With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

"It's the future". And what future is it delivering? Because it looks like a future with mass unemployment, weaker labour rights, richer billionaires, more expensive power, dead internet, dead culture and a dead planet.

Exactly one year ago today:

How many more people are going to have to resign for Keir Starmer's decision to ignore the advice of every single person who told him not to appoint Peter Mandelson?

Yes Starmer was given bad advice by the likes of McSweeney, but he was also given good advice by others not to touch Mandelson with a barge pole. Starmer's judgement in going with all those pushing for his appointment is the only thing that matters in this story

In order for cyclists to get safe infrastructure they must constantly justify its usage *and* ride their bikes like perfect little angels all the time.

Drivers, on the other hand, never have to justify new roads or follow the most basic laws, despite operating the most dangerous vehicles.

"they say we're running out of helium, but as we all know, it's the second most abundant element in the universe"

It’s 2026 and we’re getting “ladies don’t wear trousers” sumptuary law courtesy of the Labour Party

Imagine dedicating your life to incel looksmaxxing so much that you've smashed yourself in the face with a hammer only to have a regular reporter from 60 Minutes Australia completely outmog you.
(Clavicular eventually walked off the interview)

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Screenshot of Elon Musk's tweet says "asterisk symbol Soros Organization has taken over Hungary". It is dated April 12, 2026.

This post feeds the dangerous antisemitic conspiracy theory that Soros is pulling the strings behind anti-fascist movements.

The reality is this: Viktor Orbán, an authoritarian antisemite, was voted out by a large majority of Hungarians. Musk knows exactly who he's activating when he invokes Soros.

Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

The WSJ piece is a truly horrifying read, and I’m not sure I can recommend it; it needs a content warning klaxon. But if you have any doubts about how dangerous these things are, for adults *and* kids, or if you think their spongy ‘guardrails’ actually hold, it will clear that right up for you.

BREAKING: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian elections after 16 years in power - with opposition Tisza party on course for landslide victory.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.

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Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

This stuff is misogyny by the way. Even if you're targeting objectively bad people with it. Just don't.

feel like as millennials we kept being told that sure, the economy was bad but at least we'd never had to spend any time in a world where it felt like major, global, maybe even nuclear conflict could erupt at any moment and well well well: who's laughing now

ABC news headline Artemis 2 crew faces mental physical strain in deep space

Yeah, well it's not so great down here either, ABC News.

Is this Iran lovebombing Bluesky?

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca

LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

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I’m a Green Party councillor for City Ward #Sheffield. It’s a densely populated urban ward.

I’m going to talk about digital advertising screens, which doesn’t sound exciting, but please bear with me.

I want to explain why I spend time objecting to so many of these.

Since 2023, I’ve …

This is going to leave the US so deeply unskilled. This is exactly how technofascists like to see it.

As @olivia.science & I wrote: “the AI industry has lobbied government agencies to mandate the use of its products, claiming that without them, students will be unprepared for the job market.”

This is so, so well-articulated.

High prices forcing people to think twice about unnecessary car journeys during a fuel crisis is a good thing, actually!

"i have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

The Astronauts truly representing us all up there.