The stealth auto-censorship that the youngs seem to have signed up for en masse is fucking awful and I will not participate in it. The English language is a good one to speak badly, and a great one for oaths. And fuck you if you don't like it.

And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.

Jenny rang in to tell me she was sick of Reform supporters being called racist. She isn’t racist at all, she said. She’s just concerned about ‘sharia law’ and ‘grooming gangs’…. This is how the conversation ended.

when u tax the rich

The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal just announced her candidacy

I still love the theory a Year 6 child proposed to me that David Attenborough is actually God and he got fed up with people not noticing the amazing things he'd created, so he made documentaries to show off.

#OtD 9 May 2012 Vidal Sassoon, "anti-fascist warrior hairdresser" died aged 84. As a teenager in London he fought Oswald Mosley's fascists in the streets with his hairdressing scissors, as part of the militant 43 Group. Learn about the group in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e...

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

DS9 Fandom:

Political agendas in games are when a woman who is a culture war flashpoint because she did some mild feminist cultural criticism a decade ago does some consultancy work for a game everybody loved until they noticed she was in the credits.

Happy Birthday Sophie Scholl. #antifascism

I'd been bringing this little hermit crab several empty shells these past few days in case it was looking for a new home. It finally decided on this one. Adorable. #Nature 🦑

Reading the whole thing now, but this phrase: "All computational systems, from pendulums to databases, will behave in ways we cannot predict or control — this is not a unique property of ANNs — and experts do indeed grasp the computational properties of these systems nonetheless." is a headshot.

Aha, I've just read a nasty review of my new book, Feminism for a World on Fire. Kathleen Stock takes umbrage at my argument that feminists should be 'pro-immigration'. Yes, I do believe that if you call yourself a feminist but you are prepared to strip refugee and migrant women of their rights

as I believe @myrrlyn.net already pointed out, this presents a bunch of very normal information in an alarmist way. furthermore, a lot of how it describes things is inaccurate bsky.app/profile/ross...

Can't prove this but maybe the reason for Attenborough's longevity is that whenever Paddington arrives to shepherd his soul on, he fends him off with his powers of nature narration. "The perplexed ursine psychopomp withdraws, his hunt unsuccessful. Perhaps a 1970s bass player will make easier prey."

The latest Scottish parliamentary election delivered a significant majority in support of LGBTQ+ rights and a ban on conversion practices. Now it is time to deliver, no more delays. The Scottish people have spoken. They have backed inclusion and rejected the politics of hate.

Portuguese Constitutional Court again unanimously ruled unconstitutional a law to strip naturalised citizens of 🇵🇹 nationality as an additional criminal penalty. Creating different tiers of citizenship is fundamentally at odds with democratic constitutionalism. www.publico.pt/2026/05/08/p...

The Cat Who Walked Through Wildflower Alleyways.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

BBC Projected National Share of the vote for the local elections with the change from last year. Despite the fanfare in the media for Reform this echoes their steady decline in the polls. Reform 26% -4 Green 18% +7 Labour 17% -3 Conservative 17% +2 Lib Dems 16% -1

*Were someone to say ‘what is a man?’, centuries of existentialism & philosophy would be dissected, reviewed & considered. When it’s related to women, it’s instantly about the female body & reproduction. Even on those terms the question is ridiculous. As any informed scientist can tell you..

Happy “Victory Day” to the country that now hides military equipment from drones using decorative nets and prayers.

Pretty sure that if you’re twirling and twirling in what very much appears to be a widening gyre, then you’re not the one that is heading toward anything. I think it’s the other fella who does that.

At last, we’ve found the place that Bongo out off of popular Irish beat combo U2 was singing about.

Joanna Cherry suggesting that Angus Robertson’s downfall was identity politics when he was beaten by LORNA SLATER OF THE GREENS is very funny.

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

where did you come from where did you go what movie did you come from

As is now painfully obvious, political centrism (government by neoliberal technocrats) is in its final death throes. The only beneficiary of their demise is the racist, nativist, xenophobic, idiot-right. The only viable alternative to the catastrophe of their rise is an avowedly antifascist left.

A guess a lot people will be spending a lot of today checking some slowly changing numbers on a BBC webpage. If you enjoy that sort of thing and want it to be a more than annual occurrence - can I recommend getting into county cricket?

The lesson of these results is clear: it is time to bring Peter Mandelson back into government.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Keir Starmer: I take full responsibility for the results. Please give me a moment to work out who I'm going to fire as a consequence...

Wow, I can't believe Labour's tactic of yelling "DON'T VOTE FOR THESE GREEN CUNTS, THEY'RE DANGEROUS, VOTE FOR US, WE HATE IMMIGRANTS IN A BETTER WAY THAN REFORM!" hasn't led to them keeping all their council seats.

Actually, referring to someone as “an illegal alien” or “illegal immigrant” is dehumanizing hate speech and none of you should ever do it. People can’t be illegal.

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

God, it really never gets old does it? He's just *brilliant*.

a new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.online

You should never be the most sycophantic participant in a conversation with a chatbot: defector.com/you-should-n...

They got the original props from the '80s advert to do this. Absolute dedication to a classic of the horror genre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws3f...

The amount of copium in this prompt could float a blimp

<runs in, out of breath> i just came from mastodon and—-

Followers of @davidgerard.co.uk who is sometimes of this parish might be unsurprised to find out he's been suspended again for hurting bluesky mods feelings and this still affects his hosting on blacksky because ATProto isn't distributed at all mastodon.social/@davidgerard...

What do you get if you cross a box with a dead squirrel covered in Marmite? Thrown out of the polling station.

the teachers have been saying this for two straight years but its nice to see laid out like this.

This is quite the defence: “In his view, the medal is not a forgery. A forgery implies that there is a genuine medal. As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery.”