i can't believe a representative of the Vatican openly pondering whether someone should be burnt at the stake in 2026 and my answer is, "Yes absolutely, do it slow." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/1...

The first woman excluded by chromosome testing later turned out to have mosaicism (1/2 of cells had XY 1/2 XX) and had to be apologised to decades on. The last had androgen insensitivity and couldn't develop male sex characteristics even if you injected her with enough T to kill an elephant.

Seeing a lot of analysis like this, but honestly my 76 year old mother-in-law summed up the reason for One Nation’s success better than anything I’ve read. “Well we’re a racist country”

"This crisis will be good for the energy transition" is not just untrue in the basic sense but also as morally repugnant as the "nature is healing" stuff from the early weeks of COVID. None of this should be happening, and celebrating the side effects of racist extermination is ghoulish

'We are losing the stars. Not all at once, but quietly, one streetlight, one neon sign, one expanding suburb at a time.' 🧪 🔭

(1) Casey Means is a dreadful nominee and should not be confirmed. (2) I don't have any desire to defend for-profit advertising of any kind. (3) "Obesity is a national crisis" as a message both relies on and perpetuates bias against fat people.

I do wonder if he gradually lost his spine over the years, or if he had it removed in one go when he became PM

Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

I stopped posting on Twitter and deleted my account and I too became CEO of The Onion, so Tim’s story checks out

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Every day I read something new that chips away at my lifelong opposition to the death penalty

A UK court has just ruled that the ban on the Palestine Action Group is blatantly unlawful - EXCELLENT news www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Stealing a dog from a 4 year old who has just lost both parents is the kind of cartoonishly evil origin story you need to end up in trump’s inner circle

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

feels like the lies are getting bolder. 1/ Police blockading Town Hall square, station entry points on that side, and both ends of the George St block between Bathurst St and QVB is called “officers had been trying to disperse the crowd”. The crowd had no way to “disperse” and no instructions.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

If I can do hundreds of pointless things in the time it takes you to do one worthwhile thing, who is going to win the doing things race?

My first thought is that if these uniformed thugs are this eager to behave this way in broad daylight on camera, how exactly do behave when nobody’s watching

Aw man. What a huge loss to us all. Rest in peace Jon

Across Australia: protest the visit of Israeli president Isaac Herzog on Monday 9 February. We will not be complicit in genocide. #Auspol #Gaza

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

I keep thinking about this fact that his last words were are you okay and hers were I'm not mad at you and it feels like a weird coincidence but it's just a reflection of the fact that the people who are coming out to take care of their neighbors are good and the people who are after them are bad

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

ICE shot out a young trans man's eyes for the crime of caring about his neighbors.

It's not enough that trans people are having our health care and rights denied to us. They won't be happy until we're denied even the most basic level of respect and dignity, too

Sorry, what? The federal “investigation” into ICE’s killing of an American is investigating the *victim*?

My reply to the Adelaide Festival Board's email. I'll add the text in a thread. In no way do I believe this ill-conceived decision has come from the Adelaide Writers Week team. Always was always will be / From the river to the sea ✊🏾

“in america, you deserve to be murdered by the state if you have gender pronouns in bio”

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition

If you were just lying to your grandma for social media likes, I feel like almost everyone would recognise the cruelty. But for whatever reason people have a blind spot when it comes to AI slop

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.

Five animals I’ve seen in my very suburban neighbourhood (within 5 minutes walk) Shingleback/sleepy lizard Pobblebonk frogs Grey headed flying fox Boobook owl (technically heard, not seen) Koala

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I feel like this probably works out well for me

In the 90s, “what if the president was horny” was not so hard to imagine. The real stretch was “what if the president was horny but also a decent guy”

How terrible do you have to be for one of the worst people who ever existed to say you’re the most “bad” person he’s ever met?

marco rubio and elon musk

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Counter Protests nationwide this Sunday 19 October against March for Australia: Melbourne - 11am @ State Library Brisbane - 11am @ Queens Gardens Perth - 12pm @ Forrest Place Canberra - 11am @ NLA Lawns Sydney - 11am @ Belmore Park Adelaide - 11:30am @ Beehive Corner

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Indescribably depressing that an old Tory like Heseltine comes across as more radical than most politicians who are ostensibly to his left, just by speaking honestly and being capable of understanding history

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

It feels like an insult to the notion of objective reality to invoke “experts” to weigh in on a numerical fact you can verify with a pocket calculator