impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

INFOWARS @infowars Lies! Lies! Lies! The Epic Lies And False Reality That The Onion Lives In!

"The Onion lives in a false reality"

Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

buttondown.com/charliejane/...

"SNP contains coarse and uncouth vilgarians who think that drag-time with Drew Paul should replace school libraries" Kevin McKenna, Herald

Does... Does Kevin think he's deadnaming RuPaul here

PERPETUAL SPINACH

Whenever Popeye needs help, he just prays to Our Lady of

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Cover of "Progressive railroading ... the executive viewpoint" from March-April 1969. A text box reads "Equipment, the key to modern engineering practices," and the cover features an image of a shirtless man, his back towards the camera, surveying track work in the distance.

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.

Why did BBC Breakfast give Reform UK a special graphic? A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

NEW | On an odd choice…

WHY DID BBC BREAKFAST GIVE REFORM UK A SPECIAL GRAPHIC?

A small detail in a brief report sparks some big questions about what the national broadcaster is doing during the run up to local and national elections.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/why-did-bb...

Research and Investigations Officer Transparency International (UK) are looking for a Research and Investigations Officer.You will be responsible for producing new knowledge, insights and high-quality written material, at pace, to suppo...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨
@transparencyuk.bsky.social are recruiting a Research and Investigations Officer to support our work on corruption in the UK.

Wanna campaign to take big💰out of politics, ⬆️transparency over lobbying🤝, and raise standards in public life😇?

Apply here👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/w5otgo...

another thing which irks me about the Cis People Taking Hormones columns is trans folk have long said "maybe a lot of folk would be happier with a slightly different hormonal setup to what their body produces"

Phones to be banned in schools by law in England under government plans Education minister Jacqui Smith said the move would create

I suspect the government is going to get another crash course in the law of unintended consequences when pushing through overly restrictive knee-jerk policies without properly considering implications, especially, but not limited to, students with higher support needs.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

An owl lands at the shallow pond, off balance, one foot up, long wings akimbo! A moth happens to be at the tip of one wing like a little starburst.

Love everything about this #cameratrap shot at our shallow pond, of a great-horned #owl: wingspan, off-balance stance, moth, eye glow.

The new logo for Infowars has been revealed.

The Onion has successfully landed a deal to take over Alex Jones' site after 17 months of legal issues.

Tim Heidecker will serve as the site's creative director.

Rare sighting of a column chart taking a dip at Hove Beach.

#dataviz

In Article About Horrific Shooting That Killed Eight Children, Forbes Lets Readers Place Bets About Gun Control In a story about a mass shooting that left eight children dead, Forbes is encouraging readers to bet on the news with fake money.

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.

Eight children were murdered in the shooting.

futurism.com/future-socie...

I've been rewatching old DVDs of Drop the Dead Donkey lately, the 90s sitcom set in a news room with topical jokes that were written just before recording (which happened the same week that Channel 4 aired it) and they started making Mandelson jokes about this stuff in *1998*.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.

"Your Account is Suspended" Message on X

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X.

I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!).

So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

UK HE shrinking a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

UKHE is in such a state that Cambridge has now made it onto the list, with dozens of redundancies already apparently. Still, not to worry, only in that merely ornamental discipline of, er, epidemiology. So many lessons learned - and already forgotten - about pandemic preparedness, I guess...

spiked @spikedonline • 3h What could be more sterile than an activist-approved re-education programme? Graham Linehan @Glinner Also, the idea that we need less shame around sex is so outdated as to be almost comical. All current forecasts predict we need about 60% more shame before the species goons itself out of existence

breaking: man who stated in a public court that he's an expert on 'sissy porn' says we're in danger of gooning ourselves out of existence.

university is SUPPOSED to challenge your beliefs! unless of course your belief is that trans people are awful, in which case awwww poor ickle baby, did the nasty mean people exist near you, awwwww poor baby, here let me give you a book deal and a podcast so you can tell us how scared you were

got a text about drinking more liquids and eating more before my blood donation session this afternoon and my "NOW I DON'T WANT TO" reflex has kicked in

I’m already shocked and offended every day at university. Shocked by the poor pay and offended by the poor working conditions. 🤪

Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

🧵 I was given a pile of recent @privateeyenews.bsky.social back numbers. Just flicking thru one, as getting sorted for medical tests. Not one, but two transphobic articles in the mag, one claiming Cass as ‘balanced’. That would be the Cass that reported that being trans was contagious!* [1]

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

i'd also call your attention to how the guardian - ***nominally a liberal newspaper*** - frames this:

stonewall is struggling because it was 'uncompromising' on trans rights

not because the national media, guardian included, decided to hound a minority from public life

The replies to this are mostly great writers doing “I don’t know how how good writers do it but I, a bad writer, just work until it’s done and then fix it” and that should tell you everything you need to know about writers as a species.