Surely I'm not the only one who finds it very strange when people go around saying "release the hostages" to random people.

Imagine the mentality required to undertake this celebration. "We stopped her from delivering formula to starving babies! Yay!"

Worth always keeping in mind that the Guardian has a commercial partnership with OpenAI, so nothing it writes about AI can be trusted

They liked Trump and wanted to help him win the election. Printed lies in the newspaper for him.

I regularly pass by a Jamaican restaurant named "Jerk Garden" and literally every single time I think of George Costanza.

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

They like Trump and want to help him

The whole “it’s the left’s fault the right supports censorship” bullshit is rubes and propagandists trying to save face for being useful idiots or willing accomplices for the greatest censorship campaign since the red scare. Otherwise they’d have to admit to being wrong bsky.app/profile/jeff...

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Without truth, it's impossible to exercise care for anything. So someone who doesn't care about truth does not actually care about anything else either.

Continuing with the shit book, The War on Science, and Coyne’s contribution begins with the thesis that sex is a ‘discrete and binary distribution’ because ‘NEARLY every human falls into two distinct categories’. You motherfucker, you piece of shit, you fucking idiot. I hate you. Idiot.

Very cool how conservatives went directly from claiming belief in an absurdly powerful fantasy of the First Amendment which protects people from all social consequences of their speech to rejecting the actual First Amendment that actually exists.

My column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.

hey I know the spelling bee is fun but it’s keeping this kinda shit afloat so maybe time to divest

A fellow of infinite jest... well, "infinite" is a bit much. A lot of jest. He was...jesty? Is that a word? Anyway, he was a fun guy.

The grim salivating of our press at the prospect of spreading more hate about trans people. Has there been an uglier moment in Britain's modern history?

It's so terrible that people are reacting to Charlie Kirk's murder by saying mean things on the Internet. They should instead honor his legacy by committing some hate crimes.

Making myself very popular by doing a bunch of stuff that the people who like me hate and that the people who hate me like. No way this can fail.

Well, there we have it. Keir Starmer comes to the aid of a man who was arrested for inciting violence against trans women.

So they're doing this to be in a position to fuck with the elections next year, right? Am I the only one who believes this?

Is it even possible for a Nazi to talk to people without prejudgment?

So when are we going to get the first ChatGPT mass shooter?

I'd love to hear it articulated what the difference is supposed to be between "ground rules for debate" (good) and a "safe space" (bad)

Recently realized this is exactly the experience I have every time I need to buy dog food.

I just want to see fascists and fascist sympathizers rooted out of their jobs and hounded from public life and either prosecuted for their crimes or publicly shamed until they have to change their names and move to small towns in distant states, I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

the dream of not having to think is powerful though rarely articulated and it governs a lot of people’s overt hierarchies of disciplinary knowledge and of public intellectual. If thinking is not over quickly, it must not be a very serious discipline

This really hit home

all of this a longwinded way of saying: while I don't pretend to know what the intentions of Third Way or Nichols are, what they're saying is *functionally* reliant on overt right wing propaganda in a straightforward way. Best, imo, to read it as an active extension of said right wing propaganda

I need Democratic online types to understand that because of this, Newsom is dead to me. Dead. I'd sooner vote for an actual corpse. There is no hope, none, that he'll win me over, *because he has established he is a bad person*. There's no coming back from this. Take my advice and move the fuck on.

TW. Needs to be widely shared with cisgender people, especially politicians. Utterly horrifying that Britain has come to this- that most of Britain is just looking the other way while a whole community is being eliminated from society because of lies and hatred. transactual.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The lying media say they starved this child when actually they hit him with an artillery shell that scrambled his skull and they left him unable to be fully nourished within the health care system they destroyed

I quizzed one of these people once. me: what city burned down? him: Chicago. me: Really? You think Chicago burned down? him: Well, some parts of it. me: Okay, name of one these parts. him: [some neighborhood] me: [screenshot of Google streetview in the neighborhood] him: it looks like a shithole

It would be very easy to do better than this so the obvious conclusion is that they simply do not want to.

All I can think about are the slaughtered Palestinian people, bodies lost beneath the rubble, silent, while recordings of their final, most intimate conversations sit on a server in Europe, training Israel’s AI system to choose its next targets.

A depressed AI chatbot goes to a doctor, says life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel. The doctor says treatment is simple. "The great AI assistant Gemini has all the answers you need. Go & ask it." The AI bursts into tears. "But doctor," it says, "you can use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce."

Obviously it's the structure of the sentence(?) as a whole that's the main attraction here but I am a fan of the phrase "statistically small".

Thinking about when the US built an “aid pier” that ended up being cover for a hostage rescue operation that killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and they dismantled the pier afterwards because it had fulfilled its purpose.

Remembering back in 2018 the massive scandal of a secret yearly white supremacist conference run out of UCL that had numerous crank eugenicists and Toby Young attend, and now it’s unclear whether UCL or any other university can even conduct an investigation into it, much less condemn it

The Times takes a momentary break from its belief that all NYC Jews are Kahanists visiting from Hebron www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...

according to a new report from the bureau of labor statistics (putting on reading glasses) thumbs up emoji american flag emoji eagle emoji money bag emoji rocket emoji. bad news for the democrats with midterms fast approaching

Everyone acknowledges this is true, right? This seems completely uncontroversial to me.

a lot of rank and file dems do not seem to understand that trans people are in an existential battle for our right to be part of society right now. the government today is trying to use employment law and federal extortion to ban us from bathrooms.

I'm glad, don't get me wrong, but it's very strange to watch people suddenly be given permission to care about this.

Can’t have a trans woman say the UK Supreme Court’s a clown show for passing legislation more extremist than in the US; can have them declared ‘enemies of the people’. Simple as

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