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As much as I find common cause with my more radical friends I (reluctantly) oppose the hardline proposals to summarily incarcerate every ICE agent. I urge everyone to consider the centrist compromise of abolishing ICE

spending the first year in power appeasing the racists in an attempt to win over reform voters who will never vote for him then going "somehow, racism has returned" the second he finally sees people are abandoning him for the greens

This is what the EHRC's shitty Code will result in. All. The. Time. It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

"Jeffrey Dahmer's legacy marked by contents of freezer"

hug your war criminals a little tighter today

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

Just sharing the most terrifying image in horror game history

This is a good way to put it. I'm not going to write anyone off as an irredeemable human being but as a political matter, the American right is animated by bigotry and misinformation. It just is.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on self-gated reverb (where the reverb level is gated by the dry signal)

Such a nice bunch of friends spectating my intense hyperfocus

SH2 remake or Blue Prince? I have both on ps+

I know every corporation has its thorns and there's no ethical consumption under capitalism etc: but just dump Spotify. do it now. Apple Music is great, I've heard Tidal is solid, Deezer, whatever. you can transfer your playlists. it'll be ok. they can rot.

The Jane Schoenbrun/Black Hole news is very exciting

"How do you expect to win back men...?" We don't want those men. They are the hot dogs on the floor of humanity and we still have all these nice prepped hamburger patties if someone would just let them cook.

I’d urge people to ask whether, if push comes to shove, the British press are likely to go full hate-jihad against Reform to save us all, particularly if doing so might be very helpful to the Green Party.

At #COP30 next month in Brazil, the animal ag (and broader ag) industry is likely to be as active as the fossil fuel guys obstructing commitments to emissions reductions. I got a crash course on how they work from the great @profsecchi.bsky.social and Kathrin Lauber and terrific new @cssn.org book

it wouldn't fix everything but you could do a lot to improve journalism by simply straight out banning the passive voice

2 weeks to go until A Celebration of Ursula K. Le Guin at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social, just before the full supermoon! With me, @taylorwdriggers.bsky.social @philcrockettthomas.bsky.social & @mjrsangster.bsky.social, celebrating @silver-press.bsky.social's The Word for World. Book now!

Great moments in redaction history.

I had this very conversation in the context of making a case for the arts vs STEM. "Arts education creates critical people whose economic contributions can be harder to directly link to their degrees" feels like a tough sell.

Ello! Top lad @jeffemtman.com just published a new episode of Neutrinowatch! "Best of the Manosphere" is a daily distillation of all the best bits of your favourite manpods into a wonderful piece of art. It's the idea-summarizing, trailblazing, time-saving game-changer! pod.link/1567632084/e...

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

The Word for World: an exhibition presenting the maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is now open at the AA Gallery! It's free and on until 6 Dec. Here are some photos from opening evening 🌀 www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

17 hours left - every hour for 10 months, an original post for six families & a camp. But I can’t type so please forgive me for copy/pasting. We’re matching 185 for their URGENT: - Food - still famine ! - Shelter / tents - Winter items - Newborn supplies - Transport north Last check 273/1000

Ah I really like that one too. Also partially about Winona Ryder

Do Bolt Thrower count?

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

I thought this was gravy and mash

Shares please. You have been an incredible light to young dad H and his toddlers—keeping them housed for almost a year has saved them from deadly cold, exposure, shrapnel. For kids, this isn’t trivial. Sit with that impact and keep it going. They still need that support. 18 hours left. 23/640

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

A thousand things going on in this post.

In short season 10 of @withinthewires.bsky.social needs some music! It's the final season too, which is sad because @happierman.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social are BRILLIANT colleagues and this has been a really wonderful world to be part of. <3

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Antifa Activist Michael Heseltine Shifts Overton Window Leftwards

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Imagine this happening in the UK and not having to sigh 'what do their parents do?' every time you hear about a new band. Wouldn't it be great to hear music from somebody who isn't directly related to the Lord Admiral Wythenshawe Bloodfeast MP, the Butcher of Bangalore?

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

The tagging procedure! bsky.app/profile/sask...

This is just incredible A tiny, tagged Monarch butterfly has flown from Southern Ontario in Canada to *Oklahoma* in a couple of weeks, as part of their migration And they haven't got google maps open on their phones either, they just know where to go

Actually the non pareil of this might be “Heroes”-era Bowie appearing on the Bing Crosby Christmas special

Ramones played the University of B.C. campus in Vancouver, Canada, in 1980, the same year Tennessee Williams became a writer in residence on campus. (Alas, the events were several months apart.) @raxkingisdead.bsky.social

One of my favorites: It was possible for Abraham Lincoln to send a fax to a samurai.

Some great stuff in the quotes and replies. I think about Samuel Beckett giving Andre “the giant” Rousimoff lifts as a kid. But maybe that’s missing the point, it’s as much about what could have been

A whole bunch of us have grown up in the UK knowing to flee in the other direction if we spot this flag anywhere. We’re not going to pause to see if there are stickers stuck below them. And if they’re stuck elsewhere, we will not get close enough to see the text - again, we’re just going to leg it.