Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

This is legit insane. It requires girls from K-12 to go through genetic testing, testosterone screening, or a physical exam to participate in sports. For feminists worked up about trans athletes, this is the through line. This is where we were going to end up. It’s about control and dominance.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good framing.

During yesterday’s pouring down of buckets of rain, I had this delightful sour from Arpus. It’s one of my favorites of theirs, and its carrot juice vibe makes me feel virtuous. #beer

For example?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 5d ago

Opinion: The most powerful sword the left wields against Trump and is omission. Selective silence. Hide the positives, and the American people never hear them.

What would “first life” see in their night sky? Human beings only see the Universe now: 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang. What would the earliest life, anywhere, have seen instead? bigthink.com/starts-with-...

Ask Ethan: What would "first life" see in their night sky?

Human beings only see the Universe now: 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang. What would the earliest life, anywhere, have seen instead?

bigthink.com

The entire thread is worth reading.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 3d ago

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

Like, right out of the gate!

Wunderkammer is a favorite brewery, and beyond adoring their beers, I love this label more than is entirely reasonable. Does anyone recognize the woodcut, either as original art or something older? #beer #wunderkammerbier #vermont

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.

It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

Professor here let’s connect the dots here people. The State Department’s hilarious map of African countries with coastal and landlocked countries flipped: “An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.”

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

wapo.st

Due to the show's semi-scripted nature, one thing that is still unclear about Reflecting Pool Season 1 is whether the show's lead, Trump, received a full script or if he got an outline and then improvised. Come awards season, they'll want to properly credit the creators of the vandalism plot arc!

'Slaves and slave owners': Pope Leo XIV speaks on his genealogy in new interview www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/slaves-and-s...

'Slaves and slave owners': Pope Leo XIV speaks on his genealogy in new interview

The pontiff more fully acknowledged his family history in response to a question about his connection to the U.S. as the first American Pope.

blackcatholicmessenger.org

"Why should I major in History?"

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 7d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com

And the first weeks carry all the attendant dread.

Richard Waite@waiterich.bsky.social · 4d ago

August is the Sunday evening of summer months

August 🤝 Sneaking Up On People

In the years-long journey to find dessert options safe for my diabetic husband that I can also love, tonight has brought me to 8 oz Greek yogurt + 2T SF pudding mix. Tonight was lemon with mini unsweet chocolate chips and keto Graham crackers. It was absurdly delicious. #food #diabetic

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

can we sometimes be asking "what qualifies this guy to speak on this subject?" or has that ship sailed

I remember the day I had to run to the ICU to do a slash tracheostomy at 1 am on a COVID positive patient with multi-organ failure and airway obstruction. I remember the fear and confusion. I remember the helpers and the teamwork.

I'm pretty sure someone else shared this but don't recall who or any story behind it. Thanks to you. :)

My mom would have had to update her voter registration and prove her citizenship 8 times under the SAVE Act, counting all her moves and name changes. That's just one tiny part of Trump's project to make govt exhausting, punitive and (for him) profitable. My latest www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-m...

Trump Is Making Government Worse on Purpose

Instead of seeking to simplify and improve citizens’ lives, this administration keeps creating new obstacles and burdens.

thebulwark.com

It didn’t go rogue. It didn’t decide to be a naughty little bot. It hasn’t led us to the singularity… it’s a bunch of code that isn’t gated, governed and eval’d correctly. Full-stop. We need to stop anthromorphising this stuff or risk letting execs off the hook. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations

Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent

theguardian.com

Two things: 1) The use of the “murderous adoptee” trope, when WE’RE more likely to suffer violence at the hands of the kept, and… 2) “Disenfranchise,” which literally means take away - give - the right to vote. Give it (en) or not (dis), but don’t fuck about with BOTH.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

Not now Nazi warship!

Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop

Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.

reuters.com

'I found this a moving aspect of the exhibition - that the kinds of questions I've asked myself about my own identity and desire were being interrogated in an exhibition in a major museum in a city like New York which has an incredibly rich queer history'. 🎤 @metmuseum.org

Queering the Medieval Past

What can we learn by turning a queer lens onto the study of medieval art? Three art historians discuss Spectrum of Desire, an exhibition at New York's Cloisters.

historyworkshop.org.uk