Absolutely horrifying to see those scenes from such a cowardly attack in Bondi.

Oh god, Star Trek: Into Darkness for two reasons: 1. Saw it with my best friend, I choked on a frozen coke and she thought i had a brain freeze. 2. It was when she still had a bit of an accent so my immature 15 year old brain thought her saying "I can't wait for the turd one!" was the funniest thing

Just heard disappointing news that @warren.senate.gov will co-sponsor the Kids Online Safety Act again despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ, human rights, abortion rights, and racial justice groups. This is a horrific betrayal of her constituents, particularly trans youth and their families.

Who is Anika Welles kidding? Am I supposed to believe companies will run our data through expensive AI algos to guess where everyone of their customers live? Or Just comply to the bare minimum of the law and tell the gov everythings fine?

I shouldn't have to say this (when I was a kid it was the gov who would) but if you cannot be 100% your personally identifying info is safe from data breach, like an ID which alone can have life changingly bad consequences if found in the wrong hands, you shouldn't give them your info...

Absolutely stunning to see Australia's teen social media ban rushed through while every single government, educational institution and probably a huge number of parents are frantically force-injecting chatbot slop into the mind of every single child in the country without a second's hesitation

"Clearly the reason young people feel hopeless is all the Ticky-toks" - Prime Minister Albanese chaser.com.au/national/bac...

Thinking about how where I live we passed hate symbol laws to target nazis and it was immediately weaponized to arrest pro-palestine protestors But yeah carving out bans for certain types of erotic or uncomfortable content isn't gonna be used to target anything considered degenerate, that's crazy

A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades

Listen I'm a fucking idiot but doesn't this netflix buyout feel like Xbox buying Activision again, except Netflix doesn't have Microsoft to pick up the slack. Like, isn't netflix just barely profitable rn with constant price increases? And they also needed a loan to do this?

How can law be the chief determinant of morality when they can make it legal to rape us?

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

Porn was only ever the cover. In half the country, these laws now effectively mandate facial scans to access any material deemed "harmful to minors" by the state attorney general or a conservative parent. What they passed is much, much broader than people generally realized.

Polyamorous people would rather frolic than go to therapy

Scammers are going to be targeting children thanks to the social media age ban, imitating age verification tools to steal data, and dodgy 'free VPNs' being promoted to kids. Full article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/cyber-security-story-scam-warnings-scams/106036670

Me after the third soju

Okay I looked it up. “pick up a football” is a bigoted slur against genderqueer folks.

It speaks to the times that the news being confusing is a breath of fresh air compared to being just blatant acts of evil.

Imagine your child has a medical emergency. You’re a sex worker. You are not making enough from online SW to pay medical costs from her illness so you have to do full-service for a month You get a charge for prostitution. Now your access to online SW is precarious thanks to policies like this

This feels like a Cum Town bit.

The way welfare dependent people are treated in this country should ring alarm bells in anyone, regardless of work or wealth status.

Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg bear a really substantial chunk of responsibility for supplying this line to every climate-delaying pro-fossil government around the world

I know that "man the future sucks I was promised rocket cars" is old hat but fuck me, "the AI that runs the bank's fraud department denied my transaction because it believed my tastes in porn were wrong" is some esoteric dystopian bullshit

It’s time for all decent people to bully those who speak publicly about their bets to hell. Fuck all of them, I hate this shit so much

This is why AI is so dangerous Financial institutions will use it to scrape the web to discriminate against you — yes, YOU — and debank you Today, it’s for being an adult VA Tomorrow, for being trans? Gay?

I can only imagine the sinking feeling that the groundfloor devs of BO7 felt seeing the positive reaction audiences had to battlefield 6s marketing focusing on Realism™, whilst their managers steamed ahead with whatever the fuck that campaign is.

Epstein saw that Noam Chomsky wrote a book called "Manufacturing Consent" and went "yooo thats my kinda guy!"

I try to stay behind a few layers of snark and insincerity on here because I'm not really a fan of being my true self online, but I need to be honest here: There's very few things I hate more than being the only person in my family with conflict resolution skills despite being the youngest child.

holy hell....this paragraph CC @wimcarton.bsky.social @laurielaybourn.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article... by @oliviarudgard.bsky.social

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

An aside to all this, they’re using variable width fonts in these which means that a lot of strings can be determined by block width. Look at Ken Starr’s email block, in some you can see the @ sticking below the bar, and a couple descenders past the @ Someone who cared could reverse engineer it.

We're improving all the crime statistics by arresting more people.

I will never vote for Tyler "Ninja" Blevins.

Since the ceasefire took effect one month ago, Israeli attacks have killed at least 242 Palestinians and injured 622.

It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway.

Really need to get back into this game. Got up to the wizard towers in Gold and noped out after the first tower lmao.

Huge result for now. Rapid response starting last Thursday to establish a united front of community and civil society organisations. Gonna be much tougher for them to get this through from here 👍

ICE GOONS once again try to force their way into a U.S. citizen's car without a warrant, threatening to break her window as Goons surrounding and yanking at the vehicle door Nov 5, 2025 Aurora, IL

Rest now, brother. We have the watch. And I will see you in Valhalla. 🫡

causing poverty - a primary outcome of criminal law - does not support victims of sexual violence. Expanding police powers has never in the history of patriarchy reduced, halted, nor prevented sexual violence. Increasing inequality in fact strongly correlates with higher rates of violence.

Here's the lie: it wasn't "innovation" that shifted trajectories It was - Massive deployments of wind (and solar) (contrary to Gates' wishes) - Huge gov't subsidies to help that - The climate movement aggressively defending those policies against people like Gates' friend Bjorn Lomborg

The welfare system is often used as a powerful surveillance tool for police and security agencies. Where someone is evading arrest, especially longer-term—it's entirely possible cancelling welfare payments may make apprehending them more difficult. You are also *provoking* a known violent offender.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

There are a disturbing number of people who think like this. I've been seeing a rising number of commenters on my Hidden Gems roundup who are upset at being shown games they've never heard about, because if they haven't heard about it, it must be bad and thus it can't be a gem, so I must be lying.