Again, this is a broad coalition of people across the ideological spectrum whose top concern is making sure everyone rues and laments the “Woke Times” forever. It’s very much akin to the myths around “Negro misrule” in Reconstruction, which justified Jim Crow.

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

it's going to be like when we got rid of smoking in restaurants and on airplanes and within a matter of maybe a year everybody was like "we allowed WHAT?"

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Every photo of Shabana Mahmood looks like she's an imperial officer in Star Wars and is just about to stride out of your cell and leave you alone with the Interrogation Machine.

Corners of wikipedia

I remember when the left was in the rise they urgently gave us everything we want, that's why everything is so nice around here

Goddamn Cassian Andor www.thenational.scot/news/2549022...

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

🌨️Europe can’t rely on private tech giants for public services. EPSU is calling for worker-owned & public clouds, full implementation of the AI Act, and workers’ say in digitalisation. Read more in Euractiv’s coverage of our letter to the Commission: dlvr.it/TNDnhl

They're not nearly as strong as they act

"Much this conversation around e-bikes and e-vehicles focuses on individual actions and infractions," said @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social "And one of the things that I will do is focus on the systemic drivers of this chaotic streetscape, one of them being the app companies."

who would win, humanity's urge to anthropomorphize everything or some funky math that breaks your brain if you anthropomorphize it

It's crazy how you can tell allistic people what you need - in my case, a couple of days a week with no meetings in them - and they will simply not do that, but instead try 20 other things that don't work, then be upset about the results.

I wish it was more complicated but: Elon won. Pundits, journalists and political elites uses Twitter to gauge popular discourse and identify stories, which was workable so long as it was moderated. He seized control, completely altered its normal mode, but none of them adapted.

At this point we should note that two poetry books by Len Pennie (featuring some poems written in Scots) are in Amazon's top 20 Best Sellers in poetry list.

Meet the men forced to wear white hoods because people are so mean to them about their reasonable concerns

the only reason there are any decent web pages left on the entirety of the whole world wide web is autism. we are responsible for all the remaining good web pages and we can and will take them away

if they ban autism we'll just do an autistic general strike and every train in America will hurtle directly into the sea within three hours. you people can't stop this from happening. they will beg us to come back and resume doing our various autisms

Among Democrats - "Which of the following political figures would you prefer?" 🔴 AOC, Sanders, Mamdani: 53% ⚫️ Schumer, Jeffries, Pelosi: 33% ⚪️ Unsure: 14% Read it all here -> usapolling.substack.com/p/democratic...

The UK Government’s recognition of Palestine is a welcome step, and one that is long overdue. But words alone will not stop the genocide in Gaza. Sanctions, an end to arms sales, a ban on goods from settlements, and the suspension of the UK–Israel trade deal must follow.

We're facing the nightmare scenario that people like me have been shouting about for 20 years, I am really scared.

10 years ago, there was only a single 'leathceann' (windswept) birch tree in the foreground. Now, there's a full-on exploding diverse native rainforest, none of which was planted. All it took was fencing out sheep. Let's rewild the world 🌏

The government says from 2035 to 2050, the biggest absolute cuts in emissions across all sectors will come from transport. But gov stats show that from 2005, transport emissions have just continued to grow. How's this going to work?

"Labour Together failed to report donations of more than £700,000 made by venture capitalists and businessmen [including] £147,500 when McSweeney was running Starmer’s campaign to become Labour leader in 2020, while remaining company secretary of Labour Together."

In 1936 Barcelona each leftist faction had its own American cartoon character - the anarchists of course had Popeye - but it was agreed that Mickey belonged to everyone

here's an important thing about deterministic tools: when they fail, they fail predictably you can learn how to use them *for your own purposes* because they behave in consistent ways even if they aren't 100% optimal AI tools add a layer of ambiguity so you're 100% never sure what the output means

"Nobody wants to be around you if you’re just gonna dwell on this well stuff."

By the way, Councillor Thomas Kerr stood with the fascists today, in case anyone is any doubt as to his and his party’s politics.

Four hours later it’s a victory for the anti-racists and anti-fascists on Buchanan Street as the last few straggler Nazis are pushed away by the cops.

The best reaction when fascists turn up to try and provoke and dusrupt a pacific demo? Start street party!!! ❤️ Well done Glasgow good #antifascist people!!

Something I am trying to give up is left wing critique brain. In this situation, if you are genuinely and honestly having a go, you have my support. You are probably wrong but I am probably wrong too. Sometimes wrong people achieve all sorts of things. Go, you.

Glasgow, never change!

you read what I wrote and are quite reasonably going “hrm no that can’t be right” but

Fash overwhelmed by anti-fascists in Glasgow. As always, we're joyful, singing ABBA and chanting, and the fascists are just standing gloomily, not even bothering to chant or sing.

Probably because it’s so good!

Scotland: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KBg...

i am the new leader of Your Party, it's a pleasure to meet you all. i have placed jeremy corbyn in The Contraption

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

I occasionally wonder if maybe I'm a bit too caught up in the negatives of car-dependency and the car-dependent environments we live in. But it really is an endless story of negative impact after negative impact that we all sort of just collectively shrug and tolerate.

Merger of state and party is it

Just keep this in mind if you ever think “wow I really want to get some of those smart glasses”

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

I've seen the flags the fash have put up in Glasgow now and I have questions. Mainly, how did they do that many that large at that height? Did they have a cherry picker? Who paid for that?!

When #climate activists who engage in non-violent civil disobedience are allowed to fully explain the reasons for their actions, they are often acquitted by juries 👇

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

When I advise getting a mastodon account (on a European server) I mean it in the same sense as "you should get a crystal radio to listen to the BBC". It being a bit jankier really isn't the point.