To be completely factual: Isaac Newton discovered homosexuality in 1666. He published his findings in 1672. 🏳️‍🌈

Yes, so when Trump says Tucker and Megyn Kelly are "fake MAGA" and Karoline Leavitt says that Trump has now decreed that the Iran war is what MAGA wanted all along, the hoop-jumping that his supporters have to go through to get on the right side of this is precisely the point.

You don't even need to burn books if you own the publishers

🦊 Het is #lente! Nieuw leven in de natuur geeft bij dieren vaak een hoge 'schattigheidsfactor'. Dit vossenjong kwam vermoedelijk voor het eerst sinds weken buiten kijken uit het hol: wat levert dat dan een fantastisch beeld op! Deze foto heb ik met een 500mm telelens gemaakt op flinke afstand:

Piers Morgan might be a complete dick, but the look he gives to camera towards the end of this is priceless. No surprises from Brand, of course.

Fossil gas causes climate change AND it's an American-flag themed leash around your neck. Ditch it and move to clean energy instead.

America is basically using gas as a weapon of war against Asia and Europe: their violent actions in the Middle East have pushed up the price elsewhere but *not* in the US. www.csis.org/analysis/str...

At this point, the Jewish state will actively prevent you from practicing your Judaism, if you are the "wrong kind of Jew." www.cnn.com/2026/04/23/m...

He’s a disease that must be cut away.

I just deleted a post sharing this image. Apologies. It seems it's fake.

Journos and others who attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner will be sitting "alongside authoritarian censors like Brendan Carr, and enemies of press freedom like Kash Patel, in order to sit silently and absorb abuse from Trump himself." www.offmessage.net/p/you-are-ac...

Left: All the groups that currently disapprove of President Trump’s job performance in our polling Right: The two groups where he’s above water 😬😬 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-24...

Exactly. And this reflects what most of the rest of the world thinks when we regard Trump and his destruction of the US.

There came a point during my late father's decline into dementia when his eyes developed this look. A vacancy. Off in his own world, unable to focus on reality. (I must add, that is absolutely the only thing my gorgeous dad had in common with this beast.)

A cartoon for #IndieBookstoreDay, which is tomorrow! Get out to your local bookstore! www.indiebound.org/

Art v. reality. "Fascism doesn’t triumph because it is secret. It triumphs because people like fascism and find it an exciting and pleasurable way to shore up their status in the hierarchy and inflict pain on others." open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...

Jen Psaki, MS Now

Sunset in Noordwijk, the Netherlands

Half Man sounds like an extraordinary and important TV series.

“Are you concerned about insider trading on these prediction markets re: the war?” TRUMP: “The world is a casino. It is what it is.” 🤷🏼 And there you have it, folks!

This might be the loveliest thread I've read all year. Bravo, Alan. You just got a bucketload of karma points.

It’s the 56th anniversary of Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick being denied entry to the White House, despite being invited. Mind you, she was invited by Richard Nixon’s daughter Tricia, brought activist Abbie Hoffman, and said she planned to spike the President’s tea with LSD... 🧵

Unpopular opinion that should be popular: Academics who submit papers with "hallucinated" citations and have therefore used AI to write their paper should face the same consequences as plagiarists. In other words "hallucinated" citations in a paper should be a career ender.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BATTER

"Billionaire death cult" absolutely sums them up. No concern about anything other than accruing more money and power, for no reason other than to haplessly feed their broken souls.

so Bibi..

Dawn at low tide at la presqu'île de Conleau, Vannes, Brittany. (I confess, I was still asleep when this photo was taken by my husband.)

Holy crap, guys. His approval rating is down 300%.

Was sent this and my goodness I wish I could opt out being subjected to bullshit AI-generated profile pieces. I don't want to interfere with any *human's* first amendment rights, but AIs can get bent. As with the bot version of me that Grammarly created, Silicon Valley has no concept of consent.

It's largely fallen off the news radar, but the US continues its brutal and illegal abductions and imprisonment of migrants in concentration camps. It must never be forgiven for these atrocities.

-snerk-

Of course the "Trump envoy" is Paolo Zampoli, his Eurotrash party boy and model agency friend who introduced Melania to Trump and was last seen getting Epstein victims/whistleblowers deported by ICE.

big well done to "gender critical feminists" for giving themselves enough brain damage from online hate to conclude "raising children is a job for women" is a feminist position

Amazing. Firepots, used to warm the area around crops and flowers to stop unseasonal frost damage.

The CDC will not publish a study showing that Covid vaccines reduce the risk of hospitalization, despite passing scientific review, and despite using the same methods in studies published in its own journal, and in other journals. Story by @lenasun.bsky.social wapo.st/4cLQkDH

Dad of two grade-schoolers here: can confirm that the kids are using “AI” as a synonym for “fake”

"The 'Far-Right International' is a loose cooperation through which parties reinforce each other ideologically and occasionally coordinate strategically. "But this cooperation has always contained an inherent tension: what happens when one country’s ‘nation first’ politics collides with another’s?"

This is expert trolling from Jamie Raskin. If Republicans are suddenly angry about losing in the gerrymandering wars, then they're welcome to join him and Dems in passing bans on gerrymandering in the next Congress, he tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

Of all the things he’s done, this one is up there with what makes me the sickest.

A particularly bizarre definition of "write".

Corbyn on Palantir: "In 2019, I warned that the NHS was being sold off to private U.S companies. The media's response? I was peddling Russian propaganda. One of those companies is Palantir, a company that has enabled genocide in Gaza. We were right then and we are right now: Kick Palantir out."

First women were choosing the bear, now men are choosing the cougars. I think everyone's just really interested in wildlife

This is such a critical issue. The corporate news media in the US is completely compromised. And then there are those Americans whose only source of "news" is whatever Trump tells them on Truth Social.

Worth reading: Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social on how the shift to individual responsibility has usurped egalitarianism under neoliberalism in Australia, and the importance of reclaiming the discourse. #Auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Waking up to the news about both David Malouf and James Valentine. What a sad day. Vale, both.

This is Evelyn Araluen (UQP’s most successful recent author) not fucking around, Via Lamestream:

Are you going to say thanks, Vance? www.reuters.com/business/aer...

No, calculating percentages that results in the wrong answer is not "a different way". It's just wrong. As if these things are optional. 🙄

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waas #smbc #comics #saas