Kash Patel really needs to stop wearing that #LFC tie. The club stands for everything he doesn't: honesty, integrity, solidarity, diversity.

Merry-go-round

In the process of leaving #Spotify (a/c will be deleted at end of month). Moving to Qobuz. Transferred playlists via Soundiiz. Lost a few tunes but compensated for by losing the awful feeling every time I opened Spotify. Twitter Facebook Insta Whatsapp now Spotify all gone. Digital detox.

Wild that @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social didn’t think this energy was important to get behind. #zohranfornyc

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

There were very few critically engaged outlets in US media. Teen Vogue was one of them. Now, it too has been folded into the new era of total compliance and white supremacy.

'Journalism is the first rough draft of history' - Alan Barth

A comic about drought in a German town #SciComm (link in at text).

A comic on Institutional racism (link in the alt text).

A nice piece of #SciComm on the effort to turn viruses into new form of medicine. drawingthetimes.com/story/friend...

Makes you think about the casual imprint of rape culture.

From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

Tesla owners and Twitter uses actively support and fund this messaging.

Let's take it down and put a dent in the global promotion of fascism.

"The researchers explain that the current uncritical adoption of AI at the top level of universities actually is counter to what most students and staff want."

This is Trump in 2015 openly declaring that he is on the side of the Alt-Right, the trendy rebrand for US neo-Nazis. The 'gap' has been very narrow for 10 years and legacy media could and should have been shouting this from the rooftops for years. Too late now.

Kaiser Wilhelm II, who ruled Germany from 1888 to 1918, viewed other people in instrumental terms, was a compulsive liar, and seemed to have a limited understanding of cause and effect. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/0vC5o8

The piece called 'Chechen War, Chechen Women' published in Joe Dacco's book titled Journalism is one of the best things I've read by him. 38 pages created between Sept 03 to October 04. Remarkable storytelling.

A manga (giga) from 1855 showing use of speech 'balloons'.

The government won't tell you that they are fascists, but they will tell you that anti-fascists are their enemies.

Anyone who new anything about the far-right movement Trump was spearheading back in 2015 was telling you this would be the outcome, and everyone just put their heads in the sand.

Reaching Goblin Arms - Taranaki, New Zealand. #photography #landscape #nz #halloween

UPDATE: A TikTok account dedicated to posting racist videos featuring an AI-generated Black woman named “Lakisha” was part of a trend pushing racist disinformation about SNAP benefits TikTok didn't comment, but the account was removed after our report www.wired.com/story/disinf...

This message is specifically for the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet — Trump supporters. 😳👇

Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...

When in the woods, best beware of dead man's fingers lurking there. Reaching up above the ground, a creepy fungi to be found. Happy Halloween everyone. Photo: Sheringham Park by Rob Coleman

If you're wondering why the roads are always full, we now have more cars per person that the USA. We sit behind a few tax havens and principalities. All research on this tells us more roads just brings more cars. #NZpol

A reminder that you don't need to understand everything you see

Private Eye nailing it.

Frédéric Forest Paris - 1 January 2024

Boo!

I am genuinely surprised our idiot PM did not mimic Trump's dumb thumbs up. At least he can tell the grandkids that while he didn't manage to destroy the Treaty, he did get to meet the Mango Mussolini and was there at the new dawn of fascism.

First contact

I'd like to report a murder

It doesn't have to be this way. We can do better, be better, form a more perfect union.

Apart from love, St. Valentine is also the patron saint of fainting, epilepsy and bee keeping.

In response to the launch of the Alt-Right Unreality-verse, I've made a small monthly donation to Wikipedia. Despite my reservations about it, we cannot let fascist allegiant billionaires control access to knowlege.

Pronouns matter now?

Overt, violent racism is now openly part of mainstream conservative discourse, but it hasn't happened over last 12 months. It was evident in 2015 when ppl asked for this discourse to not be platformed & legitimised. Trying to put it back in the bottle now is too late. youtube.com/shorts/u2Hrh...

"After more than a decade of engaging in shameless bothsidesism, whataboutism, and fanatical, greed-driven appeals to far-right eyeballs, America’s corporate, legacy media appears poised to fall victim to the grave, fascist threat it helped bring about" zeteo.com/p/the-maga-f...

There are so many Hitler particles emanating from this.

The source for those fascist-styled US worker posters is the US Department of Labor's Facebook account. m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

fixed that for you

See post and thread.

I wrote about how "Grokipedia" is a new front on the war against reality itself. It's an attempt by the oligarchic class to seize the means of knowledge production itself and create a weaponized unreality. www.thedissident.news/grokipedia-a...

to anyone still up... attraction and collisions have led to planetesimals... Things are starting to take shape. 15/30 panels done, a solar system is emerging... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

one simple fix here is to make a world that you'd actually want to bring a child into, and put everyone who says that doing so would be expensive and unrealistic into an individually-sized tupperware® container