Oct 15 could fuck that up and we should be very vocal about it. Here are some specific things to mention in feedback (THREAD)

Young people are already the most tolerant folks in the country. No one ever proposes making people 50+ do national service or some such because no one believes you can make them do anything, while it's generally accepted that young people exist to be commanded and pay for everyone else's bullshit.

Mahmoud Khalil was greeted with a standing ovation from the audience at Town Hall.

Signed. Fuck ICE, free Palestine, end fascism.

i know it’s pointless to ask where the fuck were these people when college kids were getting expelled and doxxed and beaten by police for daring to oppose a genocide but seeing them all line up for mediocre rich white comedian is really sending me

I think the world of Morrison but no way I would violate a DC boycott

I cannot emphasize this enough: The regime has overextended itself. It is vulnerable to protest and dissent. They have not consolidated power and we are entirely capable of keeping them from doing so. Doomers are not realists.

the predator in it looks like The Predators Nephew or something

Kair Starmer simply cannot continue as Prime Minister. He is entirely unprepared for this political moment, and is handing the country to Reform on a platter. No matter your politics, you would have to be a fool to support this inept man as PM.

here's a blistering hot take: as much as we joke about "detransitioning from a haircut," cutting your hair short is a significantly more irreversible (in the short term) process than taking hormones for a month. You're not getting the hair back without time, but stopping a short HRT regimen? Easy.

And yet, HRT is treated as this ridiculously impactful thing, because the long-term effects of continuing to choose it for months, then years, are significant. It's a choice of priorities that should be easy to ascribe a motive to.

Shaving off a beard that's taken five years to grow to its current length is a near-instant one-way trip to Not Having A Beard, and while some stubble will quickly reassert itself, you're not getting that beard back without rebuilding it from scratch. And you have the right to do that. Obviously.

And like... we know this. Forced haircuts as a child when wanting long hair are a classic transfem trauma, where pressure to keep it short overrides long-term work to grow it out in MINUTES.

This is best understood by recognising that this isn’t because *the public* have been wildly radicalising themselves to the far right for well over a decade. It’s politicians and media figures who have been roasting their own brains and egging each other on, with results that are all around us.

What I learned from the War on Terror, which I mistook at the time for a cunning masterplan for world domination. Nope: nine times out of ten, it’s just that people in charge are stupid and unpleasant and they wind each other up with ludicrously dangerous ideas. Most of politics is office politics.

hell this is literally @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social's position and she is completely disregarding scientific expertise in favour of a far right ideology. transphobia is fascism. transphobia is anti-science. transphobia is anti- 'common sense'.

If we’re having to warn their government not to attack civilians in response, then that tells us things about what we know, and maybe always knew.

If having a felony conviction on your record doesn’t disqualify someone from being the President, it shouldn’t disqualify someone from voting. People with felony convictions should be able to vote.

it was also stupid for libs to have spent the last decade allowing transphobia to run wild we now have a justice system full of these ppl. a columnist class full of these ppl. our institutions, even of equality, full of these ppl terfs are not just transphobic. they are far right conspiracy cranks

The media seems to have swallowed the “protecting women” from asylum seekers rhetoric when >90% of sexual assault perpetrators are known to the victim and about 95% of white British women have a white British partner. Again, they don’t care about facts

Facts here, which are ignored bsky.app/profile/marc...

'sex matters' -> 'ethnicity matters' you just know they aren't far off from 'race matters'.

Centrists entering the room to pontificate the ‘legality’ of terrible policies because they think they are better than everyone else and everyone else is too ‘emotional’

The Palestinian-led BDS movement has updated our priority targets, pressure targets and organic campaign targets.

The Democrats are the source of all that is evil in the U.S. The Republicans just stretch their foot out and score the goal, the Democrats are the ones dribbling across the field, through the defense then serve the perfect pass. Too many Americans are not smart enough to get that

This is just the perfect encapsulation of the total, catastrophic victory of Thatcherism. This entire model exploded on the world stage in 2008, but our entire population is steeped in the ideology, and everyone in power is wedded to it, so we’re stuck smashing the ‘Thatcher’ button over and over.

it's so funny that there's been SO MUCH carping about journalism disappearing and about how we have to support the outlets we have left or it'll be gone forever and this is what we're supposed to support

This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

these may be the most useful hand-drawing tips i've seen

the uk has officially recognised palestine. 🥳 what’s that? are we still selling weapons and gathering intel for israel? stop asking questions. jus enjoy the vibes.

I consent to all the most NSFW content people want to post. I can scroll past, mute, block, whatever I choose. We already have the tools, we can choose, that's the point.

Obviously this piece is absurd, and mainly designed to exploit rifts between Hermer and the rest of the govt. But it’s also part of a deeply sinister attempt to delegitimise legal work on behalf of asylum seekers, in an environment where death threats & actual attacks have already occurred

labour have a 72% disapproval rating. mcsweeney still hasn’t been fired.

until these ppl learn that the rights of disabled children and trans children are the same thing they won’t get anywhere.

HEY YOU, BLUESKY USER Do you like art on the site? Then you'd better go give the site's moderators a piece of your mind, because they're looking to instate guidelines on October 15th that *massively* censor art on this platform. Make noise in the comments, submit feedback forms on their site, go.

3rd deadly US strike on a boat in the Caribbean. As with the others: -in area US military operates freely -where arrest has relatively low risk, and greater strategic value -no US legal rationale, or even attempt to offer one -blatant violation of international law -no evidence US knew who they hit

Do NOT do this. Shout louder. Me and all the other nsfw artists need you to shout louder

The thing that really sucks about the AI bubble is that when it collapses they'll shut down perfectly useable datacenters that could be used to run real algorithms instead of Glorified High Dimensional Curve Fitting

I do not think that “conference exercises its long-standing and well established sovereign right to set the conference agenda by a 90%+ vote margin” is in any way a “row”.

It’s worth recalling that McSweeney was at the time Labour’s Billionaire-Bungs Acquisition Officer - a job that was effectively obsolete, in a member-funded party that did not seek bribes from squillionaires.

This was the party’s designated corrupt payments officer, secretly inviting the lobby journos to the launch of his clandestine wrecking campaign, so they could agree on bullshit terror campaigns about Facebook groups and the Canary. Looks pretty fucking bent, doesn’t it?

And even now, only one of the lobby hacks has said they attended. Even though we can all see who it was that Morgan was passing screenshots and selectively edited emails to, because they *published them in all-caps screaming terror stories on the front of newspapers*.

I've said it before, I'm saying it again now, and I'll be saying it in the future: use sunscreen in your face cream, every day, regardless of the weather or season.