Everyone's done the obvious dunks, but from my perspective, as someone who uses reference photos and who also uses a lot of art for running TTRPGs, AI disappearing tomorrow would be like a headache I had become grimly acclimated to suddenly lifting.

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 20h ago

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I cannot believe how embarrassing our species is. We’ve got everything we need to make life here incredible for everyone, and instead we’ve let one creepy, sweaty, barely-human wax figurine hoard all the wealth and lazily bash his useless, phallic litter into the moon.

bleak as hell with ian miles cheong is the only voice of reason there & it’s nowhere near a full moon

*certainly* no expectation that Christian candidates do so, despite their being the most dangerous demographic of all

Right so as expected this is mostly all just "Will Stancil (and many of his supportive commenters, to be fair) fundamentally do not understand what 'poverty' means"

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6h ago

There may be a handful of exceptions to this - predominantly at the extreme low end of the spectrum. If you pay $3 for a jacket on SHEIN it may be made of literal paper and you should have bought it for $20 at Old Navy. But overwhelmingly it’s simply not an accurate description of reality.

"groups that campaign for sex-based rights welcome the clarity it brings." ... And then goes on to explain that it's not that clear, in practice.

Sarah from the Leftist Cooks@saribo.bsky.social · 5h ago

Unworkable. Cruel. Discriminatory. So many people are going to be hurt because of this law. If you want your blood to boil more, read through this article. It is absolutely biased nonsense.

The youth claim to hate capitalism yet they purchase goods and services in order to survive ahaha and I am very Fortune Magazine

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

yaknow I have zero problems that a random £50,000 windfall couldn't solve well maybe like three problems, but that's way better than before

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 · 11h ago

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

That's what I'm looking for in a cheese

Trans men can't use a urinal, he says. I mean, he is trying but holy smokes he's so uninformed, even after all this time. They all are.

wild way to frame one of the most aggressively anti-trans bathroom bans in the developed world

Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 10h ago

Our code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Cis woman on now speaking about how much she has been challenged, had security called on her because she has PCOS. Says she's never had a problem with trans women but multiple problems with GC women. She's on the verge of tears.

Yet another story framed around Trump’s supposed anger rather than his incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

An Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant Leaders

Iran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump.

nytimes.com

When Trump wins by 2% it's the unanimous Mandate of Heaven for the next 1,000 Year Reich, but when one dude in a Dem primary can't get shooed offstage despite being outspent by a factor of 8.75 fair and square, suddenly it's "divisive?" OK!1!!!1!

Nothing drives growth like letting people hit their spouses

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 21h ago

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

I know I keep saying this but I'm a summer where the country is LITERALLY ON FIRE cutting back environmental criteria on stuff is ABSOLUTE MADNESS.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 21h ago

Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands like tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets, will be scrapped from new social value model Haigh & John Healey will also direct Cabinet to “maximise the use of public procurement... to deliver innovation & growth in every postcode”

Interesting framing in that headline. I'd say it's traffic that "closes down" streets. Children playing is a sign of a street that's *open*—safe, welcoming and community-orientated.

Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 13h ago

“As Aydin jumps a scooter over ramps set up in the middle of the road, children around him are drawing with chalk, blowing bubbles and kicking a football in a spot where cars are usually driving through.” Good job Leeds. More children should have the chance to play in their neighbourhood like this.

The total amount a UK political party can spend in a General election year across 650 candidates is half that - and this was a single candidate in a single primary.

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 12h ago

No matter the margin the story is that Haley Stevens got $70M of support, more than $30M of it from a single organization, and still lost.

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no lies detected

Weird how the dogshit austerity fiscal rules are a red line but things like environmental protection and stopping domestic violence aren't

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 21h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

It's just so absurd to demand the public judge the public life of a public figure based on how nice they were personally to you

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21h ago

It’s all going well over on Substack notes…

Sadly it is the case that this has been internalized to such an extent that there are otherwise normal people who will look at an online space and wonder what's wrong with it if they aren't seeing people openly discussing 1920s race science right away

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

I just can't stress enough that this isn't a real thing. What it actually means is *the absence* of some mechanism that artificially normalizes right-wing thought to give it *the appearance* of being on an even footing with what actual normal people think and talk about.

Whether someone realizes it or not, accepting the "liberal bubble" framing at all is a way of granting the utterly absurd notion that the globally reviled and increasingly unpopular views of the reactionary right are the norm

Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 2d ago

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