history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting

lol she got his ass and he knows it

What assets do we even have left to sell

I saw a random reddit comment where someone theorized that Pennywise and Mary Poppins were the same species of primordial psychic entity, but Pennywise feeds on fear while Poppins feeds on joy. both of them eat kid emotions because fear and joy are more intense in kids. This is Canon for me now.

Desperately muting American Politics words to make this website usable again like playing whack-a-mole on extreme difficulty setting

That the Free Speech Union's conference audience is applauding the suggestion of basically banning non-Christian religions should pretty much put an end to their being taken seriously by media as a voice for principled free speech advocacy. But it won't

Every time you repeat that old canard about how "human brains don't stop developing until 25", a neuroscientist is eaten by goblins.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Just need everyone to Google the name "Rosalind Franklin" at this moment.

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

My favorite comment on the FT story

Every typo I have made over the past year has been (I assume AI infested) autocorrect doing its best to make me look like a complete incompetent

There are no words for how evil this is

I just made a pledge to Dr Siouxsie's fundraiser to say Thank You Siouxsie

It is actually bokers to me that this setting was just automatically and silently applied. Whole site immediately felt less dead once I switched it off

That one household in Auckland that rates every quake as "Extreme" hasn't reported for duty yet smdh #eqnz

That quake just made me say "holy fuck" out loud to myself in an empty room #eqnz

NZ and AU accounts, accustomed to a more vigorous use of language as punctuation than the comparatively prim US, might at the very least set it to warn so you know people are saying things even if you are nervous about be unshielded from "no constructive purpose". Wordcloud of NZ Twitter 2021

I take the point but the reason news articles are written with language like this is because rape is a specific legal term AS WELL AS a non-legal term. News articles will always use the specific legal wording because otherwise it is misreporting

hipsters were actually totally right about listening to bands no one has ever heard of instead of popular music

is that good

1) Cook rice in rice cooker 2) When it is done mix in frozen stir fry vegetables and a tin of Thai chilli flavoured tuna 3) leave it on the "warm" setting until the vegetables are not frozen 4) eat your delicious low budget low effort still healthy dinner with whichever sauce or condiments you like

Excellent thread about Parihaka, which is far more fitting reason to remember remember the 5th of November.

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BOYCOTT SPOTIFY - they air ICE ads & refuse to stop. I unsubscribed, transferred my playlists & likes for $5 with Soundiiz. Let's keep showing Big Biz we can inflict great damage on their bottom line if they support fascism over democracy. #RegisterDemocrats #Voterizer

It is an absolute travesty and disgrace that a national hero who worked tirelessly in a worldwide crisis to save lives, enduring thankless conditions and (ongoing) vile misogyny while doing so, is $400,000 out of pocket. This is something that can be put to rights - I’ve donated, will you help? 🙏

i've been the monkey anxiety bitch for TEN YEARS

So you agree? We should tax all capital gains so we can tax wealth not work?

If Women are from Venus and Men are from Mars, then Non-Binary People must be from some inhabitable planet between Venus and Mars. Likely Earth.

no one has ever been more relatable answering a question about AI

I just signed - consider joining Forest & Bird's petition to make Denniston a sceientific reserve #kikorangi

The government’s disdain for unions and love for teachers, doctors and nurses is slightly confusing given unions are made up of teachers, doctors and nurses thespinoff.co.nz/politics/27-...

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container

An appropriately angry, direct post by Verity Johnson [content note for discussion of child abuse. Our government's done a lot of appalling things; this is one of the worst

It is important to remember that GOOD things can happen quickly too ❤️

If you were born between 1969 and 2004 there is a chance you did not recieve the full two vaccines required. You might not even know you're not immune. It's worth checking!

Well, they violate my policies. If I hadn’t already canceled my subscription, I would now.

Elon Musk couldn’t figure out how to make a pop tart without hurting himself

Cartoonists are very,very observant:

Still somehow a better deal than Nicola Willis' $650+ million for No Ferries

the day that society at large understands that testosterone and estrogen are necessary hormones in your body regardless of your sex, and that hormone supplementation is a health question rather than a loaded emotional question, will be one of the greatest days in human history.

One day ten years from now there'll be an outage like this and everyone's possessions will disappear, their refrigerators won't open, their toilets won't work, their houses will go dark. And I'll laugh because I have books and LPs and an analog toilet.

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

Listen to you, "Wahh I don't want another great depression" well too bad, my hands are tied. Weak men have to create hard times or else the meme doesn't work

I didn't even know this was possible to do but clearly Akinator is not a Mountain Goats fan because he did not know Jenny from the hit song Jenny off the album All Hail West Texas

I accidentally stayed up until after midnight finishing this book last night. I haven't read another book doing what it does: crime fiction through the lens of the members of the jury determining a teen sexual assault case. I highly recommend it

It's wild how much it feels like people are desperate to memory hole this entire phenomenon, to me. How viciously everyone who pointed out the emperor had no clothes were criticized. How content they all seem to be to let the biggest wealth transfer of the decade just fade out w/o REAL examination.

Men step up! It's 2025 and well past time, this behaviour is yours to correct in other men!

in general it is not ideal to be a part of any activity described as “pro-Hitler”