Autistic woman works out who all the characters are just in time for season finale An autistic woman has finally worked out who all the characters in a new TV show are, just in time for the season to reach its conclusion, sources have claimed.  Miya Wilkes, 30, who spent the first…

Miya Wilkes, 30, who spent the first five episodes of a generic courtroom drama trying to remember which toothy, brown-haired white dude was which, eventually memorised the cast of characters just in the nick of time.

Someone should ask JD Vance: “You warned the Pope to be more careful when speaking about theology. Do you have any criticism for Hegseth who recited a made up Bible quote from the movie Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon prayer service? And why is Hegseth leading prayer services at DOD anyway?”

If they keep bringing up just war theory with no pushback I'm gonna twist my own head off. The iran war violates EVERY principle of just war theory! It checks every single fucking box of what NOT to do!

have we considered the possibility that the openly smash-and-grab long-term-consequences-be-damned mentality of the ruling class lately is because their advisors with good data have reason to believe long-term is such a different world they may as well go for it while society as we know it functions

‘It’s too expensive now’: Calls for domestic fuel tax relief as Europe, Australia act Will Hueyen says normally, $50 is enough to fill the tank of his compact car. But as he fuelled up at a downtown Toronto gas station Monday afternoon, he said it now costs more than that and it hurts.

The article starts with someone who's planning to buy electric because gas prices are high.
So of course there are calls to lower gas taxes. The next steps? Get rid of them although. Then subsidize gas.
People can never be allowed to experience the true cost of our society's fossil fuel dependence.

How to ensure that sick kids show up to school so everyone else can be infected too.

An elderly woman doing McDonald's Doordash to Trump, admitting she voted for him and being grateful for the "no tax on tips" because she can't afford cancer treatment for her husband. This whole scenario perfectly encapsulates MAGA and the decline of America.

Mark Carney is giving $925 million in tax breaks to the AI industry

It is the Iran war that has most vividly demonstrated the scope of the problem. In this conflict, the most potent antagonist has been the administration’s own incoherence. The Trump administration chose to wage a war without deciding on its aims, mapping out a strategy, planning for contingencies or even being able to explain itself. The goal was regime change — until it wasn’t. The demand was unconditional surrender — until it wasn’t. Deadlines were issued and then erased. Threats of total destruction were made and then pulled back. Iran’s nuclear program was a casus belli in February, despite the fact that we were told by Mr. Trump that it was “obliterated” last June. The president called for an international coalition to open the Strait of Hormuz, then said the United States could go it alone, then said the waterway would somehow “open itself.” He claimed that the United States had already won the war, that the war would end soon and that the war would end “when I feel it, feel it in my bones.” As a headline in The Times put it, the president’s position on Iran “can change by the sentence.”

I increasingly suspect this Iran shit is not going to be fixed ever so long as Trump is in the chair. the man is simply not capable of behaving in a consistent fashion

I assume people on bluesky have mostly heard this story or at least know star trek has always been about this but since I couldn't find it properly captioned and alt texted here's one of the succinct examples of it

Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"

The emerging cases of AI psychosis have shown that all it takes to drive some people completely insane is to put them in contact with a sycophantic chatbot who always agrees with them.

Now, what does that tell us about billionaire CEOs surrounded by sycophantic people who always agree with them?

A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois

Brutal.

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

relatedly, all those "this is nothing like the Nazis, they haven't committed genocide" objections we've been hearing for years miss the rather important point that the purpose of identifying Nazi-type behavior is *stopping it before it gets that far this time.*

"What can Democrats do?"

When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him.

So, you know, that.

You must use friendship.

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

There are a fair number of people who could stop this right now who aren’t even in congress or the cabinet, like there are other ways of stopping this extremely decisively extremely fast, and the fact that no one seems to be even trying is making me feel insane

It’s Time To Grow Up | Defector HBO’s new Harry Potter TV series is premiering this Christmas Day. Under current plans, it will last at least a decade. The trailer looks like the original films were run through an AI generator, but quality isn’t the point. The show is a transparent attempt to induct a new generation—and market—into the lucrative fantasy world…

"Rowling has fashioned herself into a very powerful enemy of transness. Her intellectual properties, particularly the ones under her control that she directly profits from, are thus, in a very literal sense, tools of the enemy"
defector.com/its-tim...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ

All of this because we didn’t throw Trump in prison for trying to overthrow an election.

based on my experiences as a parent i genuinely believe that if someone is feeling irritable the first thing they should ask themselves is “have i pooped today?”

A French general just looked at Trump’s plan to build a runway inside Iran to fly out uranium under active bombing.
His response: “American officials should stop snorting cocaine between meetings.”

AMERICA'S FINEST: ANTI-TRUMPERS Maybe it's time to start listening to the people who have been right about everything the past decade ...

📌I am still wondering what the hell we are supposed to do with the people who voted for Trump three times, the anti-Americans who are somehow still with him, and the abhorrent, self-serving slobs who can’t be bothered to vote at all.

So let me say this with precision: We were right about all of it.

We need to stop reporting the dumb shit this dimwit says as fact. Nothing he says makes sense, and he often contradicts himself in the same sentence.
The issue is no longer him, or what he says or does. It is how can he and his enablers, handlers and backers be got rid of as soon as possible.

The Trump administration doesn’t know what to do. They don’t know how to win the war they started, and they don’t know how to wind it down. All they know is lying, posturing, berating others, and hoping the problem goes away. But it won’t.

the president of the United States is a madman seriously damaging the entire world

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is in the Oval Office riffing on mail voting, because nobody in the Trump administration has real job duties beyond fluffing the leader on TV

It's pretty shocking to me that the NYT is reading "J-pilled" as anything other than "hates the Jews and believes the conspiracy theories about them".

If Mamdani's staffers were using "J-pilled" it would rightly be front page news. But it's cool when Republicans do it, apparently.