Someone in a thread somewhere on this platform told me that 75% of Americans hold creationist or god-guided evolution views, and I didn’t believe it and it’s totally true. About 35-40% of Americans believe God created humans in their present form in the last 10,000 years.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

You’ve got a few days left to get your annual National Parks pass without Trump’s face on it.

In my experience, the best way to help a country succeed is to not invade it.

This exposes the core lie on which the entirety of “gender-critical” transphobia is based. The transphobes’ entire campaign is based on the false claim that they represent cis-women. The number of signatories to this, is way higher the number of signatories to their transphobic WDI “declaration”.

Sauron wants to see Frodo succeed.

“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

It's fucking embarrassing. It never stops being fucking embarrassing, but this is just so plainly Russian propaganda being parroted openly by an American president that it hits another level of fucking embarrassing.

If only Americans had a recent way to know how crucial immigrants were for the success of the Manhattan Project. A big Hollywood movie where a lot of the nuclear scientist characters speak with accents and talk about fleeing Europe that makes tons of money and wins a bunch of Oscars, perhaps.

Dude named his awesome security company after a guy who got beaten by two little dudes with hairy feet

Once again, the whiplash I’m getting from finishing a book about the 1960s Civil Rights Division *fighting* discriminatory measures designed to suppress the vote and then reading its current leader defending those same kinds of measures today.

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Absolute Fing traitor

Whether you slow it down or don’t slow it down, you need to think about the consequences of AI. If you don’t, well let me put it this way: if your incredibly successful guillotine company makes you a billionaire while impoverishing millions… well, you’ve sort of asked for what happens next.

The next white American who says black people should be sent back to Africa should be deported to Europe where the white people come from.

Genuinely a good sausage bap with a fried egg and brown sauce is enough to make me reconsider most of my life choices.

I forget who originally said it, but AI anxiety is capitalism anxiety, and it really does feel like this AI push = a very late hour of the "late capitalism" saga. It's the current capitalist order pushing all of their chips to the center of the table.

Two prominent people in tech I know very very well (and know to be brilliant) have come up with polar opposite views on AI. One is all, “It’s powerful and interesting and the negatives are over-stated”. Another says it’s ruining the world, won’t work and will trigger the collapse of the economy.

You can’t even lure children into your gingerbread house to eat them any more without being cooked in your own oven. I blame Hansel culture

The BBC is really showing its arse with its editorial guidelines recommending the use of a pseudoscientific dogwhistle in reporting that mentions trans people. It's important that they're not allowed to continue using fake-scientific insults in peace. New piece: oolong.medium.com/biological-m...

They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab

Not now, super-massive runaway black hole!

War is peace. Russia is fully committed to peace in Ukraine.

Starting to think my refusal to wear my glasses may be contributing to the sheer number of typos in my posts.

I hear rumors of a lot of new folks joining Bluesky recently. If you’re a new Bluesky user and want to follow STAR TREK professionals of all kinds — actors, writers, producers, artists, artisans, execs, podcasters, and more — this is the Starter Pack for you! #LLAP go.bsky.app/Gt9LRwa

Pretty sure I like Doctor Who in almost exactly the same way my brother likes Norwich City.

An actual “gender ideology” is that which says the western conception of there being two clearly defined sexes and genders with different societal roles and behaviors is the only way to conceive of such things. It is self-evidently not. Evidence says it isn’t.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

More Americans think Donald Trump was involved in Jeffrey Epstein's crimes than think he wasn't. (@dhmontgomery.com @today.yougov.com) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251224-free

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

The real danger of giving Trump access to your social media posts: www.ft.com/content/b8a6...

The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction

I’m a technologist and someone with significant opinions about media and politics. But I’m also a nerd, and as a nerd I have an investment in a few fandoms, in particular #doctorwho. My pledge to myself is that I’m done with fan culture that hates their own franchise.

Jimmy Kimmel appeared on British television screens on Christmas Day to deliver a so-called “alternative Christmas message,” in which he said tyranny was “booming” in the U.S.

This is the *charitable* read

A Very Merry Christmas to those that celebrate and Strength and Fortitude to those that can’t stand it xx

My dad is snoring so loudly in the corner of the room after a large Christmas lunch that nearby elephants at London zoo are experiencing it as a call to action.

To me, my X-Mas!

What do people like Scott Bessent, Peter Thiel and Bari Weiss think would happen if the day ever came that the bigots got everybody who isn’t white and right-leaning out of the country (which won’t happen)? They think it would then be a harmonious union of non-woke white folks, gay and straight?

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Here is CBS reaping the benefits of all its new associations with Trump. Long may they continue.

If you do get one of these for Christmas please be a responsible owner and pick-up after them.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel. Many were they whose cities he saw, whose minds he learned of, many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea, struggling for his own life and the homecoming of his companions…

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

WHO GIVES A DAMN? It’s a public service, right there in the name. It exists as a public good for all the people in this country. It’s not supposed to turn a profit, you dolts. Go audit the Pentagon and see what kind of return on investment we’re getting there.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

"Someone told the party that Donald Trump had invited them all to a party at Mar a Lago. REDACTED told Villeneuve she wanted to go, but Villeneuve told REDACTED it wasn't that kind of party, it was for prostitutes."