Since I'm resurrecting a bunch of obsolete terms for this, I'm going to try a little experiment (with ungainly reminder text) by bringing back world enchantments, last printed in 1997, with a twist that wasn't in the original rule. I don't know if this is workable at all. Any thoughts?

I just watched the lyric video of Bruce's new song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDaP... - powerful

The consulting firm that helped Palantir market this technology to agencies like ICE is WestExec Advisors — the same firm that employs a consultant who authored a memo advising Democrats to stop saying "Abolish ICE" and talk about "reforming and retraining" the agency instead.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Anyone who paid attention knew that there was no doubt about the official number from the GHM being an undercount due to its historically conservative approach and due to inability to keep pace with the actual death rate. IDF now admits, like it did in 2021 and 2014, that it has an accurate record.

Just sent the (latest) Scary Email to my lawyer that I'd been avoiding!

this is bad for lots of reasons, but not least--why the fuck are the federal bureau of prisons agents doing this work? abolitionists are once again right: what we are experiencing now is a direct result of the carceralization of the nation--the whole fucking country is a prison now

it's impossible for me to read any of this without it sounding like Ghey's mother blames social media for her daughter's transition rather than blaming her (offline) killers or the rampant UK transphobia that surrounded her murder

🎶 I heard that you were talking shit You didn't think I'd hear it But you don't really care for music, do ya? Few times I've been around that track It's not just gonna happen like that Because, guess what, I ain't no hollaback girl Hollaback Girl, Hollaback Girl

"I didn't say I wanted to. I said I will" got damn

The Fountainhead pulling himself up by his own bootstraps or idk I didn’t read the book

They really have no fucking idea what is coming. No fucking idea.

Guy who is currently bleeding out in the flaming wreckage of his car, wishing he could go back to that really cool fun time he was driving at 100mph towards the cliff edge.

Unlike Palestine Action activists, this guy who planted a homemade bomb in a public place was granted bail.

There's actually a lot of planets like this because sci-fi writers find it boring and hard having to work out a whole new calendar for each story.

w.b. yeats died on this day in 1939. if, instead of dying, he had begun to age again but in reverse, he would have reached his birth - i.e. become 0 years old - in 2012. Assuming that he then began ageing in the normal direction again, he would currently be 14 years old and preparing for his gcses

Good tip. Any clue what to do with the white balls after you drank the mozarella?

Ever tried boiled pasta? Not as crunchy but still good

That's hardly unusual. In fact the reverse would be far more notable.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

People who get famous by dying or going to jail for the left generally get treated by the left as martyrs. But if you do it for the right, it's maybe 50-50 whether they consider you a martyr or declare you a false flag traitor.

Ahhhh they're finally going to restart my ADHD meds! "Oh wow you've been waiting forever" YEP THANKS FOR NOTICING DOC

Government to offer free training to all adults to help them learn to enjoy the smooth smooth taste of Benson and Hedges

Ah yes, letting the secret police just do night raids surely fixes the problem

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter. name a fucking high school after him.

This piece from Sir Terry Pratchett's "Night Watch" book. I didn't know a composer had set it to music. The book is a gut punch. This piece is a gut punch. And right now? Yeah. @rhi.bsky.social I'm sure you've heard this? youtu.be/1X2_2D1DFZQ?...

I think I've sussed why Harry Potter is so appealing to the British middle and upper classes. Wizards are essentially a superior class of people who begrudgingly coexist with the knuckle-dragging proles and decide whether to do it through abject cruelty or apathy (the latter are the goodies)

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Paddington Bear (the film version) and the half-skeletal soul-eating bear thing from Annihilation were made by the same VFX team. They wanted to name Annihilation Bear after a less salubrious London railway station. It's called Homerton. I am not making this up.

So, so much of the response to Good called her "a mom," even erasing her wife to make her seem more like a "normal" Wife and Mother. Pretti also has a family, but I haven't heard anything about them -- just about him and his values. He valued calling out sexism, so it's worth pointing out.

I think the issue is, at least when it comes to columnists paid to have correct ideas about things, that the people changing their opinions tend to offer little to no reflection on how or why they were wrong, and even less humility when dealing with the people who were correct.

The ultimate establishment post. Criticizing everyone else for using "fascism" for years and when you finally use it yourself, calling everyone who doesn't "perverse". Fuck you, The Atlantic! You normalized their message with your endless paranoid scare campaign against so-called "wokeness".

I've somehow managed to catch a cold/flu despite interacting with basically nobody in person all week, boo.

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

My neighbor told me he keeps losing falcons to the widening gyre so I asked how many falcons he has and he said he just goes to the falconry and gets a new falcon afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding falcons to drown with the ceremony of innocence and then Yeats started crying.

Fun fact this photo that always goes around is from the absolutely baller film about the assassination called Operacion Ogro (79) and thats a miniature of the car being blasted over a scale model! This is an official Basque Space Program fan account

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

What a stark, horrifying demonstration of the tension a union opens itself to when it organizes security forces. If you hesitate to condemn the killing of a member, for fear of alienating the members who fired the guns, what sort of cage have you built around your union?

The montage towards the end hits especially hard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_71...

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

look at my lawyer dawg i'm going to jail

If you want to know what people mean when they say Democrats are "controlled opposition," rather than whipping votes against ICE funding, Hakeem Jeffries struck a deal with Republicans to allow Democrats to feign outrage at ICE while still funding the spending package.

The Metropolitan Police has once again imposed restrictions on a planned UKIP protest on 31 January, banning it from Tower Hamlets as it did last October. Read Netpol's view that this is a display of state power, far removed from the traditions of anti-racist resistance netpol.org/2025/10/30/p...