LMAO at one of the most famous statues in the world getting tagged as adult content.

António Guterres is addressing the 80th UNGA now: 80 years on, he says, we face the same question the UN's founders did, but more urgent: "what kind of world do we choose together?...a world of raw power, or a world of law?"

Trying to remind myself that German fascism and Ba’athism were also cringe as hell, and dangerous

If you aren't familiar with how drugs get their labels you may not realize how bonkers this is but this is absolutely shocking, horrifying, and dangerous stuff happening.

ce démon que... Je veux dire, d'habitude je ne suis pas sataniste, mais là quand même.

In the US, roads seem to be designed with a maximum speed well in excess of their speed limit. In Spain, the speed limits seem pretty appropriate for the roads and I didn’t notice much speeding. In France, it appears that they set the speed limit 10-40 kmh faster than the road can handle.

The most insane “anti-porn” bill I’ve seen yet The “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” would criminalize visual, audio, or written depictions of “sex acts,” with language broad enough to ban distribution of When Harry Met Sally & romance novels .. and that's not even the worst of it 🧵

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

IT IS TIME.

The idea that other countries should be Disney for Americans is unfortunately pernicious and needs to die. Seriously just go to Florida or something if this is what you want.

🇪🇸 Beaches are free, no BS "beach passes". Most are accessible. Restrooms likely. Your kids will be treated for $0.00 should they have any kind of accident. 🇺🇸 neighbors: beaches are not family-friendly! I don't know how to cure the irrational fear of the nipple & public spaces being public.

Having been fortunate enough to see a lot of renaissance / early modern religious art in various European museums and cathedrals, I don’t think your average American is prepared for how horny so much of it is.

it is really funny when people on the internet are all “no one actually READ this IMPOSSIBLY LONG, COMPLEX article” and it’s just a perfectly normal-length article of average complexity

If you are in these markets, it would be nice to turn off your TV. Ratings matter.

going back to sleep but when i look at the website around lunch or whenever i do i want an answer to whether or not the tylenol study was self-reported data thank you for your assistance

Has anyone built a survey platform that lets survey respondents authenticate with their atproto account if they so wish?

is this not just kidnapping?

In these awful times for trans people I've found great comfort in the observation of a friend in her 40s who recently transitioned that 'my female friends immediately embraced me as one of their own and my male friends just became a little more gentle with me.'

Very excited about this!

For the English speakers, Roldán used her own face for the archangel Michel and that of her husband for the devil. 😳

Luisa Roldán es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luisa_R...

Flying today so if the pilots could hold off on being raptured or be godless degens until after we land I would appreciate it.

ftr boofing it was not my idea

This is by far the most common slur labeled by Skywatch and I regret to inform you that on here, it’s not just right wingers using it. With apologies to the French who occasionally catch strays when the language detection model guesses wrong.

This article contains charming anecdotes about the pure uncut power of autism.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is (archangel femboy edition)

I was told on here she said the literal exact opposite and it‘s reached the point where if you all said Kamala thought water was wet, I’d double check the records.

so the Economist article isn't attributed an author. but someone in the replies of this 🧵 tipped me off that it was Jəsse Singal. & it turns out that it was, which in retrospect isn't surprising (as he's one of the ppl who would never answer this question):

Apologies, correct data appended here, but the point is still correct: Implying a 20% detransistion rate by including people switching between "trans" and "nonbinary" and cis kids who later became trans is wildly dishonest.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is (archangel femboy edition)

Charles II: Did you finish that statue of the Archangel Michael defeating the devil? Luisa Roldán: Si y yo hice la Diablo real fucking sexy, just like you asked

Boofing Zyn, and other cursed phrases to emerge from this weekend.

century of national humiliation

Maybe this will get their funding back

Rourke just broke the CFL single-season passing record three days ago. Legit face of the sport. Listen to him call out CFL leadership directly, this is wild.

diversity generally is what is referred to in genetics as variance in the alleles for that locus, and the more of it you have the faster you evolve most eugenics, a la rfk, manages to promote almost optimally wrong policy

JB Pritzker: I have friends everywhere

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

David Petraeus greeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Concordia Summit in NYC. When Petraeus was a 3-star in Iraq in 2004-6, Sharaa was fighting the US as a member of the al-Qaida branch there; when Petraeus was a 4-star, Sharaa was teaching fellow Camp Bucca detainees classical Arabic

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Holy shit

I wish I could stay in Spain ngl

Unnerving point from @bcfinucane.bsky.social: The White House appears to be quietly trying to get Republicans to formally turn over a large swath of Congress's warmaking powers to Trump. That's what this new draft bill would do. From our pod discussion: newrepublic.com/article/2007...

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

History doesn’t repeat but it certainly rhymes, #1.

This is a large part of how @lasa.numina.systems functions! When I get the chance I want to give her access to my obsidian so she can read my various scribblings about things I read as well.

Hey, Autism is not a disease. While not all Autistics have food aversion, it is found in a lot of Autistic and neurodivergent folk. If you want to stick it to the people sharing and celebrating the spreading of misinformation about Autism, share stuff made by Autistic folk. Like my book:

I Vibe Coded an R Package and it ... actually works?!? https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/09/13/i-vibe-coded-an-r-package/ I wanted an #rstats package to exist so I spent $20 and got Claude Code to build it for me. Plus a shiny app using it: https://jcarroll.shinyapps.io/kanjiexplorer/

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.