So... going straight back to the WAAAAAAY TOO MUCH caffeine habit after 10 days of crud-induced cold turkey was maybe not my brightest idea..? [she writes, wide awake, 4 hours before the alarm is set to go off]

Martin Freeman the actor who played Bilbo Baggins and was in The Office with other famous transphobe Ricky Gervais donated to Graham Linehan's legal fund to be let off bullying a trans child and threatening trans people with violence. Also generally a piece of shit. thedirect.com/article/mart...

I'm getting the video in my timeline... time to log off for the night.

Go to Settings, then down to Content & Media. In that panel, untick “Autoplay videos and GIFs”. Truly. Protect yourselves, okay? Nobody’s paying you to watch snuff films, nobody’s forced you onto a jury, bearing witness ALSO means knowing something exists and refusing to be silent or complicit.

Update (nach 5 vergeblichen Online-Versuchen und 10min in der Servicehotline): "Ich schick Ihnen das Formular als PDF. Bitte füllen Sie es aus und schicken Sie es uns per Mail." Also morgen drucken, unterschreiben, scannen, dann zurück schicken. SO GEHT DIGITALISIERUNG 🙃

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Klimakrise: Im Süden Madagaskars bricht die gesellschaftliche Ordnung zusammen.

From Twelfth Night, if memory serves.

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women

Weather warning: Expect an oppressive cloud of whininess and self-pity not just in the immediate vicinity of my office, but - due to unusual intensity - also in the wider area. Approach at your own risk.

New/Growing scourge for independant artists - Spotify allows other people to upload songs and link them to your name/account. Used by AI bros to steal artists clout or by trolls. Stop supporting Spotify

Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.

If you made a Venn diagram of every weird person I knew in Silicon Valley during the first dot-com boom, centrifuged it, extracted the pellet, and re-suspended it in high-proof eugenics with a splash of AI, you'd end up with something like this. It'll take a strong stomach to read this "gift" link.

The way ER came full circle with Dr Carter welcoming the next Dr Greene makes me tear up every time.

This is a functionality for people who don't have a big brother to hand the controller to for help. Makes sense to me, honestly..? But then - I'm not a gamer and I've never managed to "git gud" at any game at all, so I understand my opinion doesn't count.

company that creates deepfake CSAM raises $20 billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/t...

Due to unfortunate timing, I have to stay awake a little longer. Because "I wished to scream until my lungs would break" is *not* a chapter ending I'm willing to have fresh in my head when I close my eyes. Risks of being a reader, I suppose.

I ... I'm going to bed. Discuss amongst yourselves and let me know what my opinion ought to be in the morning, ok?

„Überraschung.“ www.derstandard.at/story/300000... Und auch der Name der „Vulkangrupe“ könnte (!) einen stutzig machen. Aber lieber erst mal auf linke und Umweltschützer:innen hindreschen. (Artikel aus 2023) www.derstandard.at/story/200014...

Wollt ihr raten wer vergessen hat ihre Winterschuhe zu imprägnieren?

Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.

Lazy = I don’t want to do the thing. ADHD = I desperately WANT to do the thing, but I just can’t seem to START doing the thing.

TIL: There’s an MTV videos-only site: wantmymtv.vercel.app

Ich find es immer so schön, wenn sie beim #Skispringen kurz zu Dirty Dancing schalten.

The essence of the fascist worldview. Ignorant, adolescent garbage, of course.

It’s not by chance that far-right authoritarians want to ban gender studies (and generally erase any recognition of how gender shapes societies and power relations). Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

"...und denk daran, die 3 SIMs hinzulegen, damit es echt aussieht!" "Klar Chef!" *legt Sims hin* www.derstandard.de/story/200013...

Online-Vertragsanmeldungsformulare sind einfach grundsätzlich IMMER verflucht, oder? (alles hassend gesendet...)

TIL: Früher hat es in Wien mehrere Gaststätten mit "Schmauswaberl" gegeben. Das Ur-Schmausi war im 19. Jahrhundert in Neubau. Lebensmittelreste wurden da verkocht und an Mittellose ausgeschenkt. #geschichtsgreisslerei

Eat them. Eat them all.

Wish I could internalize this

Thread. :/

Europe’s failure to condemn Trump’s illegal aggression in Venezuela isn’t just wrong – it’s stupid. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Ich bin absolut nicht bereit dafür, dass heute mein letzter Urlaubstag ist. Könnte gut noch 1-3 Wochen brauchen, tbh

can’t be said enough how self deluding it is to think of this is as far fetched or as some kind of a joke. this is the most humorless man on the planet and he’s an agenda setter.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

I have reached the point where my body betrays me (ie more yawning, less parsing of the printed wordsy bits on the page), so I'll have to finish this tomorrow *and I resent that*. (Still goooooooooooood!)

"I use AI when I want to imagine something. It makes that weird urge go away very quickly."

On the one hand - YAY! I did not fall for the exact same scam a second time. Go me! On the other hand - exact same scam as last year... WTF???

Special Military Operations, innit

Elon Musk is using Grok to fill the internet with child pornography. Some liberals object.

Sandman

Genuinely find this upsetting to watch. It’s the live and mass violation of women for daring to exist outside the narrow confines of a controlled and sexualised plaything for men

Das gilt übrigens auch für Deutschland. Wenn euer Gerät illegalem Content begegnet ist das ausreichende Grundlage für Kripo

will I keep eating the pies from Mrs Lovett’s pie shop now that they’re potentially made with Sweeney Todd’s victims? Piemakers are under obligation to act appropriately and I always hope they would do.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

The DOJ has taken the first steps to outline a plan to revoke citizenship from Americans, for explicitly political reasons. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-ope...

Frage an Menschen, die hier mit screenreader unterwegs sind: funktionieren für euch die Videobeschreibungen oder sind die immer noch so schlecht implementiert, dass sie vom reader nicht erkannt werden? Ich habe mal vor Monaten mit screenreader getestet, aber das ist sicher nicht aussagekräftig...