I cannot, during these horrific times, recommend enough the importance of making pockets of time to just do things that are not related to anything but the joy of being alive and playing. You need it. You do. It will keep you whole. Which we need. We need you whole.

This has been on the cards ever since Trump got back into power, but I didn't realise they still owed the WHO $260,000,000 and they're just walking out, just like that.

Fitting psalmody for today. #TheTraitors

This is why as a Humanist I'm not an anti-theist. If the goal is to promote human flourishing, and these folk prefer religion as the framework to do so, I'm not just for it, I'll do what I can to protect it.

I remember perfectly clearly a time when there was no DHS. That, too, needs to be dismantled and everyone who used it as a vehicle for human rights abuses legally and socially responsible. And everyone who did the same or similar things elsewhere, including here in the UK, too.

Carefully explaining to my elite catgirl infantry for the fifteenth time that polearm unit tactics only work if everyone in the unit is wielding the SAME polearm. One of them showed up with a Bohemian ear-spoon. Where did she even get that.

Hey everybody--Hickenlooper just sent out a thing he's anti-funding ICE. So if you know anything about Colorado politics or Hickenlooper, we're pushing the needle and ICE is losing. Keep pushing the rock.

Part of this is that thanks to the specific Christianity that evolved in the US over the 20th Century -- which then permeated culture -- is that many Americans are unable to effectively differentiate between shame, guilt, and responsibility.

Manifest Destiny was also an awful lot like Lebensraum.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

Meanwhile, at the Board of Peace...

The double cognitive load of a) the President is deranged, and nobody in power acting he's deranged is stressful, and b) there are millions of Americans who get their news from media sanewashing the President, so they don't *know* he's deranged, so they think *we're* deranged, is ... fun.

US short titles of legislation are at best ludicrous. However, last year's TAKE IT DOWN Act has provided us with something we never knew we wanted: an act whose short title is longer (by one character) than its long title.

When Trump dies we get Vance. Thiel’s pet. They'll blame a lot of stuff on Trump AND try to fast-track an even uglier white supremacist techno-Christofascism. We must prept for this now & organize accordingly. Grassroots activism, coalitions. Dissent. Sand in gears. Strikes. Every angle.

This is what Windows 11 decided to tell me about the weather last night.

"The obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."

"Mr Nadella said he was confident that AI would prove to be transformative across industries, such as helping to develop new drugs." THE AI DEVELOPING NEW DRUGS IS NOT A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL! Satya Nadella knows this, and is conflating them deliberately. The AI he's trying to sell is LLM-based.

Farage is claiming Trump has 'vetoed' the Chagos Islands deal. I hope it's clear that no-one who believes that any US president, but especially this one, can unilaterally 'veto' the UK government should be allowed anywhere near political power.

"The obituary I'm looking for will be on the front page."

Not pictured: the Macarena.

flipped the calendar and all it says is "now is the time of monsters"

It was like this with the child abductions and detention camps at the border during Trump's first term, too. There should have been a thorough dismantling, restitution, and legal action. The fact that there wasn't is a part of why people doubt the Dems' will to fix it this time.

We had endless articles and TV clips about Biden's mental capacity but silence about Trump's obvious unfitness when he says he's going to start a war with Denmark over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.

I don't think Trump has ever thought purely about anything.

Anyone who still expects Kier Starmer to do good in government based on his earlier career as a human rights lawyer would do well to note that Vidkun Quisling first came to prominence in supporting the humanitarian work of Fridtjof Nansen.

Honestly, watching the news these days is giving me new respect for the historicity of 'The Twelve Caesars', Procopius 'Secret History', the Secret History of the Mongols, and half-a-dozen other contested sources dealing with the excesses of emperors.

Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand. We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is. We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.

Keir Starmer did everything he could to be US poodle and his strategy has ended in total humiliation. Both him and Farage are puppets of a hostile foreign nation. It's obvious that if someone is a bully - you don't just keep appeasing them. Disastrous strategy by Labour.

Build wind turbines all over it.

This cannot be emphasised enough: the phrase is itself eliminationist as it sets up being trans as pretense/deception and is calculated to pruriently evoke body parts & elicit disgust.

I've seen this specific thing (and also with Christopher and other obviously theophoric names) in published fantasy works, and it drives me up the wall.

Unsolicited writing advice, no.9: When naming characters, it helps to consider: their age; their background; their culture; what part of the country they come from; their parents (why did they choose that name?). Same goes for non-British characters - (not all Frenchmen are called Serge :-)

Oh look, another thing to complain to the BBC about. 'Associate professor of law' okay but also he's on the Advisory Board of Sex Matters which is probably more relevant in this context eh?

OMFG, this!

Block the absolute shit out of this nazi filth. Do it with an ancient curse on your lips, with black lightning coursing through your blocking finger. Or just do it the regular way. Point being: block ‘em.

Trump "may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... – the man is a bully, plain and simple. We should all declare against the US, suck up the cost. It will hurt, radically alter the world economy, but we’d finally shun this power-hungry infant.

To be clear: I strongly believe Ds giving ICE money for "training" and "body cams" will result in MORE violence from ICE. No. Never. Please call your reps today. bsky.app/profile/greg...

Sod this. It isn't that they should be better trained, it's that they shouldn't be doing any of this at all.

Noting that this would be illegal and wrong even if Congress approved it with an overwhelming bipartisan consensus.

Nice trolling by the Nobel museum, but it shows what a terrible choice Machado was by the Nobel Committee. She's scarcely won the 'Peace' prize and she's cheering on an illegal military assault on her own country, and then sucking up to Trump, going pleeeease make me President, have my Nobel Prize!

referred to the GIC in 2016. met the surgeon in 2020. government thinks this is too fast and easy

We don't *need* to imagine being governed by this lot. THEY WERE IN THE ****ING GOVERNMENT UNTIL 2024 AND THEY WERE SHITE.

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Imagine if there was a controversy involving Cards Against Humanity and a journalist interviewed a deck of Cards Against Humanity cards.

Saying "what they want is violence, don't give it to them," is not only an incorrect assessment—fascist state agents are unleashing violence upon our communities daily, the peoples' response is not incitement—but further accuses the very people resisting fascism of its cause. A sick perversion.

if they can successfully make the images not viewable from the UK, then they can successfully identify them and are actively choosing to allow them to continue to exist for everyone else (much like pre-Musk Twitter hid certain Nazi adjacent accounts but only in Germany)

"average centrist party neither left nor right" actually just statistical error. average centrist party continually moves to right but never to left. centrist georg, who actually tries to remain in centre regardless of where average is, is an outlier adn [sic] should not have been counted.