I have been VERY concerned about this ever since that crackpot was appointed to head the HHS. Millions of Americans depend on SSRIs for their mental health, and these assholes may just decide they're bad because, well, they're crackpot assholes. RFK is a severe threat to public health.

There is no purpose, no motivation, no explanation for this other than racist, frat boy cruelty. They saw a family with brown skin driving a car with the window open, and egged each other on to pepper spray them as they drove past. Just to hurt them. No other purpose. This is who they are.

Mr. Pump and Vetinari over Moist von Lipwig

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

God, I could really do with a couple of rain-free days in the garden to do the autumn clear. I need to get the dahlias and gladioli up and the spring bulbs planted. But not only does it keep raining, I’m also very low energy at the moment so it’s tricky.

In the cases of queer and trans kids and teens, social media is actually frequently cited as a lifeline to being able to survive in oppressive transphobic and queerphobic communities and cultures. It’s an essential tool of connection, socialization, education, and yes, safety

It’s disturbing and discomforting to examine but there are several anti-phone and anti-social media initiatives weaponizing murders and suicides of teens, leveraging grieving parents, and exaggerating or inventing causation to try and limit speech online and restrict tech freedoms

What you can actually tell from our downstairs bookshelves - if you’re very observant - is that we both switched to reading fiction on e-readers a couple of years ago. Oh and that we’re geeks obviously!

I like the Carry On films but the lore is too confusing, impossible for modern audiences to accept these people could play a major part in the French Revolution AND lose their bras on camping holidays

i do love her, i love her for how wildly wrong she can be, but she's like a thought sniper when she's on form. we should have a Joyce Carol Oates award for the best accidental character assassination

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Oh? The person who talked about 'an island of strangers' says what?

God, I’ve not heard the term ‘had it off’ for decades. I’d completely forgotten that one.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

Fine, I will write the next James Bond. INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through EXPLOSION BOND: This film is for grown ups

Man on the DLR: Are you prepared for today’s meeting? Woman: No. Man: It’s at 9am. Woman: I know it’s at 9am, Dave. And I remain, unprepared.

Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025), grand parmi les grands. RIP

My money is on malaria

THREAD. A collection of photos I have taken of scarecrows I have stumbled across during walks in the British countryside over the last fifteen years.

At this point I do sincerely believe this anti phone and social media drive is rooted in the "social contagion" idea of being trans. They do not think she died because she used her phone, they think she died because people in her phone convinced her she was a girl.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

For both the NHS and the BBC- we pay for it. We are entitled to it. We are entirely within our rights to point out when it is not fit for purpose without having to worry about it being taken away if we aren't nice enough about it.

My feelings about the BBC are largely in line with my feelings about the NHS. I think it is vital we have a publicly owned and funded broadcaster and its enemies are my enemies, but I *detest* the way it's talked about as some gift to the peasantry we're supposed to be fawningly grateful for.

I find it wryly amusing that people listing the biases witnessed in BBC reporting seem to have forgotten, or be fine with, the appalling coverage of the Indy Ref in 2014.

Then it's not a fucking ceasefire, is it.

I came across a clip from yesterday from LBC of John Sopel and Emily Maitlis talking to Shelagh Fogarty about what's happening at the BBC and they all conceded the complainant DID have a point about the BBC's pro-trans bias and it was just three people being transphobic for a couple of minutes.

If you think that’s wild, here’s a story I wrote a million years ago about scientists who discovered that YOUR GUT HAS SWEETNESS RECEPTORS AND CAN TASTE SUGAR and then they made a diabetes drug that uses those receptors to regulate insulin production. www.scientificamerican.com/article/your...

Incredible that people have careers based around telling those who are struggling to keep their chin up and not react because "They're clearly [doing worse thing than the last thing] to bait an excuse to [do even worse thing]." It's a ratchet. You're describing a ratchet. You are selling ratchets.

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The fucking condescending infantilization of American voters is out of fucking control. Do not speak to us like babies who need to learn how to react according to your rules of decorum when it comes to threats to our own lives.

ASKING OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT US IS NOT FIGHTING IT’S JUST ASKING YOU TO DO THE FUCKING JOB WE PAY YOU FOR

that's right ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass

We even have a longstanding art protocol for doing this. If you ever see Title (after Somebody) that means the artist is directly responding to Somebody’s art. It’s an ongoing conversation.

we should not be letting any company get away with blaming AI for their failures. I'm not even sure how we got to this point. people are like "it's just a tool" okay so is a forklift and we still hold somebody responsible when it goes wrong and hurts someone. this is YOUR AI!

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Indulging myself in the glamourous world of replacement tumble dryer shopping. It’s quite depressing how many of the offerings boast “Wi-Fi enabled” or “smart appliance.” Lol. I barely trust it not to shrink my t-shirts, why the fuck would I want it connected to the internet?

I’ve got to hand it to this administration. They are doing everything humanly possible to make every non-billionaire miserable. And the billionaires are still miserable because a number on a spreadsheet will never be high enough to satiate them.

Guillotines are too good for them tbh.

Note that this is the US public domain. Some of these are already public domain elsewhere, and some will not be for a while. Be sure to check local laws before putting a film into production based on your Miss Marple/Betty Boop slash.

Survey they just quoted on the radio said that 10% more people think the BBC is biased to the Left than think it's biased to the right. So, it's time for *checks notes* the Royalist loving, Farage loving, BBC to shift Right, apparently. You know, for balance and neutrality.

If you ever use the men's toilets in a pub, bar or venue, you would understand this is unfortunately not an unpopular opinion at all

Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."

This is exciting, particularly the bit about how it doesn’t seem to trigger resistance. I hope this does provide some new antibiotics, that could potentially be incredible. Also, it’s kind of adorable that they weren’t even looking for a new antibiotic.

Oh thank FUCK (Does it mean that they won't on another case? Not necessarily. But every day it's safe is a day it's safe, and every flimsy pretext they deny is reassuring for the rule of law in the land.)

This is what kills me. If Esther Ghey wants to talk about the dangers of kids being online too much, she can talk about radicalization, about bigotry, about the dehumanizing ideas of trans people Brianna's killers were exposed to. She doesn't, she talks exclusively about Brianna's social media use.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.