Good afternoon gorgeous nerds! Who would like a fabulous handmade notebook?

Wake up babe "Lenin gave me heat stroke" just dropped

Spanish government ‘quietly bans use of Palantir’ in critical state systems over fears of national security leaks www.lbc.co.uk/article/span...

preaching, "God loves everybody AND ALSO some people out there better fix y'all's hearts or die." As a white pastor, it can be tricky figuring out how to preach judgment as good news to a mostly privileged congregation without losing them!

It turns out that Reform's attempts to destroy unity in Britain are being financed in large part by someone who wants to keep in the good graces of Vladimir Putin. What a surprise - NOT!

It's giving gender reveal that turns into a raging wildfire

The AP, like so much of the American press, gets this wrong. The sect that Leo's attacking here isn't "traditionalist". These are fascists, and Leo is acting to break the power of fascists within the Church.

Hyperstereo of clouds from a plane. Universal freeview image. View left and center images like a "Magic Eye" or with a stereoscope, view right and center images by crossing your eyes.

Anyway, info [at] vermonthumanities [dot] org if you want to politely express your unhappiness with this situation with Walden’s book and urge them to license Cleves’ book properly

Also IANAL but a standard publishing contract clause is the author attests that the work being published is 100% their own work, to keep publishers from being liable over stolen work. However that does mean Walden is potentially personally liable for this.

It seems as if this book was the primary source for Tillie Walden’s graphic novel, to the point there is no way Walden could have written it without relying extensively on Cleves’ work. That’s an unlicensed adaptation—made even more blatant by Walden using the same title.

looks like: 1. totenberg had pre-written an alito retirement post (normal); 2. had been told off the record alito was gonna retire (not unheard-of given her well-documented inappropriate relationship w/ justices); 3. just assumed that's what the announcements were; 4. ran it w/o confirming.

I'm sorry, but I just spent a week seeing millions of Americans on here screaming that there was no possible way there could be infrastructure issues anywhere that rendered air conditioning a less than perfect tool for dealing with heatwaves. Are you saying they were *lying*? On the *Internet*?!

love this picture of the Minnesota soldier who captured the flag posing with it. Somehow looks like a guy’s dating profile pic even though it was taken in 1864

Do you know how much money these fucking Oligarchs have? Mark Zuckerberg could pay to rebuild Gaza himself. THREE. TIMES. OVER. But Palestinians are begging for money for food. Wtf are we even DOING?

Hell yeah we are

Everybody give a warm welcome* to our newest Protestant denomination! *cold shoulder

Curious how the sponsors of America250 are measuring their return on spend. If you are a buyer for any of these companies and wanna talk about how your clients are feeling about the lackluster attendance, my Signal is in my bio. america250.org/our-partners...

Signed up for that new Canadian @gandersocial.ca platform – not sure I will continue using it Shared a link from CBC News only to discover Gander adds ideological bias labels for news orgs based on ratings from a dubious American website called “Media Bias Fact-Check”…

San Diego did this by accident once: youtu.be/lrPCEubDZ9A Saw/Heard it in person. Everyone was very confused.

My response to D&Q's statement:

Just a quick reminder to submitters: if you send work to ergot. that uses AI in any way - text generation, editing, formatting, translation, anything - the piece will be rejected and you will be permanently banned from submitting.

WOW

I got this into the Associated Press.

Former Israeli nat sec advisor is obviously unfamiliar with 7/7, or the 2004 Madrid train bombings or THE PAST TWENTY SIX YEARS so I'm just going to make the assumption that he's a fucking idiot

NOUV_P.BMF

Fucking rude and outrageous frankly.

Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid “This shadowy treaty on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The LBGTQ+ *sector*”?! Judged.

Far from the first time the Bylines sites have platformed TERFs. @northwestbylines.co.uk should be ashamed of itself

The best part of my humanities education was discovering this grand conversation happening throughout time that didn’t depend on me or even involve me *at all*. I think eliminating that is a reason why society trashes the humanities constantly

Of course there are many people who would like us all to be using dumb terminals with all the actual computing and software and all our private data in the cloud somewhere under their control, so…

You all, it was a *huge* success. My students had a beautiful encounter with historical books that don’t ever leave Special Collections. Here is an English professor, two librarians, and a prison educator with a trunkful of rare 17-18thc books! More books in prison! Library access for everyone!

Whose fucking fault do you think that was Morgan

How many times will the Bylines group publish rabid transphobes before it's less an utter incompetence thing and more a deliberate choice

Really hope this is true. Starmer’s Labour - Kyle, Kendall et al - siding with tech cos. over creatives, for example, was beyond disappointing.

lol, just recently these companies had bragging leaderboards about how much tokens they spend.

We are looking into concerns raised about a recent article, so for now we removed the post about it.

For tonight's meeting of the Dark Arts & Crafts Club, don't forget chalk for your summoning circles. We'll be collecting patches of living cosmic darkness to weave into cloaks, capes, and fashionable cardigans.

"Archbishop Sarah swings her cricket bat, sending a giant football careening towards her enemies, knocking them over like bowling pins."

This article is written by a scholar from a con-evo perspective, so is less outraged by this than I am, but I must say I would like to see the Church of England get a little bit more Chicago Pope where this is concerned: anglican.ink/2026/06/15/m...

Asteroid Threat xkcd.com/3265/

hitting him with the pope-a-dope

Individuals are excommunicate. Groups are schismatic. And again that principal of unity is strong--some of these guys were excommunicated papacies ago, but it didn't work. So that's why we got the one-two punch, w/excom yesterday followed by a clear statement of schism from the Dicastery today.

This is expressly against the will of the people.

Citrix says it's back as a mainstream server virtualization player that won't send scary bills

"So that's Theft, Fraud, Financial Misconduct, Political Misconduct and Misconduct in a public office. That's just the EU. In the UK, all of the above plus Treason, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion. The list probably goes on but that's enough of a start. Criminal Filth." via Timothy O'sullivan

My (wonderful) editor at the Atlantic reached out to me last year asking if I wanted to write about the trans community. I said I would do it if I could begin with Singal's Atlantic article. It does not seem that I will be writing for them again.

Also: I literally don’t spend my time inspecting strangers I encounter for signs of transness? What fucking brainworms get you to doing that?

RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk, a UK base that was being prepared to house US nuclear weapons, and France’s nuclear submarine base at Île Longue in Brittany were among the sites targeted by unarmed drones believed to have been launched at sea.