Hard to miss the irony: the same accounts now laundering state violence as “legitimate authority” lost their minds when that authority merely asked them to tolerate temporary limits on their own comfort and movement to avoid spreading a deadly virus.

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

I just tried to type "linkin park" and I accidentally wrote "Linkedin", this age has ruined me

The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.

I can't decide if it would be better or worse for her to be named, but it feels like they're trying to convey that the woman worked with tools like some sort of *whispers* LESBIAN

As Handywoman is a weird name

She was married. Her wife raised the child with her. Her father put it out that the boy "didn't have anyone," seemingly as a means of pre-emptively assuming custody over the child. To continue this narrative both insults the dead woman and adds to the surviving parent's grief.

I have heard this moment described as one that moved every woman two notches on the Kinsey scale.

Starmer had no problem wading into police priorities when in came to supporting Graham Lineham’s call for violent attacks on trans people… …but gets worried when it’s industrial scale creation of non-consensual sexual images of children. “Prime Minister” started as a mocking title.

I truly don’t think Americans understand or will ever understand how patient the rest of the world has been with them while they have this psychotic episode.

Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He had used promo code ORWELL1984 to get his first month free with BetterHelp

I feel my education somewhat prepared me for the possibility things might backslide to the 30s and 40s but no one said I should watch out for things going back to the fucking middle ages.

This is why the average American appears to think the U.K operates under Sharia Law; why there’s an attempt to kill the BBC; and why the U.S is proscribing European internet regulators attempting to address U.S disinformation. Oligarchs are trying to destroy liberal democracy.

"I went on Twitter and I saw all these terrible posts" Oh fuck man really? Did you also go to the dump and find a bunch of rotting food? Why are you making it my problem now.

30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine

This looks like when someone sits on their phone and accidentally renames the group chat to keyboard smash

Wtf

The gist of this --that it has nothing to do with productivity and everything to do with control was made clear to me when I first received an RTO --from a literal lord. He didn't care about anyone's output. He wanted to feel like an aristocrat and that meant seeing people bend to his will.

Ah, another freelance day, another invoice that a client hasn't bothered to pay on time.

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Remember: It is a mystery to every journalist and pundit why this Labour government are so roundly and universally detested.

What is life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. Specifically, do that on Oxford Street, everyone loves that shit here.

TOO REAL, POEMS ON THE UNDERGROUND

I wonder if, had we prosecuted and imprisoned the authors of Bush’s ‘torture memo’ authorizing war crimes instead of allowing them to keep their bar licenses and land cushy jobs as law professors and judges, 47 and Hegseth would have been able to obtain a legal opinion supporting their actions.

Saying ”Grok apologized” is like If I type “YOU’RE A BITCH” into Speak-And-Spell and tell you “Speak-An-Spell says you’re a bitch”

...you know that thing, where instead of the product from the brand you searched for, Amazon blasts you with a million results from "companies" whose names seem to be just a bunch of letters?? Well, that certainly isn't improving.

Y’all the chances are EXTREMELY non-zero, just think about that, soak it in

The rest of Boyzone can't dance, but not in the normal way. In the "because the demon commanded us not to" way.

This is exactly it, and a polite way of saying what a lot of people are saying more bluntly in response to the article. It’s a losing strategy and they should have realised that a long time ago.

hello You, have you gotten a flu shot? as someone who was gonna do it and didn’t get to it in time and then got pneumonia, do not be like me!

People should genuinely be more willing to say that the German Republic of the interwar years was a great thing and that it is a shame it fell, imo, instead of handwringing about how it probably was inevitable.

As far as I can tell, the Conservative party's position is that there should be no censorship of content on platforms like twitter but that the same content can be grounds for deportation/denaturalisation

My favourite Paddington is when he comes for you before you've even died. Here he is ushering Liz Truss out of number ten.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

Incredibly promising news to start the new year…

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

Good news if you live in the UK.

If no one else will ask, I guess I will. Why does Mr Chalamet's name suggest he is a French woman who has been timothed

Reposted this yesterday but I’m doing it again because I feel so strongly. Video is much harder on women, who are expected to conform to much higher grooming standards, and also really on anyone who doesn’t look like a conventional white man, who can expect more nastiness bsky.app/profile/youn...

The neighbour group chat has given me cause to notice that Thames Water and Trigger Warning share an initialism, which feels appropriate.

That For Women Scotland (and other anti-trans groups) get so much attention and coverage for persecuting a minority, while doing absolutely naff all to minimise the very real risk to women by men, speaks volumes. Revolting.

(Nervously) you: Doctor, what's the prognosis? Doctor: I am afraid your baby's got back. Absolutely stacked in the back.

People who want to get morally superior about how they hand-wash everything really gotta reckon with the fact that machine dish-washing uses considerably LESS water and emits considerably fewer greenhouse emissions than standard handwashing practices do. (And you save a lot of time...)

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

the shit I care least in the whole world about is whether the story about the Earl of Sandwich is true. yes it fucking was. my man was playing cards and eating meat with his hands and then he said hold up check this out. you won't believe this shit. bring me some fucking bread & hold onto your hats

Mum: I am going to put the Christmas Pudding on, and you are going to eat some whether you like it or not.