@ryannorth.ca In fairness, that could be described as "exciting" www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"Oops, my Sunday walk was almost 13 miles long" and other problems that I cause for myself.

The conservative movement runs on nothing but ginned up outrage bait that has a half-life of exactly one week

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lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

i don't profess to understand too much of this stuff but does it seem like they're just cycling the money back and forth here to keep the scam going

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The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

Weird how this is always go to Jupiter or live in the center of the earth but not “everyone has a good union job and healthcare”, like that’s the thing that is believing in unicorns

Far right influencers, the US government and national media all colluded with malice to cook a story that would target all trans people with violence before any facts were available that could contradict. You can’t call this tin foil hat thinking either b/c we all watched it happen in real time.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

The most telling thing about this saga is that the mainstream media, bipartisan politicians, the New York Yankees, etc, would not be doing any of these "a nation mourns" rituals, if a shooter had taken out Charlie Kirk's next big debate opponent, Hasan Piker, instead.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Imagine scolding people laughing at the 'it's good to die from gun violence because it gives us unfettered access to guns' guy getting got by a gun under a sign that says prove me wrong like I'm sorry grow up

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

Charlie KIrk believed that empathy was a "new concept" that shouldn't exist, so anyone who expresses condolences for him is being VERY disrespectful to his beliefs right now. please keep him out of your thoughts as he begins his transition into worm food. thank you

no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace

No, the fake “free speech” crowd isn’t going to defend the professor fired for teaching exactly what her course was about. We can stop noting those “failures” now. Let’s move on from calling them hypocrites. They’re not hypocrites! They’re fascists, authoritarians, or apologist.

It turns out that protecting hate speech did not create the conditions to protect other kinds of speech; instead, it protected hate and allowed hate movements to take over all the institutions of that might have defended the rest of us.

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

To potentially oversimplify this, but the number of people arrested at the Palestine Action protests exceeds the entire number of people, on average, attending the anti-asylum hotels protests, yet they are called "fringe" and those outside hotels are called the "voice of the people".

Spent years stressing about my phone battery swelling, to the point of having anxiety dreams where it happened, and then when it DOES happen in real-life, my reaction is a an almost entirely anxiety-free "Ah well, guess I'll just get it replaced". Got it out my system early I guess.

I recently talked to a guy who thinks AI won / is inevitable, who doesn't understand why anti-AI people get so mad about it (handwaves off energy, copyright, jobs) also doesn't see users clog up human review that used to work screenshots are from 2023 and 2024 this has gotten worse across the board

I don't believe in mob violence nor government censorship of speech but it's very hard not to notice that the government that are imprisoning pensioners for opposing genocide with writing on cardboard are worried that people might not be free enough to call for acts of violence against trans women.

And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.

Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.

15.44 mile Sunday Walk? Must be a Bank Holiday Weekend.

If you want evidence of this government’s goals and priorities, and further proof of their fash sympathies, there you go

So after a few weeks of racist protests, the government are planning on overhauling the asylum appeals process to reduce the number of people in hotels, we protested on the streets for nearly two years and the govt barely budged on Gaza

You can protest your arse off as a left winger and never be mentioned in the papers, but turn up for a few tins as a group of fifty racists and they’ll call you a ‘movement’ on the front page.

None of the headlines of the ‘hundreds turn out for hotel protests’ articles mention that the counter protests outnumber them. I wonder why? Could there be an editorial agenda? I suppose we’ll never know.

Weird how the thing at 34% is making the headlines constantly and I’m repeatedly told is a Massive National Issue while the media is locked into Nothing To Be Done mode about the thing at 63% Odd, wonder why that is? Probably nothing

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

Bottom line is that anti trans politics is part of fascist politics and you can’t fight fascism by taking on and surrendering to its ideas

i am begging everyone to stop repeating the myth that brains are underdeveloped until 25 www.sciencefocus.com/comment/brai...

So is "crumble/cobbler/crisp but with a flapjack top" a previously existing thing, or have I accidentally invented a new foodstuff again?

They want people to delete their personal photos so there's enough water to allow people to continue making AI slop images

Wild how we’ve got politicians lining up to agree the fash thugs outside hotels full of migrants have a good point, while the cops are cheerfully threatening to destroy the lives and living standards of protestors against genocide

I hope other companies are paying attention to the M&S situation. They bring a vexatious complaint with no substance at all, you issue a cowardly apology and completely sell out your employee, they reject your apology and call for a boycott anyway. You can't reason with unreasonable people.

Learnt from the TF podcast that the UK government didn't apply the Online Safety Act rules to online gambling, and I think that tells you everything you need to know about how the country is run.

The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined. The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.

the thing described in this screenshot is a neo-Nazi recruitment tactic

I think post-holiday have-work-on-Monday ennui should have a specific name. I'm thinking "Huuuuurgh".