fuck no!!!!

Born #onthisday in 1868, the US sociologist + civil rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Celebrate with a look at the stunning hand-drawn "infographics" he made with his students, depicting conditions of African-American life in 1900: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w... #otd #BlackHistoryMonth

In addition to the racism I’m curious how many of us have dads who were good friends with the Gettys and familial connections to a Speaker of the House?

The amount of shit going down on this planet right now because of Donald Trump is truly unfathomable.

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

Remember how I said that the problem is not Yer Da on Facebook: the problem is elite radicalisation, the political and media class driving themselves and each other insane? Reform is talking here about mass deportation.

This is so important. Being a woman even with the tiniest public profile can be deeply unpleasant sometimes. This kind of technology has the power to turn every woman into fair game, if we are not careful.

throw back to like two days ago when someone tried to convince me this ghoul didn’t have significant political power and influence that she used to the detriment of the world

Britain is never going to have a serious conversation about the fact that one of the queen's final acts in life was to knowingly spend millions protecting one of Jeffrey Epstein's top collaborators just because he was mummy's favourite special boy. She was a cruel, out of touch piece of shit.

This is a great piece. It's perhaps unfair to say that America as a whole has betrayed Ukraine, but US governments since Obama have deferred too much to Putin (to be fair, often with European encouragement), & Trump & his entourage are more or less openly rooting for Russia & against UA & Europe.

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Divided, Still #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking #abstractfigurative

Congratulations everyone

En Ukraine, les cimetières se remplissent. Les carrés militaires débordent. De nouveaux sites ouvrent, par exemple cet immense complexe au sud de Kyiv (à terme, 136 000 tombes pour les combattants et les vétérans…) Mais ce n’est que le sommet de l’iceberg.

Spanish nonprofit Maldita.es uncovered how TikTok's algorithm pays creators to spread AI-generated political disinformation and fuel polarization across Europe. To learn more, Justin Hendrix spoke to Maldita’s Carlos Hernández-Echevarría and Marina Sacristán. www.techpolicy.press/how-to-get-p...

wild choice of example

Read through this. It is way worse than even the most doomy predictions.

A strong reminder that Orbán and his buddies own Euronews and use it like any other propaganda tool in their hands.

Americans should understand that Trump has forward deployed a substantial fraction of US land-based aircraft out in the open within missile range of Iran. This is a war of choice that could wipe out combat power the US might wish it had husbanded for other scenarios. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

11 morts et 38 blessés dans une nouvelle nuit de bombardements de masse. 50 missiles et 297 drones en une salve. Les bonnes nouvelles dans cette misère? 33 missiles et 274 drones interceptés. Et des températures qui remontent au-dessus de 0 dès cette semaine.

I want to make it clear that I've hated Goodwin for more than a decade for dedicating his life to monstering migrants, but I take this extremely personally: he supports the evil policies that murdered my extended family. What a horrible human being. He is a sick man.

This was fun for a Sunday morning. I was okay up to and including 1300, 1200 had me stymied apart from the odd word though.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

im sorry, kinda

There are people in tech who manifestly earn their bosses 4 or 5 times what they're paid in salary in a pretty measurable way who nevertheless start feeling the threat of the knife come annual shareholder report time because the wealthy class want blood. Have decided that is good business.

The task of the corporate class at this point is to instill a big enough shock to the job market that high paying jobs become low paying jobs, and workers are grateful for holding on to a job at all.

Projects go awry, rare skills that are core to delivering business disappear (usually because that worker was expensive in a way that doesn't quantify on paper or lived in a jurisdiction with poor labour rights). Everything starts creaking and collapsing. Because of a belief that layoffs must happen

The reason you can tell, as a worker in the tech industry, that AI is not simply pruning jobs that are surplus to requirements now that productivity has increased, is that numerous of us have seen very experienced colleagues face the axe by bosses who have no clue what their job entails.

I become more and more convinced that the AI is just right wing class war and the lack of white collar worker organisation due having been flattered for years as geniuses and fed like farm geese has just led to a colossal lack of awareness of the class interests going on.

Exuberantly fantastical palace designed in 1597 by Hans Vredeman de Vries of Leeuwarden, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Danzig, Hamburg, Prague, etc. etc.

Curieusement, le Ministre de l'intérieur pense que tout va bien se passer. De là à estimer qu'il trouve que ce vent de terreur est une bonne chose, je vous laisse deviner ce qu'il convient d'en penser.

you cannot trust anything that is on archive today, archive is, archive ph, etc. there is no accountability for it (anon owner), they host doxxing data and refuse to take it down, they alter things (defeating their one reason to exist), and they massively copyright infringe news sites etc.

The worst figures on campus arguing that campuses had become overrun with wokeness were all best buddies with Epstein. Quelle surprise. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

This is so incredibly predictable. With no real regulations, privacy protections, and a decreasing security of legal protections people are going to take privacy into their own hands more and more. Any public device will be a target. www.schizochronotopia.com/p/notes-on-p...

I didn’t even know misconduct in public office was a crime here 💀 You’re telling me that’s been illegal this whole time??!

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

“We must be concerned with Palestinian justice… That must not be considered offensive.” Rev. Jesse Jackson’s support for Palestinian justice and self-determination spanned decades. Listen to what he had to say to Dick Cavett about the phrase "never again."

More evidence, if it were needed, that the X algorithm is having political consequences - skewing content and shifting people's attitudes to the right. If you are still on the platform, and using the algorithmic feed, then you are being manipulated by Elon Musk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

If you want Europe to be independent from US services and technology, then Go European! www.goeuropean.org

tbh i think a lot of this comes down to the hollowing out of state capacity in global nations neoliberalism has basically driven so many states to P3s that people don't get "states doing things" is still possible, but not necessary radical

Solar, wind energy, vaccines, gender affirming care

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

i'm crying lol

people on reddit keep posting them getting into arguments with chatgpt 5.2 about chatgpt 4o and it just keeps telling them they're unstable and to get a therapist

The Epstein Files are so vast and detailed that they feel like the ruins of Pompeii--a snapshot of of Billionaire Town, preserved in volcanic ash--their food, their cruelties large and small, their graffiti with dumb dick jokes, the tools of various trades, art, family pets, so many brothels...