I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

DOJ memo stokes fear among disability advocates of a return to institutionalization www.npr.org/2026/06/20/n...

So, hey: If you casually conflate "The Israeli Government" and "The Jews" in my comments, you're gonna catch a block. I'm not going to indulge your either intentional or unexamined general antisemitism by using Netanyahu, et al as cover. If you can't or won't parse the difference, keep walking.

Being a mischievous little gremlin, I finagled an invitation to the company's AI strategy team meeting. It was supposed to last 60 minutes, but it was finished in 10 after the Head of AI tiredly explained that all vendors are switching to a consumption model that we cannot, in fact, afford.

Everybody agrees that the stock market has gone insane. AI dictating investments, meme stocks, castrated regulators in the US and UK, and utter bollocks like crypto infecting everything. Yet all of us are forced to invest our pensions in it. We need to be talking about this.

At least six Irish people, including one member of the Oireachtas, have been invited to an upcoming event in Wicklow organised by a network co-founded by controversial billionaire investor Peter Thiel

I go in and out of bluesky because it’s so dominated by two groups: “we are all 38 and in the US and America is the only bad place” (which is a type of nationalism) and people on this continent who agree that America is the only bad place. It’s US-centric in the worst ways and makes me sad

I just realized something amazing. After the World Cup, we are going to get ranch dressing in Europe. There’s no way those fans will be able to come home and go cold turkey off it.

My favorite thing about the news that bot traffic has surpassed humans’ on the web is that because AI crawlers are basically in a state of perpetual DDoS, now everyone has to do a captcha on every single website, so I guess AI has returned us to “log on to our website” times again

Enjoying watching the Tartan Army and Bostonians mutually endear themselves because Bostonians are the answer to the question, “What if bagpipes, but make them people?”* * mostly laudatory obv

Here is the Mamdanification Scorecard (aka the New Deal Scorecard) for the Georgia & Alabama runoffs, the DC & OK primaries, & the CA special election! If you want to see the Scorecard early, here’s the link:

I thought the world cup was going to be a nightmare, but I forgot that we actually love when people like us

Pope Leo XIV casts a wreath into the waters off Spain's Canary Islands in memory of the thousands of desperate migrants who have lost their lives while attempting to cross into Europe. “Human dignity has no passport and does not lose its value when crossing a border,” he said in his remarks.

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

In 9 months Jalen Mamdani will be born

20,000 people turned out in Belfast on Saturday June 13 to show support for people driven from their homes by racist mobs earlier in the week

the spread of youth social media *bans* is a great example of politicians performing an act of regulation that not only is ineffective - it's hardly even 'friction' - but it's a disproportionate attack on the rights of kids that incidentally feeds into the censorship narrative of the right.

even from a purely realist perspective, ambitious politicians should be trying to outdo each other on prosecuting ICE and the like. life pitching this one at you underhand

Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else

Fearless stuff from the Scots.

Bosnia supporters in solidarity with Palestine at the world cup.

I think it's cool to have a trillionaire because if we ever really need money it's all in one place, and the only thing in the way of it is one douchebag everyone hates

guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit

What Musk has done. The hero of breathless IPO stories. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The number of comments I’m seeing from Swedish social media accounts saying that Sweden should take inspiration from this pogrom riot season in Belfast and start burning immigrants out of homes is…even more than I would have expected, and my expectations are not positive

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

this is my pandacam www.youtube.com/live/aAhm880...

This sucks so bad, we can’t have anything that’s just fun and it makes me really sad dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...

mamdani put that game on bus stop tvs and wu tang clan did halftime and it was like saging the entire city of new york

If you live in the UK (or tbh anywhere) it'd be amazing if you signed up for a refugee action group or a emergency response phone tree or a deflagging crew for your cool girl summer 🌴🌊🏖️☀️😎💅

Intentional sleep deprivation is a form of torture

Reading AI boosterism on LinkedIn feels like eating worms with my eyes

Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time theonion.com/i-work-very-...

I have bought one of those tower fans you can put ice cubes into (AC seems frivolous in this climate) and Rusta should just put “klimakteriet fläkt” on the box and watch them fly off the shelves. Especially given the HRT shortage

Getting a religious exemption from using AI at work is a boss move and I hope a lot more people do it. I remember people making jokes about it after the encyclical, I am just pumped someone did it futurism.com/artificial-i...

My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/

Ms. Rachel visited Delaney Hall this afternoon.

Meta Will Reportedly Let Employees Take 30-Minute Breaks From Its Tracking Program | Engadget www.engadget.com/2186261/meta...

“The Center for Democracy & Technology reported that this kind of [AI-based student activity monitoring] software is widespread and can create privacy, discipline, and equity risks, especially for students who rely on school-issued devices.”

After my incident with the Voi delivery guy, someone has come and parked as many of the scooters and ebikes as possible, totally blocking the sidewalk at the end of our road. The company still refuses to do anything. Also, if it’s the same guy, I’m pretty sure this qualifies as harassment, no?

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Anybody in web dev/design looking for opportunities to get on stage and speak? We're looking for @webdevconf.com lightning speakers for October 9 in Bristol. 15 minutes on stage to strut your stuff! Reply or DM if you're interested!

I know I’m obsessed with CMAT but I’m the age of a person who would be like…her auntie, and as such, I cannot let it go. And I feel this “I’m not being brave, I just have to sit here and take it” in my very bones. She put into words something so many of us have felt for a long time.

Voi is a poisonous company. Just asked one of their delivery people to stop leaving the scooter horizontally across the sidewalk and got a hail of abuse, then he called me every name under the sun. He then started recording me and said he was reporting me to the cops for destroying a scooter.

we may think statements like this aren’t enough and don’t matter, but an extremely normie, super-Christian woman I work with is *obsessed* with Pedro Pascal and completely reworked her priors regarding trans rights solely because of his opinions on the matter

CMAT is such a damn superstar. Watching clips of her Dublin show from last night and getting almost tearful. What a treasure. A once-in-a-generation talent and voice for good. I would follow Dunboyne Diana into battle

This is some Trumpy shit, and I really and truly hope he actually ran the thing because it seems like…he didn’t??? MUF, not the best of us by any stretch www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/n1...

Me, on the way to London: art! Culture! Food! Excitement! Me, in London when it’s 34C at 7pm: eating supermarket hummus (don’t judge, uk supermarket hummus rules) in my air-conditioned hotel room and watching my copaganda shows

"AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on" is the point at which you stop listening to this guy as a tech expert and start listening to him as a used car salesman with a great deal just for you on an Edsel

Me, to partner: it’s weird because I had this semi-waking dream that someone was banging on our front door last night 6yo, in the back of the car: it might be the menopause