80s Irish Mammy: "If a million people jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?" LLM: "Yes."

I hear Tony Blair has been reading up on Cecil Rhodes...

Interesting dynamic last night: Connolly's certainty forced the two centrists to follow her lead on how to talk about issues. It shows the value of not having to platform a hard right candidate like Steen. The centre really has no view, and this is the vacuum that the far right are trying to fill.

The moderator in the presidential debate sure loves the sound of his own voice. #TonightVMTV really wish he'd shut up

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

pretty sure that if Le Monde calls your trans kid a "fashion week sensation" while you're scaremongering about bathrooms in an off-year Virginia gubernatorial they should just scroll credits on your ass because it's over www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/...

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

So, are journalists specifically asking Irish TV men whether they want to ride women their own age, or are they volunteering this information out of nowhere?

Believe trans people when we tell you the 'science' behind the Cass Report is as solid as the 'science' behind paracetamol causing autism.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

the reason you don't engage in a data-driven argument with fascists is that it legitimises the idea that if the data went the other way their core argument would be acceptable it is not and should be rejected wholesale from first principles

It's disgusting that a man can he prevented from running for President just because nobody has heard of him and he's never done anything or filed the required paperwork

Holy shit

They say Nostradamus' predictions are too vague to take seriously but I find his assertion that "2025 will be fuckin shithousery squared" chillingly accurate

One of the questions I get asked the most as a middle aged man with a guitar is " Why don't you fuck off?".

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

1/38 Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy. But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream! Let's breakdown the incompetence: x.com/adamscochra...

Always worth bearing in mind that the gas chamber/death camp system was developed by the Nazis after the soldiers and police who were in Einsatzgruppen death squads found commiting mass murder too much of a psychological strain.

Rosa Parks moved to Detroit after the Montgomery bus boycott because she was fired from her seamstress job and blacklisted from work in the city

It's hitting him so hard...

Trump in mourning at the Yankees game last night

This reminds me of the trope on Twitter of "in real life, they're friendly and surprisingly down to Earth!" I suspect they have several masks, not just one.

You know what I just realized? Liza Minnelli outlived the “Liza Minnelli Outlives” xitter account.

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

"This isn't who we are" says country that removed all evidence to the contrary from its history books

This is unfuckingbelievable. Surely the 500 senior citizens he had arrested for holding Palestine Action signs would like word

Feel like a lot of right wing activists are saying the quiet part out loud about the bigoted and misanthropic nature of their activism when they condemn news sites for calling Kirk a "right wing activist".

Our morals have become so unmoored that I feel like David Duke would get flags flown at half mast at this stage...

This explains it better than I can

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights

How it started...how it's going

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

Absolutely insane that the British police have arrested thousands of people for protesting genocide with barely a peep from the media while they are making an open and shut case of harassment the free speech cause célèbre of our time.

Normally you just think it's the usual bullshit, but this really feels like he thinks the last vestiges of control on him are gone. It's hard to see how major violence doesn't happen in the US in the next year...

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign

I'm sorry to have to announce my withdrawal from the Irish Presidential Election race. I have put in many hours (2) and made many phonecalls (1) in a huge effort to get the backing of 4 county councils but they were having none of it the rotten bastards.

A lot of people are saying that Musk could become the world's first trillionaire, but they're neglecting that he has to increase the value of Tesla 8 times in the next decade. Not going to happen under his incompetent leadership...

Keep in mind this rumouor about her gender started because she humiliated a prized Russian boxer in a match People who believe this shit including the compromised World Boxing Championship are literally falling for Russian propaganda

The drip-feed of white christian victimhood is so insidious. The judge expressly forbade emotional outbursts, and admonished her on this basis. That she said "Oh my God" is incidental. This is how we get to "he was arrested for his gender critical views" - it's just exhausting.

As an Irish man living in England, I've loved seeing the roundabouts near me painted with a George's cross. It gives me a few seconds of pure joy driving straight over the top of it.

I think the crucial point here is that she reminded people what they already knew, rather than try to teach them something new. A major value of artists is that they preserve folk memory.

CMAT is truly our queen.

Them: "you can't call every right winger you meet a Nazi" Also them: "Why didn't we side with Hitler?"

Comfortably, the most 80s thing to have ever existed.

When I was announced as the lead in a Doctor Who spinoff in 2023 Graham Linehan tweeted about me for TWO DAYS, tagging the BBC and others to say that I am pro-child abuse and they shouldn't work with me.

This is a lie - the point is that the tweet was a call for violence

This happens every single time. Here is a failure from 2009 due to its reliance on cheap labour to fix AI issues converting voicemails to text: www.telecoms.com/digital-ecos...