Can't remember if it was this bad before COVID but I'm seeing an alarming spreading of what I'll call Airport Behavior to other public places. Obliviousness to other people's existence, ineptitude at navigating the environment. "Is this your first time at the grocery store" type stuff

I encounter people who seem to have lost touch with the concept of being a physical presence in a three dimensional space. Their body being present in, say, a doorway, while they stare at their phone cannot occur to them. Everyone is now the only human who exists. Seems bad.

“why is the us government posting racist franklin the turtle memes?” I dunno man, hadn’t noticed. seems like you’d have to go out of your way to see that kind of thing. did you know you can look at pornography online

None of the people in the boats the US has illegally bombed are "in the fight" because the US is not at war, no matter how much the Trump regime insists

It leads directly in why the 2023 counteroffensive was doomed from the start. The idea that you could execute airland battle without the air part was level of arrogance and delusion that American military and national security officials seemed to not have reconciled with yet

It's one of the first things the Ukrainians wanted (because of how long it would take) and Biden and co. rebuffed it because mwah escalation

Jules Verne’s original sketch map of Lincoln Island for L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island), 1874 verne.garmtdevries.nl/en/maps/vari...

The artist Léon Benett sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/benett... died on this day, so here's some of his illustrations to Jules Verne's works: 1-3 for "Robur-le-Conquérant" (1886), 4 for "L'Archipel en Feu" (1884):

This book is probably responsible for causing a bunch of "mystery airship" sightings in the turn of the century US.

Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair

Just look at this. Keep staring at it.

Anyone dissatisfied with Pete Buttigieg when it comes to gay men being represented in the Democratic Party needs to be forced to look at Jared Polis's Twitter feed for an hour.

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

see also this and its dismal replies

This isn’t a difference of opinion. Ilan Wurman and Randy Barnett are straightforward liars.

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Please, my monetary policy transmission mechanism, it’s very sick

Yet what worries me the most is that NVIDIA claimed to have "shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs" in the last year. That's 6GW to 12GW of IT load capacity - the data centers do not exist, there is not enough space, there is not enough power. Where are the GPUs? www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...

FAO @marcwallace.bsky.social

Governor Reddit... good lord

Food Banks 20 years ago you didn't see any, now they are everywhere But why? Because all donations made to Food Banks are tax deductible for the supermarkets, and of course if your staff/benefit claimants rely on Food Banks you can pay less So they have spread like the plague

The Christmas Presents #Xmasbands

You're tearing me apart, Nigel! I did not sack her. It's not true. It's bullshit. I did not sack her. I did not. Oh, hai! Zack.

"There are too many mental health diagnoses in the UK, but all those Greens are nuts" Labour. December 2025.

I am begging my fellow millenials once again to please just Read Another Fucking Book. Please.

Who has made this 🤣

🤣🤣 Fuck I think this has won Bsky 🤣

Away from the Tarantino Discourse, suggestions for modern directors who aren't prima donna pricks. (Unless we find out about their collection of tiny shoes, that is.) Mike Flanagan? A director who makes a point of hiring actors over and over, making sure they get paid more each time.

Not one, but two bouts of belly laughs from the second reading and studying the picture...

Genuine LOL

Just in case anyone thought that UK universities were deep in trouble, remember that science, research and university life as we've known it are in all in immediate peril in the US. The age of the Anglosohere university's dominance is likely coming to an end. www.science.org/content/arti...

LA, 1976.

Another hard shift at the blow job factory

i wish neil armstrong had brutally flubbed the moon landing line. that's one small step for moon. one small step ON moon. for a man. one giant man.. 's leap. one GIANT LEAP for moonkind. moon man. one giant moon for manmind. you can hear buzz rollin around in the lander, just howling

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

Tr*mp started his career in the public eye by pretending to fire people from fake jobs. Now he’s worked his way up to being in charge of an administration that has murdered* at least 86 people. What do you think is next? *It’s not a war crime, since we’re not at war. It’s just murder.

Remember when Britain voted for Tony Blair? It was twenty years ago, so the public are entitled to ask why the fuck this malicious clown’s opinion on anything is relevant now.

3 latest world cups it's been FIFA and Infantino bending over for Putin, the Qatari monarchy and Trump. Idk, not much else needs to be said tbh. It's just so fucking grim

The ONLY clever reason for this move MIGHT be to trick Dumpy into not deporting half the fans who show up to matches. ICE activity will impact tickets sales, possibly even players. It's still incredibly evil & Infantino is a slime but if this saves people from ICE, some good will come of it.

What an obsequious, toadying, servile, brown-nosing, corrupt little cunt Gianni Infantino is. The FIFA 'peace prize' is the most cringe-worthy, pathetic thing I've ever seen in my life. Football deserves better than this travesty of a ceremony and ruling body.

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

I will, as a public service, write a detailed plan for how to spend a mere £1 billion of these funds to improve the readiness of the UK to respond to chemical terrorism. I’ll charge only London Living wage for my time.