if you want or need yet another example of @lucympowell.bsky.social, burnham, and labour in general enabling the far right look no further than the repugnant reactionary cranks of our mainstream press. this is contemptuous.

Remember that even the merest suspicion of standing next to someone with a dodgy Facebook like means that the left is far too welcoming of the wrong kind of person.

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12h ago

the guy who said he wanted to chair the harvard department of eugenics and race science??? people are signing a letter in support of his right to bully black men to death in pursuit of his dream of eliminating black people entirely?? just making sure i’m reading this right!!

They think we're the marks, the suckers who will believe this crap. All these guys who signed that stupid whinging letter should be ostracized by civil society, humiliated by their social circles, shamed into disappearing.

I read race science/hereditarian work while were working on a paper that was published in 1993 that came to conclusions opposite to those of the Bell Curve, published a year later. It was striking how bad the work was, with wild leaps of logic, 1/4

The Daily Mail is alleged to have stalked a woman in Detroit, believing her to be former drummer of The White Stripes, Meg White. They published photos of her in a new deleted article. Their justification? When the reporter complimented the music of TWS she said thanks. Fix our toxic media, now.

Daily Mail accused of stalking woman mistaken as White Stripes drummer Meg White

The tabloid boasted in a now-deleted article that they found White and promised to reveal her ‘secret new life’

theguardian.com

Deffo saw a band with with these lyrics, two vocalists and a guitarist who turned his back to the audience in the early 90s...

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · yesterday

Wtf does this even mean lolol

The guy who picked on me in high school and then became an astronaut just came into KFC and I overcharged him for his chicken. Checkmate Justin, you fucking loser

“We’ve invented a drug that keeps you awake, allowing us to unlock our full potential. We’re running clinical trials and are excited to bring it to market” -Audio log in the ruined lab, only accessible after sneaking past four shamblers and navigating a flooded room full of electrified pools

The Economist@economist.com · 2d ago

Drugs based on GLP-1, a hormone released by the gut after a meal, began as treatments for diabetes before proving remarkably good at helping people shed weight. Drugmakers are now betting that different peptides could stop you feeling sleepy

Black people have many opinions but think we’re all united on the fact that white people should not be fucking saying the n-word. After that I gave up trying to argue with these people

#Caturday

Actually sad what AI has done to the world of souvenir fridge magnets, postcards, etc. It's kind of microcosmic of the whole issue: the people in charge of fridge magnets don't seem to care that fridge magnets actually matter to people who collect fridge magnets.

A thread on Jason Arday’s marathon claim which turned out to be true.

Emma Monk@monkemma.bsky.social · yesterday

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

“While I did several monologues in voiceover claiming that sea lions have a quiet majesty, they are actually just stinky, slippery wet dogs with fins that are mediocre at best” — David Attenborough

David Attenborough Admits To Exaggerating Wonder Of Seals

LONDON—Acknowledging that the sea mammals were far from being “awe-inspiring, beautiful creatures or a splendor of nature,” an embarrassed David Attenborough finally admitted this week to exaggerating...

theonion.com

Again: the reason this guy walks into the Times and Telegraph and gets an uncritical hearing, with his work being deployed to kick the shit out of a black guy at Cambridge, is that *this is what the people at those papers think too*.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

Cofnas here opining that lady professors’ lady parts and lady feelings mean that we can’t actually do the work as well as our strong manly straight men colleagues; we must instead resort to manipulation and emotions

There is the real story here, eugenics and pseudoscience, but the vultures in the media, who put Black people on trial and are yet to hold the white men responsible for destroying the planet and society accountable, stay silent. Those vultures now blame Muslims for water shortages ffs…

@arleneadamo.bsky.social · 2d ago

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If there's nothing to be done about this newspaper through legal means then what is the public left with here? What is our protection from these monstrous creatures?

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Prince Harry and six others ordered to pay Daily Mail publisher £9.5m

The next thing I hear from this cunt best be 'How I became a victim of getting beaten with lead pipes'...

