Just boarding the plane home and overheard a guy asking to change seat and the attendant says "yes sir, of course we can upgrade you to a middle seat"

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

Unreal www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

One on side, the Trump administration is arguing that hormones are "mutilating" when used by trans people. When used by cis people, they are removing all the warning labels and increasing access. Funny how that works. archive.ph/JhbUF

I'm convinced now that whatever we imagined Trump's involvement was, it was 10 times worse

We might ask why, when it was very obvious a tiny clique of poisonous, truthless psychos had seized control via bullshit, shenanigans and stitch-ups, the entire British press spent five years loudly squealing that this was an insane conspiracy theory believed only by dangerously crazed people.

I've realised that the reason I feel so safe in Nigeria no matter where I am is because every single person I meet is concerned for my safety. So there's literally no one left to rob me.

We got both billboards up tonight, in the background of this one you can see the gas flaring of a nearby oil refinery

Yes, we told the lads repeatedly that there’s no Just The Tip version of reactionary flag-fucking crackdowns politics you can use from a desire to do good. There’s only ever reactionary flag-fucking crackdowns politics that makes everything worse more slowly, or more quickly.

I'm in the Niger Delta and I have a small crowdfunder which has paid for two anti-shell billboards & hundreds of placards & t-shirts to be printed to be given away. But the activists have asked for if we can get a bit more to pay the bus fare of farmers who want to come to the march tomorrow...

Starmer has rendered The Thick of It obsolete in this lobbyist-centred dystopia of blaming the electorate for not liking things he has organised focus groups to agree with him on.

ok with the benefit of hindsight i think it's fair to say he kinda had their number on this one

as a wise man named @ciaran.operationglad.io once said:

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

This, talking about the books that have been published with interviews of senior Labour figures bragging about how they deliberately wrecked their own party and Britain into Boris Johnson and diamond hard Brexit. I imagine a lot of folk would take that stuff back now, if they could.

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

Environmental protesters are facing extraordinary licence conditions more commonly associated in terrorism cases on release from prison, in another serious abuse of rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

This is what they took from you

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Trying to order pizza in Port Harcourt: Beef pizza - beef & sausages Chicken pizza - chicken & sausages Supreme pizza - chicken, green peppers & sausages Special pizza - chicken, beef & sausages Goat Meat Pizza - goat & sausages Sausage pizza - sausages

Sorry but I have to respect the staff for this lmao

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

amazing.

it is now possible to transfer your spotify playlists seamlessly to other listening apps btw

You're telling me that there's a black ichor under the earth, made from the ancient dead, whose burning can realize all the dreams of man but only at the price of slowly returning the earth to its primordial state?

Right in the middle of a White House event promoting their bizarre vision of "health," one of them passed out and required medical attention. The writers are getting lazier and lazier.

I think I've finally finished this map of US empire, charting US military and CIA foreign interventions since 1900, as well as US military bases and CIA torture black sites.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Very funny that Facebook thinks my "top fans" would appreciate a genAI image in the first place

The pandemic was a mass-disabling event and one of the reasons it has largely vanished from day to day political discourse is that those in power don't want to acknowledge the long term care needs it produced.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Centrists who react to Nazis gaining ground with "we should try to reach out to them more" and react to socialists gaining ground with incandescent rage and tutting about populism are letting you know that their "centre" exists somewhere off beside Augusto Pinochet

genuinely beautiful that new york elected a muslim lefty mayor the same day that dick cheney died

the most important elected democrat very likely defected from his own party to vote for a guy trump endorsed

bruh he voted for cuomo

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

i imagine to a group of people addicted to losing, winning feels like detox

I remember reading this quote in the early 2000s and it seared itself into the back of my skull.

I'm in the Niger Delta and I just watched a man who had to abandon his home because his family members were dying one after the other from diseases caused by oil pollution pull crude oil from the water well outside his old house.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Wild that Jimmy thinks the article should *begin* by stating the organisations that reject the charge of genocide rather than the vastly more numerous and credible organisations that have made the charge in the first place.

UK Politics update: the party currently doing austerity because the the previous party did austerity is warning that the poll-leading party will do austerity All three parties confess themselves baffled at the UK's low morale & economic growth, but are confident that things will pick up soon 🫡

Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner

Just arrived in Nigeria and found the passport control in Lagos airport is sponsored by Shell.

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Realised these stickers also work well on camera equipment

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.