“What have I done!” 🤡

The attacks on trans rights, which are basic human rights, are a terrible injustice and an attack on truth and fact as well. Everyone should be deeply alarmed and it should be disqualifying for a politician to support such discrimination.

NIH is in tatters. www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/a...

One of the lowest points in US history - the president going on unhinged white supremacist rants in public appearance after public appearance, targeting a specific ethnic group - but because it’s Trump our political class is incapable of perceiving what it is and reacting appropriately

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

It looks like I won’t make it to the craft market this weekend, so I’m going to start listing these handmade mugs, cups, and bowls in my Etsy shop at noon today. If you use this link, Etsy charges me 4% less fees: littleedenpottery.etsy.com #pottery #art #ceramics #bsnm #MagicalBazaar #handmade

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Wonder why most of the hundreds of people arrested by ICE and BP in the last months, claimed by DHS to be vicious criminal immigrants, were released without charges, after being violently arrested and detained in wretched conditions? Because the claims areby DHS untrue.

Juan Orlando Hernández, a former president of Honduras, helped orchestrate a decades-long scheme that prosecutors said brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. He was convicted in a sweeping case last year, but President Trump said on Friday that he would pardon Hernandez. nyti.ms/3KyKxHx

Today the #independent newspaper is bleating about “why are the pensioners a special case” when they should be asking “why are millionaires a special case”

Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6

GOP SERIOUSLY?

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in 1st century Judea, the corners of every field had to be left for the poor to pick crops for themselves, every seventh year *all* of the crops from fields and vineyards and orchards belonged to the poor, and all debts of all types were cancelled every 50th year.

I am ready to go beyond implication and say after reading the facts here that one of the most recognizable people working in the White House almost certainly had ICE arrest her nephew's mother as a favor to her brother

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Pardon my French, but this shit really pisses me off.

I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing

2028 debate spoilers: "I understand the problem now. I'm the son of working-class Appalachians." Vance said. "You're a billionaire from old money. We have nothing in common." "Perhaps we do." "What?" "We are," responded Pritzker, "both traitors to our class."

I wrote about the fake account blowup on X this weekend. A genuine post-truth nightmare and proof that these companies have polluted their platforms so thoroughly and traded reality for profit that they've undermined the very idea of what the internet is supposed to be.

genuinely: a russian nesting doll of bullshit that bad actors are using to cast aspersions on basically anything they want

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

I also think it's quite noteworthy that Elon Musk has spent all weekend tweeting about voter ID laws and yet has not gotten around to saying a word about this new feature showing how many of his users are apparently not who they say they are!

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing

There is no congruent way to look at generative AI and think “this is the future.” The most well known fact about it is that it messes up all the time, the next being that it loses lots of money.

If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.

After Musk's staff previous turned on location info about users, it revealed too much about Trump's support base and even it's departments - so Musk quickly had to turn it off again. It revealed just too much honesty.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett has released receipts that reveal that ProPublica has reported that Kristi Noem secretly diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Department of Homeland Security funds to a consulting firm affiliated with her own campaign.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Just watched ep. 1 of “Death by Lightning.” For a screen adaptation, great job. Superb casting. The problem: Everyone’s white. Black delegates played a big role in GOP conventions. There were still Black congressmen! Hollywood is bad with Black people in history with power & their own interests.

Something I mention in today’s piece is the wider pressure and undervaluing of libraries and archives. Even less well known than the issues facing the British Library are the worrying proposals for the BBC Written Archives Centre. More here observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

I have been WAITING for a journalist to write this story. I specialize in manuscripts produced in England between 1300 and 1500. If this had occurred in the midst of writing my dissertation or first book, it would have exploded my career.

These stories are completely nuts

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls

Today at the Australian National Press Club, Megan Poore, who is an academic, posed as a journalist from a publication that if not fictitious is at most a glorified newsletter, to demand the ABC’s MD adopt a position of transphobia as editorial policy. It is disgraceful she was given that platform.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

"‘In fact, what’s really surprising is that higher AI literacy brings more overconfidence...We would expect people who are AI literate to not only be a bit better at interacting with AI systems, but also at judging their performance with those systems – but this was not the case.’"

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

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I’m going to be honest with you: The headline is appalling, but the piece, which indeed has an absolutely bizarre tone of nostalgia, is worse.

Hundreds of thousands of deaths have already occurred as a result of the Trump administration's dismantling of USAID.

It's truly shocking that overseas dark money flooding in from shady groups getting sponsored by billionaires is what's stopping climate action in Australia. The Duopoly politicians are corrupt. Democracy dies here. #auspol