The pols & pundits staying on X are choosing to be useful idiots for a nazi.

First, the good news. The bathwater has been disposed of.

My mate saw them getting out of boats, walking across the beach, into the centre of town and straight into the museums and galleries.

UN adopts Ghana's slavery resolution, defying resistance from US, Europe reut.rs/4c7puqk

The majority of the abstainers are European nations

"the good news is that we have found a relatively cheap and easy way to prevent the cast from going through puberty. the bad news is that not everybody in this room is going to like it".

“Fuck!!!!” - guy who was looking forward to viewing Disney-licensed OpenAI videos in his Disney+ app, who also poured his coffee on his lap while checking his watch

30 years ago today, Troy McClure starred in the musical “Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!” #TheSimpsons episode “A Fish Called Selma” first aired March 24, 1996.

This is heartbreaking. Please stop for a moment and consider the children caught up in this. Imagine you're a trans child - already a difficult experience, to put it mildly - and you've found a hobby you enjoy with friends, and now you're being kicked out for being trans. It's cruel.

Sorry but this wig alone is proof that the Disney live-action remakes were a Bob Iger psyop to throw brown actors into culture-wars and ridicule.

Strange situation where we await a statement from Iran to check whether there's any truth to what US president is saying.

We need to say it clearly: nothing happening in global politics, nothing happening in the media, nothing at all justifies this attack. No one setting an ambulance on fire is just misled, they are hateful.

Someone SET FIRE to AMBULANCES. That should be enough for anyone to condemn if you're not also a terrible bigot.

Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Disinformation pipelines and algorithmic radicalization are responsible for accelerating every public health crisis we face right now. Instead of addressing that, politicians want age verification systems that consolidate more control in the hands of the very platforms that created the problem.

Oooof fucking hell...

That’s almost notable.

Great article on why the internet has become fucking unusable.

What Bluesky lacks in cultural and social relevance, it will make up for with—- whatever this is —that makes them feel better. Cause that is easier than admitting that Bluesky is not welcoming to non white / non American people.

An "AI" or CGI or whatever recreation of a dead performer is a massive, massive insult to them irrespective of what one thinks of the technology, simply because it is a statement that all that matters about the person in question is their likeness, not their actual artistic ability.

Of course, many of us were hoping that Bluesky could become the best replacement for X, a place where global cultural conversations and breaking news not only happen--- but that it could actively *shape* global culture and conversations.

Lord knows I hate what Twitter / X has become. But it's only on Twitter that I can still get real-time African reactions to the Cup of African Nations stripping Senegal of the CAF championship and giving it to Morocco. I wish Bluesky were more global. It's just... not.

You'll never guess how Kemi 'Defending British values from domination by prayer' Badenoch voted on buffer zones outside of abortion clinics:

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

An interesting aspect of US foreign policy under Trump is that it shows us how much international relations used to be conducted by people who were, yes, flawed, but who sometimes actually wanted to make the World a better place.

was wondering why I was feeling a bit forlorn just now then remembered that it may be because the majority of headlines currently look like this right now:

You can’t do a bunch of stupid comedy bits and then play people off when they’re having the biggest moment of their life. It’s bullshit.

(think there's a fine line between needing to understand what's happening online and essentially just advertising the existence of bad guys on the internet and I do slightly worry that the relentless focus on the manosphere has become the latter)

Media outlets bend over backwards to be like, “Politician Uses Charged Language That Critics Say Is Potentially Racially Insensitive” and then that politician will post, “NAH I LOVE RACISM!!!”

Neolibralism is being ok with paedophiles as long as you get that big contract.

Shame can be a destructive emotion, but this is what a culture without shame looks like. And it's consistently rewarded and indulged.

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.” Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

Going to a concert where not only were you not recognised, but was full of people you persecuted all having the most fun and loveliest time while you spent Wednesday night lonely and miserable in a packed venue, is possibly the biggest self-own there is

If you’re one of the nation’s most prominent transphobes *and* you can still go to a major trans rights event and apparently spend the evening largely unnoticed, you should probably be careful who you call a nobody

Liberals love to do “what if these monsters were gay? ha ha ha” satire. It’s gross every time.

FIFA's first ever Peace Prize winner has become the first person to bomb a country out of participating in the FIFA World Cup.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

The publishing industry's lack of confidence in authors and its own ability to create careers for them is pathetic and, in the end, self-defeating.

We need a national conversation about the fact so many Labour MPs are hopelessly addicted to the app that turns you into a right-wing shithead

That’s why Elon bought it

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Blaming Iran for America bombing a school. Utterly disgusting

My favourite 2024 election stat is that more 2019 Tory voters swung to being dead than swung to Labour

someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

Guess who this will be targeted at.

France’s former PM Dominique de Villepin about US and Israel war on Iran