Considering the level of very public collusion between Orban and Putin, I can't really imagine how extensive the secret collusion must have been.

Why have we coined "Popesplaining" when "Pontificating" is right there!?

EFF: "To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago."

What are the Russ Douthats of the world going to do now?

Joe Rogan, regretful MAGA dunce, is back saying he's "politically homeless" and seeking a "logical centrist" government.

there's a growing interest in Kantasy, which is genre fiction where every action is a maxim for universal law

a “ceasefire” that lasted 17 hours and killed 254 people in lebanon is not a ceasefire and referring to it as one is inaccurate

The "duped voter" narrative is a comforting myth. If only we had better messaging. The reality is tens of millions of voters looked at a platform of mass deportation, ethnic cleansing, state violence, and the dismantling of civil rights, clearly understood it, and said, "Yes, that is what I want."

So the state of the peace is that the USA is going to cede effective control of the Straits of Hormuz to Iran? In other words, total Iranian strategic victory?!

Headline: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; Why It Matters: The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The Big Picture: Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand

I just don't know what to do with the fact that there are a great many people for whom deranged threats to do war crimes, to slaughter people en masse, are actively a good thing; what they want from a leader. This is their idea of strength, their valourised masculinity. I think I hate them.

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

waking up to the absolute best and absolute worst of humanity. no in betweenies today

Marjorie Taylor-Greene, voice of restraint

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.

Call me ill-informed - i wish an English major - but --- what is the light source here?

had a chuckle about this, sure, but also i have clarifying questions?! does she think space is dark because...it's night? does she think the sun orbits the earth?

This man is sixty years old.

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Iconic that NASA woke up the #Artemis II crew with Pink Pony Club

I propose my Yorkshireman grandad be sent to each of these people's houses to tell them to put a jumper on, the cold didn't do him any harm, there's folk starving in Africa, etc etc

Hmm.

In a world full of problems, I hate that this technology boils our engines of hope down to empty non-interaction. My school recently polled to see how the faculty feels about using AI for GRADING. At what point is it just robots talking to each other? Where is the humanity in these humanities?

It's very hard to say this without sounding overly sincere, but Reform really are the worst people.

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I am neither a child, nor particularly a young adult, but when first pursuing an autism assessment I was quoted a waiting time of more than four years. Some fucking incentive.

Under normal administrations, accidentally making a faux pas and insulting an ally is considered a grave error. Hegseth thinks he can playground-bully the UK into joining this absurd Team America fit of pique. These people are like infants. Fuck off.

reading a book about iran. apparently the gov there is run by a Supreme Leader who has conducted mass deportations, sent forces into cities, uses state licenses to control media, labeled protestors "enemies," slapped tariffs on industries, and is supported by religious extremists. didn't know this.

you can just bench press! it is fun! you don't need to turn to necromancy for pecs.

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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

5* for this one. What a journey!

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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The Jetsons lied to us

If I'm honest, I am unconvinced that the reactionary skull-measurers at the Spectator care all that much about the authentic traditions of the Green Party.

'AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying'. Without a doubt, a smart decision by the Guardian to publish this brilliantly-written #HistSTM piece. #HistTech #MilHist #HistWar 🗃️

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

I liked Neil Gaiman a whole lot and very much enjoyed the Netflix Sandman series. Then it turned out he's a weird sex criminal and I stopped buying Neil Gaiman's books and will no longer watch the Sandman series. I just read and watch other things. It is not difficult.

Just watch something else? There are characters in everything! The concept of "a guy like Ron Weasley" is not an unprecedented literary triumph unavailable outside the Harry Potter IP. You could in fact have many more "comfort characters". How comforting would that be?!

Will the several leftists that said, without evidence, this was a false flag by Israel, apologise for their conspiracy-mongering? (Relatedly, will Israel apologise if the arsonists are not affiliated with a novel terrorist group? Of course not. But we must act more ethically than Israel)