“Starmer assumed Gray had a super-secret plan for governing but she didn’t so they did nothing” is such a wild line, and the hacks seem so uninterested in learning more about this astonishing, farcical setup

One of the great pleasures of living in the Netherlands (and Utrecht in particular) is watching the positive transformation of the city's infrastructure over the past few years. Better bike paths and parking, new public spaces, more street trees, and a huge boom in new housing construction.

This is Avignon Papacy *slander* and absolutely ignores the fact that a) the Romans had been doing it for centuries before that and b) Rome was on fire and you too would want to light out for the south of France. The worst sin of this administration is it's poor grasp of late medieval history.

Woah, are warcrimes illegal in Australia now?

One of the most stunning launch photos I've ever seen. I'm including the photographer's full technical description in the alt text, just to clarify that this isn't shop or slop. 📸 Erik Kuna for SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

The volume on the radio broadcasts of the beisból randomly turns itself up and down. This seems to be well-known among listeners but I have so far failed to uncover any trace of an acknowledgement from the perpetrators. Honestly not that great! www.reddit.com/r/mets/comme...

Still desperatly trying to reach my goal. My bank continues to fight me for my life savings and to make matters worse I'm now dealing with Covid recovery and a debilitating back injury. Please, it mean everything 🖤 CA: $helpmarghoul V: @marghoul

missing the scots around here

Oh look, the EXACT same language used before they started shutting down services for trans kids, "too many people", "self identifying", "huge increase in diagnoses among girls" I wonder what comes next...

i am now IP banned from the pokemon center website :D

Apropos of The Discourse, me and Child #2 went to see B Dylan in Amsterdam last November on his "Rough and Rowdy Ways" tour, and it was great. But I wouldn't recommend anyone try that without at least checking out some recent-ish bootlegs; if you want a cheery Greatest Hits Package, look elsewhere

Just realised this gene testing for sports is a real world “oi mate got a license for that gender” , a papers please to check if you’re allowed to have your very identity

Urgently trying to raise $1200 to cover a bill that could go into collections. Please boost. Im nearly able to get back to driving for income while dealing with my bank but thats not really viable for this. Every little bit helps 🖤🖤🖤

the sound that just came out of me

A lot of people clap and cheer at Arkell v Pressdram style legal letters. But the most deadly legal letters are calm and polite, and this one is lethal.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Scientists, who are on the whole a simple folk, believe in a spotless and sunlit Eternal Now of science, which irritates the living piss out of historians and sells the rest of us considerable popcorn.

Just wagered 90K on Polymarket that Polymarket would be legally declared an illegal scam betting site, collapse in a fiery bankruptcy, and fail to pay out any of its obligations

We drove from the north of the Netherlands to Poznań once. When we got there I realized I had forgotten my hotel but I just bluffed the hotel into not minding too much

And this is why countries are starting to stop using American financial credit institutions. They don't like the fact that they can do this shit. And more power to them.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Can anyone show me the working of *why* Mercury in retrograde ends today instead of yesterday? (I admit to not using the "swiss ephemeris" in my calculation, because I decline to know what that is)

We’re quickly learning that our checks, balances, and separation of powers were always dependent good faith, and therefore incapable of preventing destruction wrought by the very sort of shameless, arrogant, mad president they were designed to contain.

i deserve more followers than Reality Winner, surely. with your help i can achieve this

Nowruz Mubarak to all who celebrate – and happy spring equinox to everyone else!

Hi loves, could we send this back around. I'm still stuck in bed recovering from covid and cant deliver or do lyft. Im just trying to stay ahead of bills and pay for prescriptions when I can. Please boost, everything helps. Thank you 🖤🖤🖤

i have a UDP joke

My first cheque ("check") would be for a LISA-style gravity wave detector in space. (Preferably LISA, if the gang will take my imaginary money.)

The stars say the world is bad. As do the ships carrying oil. Oil tankers are in retrograde, this is particularly bad for Sagitarius.

OK I'll bite: why is it *meteorologists* who decide that flahrs are flahring? Are flahrs a kind of meteorite (or just weather) in Japan?

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

All too common now. If it's not in Wikipedia, Reddit or the Internet Archive you're basically screwed. Information access is being burned away to nothing.

Team USA should be booted from the next tournament and I’m not even kidding

(I read this as "decimalisation" and on balance I think I will stick to that)

The Gender-Conservative movement cloaked itself in the language and thinnest veneer of feminism to legitimise transphobic politics. Now the institutions vilifying and marginalising trans people in the name of "protecting women" are shamelessly targeting reproductive autonomy as well (as expected.)

I like an action shot of St Patrick

I mean I'm in my 50s so basically all of them? But I nominate _This is Spinal Tap_ because I'm still cross that the new one didn't get a theatrical release here

I would simply don my finest mayoral chain and cut the ceremonial ribbon with the scissors provided, having previously given a speech of astonishing length and banality

HISTORICAL FACT: People used to use "y" as th - "ye olde pube" etc - because Y is close to T on the keyboard and they weren't as good at typing back then

This will certainly end well I mean what's the worst he can really do?

This is an enormous step forward for women of people.

I have been given to understand that the Chancellor's "growth policy" is in fact pounding a clipboard while charting "Growth! Growth! Growth!". Is this correct and if so is it likely to help?

It is perhaps not entirely to my credit that I have read many J Austen books that aren't Mansfield Park but so far none that are. (I wonder if it is the kind of book they sell in "bookstores"; maybe I should check.)

I'm hearing this now for the first time

this is actually the spawning season for the American military. these missiles are returning to their ancestral homeland—high in the mountains of West Asia—in order to mate and complete the reproductive cycle of the western military industrial complex in suitable nesting spots—like children’s skulls

I’m coming round to the position that academics using AI in this manner should resign.