Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

Oh god the Americans have breached containment again

Stop shooting kids in school you stupid cunt

I really wish we'd stop pretending as a society that the families of victims are more expert on criminality than actual experts on criminality. Your daughter being killed by someone makes you no more an expert on child murder than her being run over by a car makes you a mechanic.

I love Manchester, and will always.

We need to implement some kind of licencing system for Americans holding opinions on other countries. The UK is, despite the current shit, still freer, fairer, and more equal than the US. If anyone should face trade sanctions for fucking insanity, it's the US. Elected a fascist twice etc.

By the way, Elon Musk and the rest of the New Right International are just going to use this ban as an excuse to ramp up and amplify the content on Twitter and elsewhere on the basis that these platforms are now ‘adult-only’, irrespective of whether children are still on the platform (they will be).

Nobody who wasn't born between 1980 and 2000 should have any say in how the internet is run.

Seeing what has been done to the UFC, and to MMA as a wider point, is genuinely painful. The fighters are getting fucked, the viewers are getting fucked, and now the sport as a whole is just going to be seen as entirely Maga-coded. And what should be the most working class and left wing of sports.

Hall of fame level post

Since news sites are running their pre-written fawning BS about his nauseating trillion dollar "milestone," here's an important reminder that Elon Musk is a murderous Nazi fuck.

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Oh cool, so chatbots train you to do the exact opposite of critical thinking. “Sycophancy is a safety issue”

It is a normal part of ethnic conflict resolution. Lithuanians and Poles never actually agreed who was right in 1920. We agreed to move on and that the question does not matter.

So many criticisms of this viewpoint boil down to, "but 2024 America should have been better." No shit. That's the point of politics. You make it better in 2025. Instead, people were so upset that America wasn't progressivemaxxed that they handed the govt to people who swiftly gave us 1925 America.

i am legitimately baffled by how good these are

This November, and in November 2028, everyone is either voting for the Democrat or enabling fascism. Those are the only two choices. We really, truly are voting blue *no matter who.*

Put simply “an empty mind makes the loudest noise”. The racist, fascist & populist rabble take anecdotal nonsense, ramp it up to ever more nonsensical proportions & then “journalists” take it & amplify it as facts without actual evidence other than hearsay. The rest of us just get on with life.

In the early 2010s, our society was evolving away from blind adoration of macho hubris. Then teenagers raised on fictional jerkass characters meant as parodic—like Tyler Durden, Eric Cartman, and Peter Griffin—hit adulthood and began voting such figures into power for fun. In this essay I will

The insinuation that there is an "acceptable" number of Iranian casualties (which the author of this shite puts at over 6k), combined with the continued silence and deplatforming of Iranian voices by Zeteo is abhorrent. No different to the Zionists they claim to oppose. Disappointed and disgusted.

Honestly some of the worst history writing I've ever come across, to the point it is actually genuinely offensive on at least 3 different levels. Completely disgusting.

Please do this

Westminster MPs have until the end of the month to reject the proposed anti-trans guidance. If you haven’t written to your MP yet, here’s a good template for you to use. writetheletter.bimini.workers.dev

We've done it, folks. Peak historical illiteracy has been reached.

This thread is on why the massacre of protestors in Iran on January 8th and 9th may have killed 70-80,000 people, more than twice the widely understood maximum of 30,000.

What having The Sauce looks like.

Oslo Pride video 🥹 🏳️‍🌈 #Pride #LoveIsLove

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

A common feature im noticing is rather than left wing populism being about a belief that the govt can produce material wealth via centralization its just about the idea that market constraints arent real

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

i didn't notice the AI-ness of this article until it described tomatoes as red orbs apnews.com/article/toma...

From the lawsuit

But the really exciting news is that you can get yourself up Mount Wank every day for a year if you buy a Wank Pass

Happy 115th birthday to a small mountain hut in the Bavarian Alps! Why? Because it was opened on this day in 1911, of course. And... um... 🧵

Manouchehr Fallah is under sentence of death & at grave risk of execution in Iran following a grossly unfair trial in relation to his real or perceived links with banned opposition groups. #StopExecutionsInIran #NoDeathPenalty

AmnestyIran: Ali Pishehvarzadeh is under sentence of death & at grave risk of execution in Iran following an unfair trial in relation to the January 2026 uprising. Amid rising arbitrary executions of protesters, dissidents & others, urgent diplomatic action is needed to halt executions

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

↑↑ @iandunt.bsky.social is not fəcking about here.

Oh this is very very very bad.

People defending this woman claim she’s only talking about Zionists, not all Jews. If you’re cool with her rants about how Jewish billionaires control Hollywood, run human trafficking networks & need to be put in internment camps & castrated because she also uses the word ‘Zionist’, you are an idiot

Would love to see @dieworkwear.bsky.social talking about video game fashion some day. Majima from Yakuza 0 is rapidly becoming my style icon.

What is the whole odyssey if not a penelope cruise

Getting mogged by your judge is crazy

Well Scottish football is now permanently fucked.