“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 19 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE w/ PATRICK WYMAN @patrickwyman.bsky.social Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, I reached out to the henchest man in history to discuss ancient means of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture or a return to form.

One of the sites in our study had crudely laminated A4 printer paper signs saying MALE and FEMALE over two gender neutral bathrooms (obviously with no alteration to the braille), people truly just do this shit for some reason and it makes me feel insane x

The British public are tired of the weird charisma vacuum lawyer who the press were all gushing over and calling a sex symbol. The British public are now crying out for a weird guy nobody’s heard of who looks like a deformed Neil Patrick Harris as the Nazi Psychic SS Officer in Starship Troopers.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Wedding planning is fun, actually

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

anyone telling u outright not to learn music theory is secretly an evil robot trying to keep u from making cool shit

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

Everything you need to know about Starmer's relation to his erstwhle profession is summarised in this passage: A pursuit of a hallowed credentialism with which he could swat down any and all critiques through recourse to a meticulous technocratic method belied by his obvious partisanship and malice.

In the middle of a moral panic about sex trafficking so intense that I can't advertise a book about medieval history online and no one can access prom anymore, Labour's best and brightest are desperate to get on TV and let you know actually it is fine if rich people do it to poor girls.

(Woody Allen eating a Da Bomb wing on Hot Ones) WOODY: Boy, that's like dating your first Gentile girl, there's a real sting to it. Wowee, that's hotter than a New York cab in August. Havin' flop sweat like after the Curse of the Jade Scorpion premiere. SEAN: Was it weird marrying your daughter?

First paper from our LGBTQ+ Mental Health project is live in International Journal of Transgender Health. Really beautiful work, led by Salem and Damien, using a creative research method that honours our trans participants’ experiences of MH access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗣️MORE. 🗣️WOMEN. 🗣️PEDOPHILES.

i had such a good time talking about this piece of shit guy who sucks

That's right

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Much to consider. www.ft.com/content/3382...

In a historic joint action, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), have lodged a formal legal complaint to have Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrested or barred from entering Australia.

AI Slop! At the psychology orientation

Forgive me for being cynical, but I wholeheartedly believe they’re doing this so he can retain certain financial privileges which he would likely lose if he were fired, because they’re worried what he’ll say and do if they no longer have any financial leash around his neck.

Gradually, not suddenly. as.ft.com/r/8f9cead6-a...

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

Ahem. scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Having a normal one

Reviewing papers about AI use in therapy contexts makes me want to put my head through a window.

It just seems naive, to me, at a time when the US is gleefully burning every bridge, ripping through international law and norms, and declaring its proud return to a sadistic world ordered by brute force and domination, for people to say, "But don't you see? We rely on them for security."

hello I am launching my very own podcast with @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay where we (mostly casually!) chat about car culture in the decline of the American empire, auto racing, and industry news interspersed with tales of our former auto journo careers. we call it TRAN GIRLISMO

NEW: Australia’s sovereign wealth fund now owns more than $100 million worth of shares in Palantir, a controversial tech company that’s powering the Trump administration’s anti-immigration efforts.

As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.

Up to the fourth interviewee in this project who said our recruitment posters were great, putting this on my CV etc.

"They're being so vague and the language could be describing either option."

“The AUKUS agreement is so absurd that it seems laughable one Australian government would sign up to it, but for two governments to be so reckless, strains credulity beyond breaking point. And yet here we are.” - Greg Jericho Read Greg Jericho’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qOAIFp

It didn’t drop below 30°C last night and it’s gonna be 30-40°C every day this week, and my shitty Australian slum rental (like everyone else’s rental in this fucking stupid country) is barely survivable. It is insane to me that we don’t all go sicko mode about this every summer????

Wow I wonder what happened in 2016. Don’t worry, the headline and first paragraphs will definitely not tell you. And I remember how the airports were plastered in “Britain: open for business!” posters right after Brexit. www.ft.com/content/66eb...

Six monarchs, three ex-Soviet apparatchiks and a leader sought by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes — those are among the inaugural members of the US president’s rival to the UN, which he is expected to unveil at Davos. ft.trib.al/acCThWH

Every time I think about Australia-China relations, it always reminds me of this Utopia bit where they constantly have to please the US because of AUKUS.

ChatGPT is a scapegoat. It may lift the quality of work of the worst students, but universities were already giving poor work a passing grade. It is the universities who broke trust first -- not the students. On @thepointau.bsky.social -- thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

It’s all going to get so much worse www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

many good words in this article www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I think this is more likely than people realise and may be one of the few chuckles we get

i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream

NEW: 1 in 10 teens going to headspace say the teen social media ban was a factor in their decision to seek mental health support. This very preliminary data, supporting concerns about negative impacts of the ban, shows why more online reform is needed, headspace said.

it's great for her to be saying all this and i truly hope she means it but if you trust any of this you're a fucking idiot

"If we expelled him, why— we'd have to expel all the *other* far right pedophiles too."

Adelaide people! Come to this show! I think it’s possibly the most earnest and lovely sound design I’ve ever done/Yoz is *so* funny and *such* a good story teller adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/my...