Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
any time benefits require paperwork, or even a level of functioning that can accommodate filling out a simple form, people will slip through the cracks. their kids will slip through the cracks. I don't give a shit how easy that single form is. requiring it = kids starving
people online:"the founding fathers were evil because of slave-" Actual Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s: KILL GEORGE WASHINGTON
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
Grant Naylor: In my tv series I invented the Talkie Toaster as a cautionary tale. Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Talkie Toaster from classic sci-fi TV episode Don't Create The Talkie Toaster.
guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.
Hey Mike, you know that feeling of not belonging? Of being treated like an outsider? That's how non-Christians feel when politicians like you push Christian nationalism. America belongs to all of us equally, and our government should act like it.
The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures
It is all a social construct. There is nothing stopping us from remaking/rebuilding/reshaping anything we want as we want it to be. "It's always been like that" is a poison statement.
🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️🌈@nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 2mo agoSemiotic anthropologist here w/alt-text! As I tell students & everyone who will listen: One of the great lessons of anthropology is that we built this. All of it. And we choose throughout our days how we will continue or change the world we have built. We can & must build differently.
Huge operations of Tuaregs FLA and Al-Qaeda affiliated JNIM are ongoing in Mali since early morning today, with several positions in Kidal region overrun, Reuters reports of an attack on Mali military base near the capital Bamako. It seems Tuaregs are back inside Kidal. #Mali
I know Iranian illegitimate regime has a lot of fans here due to the fact that it was Trump who attacked it, but attacks like these are simply unprovoked aggression against civilian shipping of uninvolved countries and Iranian regime shouldn't be allowed to do it.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 4mo agoThree attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz, Axios reports. Two were Indian tankers, including one carrying 2 million barrels of Iraqi oil.
stop sharing the slop, everybody. you'd find lego IRGC a lot less funny if you actually knew anybody who had been killed at the hands of the IRGC in Syria.
"Ironically enough, Crimea held a referendum to join Russia."
1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis. You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me. An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life. unherd.com/2026/04/why-...
Why I went to Moscow
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oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...
On another note, just imagine travelling back in time to 2012 and showing this to your average Washington analyst alongside pictures of that Jewish-Ukrainian comedian and the leader of the Syrian Al Qaeda splinter group negotiating arms and trade deals in Damascus
Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4mo agoIt's a 50/50 coin flip as to whether it is TACO Tuesday or whether Trump is now so high on his own echo chamber supply after the rescue op that he goes for the next escalation
Still laughing at this. It’s perfect
Mons@dennismons.bsky.social · 4mo agoSir, a second bird is at the feeder
they let food that already got purchased sit in warehouses to rot instead of go to Africa
Carly Goodman@carlygoodman.bsky.social · 4mo agoExtremely evil/cursed take from the WaPo this morning
TIL: Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from The Great Famine of 1845-52.
ELBRIDGE COLBY, waking up in the Emperor Palpatine Medical center, wheezing: "where... is the pivot to asia. is she... safe? is she alright?"
Women can't report being raped in Dubai because they face legal consequences for being victims.
PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell? COLBY: Defer to you R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war' C: Defer to you R: That was actually you
