I don't get this complaining about the no kings protests not getting enough coverage. it's the third iteration of a broad, non-specific protest, pre-approved by police, no demands, no inconvenience to anyone. not newsworthy!! regardless, it's been on the bbc news homepage for an entire day!

My boys? Pet shop.

My latest:

One Deeply Offputting Guy After Another

if this "no kings" is not an explicit anti-war protest it is worthless

The AP's story on the IOC's new policy mentions that it "also restricts" athletes like two-time Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya. That word "also" is doing a lot of work. New piece on who this policy is actually about: www.readtpa.com/p/the-iocs-n...

Guernica (sp?)

The bill just passed both houses 🙃 only the president's signature remains, which is a formality fuck fascism everywhere

today's Today Explained has a tech reporter calling a bunch of stuff (AI slop tweets mostly) Iranian propaganda and then admitting he has no idea where it comes from or who's posting it

-Trump won the popular vote -He was president before and ICE roundups happened then too -800 million people use ChatGPT every week Lots of people want these, I'm sorry to say.

goodbye champions league it was nice being in you

💔 Remembering Rachel Corrie, on this day 2003 she was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer while standing in solidarity with the Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, helping them to defend their homes from illegal demolition. Like countless Palestinian families, the Corries have never received any justice.

I was sitting on this one for a while and finally feel justified in saying it Daniel Piss

NOT NOW, MYSTERIOUS LARGE STEEL CYLINDER

Why aren't more gays into football tbh

Vladimir, STOP!

Underrated part of this is "Twitter SMS" (??)

this is how most people here sound rn

Terry Tao's cancelled grant funded a few seconds of this. Awesome

It isn't always clear-cut—I know a few cis queer people who questioned their gender as teenagers. But here's the kicker: if young people want to experiment or take some time to decide, these people oppose social transition and puberty blockers too!

This is why they are puzzled that Iran is attacking Saudi Arabia

This is tangential but I really can't stand the LLM-induced flattening of language. At least in Commonwealth countries, it used to be that "official" entities like government departments would write in formal English, without contractions. You'd never see a statement like "We're looking into it."

Death to America and Death to Israel

He trusted us to come here as a refugee. A year and half later, after a year's incarceration for holding a curtain rod, Border Patrol dumped him, a blind man who didn't speak English, in a part of town he didn't know, at night, and didn't tell anyone. Border Patrol killed him. Are you angry yet?

Why is this bad?

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across. If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers. If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

The idea of a primetime politician speech is itself kinda foreign to me

Age verification is identity verification and I wish news outlets would cover it that way

Nooo Canadian hockey team 💔

The phrase "brutally attacked me on Twitter" is so funny and so illuminating

Rabindranath Tagore (even in translation) is so direct, so powerful and resonates with our own time so deeply.

They've disabled quotes but Beethoven, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Goya, Matisse, Cyprián Majerník, Dorothy Stanton Wise

People in his replies are arguing that Americans, the very same who think Biden was president in 2020 and that 25% of people are transgender, can detect 3% inflation reliably

What a disturbing tweet I feel physically sick

What level of racism do you have to be on to think Arafat is among the top two worst winners

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

What even is the logic for this? The UN has found it to be a genocide. The only explanation is distancing yourself from the pesky Left

Yes but Americans quote tweeting this with "pff why don't they want to fight our $150 bajillion military that has nukes" are also wrong and stupid

It would also not be okay for ICE to assassinate an immigrant

Danish guy gets it

War to Americans is an abstract, distant exercise. The last war on US soil was the US Civil War. The last attack by foreigners, even longer ago, about two centuries.

Median American voter: It's ok that he killed fishermen and slashed aid and medical research, but renaming a building is where I draw the line

It's your birthday, Duane.

The use of "nuclear" so flippantly by the only country to ever use nuclear weapons is.. Interesting

Was talking to a Gen Z colleague today and found out she DOES NOT KNOW WHO ELVIS PRESLEY IS. The world you were born in no longer exists, etc

As part of our equality and diversity initiative we will ask all job applicants their gender identity and sexuality as mandatory questions in the application form. And if they "prefer not to say" we will assume they are a minority 🙂