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No one should like the idea of the European Commission boss cozying up to fascists. This should scare us. This has all happened before…

The world is run by narcissistic egomaniacs because people have higher standards when they choose a gardener than when they choose political representatives. There is no scenario in life where "evil, but less evil" is an acceptable concept except politics. Imagine choosing a less evil babysitter.

The problem isn't autism. It's fear and hatred of autism. The problem isn't trans people. It's fear and hatred of trans people. The problem isn't immigration. It's fear and hatred of immigrants.

Ireland’s a rich country. The government would have us believe we’re on a knife edge, using the trauma from the crash to manipulate us into buying into their agenda of privatization and profit over people. Invest in education! The money is there. Don’t let them Bamboozle you into thinking otherwise.

The 2 biggest old birches in the woods were both toppled in the same storm a couple of years back. The light gaps opened up have exploded with flowers like these devil's bit, flying insects, and young trees. The sheer *dynamism* of an Atlantic rainforest has been a revelation over these 16+ years.

Meghan McCain with a rare case of reverse Meghan McCain syndrome, you have to admire the innovation

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

This is the post I didn’t know I needed right now. Mind goblin … 😂

And one more, to lighten the dark just a bit for #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social @alanparry83.bsky.social @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry

Matrix comes from the Latin for womb, mother, source. This poem is not about absence, but the silence of listening. Not gone, only unheard. She waits. She pulses. We forgot how to hear her. #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I hate academic reimbursement policies. It is absolute bullshit how much I am routinely owed and how much hassle it is to get that money back, and how LONG it takes. And I’m a professor. As a grad student or postdoc? You’re giant institutions, why are individuals floating YOU loans?

They had kids, too.

Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

My RyanAir flight to Edinburgh is so empty even the flight captain didn’t show up…

Zionist =\= Jewish

Listen and listen then reflect

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Penn State trustees rejected a deal to transfer the university's public media outlet (WPSU) to WHYY. As a result WPSU will shut down. One trustee said he was upset the deal didn't guarantee employment for all WPSU staff. And so he voted for a scenario that guarantees they'll lose their jobs.

I really hate how articles and the quotes they choose always seem to dance around this point. Immigration is NECESSARY for Ireland! Without it the economy would tank and the older population would put too much pressure on the state finances. Immigration = good + NEEDED www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

My periodic reminder for #astrosci #astrodon #exoplanets Early Career Researchers to please, please, please have a simple web site with your current email address on it - rationale here: kenworthy.space/advice/

what the actual f--- who the hell would take leaks from the administration at face value at this point?

Unsurprising but still very disappointing to see the crowd whose standard reply to school shootings is “we can’t jump to conclusions” and “now is not the time to ask these questions” and “don’t politicize!” immediately assume motives and cast blame on their political enemies

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Posted two days ago

As an atheist, I have no prayers, but plenty of thoughts.

I don't feel any particular joy in Charlie Kirk getting shot. It's not the sort of thing I celebrate. But I also struggle to care when someone gets the very thing they've wished for openly, on multiple occasions, in multiple iterations, for literal years, b/c they thought it would be someone else.

At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.

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This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

Had to give a little to this! My own little ukulele had this same issue and is now living her best gremlin life. She eats hard food happily and gums her toys joyfully. Please give a little bit of you can!

This is fine. Everything is fine.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chew #smbc

We need libraries far more than we need publishers.

Results from the first part of our fourth LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA observing run are out today! We're pleased to share the largest catalog of gravitational-wave observations with more discoveries of black holes and neutron stars 📰 arxiv.org/abs/2508.18082 🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #GWTC4

I thought of this because I just saw a little toddler sneeze and it was actually pretty cute but my thought was “ah she kinda reminds me of a cat sneezing”

Me when I see my cats sneeze: omg bless you my little love, light of my life you are adorable! When I see a human kid sneeze: ugh disgusting why were you let out of the house you little germ-ridden Petri dish

"When I see police, I see one hundred other jobs smashed into one thing with a gun." -Damon Williams

“The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.” - Jack Kirby Happy birthday King

Normal freedom here. Nothing abnormal.

What a bunch of snowflakes… those on the right are routinely the most fragile. Yet they’d have to believe the opposite because caring about other humans and having basic empathy are obvious signs of weakness in their minds.