Presumably these dickwads mean Acetaminophen but given that they used the brand name “Tylenol” - does that have legal redress? Also why is this happening specifically? I assume RFK was going to have his corner to do his ignorant damaging shit but why is this a press conference?

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

Autism isn’t a birth defect caused by paracetamol you fucking shitcunts

all of these losers talk a big game until someone stands up to them and then it’s all “cmon I was only joking I’m just a little guy it’s my birthday”

Steve Silberman is not here to shout it — so it’s up to all of us. Vaccines don’t cause autism. Neither does Tylenol. (I mean seriously WTF?!?!) The “epidemic” of autism is the result of increased testing, broader definitions, and raised awareness. LOUDER.

NTM descriptions and diagnoses of autism precede the invention and mass use of APAP (Paracetamol/Acetaminophen/Tylenol) by centuries:

Choose. Your. Fighter.

Existence is so unknowable, and we’re so into the pattern matching of it all. We want meaning. And now there is too much story, like that Borgesian library where most of the books are bullshit

i remain resolute in my confidence we will win and it will be because we stuck together. dooming and fatalism is not how any of us will get out of this mess. i’m saying this as a veteran climate journalist who is a trans woman. if i have more hope than you, think of what that says about your view

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

In this Ohio diner, ABC are the grades on a valedictorian’s report card. But they do know this: Canceling Kimmel was a good start, and next Disney has to pull any movies where women work outside of the home.

Oh so as the new Spinal Tap movie is coming out I got obsessed with the idea that no one had done a cover of Gimme Some Money in the style of Money by Pink Floyd. And it ended up taking me ages and no one has watched it youtu.be/0i4o4L2IjTM?...

CROCKETT: When I say that you are the least qualified FBI director in the history of the FBI, that is real, because you are the only one that never even served with the FBI PATEL: That's false CROCKETT: I didn't ask you a question

Also, warning: People are working overtime trying to get you to say things to get you fired.

I think the way the fractured media has a fascinating relevancy rn. I wonder how many Americans - never mind internationally - are scratching their heads about someone they’d never heard of, why someone would target him, the controversy, the level of the “”” national mourning “”” happening now.

[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know

Charlie Kirk's death has truly laid bare just how fascist the USA has become, and by extension, the Empire. The sycophantic ass kissing, the immediate deference to cops, the pivoting to whatever issue people want to push over the corpse of a fascist. Hook, line, and sinker, fascism is mainstream.

plenty of things going against the right globally: Bolsonaro's conviction in Brazil, the defeat of the right wing in Norway's election, the student strikes and Saba Saba protests in Kenya (brutal as the repression there was), the EU's von der Leyen pursuing sanctions and trade suspension for Israel

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

If you are on the TPUSA list of professors or are an otherwise visible left academic, I strongly recommend reviewing your digital footprint. Is your address public information? What about your family members? crimethinc.com/2020/08/26/d...

No word of a lie

Meanwhile, on the live BBC thread covering the arrest of Tyler Robinson, Mike Wendling is confusing shitposts, memes and Helldivers II references with Antifa imagery. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever

Loomer deleted the post on the left this morning

Oh Christ I have to figure out who Ezra Klein is too? Stop giving me homework

Normalize disrespecting bad people

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

I think if a guy would not have to change anything about his behavior or political views to become a spokesman for the KKK, his obituaries should probably reflect that

RIGHT WING GUY: we will turn the streets of america's cities into rivers of blood and rid the nation of their vile ideological sickness and anyone who isn't white (sees people joking about Charlie Kirk's death) NOW THEY'VE GONE TOO FAR! we MUST turn the streets of america's cities into rivers of blo

Tbf Helen wrote most of the lyrics

Really unexpectedly lovely song about Scunthorpe from @martinaustwick.bsky.social on this episode of @allusionistshow.bsky.social www.theallusionist.org/allusionist/...

I don't know whether this is the right place for this, but I've been thinking recently how early Primus was way more socially conscious than I understood at the time. e.g. Harold of the Rocks, Blue Collar Tweakers, The Air is Getting Slippery, all reference the corrosive effects of meth...

Fall has begun & the entire season of SLAPP’d, the podcast I worked on for the past year, is out. Before I start sorting through what’s next, I wanted to shout out all the baddies that worked on the project + some of the cool stuff they have their hands in (THREAD) drilled.media/investigatio...

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

Nearly 5 hours after the protest began and Parliament Square is jam packed with protestors opposing genocide and the Palestine Action ban. The people will not stand for our government enabling crimes against humanity, and labelling those who opposite it as 'terrorists'.

A lot of European authors hoping for a payout from the Anthropic settlement are about to be disappointed. Assuming the settlement is approved by the court, you will get paid only if your work was registered with the US Copyright Office. Search here to find out: publicrecords.copyright.gov

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

For context that's a third the price the RIAA expected a single human to pay for just downloading 24 songs a decade ago (after cutting the ruling down from $1.5m, or $62,000 per song), and that's not adjusting for inflation:

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

I'm supremely mad and I'm going to rant about it. I have a podcast. It's hosted by ACast. They do dynamic insertion ads prior to the show, which I've enabled. These are basically the commercials you might hear before the show starts.

I actually used to enjoy reading her writing, but I couldn't work out why - it's derivative, the worldbuiding is sloppy, pacing is bad, character is thin, dialogue is just fine, the later books desperately need editing for both length and story. So I asked my Facebook friends...

A disgruntled user of the Greenwich Foot Tunnel has created a web app so fellow walkers and cyclists can warn each other when the crossing’s unreliable lifts are broken. The lifts have been regularly broken since a botched refurbishment 14 years ago.

as, you know, a historian, I don’t love appeals to Britain’s humanitarian past: but this is absolutely the time a Labour politician should be wheeling out Britain’s “proud history of welcoming people in need” or whatever