a classic of the genre

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterday

Apologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.

Finally, a name for My People

Kev Lucky - Left of centre moderate.@lucky-lefty-nz.bsky.social · 2d ago

yeah, nah. I'm more likely to listen to Greg.

Once again for those at the back: ‘Don’t speak ill of the dead’ is about your great aunt Elsie, who liked a long gin with a short tonic at elevenses, and blew your inheritance money betting on the horses. Speaking ill of absolute monsters is a moral obligation, actually.

trans rights frankly is a top 5, potentially top 3 issue for me despite not being trans and not having any trans family being bigoted against trans folks not only hurts my trans friends and every trans person but is so predictive of further bigotry

bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.

Pornainen, Finland (pop 5,000) is now heated by a silo of crushed soapstone. I spoke to CNBC about it. 100 MWh, charged when power is cheap, emissions down ~70%. Days to weeks of storage, no critical minerals. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/25/f...

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

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Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

Ghosted After a Job Interview? Report the Company

Ghosted after a job interview? Submit an anonymous report and see which companies candidates say stopped responding after interviews.

didtheyghostyou.com

The Science comment on the supposed justification of the Trump assault on science funding in the US. “This is all bullshit”

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

I think journalists should recuse themselves from commenting on the feds coming after the NYT because their identity as journalists makes them too close to the story to be objective, sorry but that’s how fact work

Corinne Green@ket.bsky.social · 2w ago

ftr you have my permission to enjoy the failing new york times getting harassed by the feds. journos will tell you it's bad for any journos to get harassed by the feds but of course they'd say that. they can act aghast at you but they can't actually make you give a shit about nyt staff. fuck 'em.

i think this is really important point — if you take the arguments for capitalism at face value (you shouldnt but thats a whole other discussion) what we have right now is distinctly not that

Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 2w ago

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

Dang they really got a category for everything

Washington Post Stops Short of Being a Real Newspaper

King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Stops short of offering evidence"?? What fresh hell of a mealy-mouthed headline is this??

I stopped short of marrying Salma Hayek.

Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · 3w ago

England stops short of advancing to World Cup final

JK Rowling through her TERF organization, Beira's Place have sent Amnesty International a demand letter seeking a full retraction of their report, a public apology, and a bar to future criticism of gender critical groups as anti rights orgs. If they don't comply, they'll commence legal action.

News organizations should periodically stop and look in the mirror and ask themselves “Have we internalized copspeak to the point that our headlines indistinguishable from police department email subject lines?”

Gotta stay humble

Aw man, Sam Neill. Wearer of the indigenous NZ flag. Alan Grant. And also just a super nice guy who once signed autographs for a whole birthday party of little girls, and drew us each our own, unique dinosaur.

He's like "X is a cesspit of Nazis and constant threats that the site's support does nothing about but I shall never leave. However, the TRUE HORROR resides at BLUESKY!" Stephen who do you think you're fooling with these dog eggs?

Why is Stephen Pollard writing an entire Telegraph article about Bluesky? We're a complete fucking irrelevance over here. It would be like publishing a searing thinkpiece about the dangers of Mothercare or some shit. My dude, nobody gives a shit about our riz-less website. Enjoy the Nazi app tho m8.

lmao absolutely banger complaint. "i would be more popular if I weren't a twat". an all timer. get this woman a special hat or something

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · last mo.

Kate Forbes: I was 'slam dunk' for SNP leadership until revealing gay marriage views

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Fight for trans people for us all. They deserve freedom to be their beautiful selves in its own right. And it's perfectly possible for a society to accept them, many have & do, this is fascism choosing them as a target. We're all affected, policing gender comes for all of us & makes us less free.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Ever wondered what's up with Neutrinowatch, the procedural podcast @jeffemtman.com and I make together? We told @narrascope.org earlier this month, and now you can find out too! youtu.be/SHzglKMNWdI

Neutrinowatch Narrascope Talk [June 2026]

YouTube video by Neutrino Watch

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It’s really important to install an entire federal discrimination system so somebody’s cis daughter can finish 14th at her swim meet.

"Britain is broken", of course, really just means "I hate it here", which would be a very funny slogan to run on.

I’m glad someone is helping the unemployed comedians make rent. Thanks zuck

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

This is the image. It's fine to draw trans women as legibly women because we are women. It is subversive to draw trans women like this because most depictions of trans women intentionally exaggerate 'innate' masculine features with an 'artifice' of femininity, denying transition's efficacy.

This is part of why when you're an illustrator you get loads of nitpicky notes from clients, but those same clients will happily publish ai slop now. So it's shit? Doesn't matter. The AI machine does what they tell it to!

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · last mo.

can’t tell yall enough what a breakthrough it was for me to learn from this interview that most people just want to feel like they’re being obeyed they rarely follow up on whether you actually obey them