I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.

Have treated myself to a birthday that's been a completely normal, unremarkable day because I'm interesting like that.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

We're told all the time there's no fucking magic money tree to invest in public spending and yet these pricks are throwing away money hand over fist on actively making everything worse, hurting free speech, expanding genocide, fucking our healthcare and privacy.

Okay, why not? bsky.app/profile/case...

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

This is the first time I’ve read details about a bomb that was set off in residential London street, destroying cars and sending shrapnel into kids’ bedrooms. Young people are considered vulnerable online, but the actual radicalisation of old generations is given a free pass by the press.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

it's funny to see the wildly unpopular trump and his goons rip the wiring out of institution after institution without a care in the world and have NYT guys and congresspeople being like whoa dudes let's not get too crazy with the abolish ice talk

Accidentally biting your inner lip, causing it to swell up and become easier to bite whenever you eat anything is terrible not just because it's painful and frustrating, but because it makes you feel like such a twat.

You have to understand that they do not and will not ever play ‘fair’. They will distort reality in whatever way suits them. Their side are martyrs and anyone else killed by their thugs is just collateral.

thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn

Almost no one is complaining about trans women in women’s spaces, study finds “This is a manufactured controversy, not a documented crisis.” www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almo...

Whenever people spoke about the harms and chilling effect on speech caused by the OSA, these guys were right in with "so you love child porn huh?" Once again: there are no rules, there are no principles, there are no standards. There is just whatever these people want, forever.

I sat down and she jumped off. We weren't even on the same sofa.

Do not underestimate how fucking stupid and gullible centrists are they will gladly fall for this shit instead of spending a second trying to win over the left or irregular voters.

An interesting fact about Christmas is that it is now and also it would be nice if yours is also nice.

At this point, if you are not disclosing that you used AI, you know that your audience doesn't want it

There are worse career prospects in the British press for someone who tries reporting sexual assault in the workplace than for someone pushing great replacement theory. I don't see how you can look at anything going on and say this is an inaccurate summary of the situation.

Put it this way: if *Ms. Rachel* is not saying “please don’t kill these people* in an acceptable manner, and is in fact a terrifying hatemonger, then try to imagine the circumstances in which you doing it will ever be fine. They don’t exist.

just a collection of "inevitable" multi-billion dollar tech that was going to be the future of everything until everyone in the audience who was supposed to just get on board said "lol no"

@ryannorth.ca Aw dang, he's upping the ante

11% of Britons say they feel 'very negatively' about trans people which just highlights how much this is a top-down hate project with around 95% of the media hating trans people and a high percentage of MPs.

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

@slowbeef.bsky.social @missshadowlovely.bsky.social @tietuesday.bsky.social Listened to the latest episode of the podcast today

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

a side note: you can learn *a lot* about British journalism when you realize that Boris Johnson was fired from his first job in it for serial dishonesty, and then promptly hired into a new job, where he continued to make up lies.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

watching Trump fawn over a guy who mildly stood up to him while treating every appeaser like dogshit and knowing not a single Democrat will learn a goddamn thing from it

On one of the dirty hippy US politics podcasts in 2017, after the torchlit Nazi rally where one of the marchers killed a woman.

@ryannorth.ca Well he's got me there...

Seems like there's some diminishing returns kicking in here lads.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

What bothers me is that impartiality and balance are two different and incompatible things. Impartiality means that you don't intervene to put your thumb on the scales. Balance necessarily requires that you intervene to artificially make every issue look like a 50/50.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Once again:

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10. This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

"The hobbits' idyllic home is protected by the strong (i.e., Aryan) Men of Gondor" ok cool, did you get to the part where the hobbits' home is destroyed anyway by a wicked industrialist who wield something called Palantir?

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

@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