One of the top 10 podcasts in America is hosted by an open Nazi.

Imagine if there was a hurricane-force blizzard, and we just showed pictures of kids playing in the snow

I did not know about the A-pillar blind spot problem (gift article) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

this is so insane

This will probably not get much coverage given other news. But on the horrendousness scale, this is hard to beat.

What *is* the point of public funding if it's not to subsidise things we need but commercial broadcasters won't do?

My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.

at some point it’s just adopting prime ministers and feeding them to the cat

I am actually not sure how to communicate how weird it is that Lalas is on this panel. Henry and Ibrahimovic are two of the best forwards of the past 20 years; Lalas peaked at Padova, a club that hasn’t been in Serie A since the Clinton administration www.theguardian.com/football/202...

In other news, DomCums wants to nuke the British state in 2029

[clears throat] Mark Cuban is the Matt Yglesias of Peter Thiels

Just snorted so hard

In addition, one for the “banning anonymity would make social media less toxic” crowd to ponder. These are all adults posting under their own names!

special Fathers Day shout-out to paid family leave

Cue the usual cliches - "if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen", or "he's a fascist, he deserves it" - all of which say more about those uttering them. But we need to accept that not all the problems with our politics come from above. "We, the people," have responsibilities too.

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

The Nightmare of the White Elephant, from Jazz, 1947 https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1208481

I see we are still encountering difficulty using the T word when it comes to violent racist rampages by white men

Terrifying

Small Town on Cove - 1923 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103412

The mask is FULLY off from the man now.

Exc: First Government department quits Twitter over racism and violence concerns Richard Hermer sent a directive to staff last week saying the Attorney General's Office would be coming off the platform observer.co.uk/news/politic...

me walking into the Financial Times

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Oh and happy anniversary to the most culturally impactful thing I'll ever do.

The Red Sun Gnaws at the Spider https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/not_detected_227935

There are people who commute without a bag - sans sac! I know they are leaving things at work or can get them there (computer, tools, lunch), but I just can't imagine doing it

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

BlueSky! Give me ideas for things you can give away at a conference that are useful and people might actually keep. Tote bags, stickers, pens, but what else? Feels like the death of USB sticks has eliminated a good option here.

“I’m not even super right wing” >> you are about to hear the most Nazi shit you’ve ever heard in your life.

say what you will about pre-Musk X but i don't recall female suffrage being a point of contention

There is still time to shame wearers of Ray Bans by asking if they're pervert glasses

I feel like I'm a one-woman campaign against PERVERT GLASSES/PAEDOGOGGLES and everyone needs to write to their MP/whatever before a massive and deeply predictable awful thing happens. can't believe* we're just allowing this to happen. (*i can actually because women don't matter apparently)

OR: pervert glasses are getting harder to spot and we should BAN THEM

My favorite exchange from a Chotiner interview thus far. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Enjoyed these

Incredible ITV studio, begging many questions. Was the wood going cheap? Cabinets, there?

I guess one difference between Jim Crow then and Jim Crow now is that we have cool graphics to show how it's done.

White River at Sharon - 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103962

this is not what happened

come on. come the fuck on

i'm not making the case that it meets a legal standard (tho possibly), but he is very overtly calling for more pograms

this is an incitement to violence, there's no other way to read it

it's been out a few hours, i thought to myself—i bet he's shared something racist since then

we can fix that

Look, I'll happily pay an extra tenner on my licence fee if they cancel the Moral Maze and put all the panellists in the nearest oubliette.

Well, that was a fucking ride.

'London, Houses in Snow' (1920s) by Janet Cumbrae Stewart (National Gallery of Victoria)

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