Surely, making "social media less important" is way, way harder than changing the ideological environment on Twitter by hanging around there

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

I hate the coinage "USian". Just say estadounidense

F1 is an interesting case regarding inclusion of women -Very physically taxing sport! -Still, the car has a bigger impact on results than the driver -Women have competed and even scored points -There has not been a woman driver in 30+ yrs -Everyone agrees women drivers would be good for the sport

This is an obviously false meme that gets endlessly repeated by non-sports fans. The entire case consists of one poorly recorded example from 1930, one dubious one from 1992 and one half-remembered anecdote about Ledecky. Trivially easy to disprove using stats from any sport ever

No one wants to read your chatgpt screenshot. If it's anything longer than "Strawperry has 3 P's" I am not reading that shit

I live in İstanbul for a while and every movie has an intermission. Always. It’s so great. I don’t know why the rest of the world doesn’t do it.

Morning rush hour in a Singapore metro station, I cause a minor stir by getting my shoelace sucked into the top of an escalator. Had to stand there for several minutes while a staff member fetched a pair of scissors to free me

Hah, I remember this guy scolding AOC for interacting with Jeremy Corbyn, who faced a much more extensive version of this same smear! growth.gif I guess

America is about to find out why it is as wealthy and successful as it is (it isn't the 6th grade level reading citizens!) Now if India and other countries seize the opportunity to arrest their "brain drains", that would work out very well for them. But unclear if they will.

lib guy said something stupid in my replies so I checked his profile and apparently his (Jewish, not sure if Israeli) wife died, and i suppose he's honouring her memory by arguing with anti-zionists on bluesky. great work everyone

If you think this is exhausting, imagine being Iranian.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: we are the best in the world and we can kill whoever we want whenever we want

man, I'm really upset about sharif university being bombed

Hamlet alternate ending

This nonsense didn't work with Mamdani so this crowd has chosen their next target

haven't seen this one get posted

I'm pretty sure most of these memories are incepted. No way every single person's teacher "wheeled in the TV"

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.

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 💔