Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

If the BBC is going to insist on quoting Michael Foran as their academic expert on trans issues they should at least disclose his opaque links with the Gender Critical organisations involved in the litigation he is commenting on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Under the weather" is a funny way to spell "chicken"

"AI can replace editors." Really? Editors, by and large, try not to just make things up as they go along.

Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.

I know it's wrong to make fun on someone's appearance but...

The UK games industry is bigger than the fishing and steel industries. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work. Really depraved shit.

When the racist meme becomes national policy

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality

You may wonder why they would assault, handcuff, and arrest someone who is wearing a funny mask and doing a silly little dance. It's simple. There is nothing the cowards in the United States government fear more than a citizen who is not afraid of them.

I keep thinking about them saying "haven't you learned [from Renee Good's murder]" and... they don't understand why people are still coming out after they've shown they can and will kill us, because they're cowards, and they don't understand what it's like not to be a coward

I used the volunteer at homeless shelters were the residents worked up to 38 hours per week doing manual labor. Many employers didn’t want them working 40 hours a week regularly, because then they’d have to offer benefits.

"the guy pooping in the reservoir is criticized by both sides, therefore he must be doing something right" please use your fucking brain

When it comes specifically to LGBTQ+ rights that's a net loss of 5 seats by the anti-trans bloc and gains for the trans-rights bloc in Holyrood. Combine that with how many of the anti-trans group within the SNP are retiring and it's quite a shift in Holyrood towards progressive politics.

There is going to be a general strike on January 23. Make sure you don't cross the picket line.

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Just a month ago the UK agreed to a deal in which the NHS has to pay £3bn a year more for US drugs. The only thing we got was an agreement the UK would face no tariffs. Today that deal has been broken by the USA. The deal must be torn up and no money stolen from the NHS.

As Pratchett said:

Indeed. Everyone wants to be the *second* person to oppose the administration and not the *first*.

I was going to wonder if the people who followed it should be blocked too, but they appear to be universally journos and anti-fascist trolls so fair enough

I always wondered, when I read Suetonius, how everyone could put up with Caligula for so long. I think I understand better now. The institutional and social inertia is so strong, especially among elites with “something to lose”. No one wants to stick their heads up first, so they go into denial.

Seen in Minneapolis this morning

1/ I didn’t want to have to share this but the family referred to in this crowdfund is mine. I wanted to remain anonymous because I am beyond ashamed that I am in this position. One that may cause us to become homeless and for me to be separated from my kids,

My novel about systematic evil & the need for regular people to team up & fight it is now available in the UK. Sadly, some themes never go out of style. THE DEVIL IN SILVER. With a gorgeous cover and a wonderful introduction from the great @sgj.bsky.social www.penguin.co.uk/books/476343...

She has! Laura Anne Gilman's The Devil's West series is proof of that. You should read those fantastic fantasy novels of hers, starting with SILVER ON THE ROAD. Do YOU read Laura Anne Gilman? I DO.

thats his hole. it was made for him.

This thread is now an op-ed:

Crypto holder loses $283 million to scammer impersonating wallet support January 10, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam

ICE has only 300 followers and more than 90k blocks since it arrived on Bluesky:

This looks amazing. They've supplied heads with female features to go on figures with regular power armour rather than making "boob armour". The heads are beautifully sculpted, they look like athletic women rather than dollies www.goonhammer.com/the-female-c...

Leicas. Outstanding heritage. Excellent lenses. Impeccable build quality. Ideal if you believe you might be about to be attacked by fascists.

New year, new DWJ - and in today's episode, it's definitely a new DWJ, as she throws everything she knows out the window and sets out to write the wildest book of her career to date. We're definitely in the back half of the nineties now! zencastr.com/z/4YIgZkmy

Does anyone in the trans community have a contact for Beth Upton or Rose Henderson? If so, please DM me . Thank you 💚⭐️.

"Israel" is now as close to the word "genocide" in word association as "Rwanda" is to millions of people, and that kind of stain lasts generations

If a Democratic president had done something like this, Fox and the GOP would have turned Adriana Camberos into a household name à la Willie Horton or, yes, Hunter Biden. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

"The most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were aversive personality traits (e.g., Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy)."

So they’re arresting members of the press now for covering the very events they instigated. And of course to prevent more coverage. Saw a sign a while back that borrowed from the Martin Niemöller poem: “First they came for the press. We don’t know what happened after that.”

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

Grok is so much worse than you think.

Kavanaugh Kidnappings:

This thread is a work of art. Excellent use of the medium.

Because, of course they are #fktrump

RFK Jr is doing a modern-day Tuskegee study, where by he uses taxpayer money to intentionality infect African children with Hepatitis B and deny them treatment. You know, just to see what happens newrepublic.com/post/205330/...

Haz rote wurds: First draft done!

As someone whose PhD was in human population genetics and evolution: Race is a social construct Gender is a social construct Both have biological *components* but are incredibly complex - not neat, discrete, immutable categories Fascists are the ones denying scientific reality