Gotta love how Jon Karl and ABC News had this graphic ready to go *the very moment* that Hassett rolled out his Walmart anecdote.

If you don't want people coming to Britain, maybe start telling the whole world it's a fucking shithole.

I will once again repeat the salient points of my anecdote about meeting someone with no connection to the UK while in a nation neither of us were native to, and what they knew about our country:

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

if you're being pedantic about the definition of pedophilia I'm assuming you are a pedophile

"If you don't let me punch you in the face, the other guy will kick you in the nuts" doesn't seem like a sustainable political message.

Sebastian Kurz lädt ausgewählte Medienvertreter:innen nach Tel Aviv, damit sie sein Start-up „Dream“ kennenlernen. Die meisten Medien kennzeichnen nicht, dass „Dream“ die Reise bezahlt hat. Und auch inhaltlich rückt das Unternehmen in den Hintergrund: kobuk.at/2025/11/unk... 1/6

Eine ganz große Empfehlung für die „Gothic Modern“-Ausstellung in der Albertina. Sie ist so schön gemacht mit der Kontrastierung der alten Meister (Holbein usw) mit den Gemälden der Moderne. V.a. die vielen Exponate der nordischen Moderne (Kittelsen, Simberg) haben mein Herz höher schlagen lassen.

I did this but I put some of the best decor where only I can see it because most calls are 60 mins tops but I work in that space 8 hrs a day. I put fake flowers behind my monitor to boost my mood and display my degrees on a wall the camera doesn't see because I like them but callers usually don't.

TFW the coffeeshop has a cool looking drink with a long name you just know you're gonna stumble over so you practice before ordering it 🫣

youre asking chatgpt. im asking my discord full of autistic people that i keep in my back pocket. we are not the same.

It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.

suche: person, die mir mathe nachhilfe gibt. bis mitte dezember, bezahlt, ideal vormittags - analysis 1 - integrale (unbestimmte und bestimmte, keine komplexen stammfunktionen) - zahlentheorie beweise - bisserl vektor und matrizen

Weber findet keine demokratische Mehrheit für seine Rückbau-Agenda – zum Jubel der Rechtsextremen. Damit handelt Weber zutiefst anti-europäisch. Auf die Wissenschaft hört er dabei schon lange nicht mehr.

Was der Chef der Konservativen im EU-Parlament und CSU-Mitglied Manfred Weber hier sagt und tut ist anti-europäisch, zerlegt den Arten- und Klimaschutz und wird die Innovationskraft des Kontinents dauerhaft schädigen. Aber der Reihe nach im folgenden als Thread 🧶

Seit Jahren jammern uns Typen wie Precht reichweitenstark vor, dass sie nichts mehr sagen dürfen und "die Linke" sie unterdrückt. Währenddessen sind rechtsextreme Positionen Mainstream geworden aber für tatsächlich marginalisierte Gruppen interessieren sich die intellektuellen Jammerlappen nicht.

Das ist belangloses Blabla, wie man es seit Jahren liest. Nicht ein innovatives Wort, dafür rhetorische Taschenspielertricks. Als Zeitdiagnose vollkommen unbrauchbar - in den USA werden literally Bücher verboten aber ja, man soll seine Sekretärin nicht mehr Tippse nennen. DAS ist die Machtausübung.

Das gesamte politmediale Spektrum würde umfallen, wenn ihr wüsstet wie die arbeitende Bevölkerung redet. Wenn es um Ausländer und die Weiber geht, dann will man derbere Sprache hören. Hört euch mal an wie wirklich über Politiker und Journalisten geredet wird. Dann wieder große Empörung.

tschuldigung da muss ich jetzt wirklich was dazu sagen. precht konstruiert hier ein bild von arbeiter*innenbewegung, das nicht stimmt. belesenheit, intellektualität und zugang zu bildung war IMMER teil der emanzipatorischen proletarischen bewegungen.

