The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

Me: Ticks the box marked 'discreet packaging' The packaging:

‘They’re all junk, and should be banned’: the trouble with at-home food intolerance tests

Comfortable with these? Trying to sell your house this year? Repost if you would turn on your heels without viewing on a street that had these flags up.

By telling his administration he plans to pardon them all he's incentivizing them to commit crimes so long as they serve his purpose he is running his administration like a mob boss because that's the only way he knows how to do it

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela. It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe But it never goes to help Americans

Every council should follow suit.

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Scottish tour of the Louvre 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇫🇷 youtube.com/shorts/z0SnX...

That Board of Peace has been very quiet lately.

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget. www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

‘I have to betray them to save them’: how undercover film-makers exposed a sinister polygamous cult

In January, the Under Secretary of War summoned Pope Leo XIV’s then-cardinal ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture. America, Colby and his colleagues told the cardinal, has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.

Investors placed an approximately $950 million bet on oil prices falling just hours before the US and Iran ceasefire was announced, per Reuters:

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Fantastic.

A moment that changed me: I saw a big cat on Dartmoor – and no one believed me

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

If Trump is capable of openly saying they will commit war crimes, they are also capable of ordering the use of nuclear weapons. For one is not significantly different from the other. And so the only thing which stops them is the (for us) lucky intervention of others. Good luck.

God this poem is haunting me again.

Another brilliant @martinrowson.bsky.social editorial cartoon: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"I'VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE"

Preach. See also making bras where the underwire doesn’t work it’s way out and the fastener hooks don’t straighten when used for their intended purpose. Anyone telling me to hand wash them will get the full DRACARYS

‘It started with a tip-off’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Didn’t “not fit for purpose” exist as a legal term eg sale of goods, returning stuff, looong before this? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eminem’s 8 Mile helped me survive abuse – and opened my eyes to a world outside of orthodox Judaism

Martin Rowson on Easter, war and a world in turmoil – cartoon

NEW - I got to interview Dominic Cummings earlier this week. Britain's 16-bit Shaman. open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

Quietly livid. My school's careers officer never once suggested that 'Swedish Pop Provocateur' was a job opportunity.

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

Expecting to see a news story today that someone in the US govt has flown specially to take this glass out of its museum cabinet and smash it to pieces and laugh.

Bloody hell. How are we currently sharing a planet with this fragile and beautiful thing? How? Wow!

'Jug of Tulips' by Vicky Oldfield, contemporary UK printmaker #WomensArt

Because the food is so delicious & she’s so good on the telly, it’s easy to forget that @nigella.bsky.social was, is & always will be the most beautiful writer. Not after reading this, though.

They say the Spotted Pennygallow is very good for thripe.

Here are my top 10 pit bulls of all time! youtu.be/iR56fZPER4M?...

I’ve watched this twice and I still can’t work out how Daisy’s human managed to cope with all that help.

This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”

“May Day is a chance for us to replicate what we saw in the Twin Cities nationwide.“ @ezralevin.bsky.social and @maddow.bsky.social talk about the major national action planned for May 1 and why exercising our economic might is key for protecting election results. #NoKings

"Dear people of the UK, when you go to vote on May 7th, just before you write the X in the box, count to 10 and think about what's happening in America. A quick recap below:" via The Daily Scar at Facebook

This is absolutely spot on from Emily Thornberry 👏

Adults underestimate risk of abuse posed to women by ex-partners, UK data shows

It’s not the chafing. It’s the hair. (You may recall the use of horsehair shirts as a method for ‘mortifying the flesh’?)

How is this not my job?

My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’