"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." Happy birthday, James Baldwin!
This has been reposted so many times on my feed and I just want to say the pic of Mamdani looks like he has long hair and every time I see it I need to look again
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The worst thing about being a parent BY FAR is the kids songs that get stuck in your head
Ooo will sit down to read with a cup of tea
Tom Emanuel@realtomemanuel.bsky.social · 2d agoYou've probably noticed that a lot of right-wing ghouls love The Lord of the Rings: Giorgia Meloni, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance, many such cases. In my latest essay, I set out to put neofascist affinity for Tolkien in religious and historical context - and to show why the far right gets Tolkien wrong.
Every time my friend comes to visit from the UK he brings Irn bru, crumpets and shortbread and I feel Scottish again
God forbid these wellness people have to accept that pregnancy is not the most natural thing in the world for some people
When my midwife insisted my pelvic girdle pain was inflammation I didn't realise it was a wellness world talking point! The Great Inflammation Panic – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/inflammation-panic-steven-gundry-goop/
Sometimes good health is nothing to do with the choices you make and just pure luck
First the overtired newborn wouldnt sleep and then I couldn't sleep and then the newborn woke up and wouldnt go back to sleep and so it continues
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
Reminder that if Hamas actually bombed a synagogue in Israel, it would lead the news for multiple days. Israel would demand (and receive) billions more dollars in US tax support in response. But it's just the IDF. Move on with your day
IDF Hannibal Brigade@hannibalbrigade.biz · last wk.Hamas violates the ceasefire and bombs a synagogue in the middle of Israel today. If you’re wondering why that didn’t make the news, it’s because it’s actually the IDF bombing yet another mosque in the center of Gaza City.
How many times does matt dinniman describe boobs in dungeon crawler carl?
Excel is conscious. And a creep. Stop thinking everything is a date
Costa Samaras@costasamaras.com · 2w agoCould Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.
Against imperialist, anti-Black narratives of “civil war” and “failed state” in Sudan, a movement resource on imperialism & counter-revolutionary war in Sudan, and how we can act in engaged solidarity with people in El-Fasher, in Darfur, and across Sudan. www.weavingourworlds.ca/beyond-sloga...
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan
Beyond Slogans: Free Sudan The headlines are horrifying: Aid Blocked. El Fasher under siege. Ethnic cleansing. Famine. Millions displaced. Beyond slogans like Eyes on Sudan or Free Sudan, how can we a...
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How do you “come to the table” with the colonial regime that did this to you?
OpenAI, yesterday: “it was impossible to do anything about chatgpt coaching a kid to suicide, we take no legal onus” OpenAI, today: “we pressed a button and if you type anything we don’t like in chatgpt you will be auto-swatted”
Sadly the writer has died in an airstrike.
Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · last yr.If I Must Starve A poem by Nour Abdel Latif July 22, 2025 - Gaza If I must starve, let it be with dignity in my children’s eyes, not with my hands tied by silence. Let the world witness that I did not bow to the hunger but stood, even as the sky emptied and the earth closed her mouth. (1/2)
Disturbing footage: Berlin police violently assaulting peaceful protestors for Palestine, today (July 24, 2025.) Credit: Unpublished.de (found on Instagram)
ChatGPT is Versailles 2, all the rich guys are all pretending that this stuff is cool or makes them smarter and with each aberration of that lie they thus have to start saying and believing fundamentally insane things, all so that the central financial insanity can be further rationalised
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr."I’ll go down this thread with GPT or Grok and I’ll start to get to the edge of what’s known in quantum physics and then I’m doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it’s vibe physics,” said Travis Kalanick, the founder of Uber. gizmodo.com/billionaires...
Watching what I eat in a day videos while alternating between eating bread and cheese
"The day before me is fraught with god knows what horrors" 💙📚
In the UK, holding a Palestine flag can get you arrested but building a racist bonfire stacked with effigies of refugees gets you council funding and police protection
Spent all day deep cleaning the bedroom only to walk out and realise the rest of the house is still a mess 😔
Trying to explain to my gen z sister that you can just walk into a shop and buy a SIM card and she is confused