"Various" is the key word in my first post too. Not "all", maybe not even "most", but they're wavering on a number of fronts and it's the timing that I'm remarking upon.

You've had a whole year to wallow. Fucking buck up.

If you interpret this as me saying everything is fine now and go doomer in my mentions then you're catching a block, okay?

And to understand their earlier embrace of progressivism as the grudging, profit-driven decision it was. Politicians and executives couldn't *wait* to gleefully roll it back.

It's incumbent upon us, when we're through this shitstorm, not to forget who betrayed us at the first opportunity though.

They basically decided the West had reached a new consensus on rejecting queer rights and racial justice and acted accordingly, rushing through all sorts of socially conservative policies as soon as possible. A year on, they're trying to backtrack.

If you're wondering why various right-wing causes in different countries are suddenly looking super wobbly right now, it's because a lot of powerful people took November 2024 as the watershed moment when progressivism was defeated, and now they're realising it wasn't.

Nice to know things have moved on in the last 2,500 years or so.

In other words, substituting his own reality for the astrologers' when it suited him. See, you can't counter malfeasance with procedure.

Trying to find the right combination of clay tablets that would show him he was wrong, as if he would suddenly back down if the evidence was placed before him. Instead, he got some other guys to do a bit (a lot) of haruspicy until they got a divination that agreed with him.

Spousebot is reading about a Babylonian king who insisted that a solar eclipse (a bad omen) was actually a sign his own daughter should be installed as high priestess, and how the court astrologers countered this obvious corruption with repeated reference to precedence in their own divinations.

It didn't need any explanation. It was taken as read how fucked up and unhealthy it was. That was maybe 12 years ago? I don't know how we've strayed so far down this ghoulish path.

I know we love to do the Torment Nexus bit, but there was literally a Black Mirror episode about a company that simulated your deceased loved ones via scraping their social media. Spoiler: it doesn't go well.

Thursday: The NYT explains that it sat on info about Republican politicians frequenting child prostitutes because it wasn't big enough news Friday: The NYT breaks the story that a Republican politician's favorite mistress is pretty *and* cool

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

The incredible, indomitable, inspirational Alice Wong has left us. I'm so grateful to have known her on social media, and so grateful for all the words she shared with us and all the actions she encouraged us into making. May we live up to her example. (so you don't have to go to Instagram)

I am well aware that they are and will continue to do massive damage to this country but does it feel like they’re on a glide path to successful authoritarian consolidation anymore? I submit that it does not

"I can accept he's a child molestor, but consensually fellating one of our ideological opponents is where I draw the line!"

I 100% believe this is *the* story he's desparate to avoid coming out, and it's also the one thing that would sink him with his base. I mean, that's pretty depressing in a way, but I'll take it.

you should go out of your way to use your trans friends' names when you talk to them they chose their names and they feel it in their chests when they hear or see it we waited our whole lives to hear our real names and it doesn't get old

Ah yes, that common phrase, "blue as the flame".

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

We don't share our expertise with right-wing rags.

hey, so this fetish of mine may be a little weird and niche, but... I think writers and artists should have security and proper compensation and treatment

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

COVID-Abwasserdaten. In mehreren Bundesländern wieder deutliche Zunahme. Mehr Info auf covidanalysen.at

Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

Ich bin ja dankbar dafür, wie zuverlässig alte weiße Männer zusammenhalten und das hier als ehemalige #TwitterAlphas ständig signalisieren. Sonst hätten ihre halb ausgegorenen reaktiven Gedankenfetzen wirklich nur die Bedeutung, die ihnen zusteht.

he’s crashing out

I've finally managed to get my hands on a Bonne Maman #jamvent calendar this year! I also have...quite a lot of linguistically interesting books I've been meaning to post about lately So what if I did like...a jam x books challenge? A book from my shelves loosely inspired by that day's jam?

World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th! Have you made any plans yet to celebrate? lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...