If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/06/11/l... 2/

25

As someone who grew up reading Rooney’s books, I feel obligated once again to point out — he began his career as a journalist on the front lines in WWII, once resigned from CBS on principle when they wouldn’t air his anti-Vietnam War essay (how his TV career began!), and won his first Emmy for this:

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Staggering comments on immigration and national security by the “independent reviewer of terrorism legislation” following mass acts of literal terrorism carried out by non-migrant UK citizens

"Gish Gallop" is a debating term for an opponent who makes so many claims that "it's impossible to address them in the time available" (it's named for Creationist Duane Gish): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_ga... I think about the Gish Gallop whenever I'm asked to comment on AI. 1/

Every single one of these is the kind of piss weak opposition debate minded lib that makes them ineffective against the far right and helps encourage people to mistakenly think following their content is somehow opposition to the far right itself.

I hate ai so much

43

I guess that cunt gettin' Eton

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

42

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

...anyway, only halfway thru the ICP Theory of Everything essay, but I would add this to its subtitle: "Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex. And to understand sex, you must understand stigma." this essay addresses the latter: juliaserano.medium.com/penises-priv...

Object to it. And leave Labour. Anything else is just noise.

does 2026/5786 necessitate a new jewdas?

This is one of the most joyous celebration videos I’ve seen so far 🇺🇬

It's much more than a toilet ban. Here's the summary. Please share far and wide, this needs to be stopped #LabourBathroomBan #TransSegregation

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

Norway rejected the extradition request to Greece for the founder of Aegean Boat Report #Refugees

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

The French scholar Damien Charlotin is doing gods work in compiling every AI-hallucinated case featured in recorded cases around the world. www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Czechoslovakia, ghostly legal entity, coming back from the history books and suing Czechia and the Slovak Republic for its Article 2 ECHR right to life.

The people "credible" on migration are the experts, people who provide services for migrants, economists who understand labour markets and migrants themselves. All ignored regularly by politicians/media, 0 funding, 0 resource, death threats and hostility. Gee whizz if only there was a solution.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

The bottom line is that the right sort of chaps need to be in charge at all times, and the rabble of baying scum (you lot) need to be crushed once more. If that means Prime Minister Nigel then yes, you better believe that is what is coming.

“…the cure lies in removing the cause, which is poverty.” Suicide in Cleveland, by Lucy E. Parsons (1905) historyiswhat.noblogs.org/post/2026/05...

How did I miss there was a study published in 2014 that found that homophobic prejudice can lead to an elevated mortality risk of 2.5 years? ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....

this when Reform, the current Labour government, several prominent newspapers of record, and social media (non) regulation are all right there www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

43

Israel has now killed 2618 people in Lebanon. Please spread the word.

People who let cops do this have no problem with criminality or violence, they have a problem with the wrong people being allowed to do it.

and yet it’s not going to be treated as Real Antisemitism™️ because a bizarre consensus now insists Real Antisemitism™️ is about Israel not about, say, depicting the UK’s most prominent Jewish politician like a caricature in Der Stürmer

no you see you fight antisemitism by running a cynical cross party campaign against the country’s leading Jewish politician, actively salivating over the political hay you can make and the rights you can constrain while gleefully cackling over the not yet cooled bodies of murdered jews

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

i for one am.fuckimg relieved the prem won't be wall to wall ryan fucking reynolds next season www.theguardian.com/football/202...

You need not answer btw, this all falls under ‘perhaps the police do not need bootlickers making excuses for them’

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

R (Sussex) v OfS and FDU (2026) 1. The judgement: www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/u...

Oh my god the Arif Ahmed/Kathleen Stock email correspondence. It sure looks like he was pursuing a vendetta against Sussex for a personal friend bsky.app/profile/nate...

all this, based off a series of articles where there was little to no evidence, "immigration lawyers" were blamed and then people who were not qualified advisers were quoted, and actual professionals who said "that scam wouldn't work because—" had their comments taken out of context and / or ignored

There‘s no universe in which you can make this sort of claim without impacting on how actual victims of domestic violence are treated in the immigration system. Since Phillips isn’t an immigration minister it’s unclear how she could’ve “seen a growing number” of allegedly false applications

wednesday bringing some good news, for a change www.theguardian.com/education/20...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

I feel like the next 24 hours in parliament are going to be really trying for those of us who dislike the passive voice

what-based what, now?

You all are talking about “the Pope is weak on crime” and I feel like the real gem is “should get his act together as Pope.”