The change is especially concerning to many sex workers, influencers and public figures who use Amazon wishlists to receive gifts from fans and clients.

”My bone chair is made from over 200 human bones, but it you think about it, a human is also made from over 200 human bones…”

Labours child killer in chief 'postpones' unethical medical trial that he assured everyone was ethical, organised and conducted by unethical, bigoted and incompetent NHS clinicians due to undefined 'risk', while suggesting the fix is to make it even more unethical, dangerous and useless as research.

Y'all tolerated the Nazis but maybe the gamble-on-everything grift will finally get you off Substack

There's no justification for this other than absolutely hating children,the disabled and neurodivergent specifically.

somehow it’s just never satisfying when one of the key players who dragged us here, faced with the culmination of their efforts, goes, uh-oh idk maybe it’s because of all the deaths and the misery

In case anyone was additionally wondering, yes trans women have tried plant estrogens, soy products, wild yam root and all the other "feminising" things available to bypass medical gatekeeping and none of it was very effective. The feminising power of scare mongering bullshit is not worth bothering.

Sharing this because 1) this goes hard and 2) I want to find it again so I can cross stitch 'We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend' some day and properly credit the source

I’ve see so much of this reaction among corporate feminist types and I swear the idea that women should be present at the tables where they decide to exploit people is so viscerally disgusting to me

Molumbo

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

Books are not clutter. Clutter is all the other stuff that gets in the way of having more books.

In Buffy S7, there’s a scene where Willow thinks she’s talking to the ghost of Tara, but realizes with dawning horror that she’s talking to a malevolent entity wearing Tara’s face. Imagine that kind of mental record scratch, but it’s an ad for Squarespace or something.

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Wake up, workers of the world, a new second-person plural pronoun dropped.

Ah I gather from R4 that govt are announcing a programme today where Microsoft and Google offer training to everyone in the country to use their AI tools, which I'm guessing this research was commissioned to justify. Also, great to be in a govt-backed multi-level marketing plan

Makes you wonder just how dangerously invested the UK is into ai stock and companies if they’re pulling a move this desperate lmao

So glad this book made it through the Unbound nonsense. Can't wait to crack it open!

For some reason, it felt like a good time to put out a (free) newsletter on how to look after yourself when things are terrible: buttondown.com/SelfCareBack...

A belief that only through commitment to a sort of misery associated with adulthood (and what they mean is alienation from seeking outcomes that might make life and peace and society worth living with) has been a defeatist project that allowed narcissistic mavericks to look like they have a dream.

Absolutely. I’m disappointed to see so many MPs who support Trans+ History Week backing a social media ban. We need to be much more considered in our solution. And I’d encourage them to read this piece to develop that understanding more.

Annoyed that this is the poem of the decade

This. It's OK if your writing doesn't save lives. It's OK if your writing only saves you.

i love when everyone insane online converges on an event & decides it's a posting holiday

The reporting on this stuff is always very vague - what’s on the screens (there is a brief mention of this)? What would the child be doing instead? What other environmental factors might improve/impede vocabulary? Why is there a conflation with a social media ban for teenagers in this article?

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

THE OPEN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRIEF IS A POLITICAL ACT.

So the zealots whose entire conception of "feminism" is defending the legitimacy of 'woman' as mother and womb are buying into nationalist, reactionary politics? The story here is actually how shit most people's definition of "left-leaning" is.

Read this thread. I don't know what to say, other than we can't live like this anymore.

is there some way I can quickly unlearn all of history so as to feel better about recent events

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.

the extremely capable, performing better than a human, and close to achieving conscientiousness AI systems, y'all

One more reset bro one more reset

It has been a truly upsetting revelation how many people who I thought cared about disinformation, advocating for science, etc just flipped in 0.002 microseconds after a tech company programmed a chatbot to tell them how great their questions are

which political views? which ones specifically

Always worth a post

Talking to a relative over Christmas who said she was leaving the WI over "this trans nonsense". It sent a cold rush through me, until she continued; saying that one very loud transphobe on committee was dominating meetings & she & many others were sick of it. These ghouls ARE hated by their peers.

"Not only will America come to your country and kill all your people, but they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing all your people made them feel sad." - Frankie Boyle

Here’s to 2026

Nah you're fine everyone already knows

The thing that bothers me about our post-pandemic COVID discourse is how much of it isn't about how to do things better next time, it's playing Monday morning quarterback. It's not about learning, it's about spending years trying to win arguments that people had online from March 2020.

The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

“You could just tell something was off about them” sounds a little too close to “the victims were idiots for not seeing what I saw” so try and stop saying that whenever someone you found annoying on TV turns out to be a sex pervert.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, eventually became a Queen! Not dark but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth!

Beating up nauseating YouTube influencers can be a great way to pay for UK public services.

The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.

Altman is such a fucking fraud that he's just openly admitting now it's a data collection exercise. These companies just want your data. It's always been about getting your data. They're not profitable so all the can do is consume. Consume energy. Consume memory, consume data. Frauds.