“For everything that’s succeeded there’s hundreds, if not thousands, of things that’s failed." Check out mine and @tealcartoons.bsky.social interview with @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social at @arstechnica.com about our new kids' book, DEAD ENDS! arstechnica.com/science/2025...

We're so close to having the ultimate vehicle on our roads

I have peaked at Halloween too early, eating this absolute monstrosity from our local bakers, and have now consumed so much sugar I can see through several dimensions, akin to my Slimelight days.

Of course he wouldn’t know that a mask should go over your nose…

Of course he wouldn’t know that a mask should go over your nose…

Happy Bela's birthday!

From the Merrimack Valley Horror Festival today:

Proud to say I just joined! Very excited for where the Green Party is going, and for making hope normal in politics again.

This is the new face of politics that I’m excited about - politics of kindness and equality that actually works for people. Also, don’t forget @katmabu.bsky.social!

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

The concept of the Antichrist has been used way back to nearly the beginning of Christianity as a way of siding people against a person or people the labeller doesn’t like. Thiel is just resurrecting the same arguments to go after those he doesn’t like. 🧵1/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I learned at school that "double negatives" are generally considered poor grammar, and tend to be used either by bad writers or those who want to obfuscate meaning. "Anti-antifa"? Just plain fascism.

My new article ‘Women’s Healthcare in a Man’s World: A potted history of how we got here’⚕️🚺🌿 is out now in Fall 2025 issue of Bust Magazine 💪🏻 It explores when women’s healthcare fell into the hands of men & the fight to get it back⚡️✊🏻 #womenshealthcare #feministhistory #midwives #histmed #feminism

Yeah, I believe in the Holy Trinity* *Mother, Maiden, Crone

Really enjoying this episode with Cory Doctorow. I’d known about the concept of enshittification before, but this gives a brilliant history, context and illustrative examples of it in the real world. Plus, it really makes you question a lot of what you use daily on your devices.

Check out the new Factually! episode with Cory Doctorow wherever you get podcasts: The Enshittification of Everything » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3HeN... » YouTube: youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc

It's pumpkin month!!

September 30th/October 1st.

The end product of all the Chotiner parodies is going to be recreating the Book of Job from first principles.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

“Welcome to the United Kingdom, President Trump” youtu.be/K8V4VNBw078?...

All goths at Pride. 🐦‍⬛

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

1/11 Why is Elon Musk pushing for civil war in the US and Europe? This thread breaks down how Musk is using his platform, wealth, and influence to amplify far-right movements, incite political violence, and undermine democracy—across continents

We need to be there, and show that the fascists don’t speak for us.

Holy shit I didn't know someone shot jesus

Got to hand it to the British authorities. At first I was mad when they scrubbed the #Banksy, but they have unintentionally made one of the most powerful artworks of all time.

This is a petard. It's a bomb that you'd place against a door to blow the door in. If you fucked up, you'd get blown up too. That was getting hoisted by your own petard Fun fact: petard comes from the latin verb for fart, pedere. Shakespeare was making a fart joke.

Why are the bosses of Apple, BlackRock, OpenAI, J P Morgan, & other billionaire US corporate robber barons accompanying Trump to the UK & banqueting with the king? Are we really going to allow them to carve up our country with STARMER the one supposed to fight our corner?!🤯

They’re selling our country to US corporate tech bosses without our consent or even letting us see the deal - it’s FUCKED UP.

"four of these so-called 'conversion therapy' groups, seen exclusively by QueerAF, reveals that Journey UK, True Freedom Trust, Affinity and Core Issues Trust – all registered charities – spent nearly £2 million between 2019 and 2023." There is something deeply, fundamentally wrong here

Imagine actually setting out to counteract and undermine Farage, rather than legitimising him by mirroring his policies and rhetoric. It feels almost groundbreaking when it should be standard fare.

One of the key problems we’re facing is that the likes of Rayner will resign over something like this, and people like Farage won’t. We need to hold them to account.

I love the gentle and polite tone of his approach, the direct way in which he protests genocide, and the utterly lost look on the interviewer’s face when he does so. Bravo, Mr Bonnevile.

Glad to see that Farage is being recognised for the fascist he is, even in America. He claims that the UK is turning into North Korea, because we’re being denied free speech, and Jamie Raskin deftly points out the ways in which he and his party deny the free speech of those he doesn’t like.

You did it. The neo-Nazi gig planned for Great Yarmouth has been CANCELLED. ❗ Over 34,000 of you emailed the Home Office and spread the word. Local press, councils and police took notice, and under pressure, we have just received the news that the venue has pulled the plug.

YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

The Reform Party is a terrorist organisation. Farage is backing white supremacist terrorists in England, fuelling Christian terrorism in Northern Ireland and plans to sell girls to the Taliban in Afghanistan. All while removing our ECHR human rights.

❗The biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade is coming to Great Yarmouth and we need your help to stop it. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Just spitballin' here...how many more times do we have to see the absolutely concrete evidence that an infusion of cash assistance--be it UBI, rental assistance, or some other scheme--lowers homelessness rates, raises productivity and overall health, etc., before we just...do the thing

This is the reading list they use to track down John Doe in “Seven.”

Everybody go follow the Museum of English Rural Life because they're excellent and their social media game is a joy to behold. Go on. The button is right there. That's it... ah. Doesn't that feel good? #absoluteunit

WAIT NO I'VE GOT IT: ChatGPT tech bros: Turning water into whine

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Wait this is even better than just the sandwich.

This is not caused primarily by "screen time". It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The Bible verse was written as an analogy of Nero’s rule, they can’t even get a proper image of Pazuzu (who originally was a spirit that protected people’s homes), and the pentagram isn’t even the right way up. Amateurs.