Hard to say you were "smeared as a racist" when you're out there saying Black people are inherently inferior under your own government name, even before we get to the whole "whipping up a digital lynch mob" thing

The venn of people getting angry that Polanski is pointing out £350k worth of bungs versus the circle of people who were once *seriously concerned* about canal boat tax status is just a circle.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d ago

Different lead singer. Same band.

A classic in the: going to parties/the pub/playing board games/etc. is rubbish genre... Is everyone else wrong or are you an insufferable prick with no mates who can't have a good time with a social activity and a crate full of beers?

Gordo!@posting.fan · 2d ago

Remember when nobody went to Toby Youngs stag do and he wrote a big column about it lmao

It’s wild that the IDF just straight up murdered some British ex-marines for no real reason except to demonstrate they can and will kill *anyone*, and maybe also as a big fuck you to Barack Obama personally, a patron of the charity. And it wasn’t even an issue, glossed over within one day.

Am I shocked that the programme seemingly specifically designed to attack neurodivergent individuals and diminish our support needs twisted evidence to attack us and diminish support needs? Uhm...no. Not even remotely. It fits a pattern in coverage seen right now. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

‘Biased’ Channel 4 programme on ADHD misrepresented my views, says expert

Prof Katya Dubia withdraws support for The Great ADHD Myth? as other leading figures voice criticisms

theguardian.com

If much of the methane trapped beneath permafrost gets released into the atmosphere then this summer's heat waves will look like a very minor early stage of chaos. Humanity is taking huge risks in order to line the pockets of fossil fuel companies. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The threatening thaw: climate professor on heatwave risks to tipping point of permafrost

Prof Gustaf Hugelius warns wildfires could accelerate release of methane and carbon as vast regions approach irreversible thresholds

theguardian.com

Common Quaker W right here...

Ruth Pearce@notrightruth.bsky.social · 2d ago

UK Quakers commit to continued, explicit trans inclusion. "...toilet facilities labelled with a 'female' sign remain available to cisgender women, trans women, and others for whom those facilities best align with their lived experience."

It is so interesting to see how the British press covers actual, legitimate nazis compared to, say, left wing students, or Boris Johnson's neighbours, or people sat on the floor of an A&E because there are no beds.

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · last wk.

Nobody comes out of this looking good but it was particularly disgusting to watch media outlets like the (London) Times launder Cofnas as a scholar critical of the excesses of DEI rather than a notorious eugenicist

#unboxing the new football shirts!!! Sizes Small to XL only 20 available to hit me up I’ll put them on Bandcamp merch page next week too. #timholehouse #footballshirts #beexcellenttoeachother

It is quite intriguing how these people were bellowing with righteous fury at the left that we were unacceptable racists, primarily for made up crimes and for hurting their feelings about their pet ethnostate, but through this they've boiled their brains to this point.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d ago

As I keep saying: there is a class of people who have absolutely radicalised themselves to very extreme political positions, completely taken leave of their senses. And we know about this because they write about it for a living, they can’t wait to tell us all about their new epiphanies.

Wait a damn minute. The things Arday did, like the marathons, had been previously covered, with first hand primary sources, by English news orgs, contemporaneously?!?! And yet the Telegraph and others just kept repeating that he'd lied about them, despite tons of documentation they happened?! 🤬🤬🤬

Jason Arday's marathon challenge and football claims found to be true after his death

Claims the late academic made which were widely derided as false in media and online discourse this month appear to be true, an MEE analysis has found

middleeasteye.net

Nanopticon

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · 3d ago

My granny has discovered that, somehow, her TV has access to the cctv feeds around the outside of her building and is loving life.

Not a single damn person feels this way, Sam. Spend a day on a short order cook line. Try a 14 hour nursing night shift. Spend a summer in a plant or warehouse without A/C. We’re tired man, all we do is work.