I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

I had no idea that nuclear war is bad until I watched a Netflix drama that very clearly showed that nuclear war is bad. Thanks Netflix!

Galileo’s middle finger. Museum of Galileo, Florence. cc @alicedreger.bsky.social

Me: I like washing my hands. Makes me feel like a surgeon. My mother: That's the closest you're ever going to get.

I miss having @dumbdumbmm.bsky.social on twitter, because he would 'like' my tasteless jokes.

Somewhat grudgingly, I am now a subscriber to The Bulwark. Somewhat grudgingly, because I'm not even an American! I feel a bit ashamed paying US journalists when I should be supporting European journalism. But I do like The Bulwark, and the work they're doing.

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos www.404media.co/apple-banned...

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

who up grinding their stump

Youth Culture Killed My Dog | They Might Be Giants

"This is where we’ve been headed since Jan. 6. The man who fomented an actual insurrection will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law & deploying the military against civilians. The thing about Rubicons is they can’t be uncrossed." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

He's now been pardoned, but unbelievable that this happened at all in the first place: Tunisia sentenced a man to *death* last week for criticizing the president on Facebook.

Yes, Of Course, Trump Will Invoke the Insurrection Act open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Just sent out this post. Three and a half years after Bucha, after mass child abductions started, after nightly attacks on civilians, the political strength of parties sympathetic to Russia (which is doing these things) is growing not declining. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

awesome

“They are deliberately blurring the line between speech protected by the First Amendment and violence or other unlawful activity, and they seem to be quite explicitly listing viewpoints that they don’t like as predicates for an all-of-government crackdown."

This is the obvious absurdity of pulling ICEBlock. It is obviously legal, protected speech for anyone to say, in any forum, “I just witnessed some police activity at location X”. Indeed, people have been doing this regularly on social media since its inception.

When you ask for the salad options.

Syrian refugee stabbed to death in street after walking past woman www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I don't think many Pro Pal protestors would openly support murder. They are not generally Islamist radicals. But I do think they are tolerant of those who commit violence. Violence they often rationalise as 'resistance'. And that's bad enough.

In short: Hamas said they won't release the hostages within 72 hours, they won't disarm, and they want to negotiate over Trump's proposal that he has repeatedly said is non-negotiable. But otherwise, they accepted the plan.

Breaking News: The man who attacked a Manchester synagogue had been released on bail after being accused of rape, according to an official.

I genuinely don't think I've ever done a post on here that a reasonable person would consider to be 'bigotry.' Literally not one. If someone points one out to me I'm happy to consider apologizing and taking it down but I'd be surprised!

'experts'.

ouch

In October, this year?

1/4 Antisemitism is not taken seriously enough in progressive spaces or in pro-Palestinian activism spaces - that is simply a statement of fact Week after week we saw antisemitic elements at pro-Palestine protests, shouting hatred with protesters walking by saying and doing nothing about it

One way that Bluesky today feels like 2010 Twitter: It has an antisemitism problem. There are thankfully plenty of people willing to call it out, but lots of accounts cheering on or justifying terrorism in the last 24 hours.

Religion is declining worldwide in a predictable sequence - across generations, participation drops, then importance of religion, and later belonging. This is a broad model for understanding religious change around the world. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Does starting and running a wildly successful online politics and news magazine not count as experience?

Dreadful news from Manchester today. I have opinions, but they can wait.

Into my veins. gizmodo.com/the-adl-defe...

I can see why J K Rowling felt betrayed by Emma Watson, but I worry we're forgetting that Emma Watson is very very hot.

Mads Mikkleson?

This Tylenol thing is so stupid and evil — untreated fever during pregnancy is actually dangerous!

Manimal Farm

“For the first time in more than 30 years, attacks by the far left outnumber those by the far right.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Europeans. Make sure you have emergency supplies to last a few days, just in case the Russians cause some panic. This is the official advice anyway, so it's not like I'm being crazy here. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

"Falling back on comforting fibs, like the notion that political violence is something only the 'other guys' do, is like wrapping yourself in a psychological security blanket—easier, warmer, safer." And cavalier, and dangerous.

Tech CEOs to Donald Trump as he tries to tank the industry with $100K/year H-1B visa fees.

About 400,000 H-1B applications for high-skilled foreign workers were approved in 2024. Since 2013, the majority of approvals each year have been applications to renew employment. In 2024, 65% of approved application were renewals. The other 35%, or 141,207, were new applications for employment.

I did not know that ‘shouting fire in a crowded theater’ was at one time a pretty serious problem!

new edition of "shouting fire in a crowded theater" just dropped rollcall.com/2025/09/19/s...

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation. This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region. The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

Today I got into a Twitter argument with Ricky Gervais. How’s your day going?

"Blaming a murder victim for his own death." Charlie Kirk did that. "Comparing your opponents to Nazis." Charlie Kirk did that. "Advocating violence." Charlie Kirk did that, too. www.thebulwark.com/p/charlie-ki...

I missed this earlier in the week, but this thing happens where a Trump ally/sycophant in the press tosses him a softball and he simply refuses to take the hint/assist