the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

Poor old Peter. Can’t catch a break.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

free plot: fired US mil and PLA generals form PMC

Xi Jinping continues his fascinating experiment in increasing Chinese military readiness by endlessly purging its officer corps

By the time Xi Jinping is finished with the Chinese officer corps the invasion of Taiwan will be led by a Chief Petty Officer with a 20 year impeccable record of running a corruption free commissary on a small island in the South China Sea

when you say “ill eat dog shit for lunch if i have to” two years before we’ve even heard what’s on the menu, it kinda makes it sound like you *want* to eat dog shit for lunch. and unless you’re trying to convince everyone to eat dog shit, maybe spend some time thinking about some other options, k?

Musk has no proof OpenAI stole xAI trade secrets, judge rules, tossing lawsuit arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

In case you're wondering why so many of the "woke is ruining science" dudes are part of that vile circle.

personally i think he should be researching and analysing the inside of a jail cell. give us your commentary on prison breakfast

I'm really sick of liberals and centrists thinking that compromise is something you start with instead of something you end with

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

Why do they always emphasize hand hygiene if clean air is so important? Because the air is their responsibility, and your hands are yours.

Personal conspiracy theory: Osborne is the equivalent of the UKs Epstein. Because nothing, and I mean nothing, makes sense otherwise based upon the sheer volume of vice gossip surrounding him.

It is very clear just from the graph, and the spikes on the graph, that the anti-trans panic is literally just the Epstein class throwing chaff whenever they feel threatened. Like you can literally see the Johnny Depp trial, in the spikes of transphobic garbage.

I think it's also telling on themselves in another way: if "purity test" means "issue I am not willing to compromise on"... do they NOT have those?

« Si une IA peut peindre vos figurines Warhammer 40k, pourquoi le faire vous-même ? » demande ce fondateur de start up qui promet de libérer du temps pour jouer. « Du temps pour quoi ? » répondent en chœur les joueurs de w40k.

If Manchester elects Matt Goodwin an MP I don't think we should ever let them live it down

Huh? No. She's relaying the same facts you can find here from the Government of Canada (which also refers your CDC before it went to 💩). COVID vax reduces transmission risk at pop'n level (see next post) BUT only reduces (not eliminates) risk of individual hosp & death www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Michael, I've been a listener for a long time, and you are consistently wrong about this. Saying "vaccines aren't enough, there are other additional things that you should also be doing" is not anti-vax. This person says that the vaccine *increases your chances of survival.* Is that pro or anti-vax?

I understand that vax 'n' relax is an attractive narrative, but it is false if you actually want to prevent damage from multiple COVID infections in your (now shortened) lifetime. Until it vanishes, this is a good resource (also, see Google Scholar): www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...

🚨🚨 Major irony warning: The UK decision to depart from the EU in the "hard" way opting for the TCA was the most severe barrier to EU trade that could be imposed. Now live with it or renegotiate the basic terms of this framework. #brexit www.ft.com/content/05e0...

Recently a student asked if what I was teaching was related to Panzer Kunst from Battle Angel Alita and honestly I'm realizing it's not too far off (minus the whole cyborg body thing, I guess).

“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?” “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”

On the one hand YouTube is a giant radicalisation machine that is pushing existing global political structures to breaking point. On the other, there’s ALWAYS a video by a retired handymen showing how to fix the door slide on your specific brand of kitchen drawer. So I’m calling it a score draw.

Erin's reporting is, as always, impeccable. What many may not know, however, is that once a license is issued, the holder has a property interest in that license that is protected by the 14th Amendment. This goes back to Bell v Burson (1972). For more, keep reading... 🧵

This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.

I am not a lawyer! but arbitrarily cutting off federally mandated funds for punitive, retaliatory reasons seems like it might not be entirely legal. just one cartoonist's opinion!

This Labour campaign continues to stand out for 'moves diehard activists think are really cool and clever but that will at best have no effect and at worst actively look weird to everyone else'

ill keep repeating it but for 2028 back the candidate you like. the one you'll march through the fires of valhalla for. not someone who you think will appeal to some mythical image of a midwestern swing voter you have in your head.

sometimes I think about how for a single Eng lang assignment we were told to “learn enough Greek” we could compare 7 different translations of the Bible from 7 different time periods of English & compare them against the Greek for accuracy/poetry anyway, humanities really aren’t that easy lol

It's extremely awesome that Men's Health is publishing scrubbed CDC pages. This article includes links to pages they republished after the CDC took them down - lots of useful health info re: health equity; for men who have sex with men; and more. www.menshealth.com/health/a7027...

Lmao Speedboat Passenger, yeah just like my dad was a "tourist squaredance caller from Georgia" when he was in Germany and Italy during the Cold War and I'm not kidding that was his actual cover

And now it comes out he was 40 rows back and they put him next to a live mic. The BAFTA's are going to know hell intimately by the time the lawyers are done

(I shouldn't need to say this but if you come into my replies all "But I wuuuuuuuuuv genAI that stole from real writers, it's my favourite thiiiing, here's how it helps meeeeee" you will get blocked. And after I block you I will hex you. Thanks!)

"“I want them to tell us how they are going to protect children and Canadians,” Mr. Solomon told reporters in Ottawa." YOU REPRESENT THE GOVERNMENT, YOU SIMPERING TECHNO-STAN, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM! Man, this guy sucks. Absolutely useless when it comes to rising to the needs of the moment.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Good for Melinda dumping his ass when she did. Police investigation better be underway: people.com/bill-gates-a...

This makes it seem like the Tourettes incident may have been worse in these sense of being much, much more intentional, on the part of decision-makers at the BBC than I ever imagined, even though I did imagine they might have been hoping for a viral moment.

Imagine telling kids: Listen, rich people made this somewhat crappy product they're going to make you use when you end up having to work for them, so we have to teach you how to try to use it and that's a lot of work for both of us because it's pretty crappy. That's called "AI literacy."

This is a fucking stitch up, come the fuck on. Some bastard knew what would happen. Maybe not exactly what, but they knew *something* would happen, and they wanted the world to see it. They've thrown John, and everyone with coprolalia, under the bus, and caused harm to black viewers as well.

So the BBC promised Davidson and StudioCanal (who made I Swear) that any swearing tics would be edited out from broadcast, and instead they left them in despite a two hour delay, and even put a fucking microphone right in front of him to ensure they picked it up - he was sat at the back of room.

Meta Director of Improv Comedy Group Safety Allows Improv Comedy Group to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

Wow it turns out "the lord of darkness" is actually a weak and helpless buffoon when the entire media and political system isn't helping him get away with it, what lessons to learn from this I wonder

Gift link from the NYT story about Axel and Epstein. When I was at Columbia he ran a lab where sexual harassment of women was business as usual. We all knew. We all warned each other. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/n...

“We’re deeply concerned with how our work might be misused by others,” says CEO of company facing a class action lawsuit over its misuse of others’ work

BREAKING: ‘I felt it was relevant. I passed it onto the Metropolitan police' Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle tells Parliament he told the police that Mandelson was planning to leave the country Mandelson claims this information is the reason he was arrested

At a Harvard lab in 2013, the Personal Genome Project had an odd request. There was a push to fast-track one person's tissue sample for genome sequencing, ahead of some that had been waiting for years. When the person's ID was revealed, uproar broke out:

These detailed instructions from 1230 BCE for making perfume fit for a king came "from the mouth of Tapputi-belet-ekallim, the expert in aromatics". This expert was a woman, a font of technical knowledge who would have been highly experienced and respected to be credited in this way.