Guess which ubiquitous Canadian doughnut chain I'm boycotting until their current branded promotion is over

EM and his band of merry wreckers are going to hate this. People like them want to push a narrative that development aid is pointless and a waste of money, and much of this data is likely to prove them wrong.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 4d ago

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

UK: trans women to be housed in male prisons. Also UK: cis men to be housed in female prisons. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Male criminals to be kept in female jails under Burnham's prison overcrowding plan

The Prime Minister stressed that some criminals will have to be let out of jail early to prevent the ‘prison system collapsing’

standard.co.uk

I never liked him as a doctor. And now I don't like him in anything. Screw him.

CW: HP, JKR Amazing that Potterheads are going all-out to honour a fictional house-elf whose entire story arc revolves around overcoming his societally assumed slave-essence - while its author pours all her social and financial capital into establishing and enforcing essentialist views in real life

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

Harry Potter fans force power link diversion to avoid Dobby's grave

Private equity is price gouging firefighters now. Yes, you read that right. Firefighters. Is this the most evil thing they've done yet?

Yesterday was International Cat Day. Do you know what day today is? International Cat Day! And tomorrow? International Cat Day! And the day after that? International Cat Day! ... (Source: Our cat.)

Fuck these fucking fucks

Remember kids: the early bird gets the worm, so don't be an early worm.

"When I compare notes with other CIOs, the details change but the ending rarely does. Each tried tools that dazzled in the demo and stalled the moment they hit the mess of a real, decades-old business."

Opinion | I Helped Run Lululemon. Companies Need to Stop Kidding Themselves About A.I.

The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.

nytimes.com

Here's my full story on the blue bunny saga. Messages date back to 2025. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Rep. Max Miller has a history of withholding his daughter's blue bunny

And we have the screenshots of emails and texts to prove it.

motherjones.com

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

Once again @countbinface.bsky.social manages to make me feel more patriotic and proud to be British than 20 years of right wing whining and flag shagging ever managed.

Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 2w ago

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

"Help me he's bleeding out!" "I understand. Thank you so much for telling me this with such clarity. I appreciate you trying to help your friend. Would you like to know more about the white genocide in South Africa?"

Is it good when the secretary of defense is so fixated on making sure everyone is white and has tv ready abs that he forgets about munitions bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2w ago

Oof. @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Just learned how ebooks are more expensive for libraries than paper books from @techwontsave.us latest. It’s some wild shit going on.

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2w ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

metro.co.uk/2026/08/05/i...

I'm 76 and transgender – life is harder for trans kids today than it was for me

I can firmly say that the state the trans community currently finds ourselves in is the most alarming in my lifetime.

metro.co.uk

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 · 2w 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.

Content warning: absolutely gross.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w 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.

I see that Sandie Peggie has been given leave to appeal her employment tribunal ruling in NHS Fife & Dr Beth Upton because of course she has. That’s just how things are in the UK, when a terf is unhappy then unlimited appearances in Court are allowed until they get the result they wanted all along!

"Liberal bubble" has only ever meant anywhere where right wing perspectives aren't artificially elevated and forced into everyone's feeds.

yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/how-... Please do share the living crap out of this.

How misinformation and intimidation took down HRT café

HRT Café shared gender-affirming care info until Do No Harm shut it down; FDA records show no investigation took place

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

WNBA (the org) courted this. They could have nipped this in the bud, but instead they placated anti-trans activists, so now bigots have glomed onto them. If you don't tell them their opinions are vile and are unwelcome, they will destroy you or leech on you forever. just ask amnesty international

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2w ago

riley gaines is at the minnesota lynx vs indiana fever game posing with people courtside as they line up for photos

My computer just woke me up to tell me it's hungry. I'm not kidding 😂 During a long-running task, it noticed the battery was draining, set the volume to 100% using Computer Use, then opened Google Translate and hit "Listen" so I could hear it asking. Pardon my French, but what the fuck? 🤯

I'm not a gamer and don't usually follow gaming news, but this looks bad to the point of legendary

Rock Paper Shotgun@rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 2w ago

EA expect their $55 billion sale to Saudi Arabia and private equity firms to close next week, with "all regulatory approvals required" in place. https://bit.ly/4pLSNnD

Amnesty are about to learn the hard way that apologising to JKR and her TERF minions doesn't end their vendetta against you, only emboldens them to ramp it up.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Amnesty International has now issued a public groveling apology to JK Rowling's organization and has pulled her another report documenting the anti rights platform of gender critical organizations. www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...

the crime is fundamentally a woman criticising a man. you can tell because of all the people who think she has some sort of obligation to fluff him because...they both worked on the same topic??? and she didn't agree he was great???

Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 3w ago

For the record, this Emily Wilson Odyssey review furor is ridiculous, and largely fueled by algorithms designed to work us up over practically nothing. She wrote a very interesting review from her perspective and I personally enjoyed it. Now, it feels like people want her arrested for a crime.

WNBA suspends Seattle Storm minority owner for being rude to transphobic shitheads:

WNBA Suspends Seattle Storm Minority Owner For Being Rude To Transphobic Shitheads | Defector

On Tuesday night, a small group of weirdos held an anti-trans rally outside of the Seattle Storm’s home arena. The occasion for their gathering was a game against the Indiana Fever and bench player…

defector.com

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com