Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

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Due to popular request... the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 2.0 (Kiwi edition)

May May the Nard@maymaythenard.bsky.social · yesterday

Please please please.. we need the Kiwi

It's a baked-in assumption that the person being confronted *will* be trans, and that they will immediately comply, even though there is no means of enforcement whatsoever. What if the person is cis? What if they're trans and just lie? This situation genuinely appears to be beyond their imagination.

There a million things wrong with the EHRC guidance, as you all know, but for me the weirdest thing about it all is that its authors don't even seem to be aware of the possibility that someone asked to leave a "single sex" facility might refuse.

The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.

amazing how so few of the gazillion think pieces criticizing women for not dating straight men fail to mention the whole “many of them literally don’t wash their asses” thing:

Nikolaj Bill@nikolajbill.bsky.social · 15h ago

I remember a coworker in her late twenties saying this on how dating was so difficult. I was not surprised by her first two complaints: general anger issues and having few outside hobbies. I WAS surprised at her mention of how many men apparently don’t wash their hair or butts.

Elon Musk said lots of antisemitic things and shared lots of antisemitic posts written by antisemites and then sprinkled on some sugar with two nazi salutes on telly and Jonathan Greenblatt said "no he's alright, he isn't one" and now has spent over a year painting Zohran Mamdani as Hitler Part II.

I do wonder if The Media Class of this country have been on the mercury cocaine. Their brains must be as hard and crumbly as Edinburgh rock. Imagine writing that paragraph and thinking *Séamas* is the bad guy.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 9h ago

Now, I *am* a nobody but @seamas.bsky.social is a bestseller so surely Joanna is just showing herself up here.

when it comes to the Kessler Syndrome stuff i always found this further theory really curious en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler...

Kessler syndrome - Wikipedia

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Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 8h ago

Two words. Kessler Syndrome.

I am not that old. In the early years of my career before i comprehensively put my foot down i would regularly find books in my work mailbox with notes from male colleagues instructing me to copy this chapter or that for them

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 18h ago

Because admin staff were mostly women, female academics were considered equivalent. There to perform service, not to undertake intellectual work. Of course it was more complex than this, but that's the broad picture. #AcademicSky

I am using the goodweeplace.com scripts & have them printed off

Slurms MacKenzie@slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 10h ago

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

British media trying to pull a Charlie Kirk over a dead racist pedophile wife-beater is just more proof that ruthlessly and brutally denazifying British news media is going to be important.

She had lots and lots of help: $60M in outside spending plus the endorsement of pretty much every Democrat in Michigan. All of that help, and she still lost, yet we're constantly force-fed the lie that "she's the most electable candidate." The results say otherwise.

small, single corridor shopping centre in Stevenage Old Town. Called the 'Magnet centre' after the family that owned the land. odd nik-nak and dress shops... ...and in the mid-90s briefly, hidden at the back, the town's first comic shop. we discovered it as teens. it was like finding heaven /1

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 13h ago

tell me about your town’s weird mall

Screw it, gonna check another SOMEHOW NEVER SAW IT off the list tonight. Now watching:

Daily bunny no.3401 is ready to harvest

The specific brainworms that make liberals think this is cute or fair or clever or whatever other quality they think this kind of handing power to people who want them dead represents need to be fumigated

Walker Bragman@walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h ago

And this is why people hate the Dem establishment. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

I hope they don't call it IMMEDIATELY so we can enjoy at least an hour of posts like these.

VoteHub@votehub.com · 16h ago

Michigan U.S. Senate Democratic Primary Kent County Absentee: 🟣 Abdul El-Sayed – 4,106 (55.4%) 🟠 Haley Stevens – 2,895 (39.1%)

Oh goddamn.

Gov. Bob Ferguson@governorferguson.bsky.social · 12h ago

It's heartbreaking to think that much of the damage from the fires in Spokane could've been caused by an individual doing this on purpose. I appreciate the hard work of law enforcement to make this arrest.

"Midgley later took a leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning"

"On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for sixty seconds, declaring that he could do this every day"

"However, within the first two months of its operation, the new plant was plagued by more cases of lead poisoning, hallucinations, insanity, and five deaths." By 1925 leaded gasoline was already literally killing the people who made it, including the guy who invented it

Fun fact: the guy who invented leaded gasoline was Thomas Midgely Junior, in 1921. He *also* invented CFC's By 1923 he had symptoms of lead poisoning, by 1924 several factory employees has already died of lead poisoning. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_....

Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia

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Had fluorine chemistry been just a tiny bit less hellishly difficult, had it been just a little bit less likely to blow you up when playing with it, the world would be very very different. Inhospitable to human life by now, different.

So. Imagine if humanity had started using CFC's closer to 1812. A century before even knowing the ozone layer existed. And like 70 years before being able to actually monitor it. Imagine what *173* years of CFC's would have done.

It took until 1985 in our world to discover that the ozone layer was being depleted, 72 years after discovering the ozone layer in the first place. Which was only about *50 years* after Thomas Midgley's other big invention (the other was leaded gasoline).

In that world, humanity gleefully releases massive quantities of CFC's, with zero regulation or care, a century before the Ozone Layer is even discovered, in 1913 by Fabry and Buissan.

In that world, where humanity isolates fluorine in like 1812, CFC's could have definitely been created and used commercially *during the 19th century*. The 19th century, where people famously gave a fuck about pollution.

Fun fact: humanity could very easily have figured out a way to do fluorine chemistry without blowing yourself up, much earlier. Moissan isolated elemental fluorine in 1886, this could have happened almost a century earlier had chemists been better at not blowing themselves up trying it.

joker: how about a magic trick? i’m gonna make this pencil disappear (pencil falls over and joker slams the guys head into the table) joker: hold on let me set up the pencil again you jiggled the table