Absolutely not. I will not budge on exonym usage.

The problem with the Turkey/Türkiye issue is that it was an anti-cosmopolitan act by a dictatorial, nationalist regime; @selimkoru.bsky.social wrote very well about it at the time: kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/turkey-vs-...

this is another example of the drink-driving-clair-de-lune tweet irl

Don't care about sports but I can't help but feel some pride at my countrymen's knack for completely out of order, unnecessarily vitriolic football chants

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

Tapping the sign

the "how dare you care about gaza but not sudan" crowd (david lammy) didn't care about sudan either

Uwah! Now that's a nice thing to wake up. We are funded, took 36 hours. I had no idea what to expect, but I didn't expect things to go this well! But we're not done! As the final amount gets higher, the quality of the print run will improve, and I may even throw in some surprise extras as we go.

I have literally never in my life heard a European say anything remotely like this. How bizarre. bsky.app/profile/thra...

Counterpoint: When your country, up until about 10 years ago, had relatively mild summers and relatively cold winters, it made more sense to frame your infrastructure around heating. Sadly, in the early 1900’s they failed to account for America gleefully ruining the climate.

In conclusion, air conditioning units are queer bodies.

what on earth is going on over there

man this "Europeans are anti-AC" is the biggest mass psychosis event I've seen in a while, absolutely demented takes coming from it

For those who struggle with the geography, Netanyahu's primary political rival wants to annex the orange

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

how Animal Crossing: New Horizons's Leninism breathed new life into erotica

To even make this statement one has to believe in some kind of natural order in which elected office belongs to a certain type of person and not you.

I HAVE AIR CONDITIONED BUILDINGS THREE TIMES AS OLD AS THIS. it’s possible! It’s a thing!! It’s fucking expensive! Most people don’t have that kind of money! Why is this so hard to comprehend my god

And yes it’s so much easier to add a ground source deep well heat pump when you have a lot of empty land and you aren’t dealing with hundreds of thousands in archaeology fees because the ground you’re digging up has been built on for 5 thousand years and we have laws about that stuff

Our London flat was a) older than this, b) surrounded on all sides and in a densely built area, c) we did not have £600k from the government to adapt it it’s not martyrdom pal it’s fuckin money and logistics

A short story

This is a video about how the UK’s infrastructure is not prepared for heat. Not about how AC use is bad. It is particularly fitting on the text based social media app that the problem with people only reading headlines was not that they didn’t read the article but that they didn’t watch the video.

Famously, air conditioning is of course completely free, and handed out at every street corner, it’s only our British Stubbornness that stops us from taking advantage of this totally free resource

Have British people considered fundamentally restructuring every aspect of their economy and culture? That's what I'd do.

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Speaking of this theory... Recently the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh unveiled a statue of “Maharishi Sushruta” at the Royal College of Surgery, Edinburgh. I use quotation marks as there is no such person. www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

Incredible example of how nonsense Hindutva history is established and even monumentalized in the west, depending on ignorance, indifference and vague protestations of anti-colonialism to do so. Read the whole thread and weep @rcsed.bsky.social

I do not understand this moronic myth. Absolutely none of this is true.

I'm seeing people aligned with/sympathetic to the Democratic Party establishment becoming very concerned about 'optics' after the NYC election results, and I hope we can all remember how the Democrats handled Gaza in 2024 and rest assured that you can and should disregard their 'concerns'.

Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

From ABC News: 'Hong Kong police arrest booksellers on suspicion of selling seditious publications' tinyurl.com/y5awwa82 #HongKong #NSL #PressFreedom #FreeSpeech

#makeaterriblecomicday2026 It’s my cats doing cats stuff

Blocking every American in the replies who hasn’t read the article :)

good morning

You get lenience if you identify as Chinese is pure ethnostate language

Because they think it is good, because *it is what they want to do*, regardless of whether it is good or whether it’s popular or politically damaging. This is what they meant by Sensible Moderate Centrist politics. This is who they are.

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Hey maybe the French aren't crazed Europoors but worried about managing a real problem

Which is a bit much as they drive a Ford F150 to Walmart and support wars with catastrophic environmental consequences

Everyone knows the concept of 'too many people are going to university' is insane right? It's insane.

'Reed is clear that university is not the right route for everyone...He believes too many young people currently go to university, and that more should consider apprenticeships, trades or going directly into work.' Reed graduated from Oxford/Harvard. Always YOU and YOURS and never THEM and THEIRS.

Top ten UK career growth areas in June 2026: 10. Stillsuit manufacturer 9. Spice miner 8. Sandworm rider 7. Sandworm 6. Sardaukar 5. Moisture gatherer 4. Guild Navigator 3. Harkonnen pit fighter 2. Muad‘Dib (mouse) 1. Muad’Dib (messiah)

It’s actually surprising that even the lefties are like all fuck europe white supremacy etc and I’m like… I live here in the UK with 10 million other Black & Asian people and lots of white folks who have the same politics as you does that even figure in your brain

China says it has 'legitimate' right to apply new ethnic unity law against people beyond its own borders 🔗 buff.ly/TCCy8Tq

Trying to create during a heatwave #makeaterriblecomicday

I get that the AC hating French are crazy, but all the Americans laying into them rubs me the wrong way… do u understand that it is supposed to be like mid 70s in Paris this time of year. The emotional weight of it is crushing and it makes sense to feel like it’s just not supposed to be like this