"The vast majority of people will never hear the other side of the story, the factually correct side of the story, the morally decent side of the story. The side of the story that was the overwhelming consensus among politicians and the public a mere 6-7 years previously."

Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun, and Firecrackers: The Silent Killer

This is a fun topic but I'd rather hear everyone's bottom 10 Beatles songs

the literary style of the king james bible makes a lot more sense if you imagine grandpa simpson reading it in the same manner as his onion-on-our-belt story:

Heavy metal will never die

Remember when the Greens were being roundly chastised for being "too selfish" to enter into a "progressive alliance"?

“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

This cartoon is good, but it's a little hard to take from The Guardian which has - and continues to, esp via regular columnists - push for this exact thing

It’s this bit I can’t get over. Perfectly encapsulates the GC mentality. ‘Here are all the ways in which I’m going to make you feel subhuman, but oh, don’t forget that I’m actually a good person and you can’t be mean to me’

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Lot of people out there who not only want to have their prejudices and vices and perversions, but also want to feel like a good person, and have everyone around them loudly affirm that they're a good person for being into all of that

The Labour government has just further emboldened the worst people on the planet to intimidate, harass and threaten any woman they see in a toilet who doesn't meet their weird standards of femininity. The most transphobic government the UK has ever had.

Good morning Fuck the EHRC and fuck Labour

“A rapidly expanding network of organisations campaigning against trans rights is shaping media coverage and political debate across the UK, while trans people are increasingly excluded from reporting about their own lives.” Powerful conservative groups orchestrate much of our transphobic politics.

Brianna Ghey is valuable and has great utility to the transphobes now that they've used her mom to rewrite the narrative from "Brianna was brutally murdered by transphobic classmates who pretended to be her friend" to "Brianna died because her phone convinced her to be trans"

living in the uk is like. you cant hope for any good outcomes. nothing good will ever happen. everything will only get worse forever. but you can, however, hope for really funny things to happen to your enemies while they remain in power. and thats why andy burnham needs to lose this by election

This, from Amnesty International, tells you all you need to know about transphobic bias in UK mainstream media.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

On the tube

just received this "I'm not for sure about a longer clip but it is a friend of a friend he told me it's from 2014. It was a bet if the Cleveland browns lost the football game that day he would jump through a fire table. Obviously he lost the bet and missed the table. Lol."

Lately suggested articles are like "Shadowy Cabal Legalizes White Crime" and "How To Feed Your Entire Family With One Bean"

i wondered if my book on neo-Nazi terrorist ideologue James Mason would be relevant when it was finished. From the San Diego shooters manifesto: "Mason’s writings in Siege have provided me with the backbone of my entire ideology and belief system." www.routledge.com/Neo-Nazi-Ter...

Excellent old timey slang from the 1947 film noir T-Men.

metal gear solid is about inhabiting the contradictions of being a pacifist and also thinking guns and military gear are cool

I can't believe I'm in the position of needing a job. But why is this my problem? Surely one of you will help me out. Okay stop sitting on your ass and get up and get me a fucking job.

cop in The Wicker Man (leaving unharmed because he slept with that hot blonde): what a strange, sexy island

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

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Da djent nephew fits unto this picture somewhere

It's funny that starting very soon, blues lawyers will die off and their kids will become nu metal dentists Picture a middle aged guy with *the* best guitar gear, and all he plays is a single metal chug.

The equivalent for bass doesn't really exist because bass players don't have money

In guitar there's a thing called blues lawyers, these are guys with a ton of disposable income who buy all the most expensive guitar stuff in order to play the same pentatonic lick over and over with. They are the whales of guitar.

When Omar El Akkad talked about this kind of position in “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” the examples of people saying “you can only speak out about an atrocity when it’s too late to stop it” were a lot less explicit

The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed

after years of positioning and peacocking to position himself as leadership material, this has to be one of the most humiliating leadership attempts in British history. At least Truss had the support of her idiotic membership base

Crab Guitar

Instantly heard this in @jadomian.bsky.social's Jesse Ventura voice

Just to say, don't stress if your friends are following him. When he got found out he deactivated his account, & many people didn't get to unfollow first. So don't assume anything of your friends's opinions about the rapist who was horny for goth teens from whether they follow

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Umi that is not your bed

so I think this actually plays a role in it too - tech used to get the benefit of the doubt because they successfully presented themselves as cool nerds who wanted to make the world better the AI rollout has coincided with the tech overlords going openly fash, so people assume the worst instead

yeah basically the whole initial rollout and all of the apocalyptic claims were aimed at convincing executives that they should shove AI into every aspect of their workflows and honestly that part worked pretty well, a lot of execs do that but the general public backlash was very predictable

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

I listened to that Voices From the Lifestream collection of FFVII OC remixes a ton back in the day, but I'd never heard this before. Reminds me of Silence Teaches You How To Sing by Ulver at points, very creepy and cool

trump: no one knows why it's called 8mm. the director doesn't even know. but i'm watching it and nicholas cage, he's on top of Machine and i said "don't do it," i said "don't stab Machine," but he does it. melania, our beautiful first lady was watching too weren't you? melania, off mic: he stab hem

Anyone got any tips on how to prevent your kittens from sitting in the kitchen sink

Waiting in line at Lidl. Spotted the following headline on one of the newspaper fashion sections: "could your son be looksmaxxing?"