Cannot stop laughing at the pull quote for Bear Grylls' Festive Bible Apocrypha Fanfiction

MeToo did not go far enough. People were saying "MeToo has gone too far" when it had barely just picked up momentum. It was an attempt at reckoning with how institutionally misogynistic and sexually exploitative most institutions are and what women are constantly put through. So it was crushed.

Considering AI voices in games was the example used in article, here’s some nuance: Voice actors are increasingly pressured into giving up their voice prints in perpetuity for some of these games. Some for cheap; others are finding these terms snuck into contracts. Not an “extreme”, but reality.

Look, if you are trailing a budget and then immediately walking it back, before trailing an asylum bill and immediately walking it back, then you are just bad at politics and policy. There are no redeeming features here.

LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028

Remember, the greatest posting combat honor you can achieve is getting someone who's yelling at you in your mentions to block you instead.

the other possibility is the Klingon one where everything is interpreted through the lens of honor and conflict. "A cold morning, and once again the Hunt begins. My target? The prey receptive to my sales pitch for mid-range office furniture."

I was 15 once. It is that bad.

Hm. I was hoping for the floppy hat, but I can definitely see this headshot stuck to a vanity mirror surrounded by Lisa Frank and Hello Kitty stickers so... yea - that's the casting you want for live-action Link 👍 guess we're really doin' this 🫡

it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen

ICYMI I made a compilation video of episodes covering video games. Please like and share. #videogames #games #gaming #thelastofus #masseffect #marvelrivals youtu.be/A4WhecXEedU?...

ICYMI I made a compilation video of episodes covering video games. Please like and share. #videogames #games #gaming #thelastofus #masseffect #marvelrivals youtu.be/A4WhecXEedU?...

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

A couple of years ago he went out of his way to interview and defend a 20 year old state house candidate (?) whose campaign and reputation were cruelly unfairly threatened by revelations that he had beaten and assaulted multiple teenage girls www.thecut.com/2020/08/why-...

These devices - and the thefts that result from them - have been known about for years I do not own a car - but WTF do manufacturers not admit reality and use mechanical locks that require a key? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

relatedly, ralph nader deserves to be remembered for the rest of time as someone who voluntarily assisted in a critical attack on american democracy, the importance of which far outweighs any of his consumer advocacy

Good Afternoon, “Your Party” was a six month sociological study conducted by Royal Holloway, University of London. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

Probably bad that Ryan Grim is an MRA.

...the legacy lives on 🤣 youtu.be/B71dCORS9cQ?...

Yes? They are? I feel like we have talked about this before in other contexts and people correctly lambasted the French. The only difference is that now that your guy has been caught doing it you have to say it’s actually good

This weekend has been an interesting approach to winning over the Parliamentary Labour Party for a leader on the verge of being dumped.

Part of the problem here is they keep hiring comms people from newspapers who know how to pitch stuff to their former colleagues - but these tricks don't work anymore.

Another Labour MP goes public with concerns.

I worked in the UK public sector 1995-2017. Local government is hard work and if done right will be largely invisible. Total anthesis of Reform's performative BS.

I’m pretty sure things would be way better if we elected Kamala Harris.

Techbros: “We reinvented money and now it’s computer money and it’s totally better than old money except also it’s value is still technically calculated by the standard of old money oh ALSO it needs more power than many countries, does your inferior dollar bill need to be plugged in? I THINK NOT.”

Just remembered that time Rishi asked the Royal Mint to make a special British NFT & started laughing again

After a year of sucking up, the PM can’t even get Donald Trump on the phone as he tries to destroy one of our most important institutions, the BBC. Was the state visit really worth this?

This is why the hemming and hawing about Zoran Mamdani pissed me off. You can act like it was about the 2024 election. It was not.

The Government inherited an asylum system in meltdown, and had managed to at least get cases being processed again while ending the madness of the Rwanda plan. But the policies being announced today undermine all of that, making it harder for refugees to integrate and contribute to their communities

Sultana might be a better fit with Polanski's new-vibe Greens than this group, tbh. The YP project is so dead now it has little chance of meaningful impact other than splitting the left vote. I also sense we might see the first Labour-to-Greens MP defection over these disgusting asylum proposals.

To borrow a @roberthutton.co.uk line, if only there were some sort of sign they were like this

You came to the wrong retirement community buddy

I do at least appreciate the effort to provide consistent comic relief amidst the broader grim pointlessness of Labour these days

I'm sure you guys are all great at shopping like normal ppl but I wish I could remind some folks: Take bags, or at least don't kick off at having to pay for one. That's been the law for 10 years now. Don't fucking haggle, you're not Indiana Jones You're not The Protagonist. Neither's your kids.

If we don’t signal our virtue every now and again - then so many believe they are utterly alone - “virtue signalling” is not there to say “aren’t I good” but “there are more of us than you might imagine” and “fuck you for demanding that only the brutal and the bullies may speak”

Government to ramp up deportations by overriding ECHR in fresh immigration crackdown I would never have believed we would see a headline like this under a Labour government www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Labour MP Simon Opher - "We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. "Measures that create bureaucracy and insecurity do not offer clarity or strengthen control – they cost money, waste time and weaken the system."

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

Doesn’t matter. “Starmer and Mahmood wanted to take jewellery from asylum seekers” is a mark those two will never be able to wash off and which the party as a whole will have to put in onerous work to remove.

"Human beings enjoy having an underclass to look down on and get angry when you take that away from them" is the secret to understanding so much about how the world works. Picture related

This could have huge implications. Eg. Miami-Dade is 70% hispanic. Flipping it (a combo of Trump and DeSantis' popularity) has been the central reason Florida is now seen as solidly red. If M-D goes Dem again, then Florida comes back into play, and Presidential races will be fundamentally changed.

I look at the gov't right now and I keep thinking back to a piece by @iandunt.bsky.social years ago, about how he got lost in the jungle and - I paraphrase - was so scared of stopping, accepting he was lost, and recalibrating, that he kept walking, kept making decisions that got him more lost.

This is what I mean. It's grotesque to describe some idiotic policy - cruel and racist though it is - as "eerily similar" to a World War and the extermination of millions. It utterly degrades any framework of logic within which we can discuss things, to the direct benefit of those who exploit fear.

The majority of us want to stop the crossings & any gaming of the system - not least for those whose lives are endangered, exploited by criminals and cheated out of £thousands. We can have both a tough stance on illegal migration & build a compassionate, fair & legal path for those seeking refuge.

There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel. Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children. These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.

A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one. It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution. This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.

So fine, wait for the full details. But let's not pretend Mahmood's feeble little brief-the-Guardian-and-the-Mail gambit is balanced in some way. It is very lurid about the bits that appeal to Nazis and very subtle about the bits that appeal to liberals.

Instead, we have the most grotesque details of the punishment approach. Forcing people fleeing a war zone into administrative limbo for two decades is obscene. It is the opposite of what you would do if you gave a damn about integration, or the dignity of refugees.

Could prob accept some pretty draconian small boat policies if there was a genuine safe route policy alongside it. So far we have no details at all.