i mean what is amazon going to do, say that their upcoming james bond film is dogshit & an affront to the bond legacy lmao obviously they're going to tell the press that they're happy with the film they're bankrolling

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“What’s the solution other than banning teens from the internet?” Build a world where a little gay kid maybe doesn’t think it’d be better to kill themselves rather than come out to their irl community. Might be a start but what do I know

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

I don't know if I can really put into words just what this whole war is making me feel. It terrifies me, it makes me furious, I feel tired and exhausted and I feel so deeply sad that so many people have died, are dying, and will continue to die because of Trump.

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Have accidentally found myself going back down a CHVRCHES rabbit hole lately, and in the process have also wound up listening to some Hayley Williams & Last Dinner Party. idk i just think that they’re neat

Australia's Labour party has bright people (Wong, Albanese etc) but in government they are unable to show any spine to US-Israel bloc, no matter how much it hurts ordinary australians. Here the foreign minister Penny Wong has forgotten that the Strait was open before US+Israel's bombing of Iran.

And there it is.

Kanye already apologised for his antisemitism in 2023 (because he was about to put an album out) and then last year he sold swastika t-shirts and released a single called H**l H***r. He already got given another chance and he did the same thing again, even worse.

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

National borders kill people on either side at exorbitant rates; they are a cruel luxury of kings and tycoons that the human beings of earth can no longer afford.

Yet here we are.

please just let this fucking show die an embarrassing death.

A kid-friendly fantasy series about an English boy who does magic that I do find myself remembering fondly is the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Stroud. MC isn't born special - he's basically sold by his parents to be trained as a magician & join the elite - and the series is very critical of the magicians

Fines have to hurt before they become effective, so putting ceilings on them makes no sense. They should be calculated on annual income, be they lawsuit payouts or speeding tickets.

who named these horses, bob mortimer?

This really is spreading throughout the west *very* rapidly

Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.

There are some fan experiences reserved pretty much uniquely for Dr Who fans. The return of missing episodes is probably the pinnacle of those.

god this is almost five years old at this point & i feel like i go insane trying to make some kind of coherent point about a 12-episode long (mostly) missing bit of TV but also. they found more episodes gang & master plan is really fucking compelling stuff chairwithapanda.home.blog/2020/10/20/t...

...holy shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Firstly, *how the fuck* is the first one 'hard' to read?? Secondly, the language choices in the first one convey so much information that gets lost in the 'easy' version. The narrator wasn't just younger, but more vulnerable. This was *advice* from their father, not just 'something' they were told

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

Not to be conspiracy brained, but... is this the point? Kick off a regional war, devastate nations, wipe out access to water etc forcing hundreds of millions of refugees towards Europe where fascist parties are either already in power or only inches away from it

Good excuse for me to post this again:

NuAtheists discussing Christian extremism in 2006. NuAtheists discussing trans people, muslims, or the women who accuse them of sexual assault in 2026.

Excellent by @emmashortis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s so weird that not so long ago, like, less than 20 years, the progressive feminist position was gender de-segregation in sport and other male dominated spaces. Then the terfs came along and convinced the mainstream that the most progressive feminist position is that women are weak and feeble.

Racists will tell you that Islamophobia is not racism because Islam is not a race, and then write letters to Lakemba Mosque threatening to, as the ABC reports, kill the "Muslim race".

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Oh and just remember - once you’ve decided a minority’s human rights are up for debate, you’ve decided HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UP FOR DEBATE. To everybody who framed all of this as “The Trans Debate,” well done! You’ve opened the door to The Anybody Debate.

For years we said they’re going for a genocide of trans people and for years we were told to “stop being so dramatic.” Now we’re at the point of human experimentation with the explicit goal of eradicating us. Can we call the genocide a fucking genocide now?

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

Cancelling trans people's driving licences in Kansas because some people insist gender is fixed at birth, and cancelling a Tennessee woman's sterilisation op because someone decided her fertility is 'sacred', is setting up precedents to justify anyone's opinion overruling everyone's human rights.

Like grading on a curve Albanese is maybe not the worst leader of a Western nation right now, but shit like this shows just how skewed that curve is. Australia should be withdrawing from AUKUS and sanctioning the US (and Israel). Trump only cares about Trump.

I remember how the “shock and awe” of the US attack on Iraq ended in decades of broken cities, broken people and broken promises. Trump’s and Netanyahu’s bombs today can only produce more of this in Iran. Australia must reject this illegal attack.

one of the craziest things about still posting on twitter is that there is a non-zero chance that a person will use the built-in AI to make porn out of your selfies and everyone is just like "yeah that happens sometimes" ????

Once you've decided how, where, and when a woman can show her body and express her sexuality, you've become a danger to all women In terms of visuals, there's basically no difference between an escort posting poolside for an ad and a non SW woman posting vacation pics Ban porn at your own peril

I was reading 'The Odyssey' (yes, the Wilson one) recently & what stands out is an emphasis on looking after guests, visitors and strangers & the relationship between host & hosted. There are very, very old ideas that conservatives *loathe* because it requires them to care for other people

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

wow i wonder what that reminds me of

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Wait, wait ... I think I know this one.

A banger? Not in English? www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqEG...