Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

This is makes me happy

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

We're witnessing start of a recalibration among American lines.
Fuel protests and Independent Ireland saying Ireland is full herald birth of Irish Trumpism.
Housing bill shed scheme and Harris investment idea end pretence of government for all.
They're pulling up the drawbridge.
A new age dawns.

I guarantee you anything Tucker Carlson will say about Israel can also be said by someone who is not a virulently racist, transphobic, homophobic douchebag who will defend Palestinian lives only as long as they stay in what he considers to be their designated part of the world.

Protest scene with masked individuals holding Palestinian flags, one with a "Free Gaza" sign. Overlay text: "British universities paid to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students" by Al Jazeera.

British universities paid security firm to ‘spy’ on pro-Palestine students
URL: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Yep. Example; if you get sexually harassed at work in the UK, your three realistic options are endure, find another job or quit.

* If you endure it can cause psychological problems.
* Job hunting can take months.
* Quitting makes you ineligible for benefits.

UBI would resolve this.

The Spanish Flu likely originated in Kansas during WWI, and then hopped on US troop carriers to Europe and, from there, to the rest of the world.

It was called the Spanish Flu because the USA and other belligerents censored information about it, while neutral Spain actively reported on its spread.

Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately."

In World War I more U.S. soldiers died of influenza than from combat. In America's first 145 years of war more soldiers and sailors died from infectious diseases than from enemy action. In every single war in human history more combatants have died of illness and disease than bullets and the blade.

I genuinely believe they should stop serving alcohol on planes and start serving edibles. I’ve never seen someone on edibles get violent and have to be duct taped to their seats.

Tapping the sign again.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

the hitlerian victims of communism foundation on twitter: USSR pin awarded to farmers for "Mastery of Cannabis Breeding". Are these your "Marxist" values??

happy 4/20

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Translation: they are proposing a bill that says you cannot under any circumstances use a computer for any purpose without allowing the United States government continuous monitoring and a backdoor

Mayan translator who helps police, courts faces deportation from U.S. Olga Perez of Lake Worth, one of Florida's few Mayan translators, faces deportation, leaving her four U.S.-citizen children and community vulnerable.

Mayan translator who helps police, courts faces deportation from U.S.

www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/l...

Useless, racist, stupid cruelty for no reason. This woman worked in immigration court FFS. She wasn't hiding.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

The cruelest people are good at seizing power and getting non-cruel people to do terrible things.

Since it's 2026 and Godwin's Law has been defenestrated it's worth noting that the Nazis didn't start with the gas chambers. They started with mass shootings, but it fucked up the gunmen.

AfD Invited a White Nationalist Organization and a German Neo-Nazi to Speak at the European Parliament Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland is bringing extremist networks into the core of European institutions, inviting the white nationalist group Ein Prozent and figures tied to neo-Nazi org...

Germany’s far-right AfD is turning the European Parliament into a platform for extremism, hosting Ein Prozent, a white nationalist organization, under the guise of discussing “left-wing extremism.” The move reveals how institutional spaces are being used to expand far-right influence across Europe.

BloodNSoil.AI: we want to destroy democracy and use sentient computerised weapons to eradicate cultures we see as lesser

The Labour Party: please enjoy our health service

James Connolly was right.

Palantir is a quasi-fundamentalist subversive right-wing movement with a stock symbol

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

Edwin Black: Infamous Auschwitz Tattoo Began as an IBM Number [Edwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust, and the forthcoming book, The Plan--How to Save America the Day after the Oil Stops— or Perhaps the Da...

Why are those Europeans so hung up on data protection?

www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/edwi...

An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

Photo of researcher in hat talking to pensioner with baseball cap on… Dave Taylor (left) debates the local elections with John Doult, who says he will vote Reform at the upcoming local elections in Swindon (The Independent)

But on a visit to the former railway town last month, the outlook for Sir Keir and his party was bleak. "I'll be voting for Reform - it can't get any worse," said pensioner John Doult, until now a lifelong Labour voter who was among the thousands employed in the town's once-famous car industry. The 86-year-old bemoaned the "terrible" state of the town centre,

“I’ll be voting for Reform - it can’t get any worse”

Oh it really can.

You put a bunch of corrupt, racist, incompetent, lying Trumpists in charge and things will get very much worse.
Potholes and empty shops will feel unimportant compared to the loss of the NHS, social care and a torched economy.