When I first saw this, I thought "wtf?! is that a picture of someone standing next to a hanging body?!" And then after squinting at my phone for a bit, I opened the image on my laptop. It looks like a person holding a pair of shoes and absolutely nothing else.

Caroleeena@caroleeena.bsky.social · yesterday

As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!

"in the knowledge attacks would also kill their families" is putting it very mildly. The program was named "Where's Daddy", in reference to the children it would kill.

Peter Jeffe@pjeffe.bsky.social · last wk.

"The interviewees detail the secret methods used by the Israeli military in Gaza, including AI-based systems built to identify large numbers of potential low-ranking Hamas targets, who were then bombed in their homes at night, in the knowledge attacks would also kill their families."

I think I might literally go insane. All the coverage of this is like "Will this actually happen? Here's how much it would cost! How could the payments impact the economy?" THE PRESIDENT IS TRYING TO USE THE GOVERNMENT TO BUY THE ELECTION FOR HIS PARTY. WHY ARE YOU ACTING LIKE THIS IS NORMAL.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last wk.

President Trump pledged at the Republican midterm convention on Wednesday to give every American adult $5,000 if his party keeps control of Congress in November. Here's what to know.

Can someone explain to me why @sfiscience.bsky.social has this guy as a trustee?

One irony with Clancy trial is that you see this "women are too emotional" thing a lot from conservatives but it's not like they're producing logical arguments against the very obvious proposition that mental illness reduces responsibility. They just get incredibly mad that people believe it.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2w ago

girl,

Can someone explain to me why @sfiscience.bsky.social has this guy as a trustee?

"Fact X carries the clear implication of Y. This is false and potentially libelous based on the mere fact of X." Truly amazing stuff.

William Gillis 🏴@rechelon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Beyond cheering SLAPP lawsuits, Toby Young directly legally threatened my anarchist collective to try to make us to take down a post exposing a racist 1) The british have no idea what free speech is, 2) little tory dipshits are totally unprepared for responses like "meet me in a dennys parking lot"

yeah gotta get off 1Password, sorry

andy™@andylevy.net · 2w ago

ah yes once again the racists are the real victims

More from the author of this "left-wing case".

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

If the left wants to maintain an authentic commitment to human rights, “it must oppose the movement that seeks the elimination of Israel and the purging from civil society of those marked as Zionists,” Adam Louis-Klein argues.

"and mass immigration"

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3w ago

Don’t lose track of what else is going on while Trump draws headlines with clownish efforts at cartography.

Please have some sympathy for Yiannopoulos. Think how terrified he must be, being sent to a place where the murder rate is 80% lower.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w ago

BREAKING: Far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported to the United Kingdom, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

Literally no one actually believes in this position. So I'm not sure why people always claim to. I guess it gives them some little thrill of superiority?

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Riding the bus in London these days.

Aunty Donna: Mark and Zach in the Kiln

Alt: Aunty Donna: Mark and Zach in the Kiln

static.klipy.com

Benjamin Ryan might not be exhibit #1 for transphobia rotting your brain and soul, but he's probably up there.

The thing about people who say they believe due process is the only way to determine guilt and the truth of accusations is that, no, they do not believe that.

Balu Puppy@balupuppy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Omfg

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

Gluesenkamp Perez: "At town halls, what I saw was the people who were the most upset had spent the last 12 years driving their girls to sports practice & they view their best shot of their student going to college as an athletic scholarship. So when we rush to moralize we miss some of the nuance."

Wait, so not only do they not have AC in France but also right now it's basically impossible to buy a fan? Neat.

"Look how terrible the DSA is: I'm imagining them doing something bad."

Rachel Hallie@dazedrachel.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tbh this cycle reveals that you can take literally 0 AIPAC money and still become the "AIPAC candidate" if your opponent screams it enough, especially if you're Jewish. The moment the DSA tires of Lander and want him replaced with one of them, yes, he will get branded as the AIPAC candidate.

"I’m saying that the new normal, where a popular consensus forms that we should all feel a certain way (e.g., that I should be fired), and then my coworkers reason backwards to dozens of rationales for that consensus, is mysterious and alarming."

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I don’t care about people’s personal critiques of Starmer. I’m saying that the new normal, where a popular consensus forms that we should all feel a certain way (almost always anger or resentment), and then we reason backwards to dozens of rationales for that consensus, is mysterious and alarming.

Making myself very popular by doing a bunch of stuff that the people who like me hate and that the people who hate me like. No way this can fail.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last yr.

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...

UK warns gay travellers about US anti-LGBT laws

The UK government warns LGBT travellers to be careful in the US due to laws affecting LGBT people in North Carolina and Mississippi.

bbc.co.uk

Mark Grimshaw@markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social on somehow making Theresa May’s Conservative Party the most socially progressive government of the last decade, I suppose. Really impressive to be that fucking ghoulish a person.

Truly appalled by taunting of Europeans. No comment on Palestinians being raped to death.

UK foreign minister evades question on sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli prisons

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

youtube.com

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Translation: the UK will do absolutely nothing

A lot of the difference in media coverage between Farage and Polanski is due to the media's owners thinking Farage will lower their taxes and Polanski will raise them. But it's also due to the fact that it's normal to be impossibly cruel and deeply corrupt but weird to be a hypotherapist.

Feel like I'm on crazy pills reading Gelman saying it's important to have "an air of moral seriousness" then decrying cynicism. Call me crazy but I think what's important is *actual moral seriousness* and prominent people who lack it but put on an air of moral seriousness is a driver of cynicism.

Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The continued extension of the benefit of the doubt to Jay Bhattacharya presents a real risk to science and the NIH. This piece by Andrew Gelman (@statmodeling.bsky.social) describes Bhattacharya as having “an air of moral seriousness” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/28/w...

Man, people really should have stopped comparing this guy to Hitler...

People love to confuse the statements "person X was motivated by Y" with "Y justifies person X's actions" when they find it convenient to do so.

Parachute and hot air balloon among several options being considered by man who has just jumped out of airplane.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 7mo ago

President Trump is open to supporting groups in Iran willing to take up arms to dislodge the regime, U.S. officials said, as he continues to mull several options publicly and privately about who should succeed the country’s fallen leader.

will never stop being incredible to me that the son of a lawyer (and grandson of an architect) who went to hotchkiss (hotchkiss!) gets graded on a curve cause he’s “working class”

New York Times Opinion@nytopinion.nytimes.com · 7mo ago

President Trump's approach to Iran is reckless, the editorial board writes. "He started this war without explaining to the American people and the world why he was doing so. Nor has he involved Congress, which the Constitution grants the sole power to declare war." nyti.ms/4rLzhbh