There would be so many Tylenol ODs

If Labour had an ounce of sense, tomorrow they would announce that people with ILR will now be able to vote in UK elections. There you go. That's 175,000 people who aren't gonna vote Reform added to the franchise.

to put an even finer point on it: the percentage of U.S. adults who say they “strongly disapprove” of Trump‘s job as president (about 46-50% of adults) is significantly higher than the percent of adults who voted for him (about 32% of adults)

I will never forgive the Trump administration for making me briefly care about the career of Jimmy Kimmel.

Everything started downhill when Google killed Reader.

Challenge to commentators: don't dismiss transphobia and landlordism as 'side' issues in the implosion of Your Party. It's central. Same as Galloway: you can't build a progressive party on petit bourgeois prejudice and hatred masquerading as "community values". That's what we are seeing play out.

I see they've found another way to break the Good Friday Agreement.

This seems to be the most viral version of this take. The people playing quidditch renamed their sport Quadball in 2022 and have nothing to do with JKR now. Multiple fansites closed down. The HP adults left are the bad ones. There are plenty of Disney Adults who are OK with Kimmel's sacking.

OH i get it, liberals think trans rights are a question of freedom of expression and not one of bodily autonomy

when they used to say "twitter isn't real life," what they meant was they thought progressive viewpoints were overrepresented there.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

Given my family name, I really couldn't resist this doormat.

The amygdala is the part of the paleomammalian hindbrain that responds to panic and threat stimuli by raising legitimate concerns.

Glad to see that @libdems.org.uk Conference had no more patience for hate on the agenda than it did last time. We, and Conference, saw that amendment for what it was. Thank you to everyone who voted.

Curtis Evans is 65. He's a Marine veteran. He volunteers for the congressional campaign of @katmabu.bsky.social. He was protesting against an ICE detention facility. He's the subject of this photo by @staceywescott.bsky.social, which should be at the least nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Semper Fi

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women. The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Reassuring start to Lib Dem Conference as yet another attempt to hijack our values by a tiny handful of vicious bigot entryists was instantly rejected by a massive majority for about the thousandth time. Pushed heavily by the media, but transphobes have next to zero support in the Liberal Democrats.

Good riddance to bad rubbish #ldconf (F4 has been discarded by such a large majority there was no need to count)

It's been exactly 10 years since one of the funnest days to be online ever

Hey babe, wake up. New pronoun war just dropped.

Niche joke, but Bluesky is the right place for it. I laughed literally until my sides hurt.

complaint struck out for being in violation of Domine haec est Wendy's

This is a really fun read even for non-lawyers. It’s four pages.

And it turns out the killer app. in human civilization is, "what if we murdered fewer people? Or even - now hold on to your hats for this one - what if we murdered no people?"

it’s only four pages and worth reading to see how to write this in legalese

Revolutions, if there is a big single act that leads them to succeed, it is usually one giant act of cowardice (on the part of the regime) - de Launay surrendering the Bastille, Marmont not calling for help until his army had disintegrated, Khabalov paralysed by the first mutiny.

Yesterday I nuked the Windows partition on another of my Thinkpads & replaced it with Windows 10 IoT LTSC. Now I have a clean Win10 system, no Modern apps, no Windows store, no OneDrive, & it'll get updates until 2032. The download & the tools to activate it are here:

One thing about this trip to London -- it confirmed a decision I made for the podcast long ago that I've only seen @gralefrit.bsky.social comment on before -- that I don't presume *any* contextual knowledge, so where most rock docs will show the same three clips of hippies, I'll contextualise it.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Sidenote but a clear lesson of the past decade or so is that "business" reality shows are in large part cons and grifts in which people pretend to be businesspeople for the purposes of media attention. They should be taken off air.

10/10, no notes

I have to speak my truth: you can't call Zack Polanski "Hypnoboobs" Calling him "Hypnotits" is funny because it's a reference to the fact that he once claimed hypnosis can make breasts bigger and, crucially, it sounds like "hypnosis" "Hypnoboobs" does not sound like it, it doesn't work Thank you

It took us decades to minimise the DUP's influence in Northern Ireland and then the US and UK decided they want to live in the DUPs world.

But this from Kyle is batshit: "Too often people go to University to 'explore research and knowledge'". Yes, Peter, that's what a University is for - it's not to create businessmen, something it's not suited for.

Apparently ChatGPT also thought “Soda Pop” was a banger and decided to take credit for the lyrics?

If we consider EVERYTHING Trump does as a way to deal with his demons, things make a lot more sense. There is no such thing as policy, domestic or foreign, as long as he is in office.

I am trying not to be too mean-spirited about the people who apparently got genuinely excited at the idea that a party made up of "Jeremy Corbyn" and "some independents with real funky socially conservative views" could somehow be the future of the left but I am finding it hard!

Everyone sat around looking like an idiot apart from Ed Davey somehow. Feel embarrassed.

Fewer girls are playing sports after govt erected barriers for girls to play sports. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Mine, this week, is "the internet all went to pot when we moved from USEnet to forums".

Apart from the obvious (why does everyone skip from boomers to millennials and leave us out), what's your most Gen X complaint?

There have only ever been four runs when a woman broke 48 seconds in the 400m. Two were Eastern European athletes in the 1980s. The other two were today, first and second in the 400m World Championship final - second and third fastest times ever.

She has won at therapy, which is totally a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

An autistic woman has finally left her therapist speechless with a trauma dump that even he is powerless to respond to, it has been reported.

Grug needs to go back to cave Grug not like present times Grug preferred it when things were easy why can't life be normal, asks Grug

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

Oh, one last thing before I sign off: the venue for Not The Leader's Speech has been chosen. If the last thing YOU want to do on Tuesday at #LDConf is listen to Ed, contact me by any of the usual methods and I'll let you know.