#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/05/18/4 “Calm down, Edna. … Yes, it’s some giant, hideous insect … but it could be some giant, hideous insect in need of help.”

Israeli strike on village in eastern Lebanon kills 12 as Israel calls up more troops

Our story now here: www.politico.eu/article/neth...

Wait. You're telling me markets are as much socially embedded institutions as sites of theoretical economic exchange? No fucking way, man.

The article equates grocery shopping and drawing up plans with spending time with your children as unpleasant tasks that must be vibe-coded away.

Obviously v entertaining watching them trying to find Brixton and esp Herne Hill menacing, particularly when they’re attempting to feel spooked out by, er Brockwell Park, but actually kudos to them for changing their minds extremely quickly and realising what London-hating garbage they’ve been fed.

In Spain's greenhouses, migrant amnesty brings hope of better conditions reut.rs/3PF88sH

Mere repetition of information increases perceptions of consensus. People judge repeated claims as more widely believed, regardless of whether they are true or false. globalvoices.org/2026/05/20/t...

quite a headline (and it’s right)

In case the mediaverse made you miss what she wrote. When (almost) nobody believed her.

Hard not to be paranoid when you remember all the times your paranoia was justified.

This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.

I have been forwarding this edition of @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter to everyone I know. The impact of Musk and Trump's cuts to USAID didn't hit right away, but they are hitting now. And in Somalia and the DRC it looks a lot like racist culling. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-question...

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Deutsche Bank is revealed as a persistent and aggressive violator of Russian sanctions usually for the benefit of its Russian oligarch clientele. www.ft.com/content/b806...

A. lived in Germany since he was two months and last year gained German citizenship. Now he’s been stripped of it because of pro-Palestinian Instagram posts, in a disturbing legal case that points to the rise of citizenship-on-probation. My latest @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/05/germ...

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon.

The US military has killed at least 192 people in strikes that have destroyed 59 vessels as part of a campaign that Washington says — WITHOUT EVIDENCE — is aimed at curtailing the flow of drugs into the United States

Real post.

Brief academic consensus breaks out among a cluster of philosophers. The Holy Grail of teaching is to overhear your students still engaging with the material of your class 30 mins after it’s over.

Cold War, but the weapon is the global Supply Chain

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Keep Britain Kind

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

No one needs a trillion dollars. That kind of wealth can’t be earned. It’s stolen. Hoarded. Accumulated by keeping others impoverished. It dehumanizes you. Musk could have funded USAID for decades with his pocket change, instead he sentenced poor people to death. Abolish the billionaire class.

The LibDems have gained control of Portsmouth, with +4 gains, with Reform having hoped for more than +2 gains www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...

Hiker discovers a gold scabbard ornament from Migration Period Norway festooned with serpentine animals. 🏺🧪 (This is the "gullmunnblikk" in question from my previous post.)

“Quieter methods of removal will look more like ordinary criminalization, which many people in the U.S. are conditioned to ignore. This moment is a test for our movements. Can we recognize criminalization as the primary means of human disposal under fascism and organize accordingly?”

Me: there is no way to make a story this chaotic into a serious piece of cinema when the lead character is a chaos goblin, this is a comedy. Men like this fucking idiot who consistently cannot understand the point when a woman makes it:

This analysis is incredible, I see no lies. Basically it is a bar crawl where everyone is steaming drunk and everyone has lost their house keys.

You go to college to learn and to discover how to learn

"Rejecting narratives that blame victims’ poverty or trauma, Black dissects police files, coroners’ reports, and court records to uncover a harsh historical reality: The evidence of settler violence has been hiding in plain sight."

New writing hack: stop looking at your phone

"Nothing tastes as sweet as serendipity." On the Last Incorruptible Thing: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-last-i...

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

Impressed by the number of bikes and bike lanes in Bristol. The city could have said, look, we are made entirely of hills, biking is madness, maybe we could have a funicular or something. Instead they said no, we are strong, we can do it, we will have the finest quads in all the kingdom 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

Jailed Iranian peace laureate at risk of dying after heart attack, husband says reut.rs/3R1EsGn

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Things nobody tells you about cycling: The way you collect insects in various orifices come spring.

Guardian article on the meeting. a follow-up planned for Tuvalu next year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

important technical context for the fossil fuel phaseout conference Colombia just hosted - 50 countries, representing half of global GDP, in attendance, agreeing to plan energy transition

Angèle Etoundi Essamba, Cameroonian photographer known for her photography in black and white particularly #WomensArt

Gentiles you need to call this shit out when you see it. The weaponization of true statements to hide Jew hatred. Because this shit is growing fast and we Jews have clearly failed in our attempts to fight it on our own. You call yourselves allies well act like it.

Anyway if you don’t completely understand was point this guy is trying to make it’s because here doesn’t either. He’s just stringing keywords together to sound smart cause he thinks it’s allowing him to hate Jews in a socially acceptable way and he’s very much not alone in this behavior.

The way that this person has warped the “equating all Jews with Israel is antisemitism” truth to accuse all the Jews asking him not to be antisemitic of being Zionists is equally fascinating and terrifying and indicative of a larger trend. It’s a truly spectacular twisting of reality to justify hate

Jews: you are being antisemitic and you don’t get to define antisemitism. Goy: only a secretive Zionist cult member would say that to me.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nedim Turfent, a former political prisoner in #Turkey, talks about the threats directed at exiled media in Europe ⬇️ www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/04/turk... 3/4