Brett
@23brett.bsky.social
I like reading, listening to music, long walks through the valley of death, and pineapple and coriander pizza. Dislike fascist pathological liar billionaires, long walks through the valley of death, and pineapple and coriander pizza.
What once would have been a pitch in a writers’ room for tastelessly edgy joke in a comedic satire of a deranged country full of greedy sociopaths is now our reality.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Defeated the British, freed the slaves, raped the children.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
The Arctic Circle just reached a temperature that once seemed almost impossible for such a frozen region: above 100°F, or 38°C … a shocking first … fragile regions are rapidly changing. Sometimes one number can tell a much bigger story … climate change is no longer distant. It’s here. It’s now.
In Barcelona, hundreds of people remembered Hind Rajab by carrying her giant portrait. The six-year-old girl who asked for help over the phone while the Israeli army surrounded her. She was killed along with her family and the paramedics who tried to rescue her. Months later, her face remains
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Seeing Dr. Anthony Fauci in the news reminded me of Herman Cain.
Live you life so at your funeral they don’t make your eulogy all about making the racist shitbag in attendance feel fluffed.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Hannity: "My President, Lindsey probably has a heavenly version of Mar-a-Lago. It may even be a little bigger. I wouldn't be surprised if he added one big beautiful ballroom and an arch somewhere on the property. Because he would want to obviously duplicate his dearest friend in life. You."
Bill Oddie sure was a Goodie. The one time I met him, he explained how despite what other people thought, he never felt any rivalry between The Goodies & Monty Python. “There was room for us both, like The Beatles and The Stones. And I was very content to be in The Beatles.” 🤣 #RIPBillOddie
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Elon Musk is calling for the execution of the Economist editor who interviewed him. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
Advisor: "Albo, Pauline Hanson's ties to billionaires are really hurting her claims to be the battlers' friend. This could be the one issue that differentiates us from..." Albo: "No time to talk. Do you want me to keep the billionaires waiting?!" #auspol
TRUMP: “Ya know, I didn’t just rape those little girls—and, sometimes, boys—Jeffrey let me kill some of them. And then he was nice enough to then get rid of their little bodies.” New York Times: “Trump told a somewhat ribald story before thanking a friend.”
Here's three employment services providers making >$1m in donations to the political parties of the government of the day over the past decade. This is a down-payment for the Government to look the other way on fraud and misconduct. No-one has ever been referred for prosecution.
Penny Allman-Payne@pennyallmanpayne.com · 2w agoCICTAR’s damning report reveals just how crooked the employment services system really is. Ever wonder what those “employment providers” do with all the money the Government gives them to harass you? Donate it back to politicians! 1/2
Worth adding some numbers to this. The British press decided to make trans rights into an issue. It just wasn’t an issue before. This was a top-down decision. shado-mag.com/articles/opi...
Damon Young@damonyoung.com.au · 2w agoEvery now and then, it’s worth saying what ought to be obvious: trans people have always existed, and will exist as long as humans do. They’ve not done anything wrong by wanting their existence recognised, supported, and celebrated. The transformation of their existence into “an issue” is evil.
$100 to any reporter who asks him, "so you're saying Capitol Police should've shot dead everyone who breached the Capitol on January 6?"
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoHoman on people getting killed by ICE: "It comes down to one simple fact -- these people failed to comply with law enforcement ... all they had to do is comply. If they did, they'd be alive today."
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
If you're arresting people at the airport on their way OUT of the country, your goal.was never border security. It's filling for-profit concentration camps.