will forte defense lawyer vs john cena prosecutor, fuck me this is gonna be so good

oh thank god i made the cut too

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"

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

Literally Beth Upton's entire crime is being a trans woman with a half decent job and they will never forgive her for that.

we all know I have no life, so:

Tall beautiful women. Everyone knows they are persecuted and reviled. But what you might not know is they are more oppressed than any other group, and they’re single

tim heidecker taking over as the infowars host is gonna be so fucking good

a while back i'd listened to so much of the podcast i thought i'd enjoy hate watching a full clip. nope. big mistake. it was so excruciating i realised it's only possible to enjoy second hand through the pain of others. thank you for your service

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

The thing about the photo of the IDF soldier beheading a statue of Jesus in south Lebanon is that the Israeli military has an effectively near 0% conviction rate for its soldiers and so this will just keep happening over and over and over and over. This is simply what unlimited impunity breeds.

I'm sorry, but this is utterly unacceptable from Stonewall's new Chair. And entirely unnecessary. Nothing is gained from this except communicating to trans people that Stonewall does not care about them.

This post is seared into my mind

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

no spears for the spartan phalanxes, only shields

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

A good day to remind people that, around 2000 or so, Edward Said began routinely telling journalists and editors in his interviews that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory was now the longest in modern world history, after having surpassed the Japanese occupation of Korea.

Exactly one year ago today:

As a therapist and a healthcare worker, chatbots are becoming a public health crisis, and I’m tired of hearing people who don’t see the harm every day explain why this is totally fine and just like people pearl-clutching over cellphones. It’s getting worse and we haven’t scratched the surface.

a trans person telling a doctor their assigned sex at birth is significantly more likely to result in their mistreatment than letting them assume cisness in 95% of cases because the average doctor does not have the care or understanding required about the nuances of trans bodies and how weve changed

the pope is weak on crime

masterful gambit sir

the US three weeks ago: we're playing 4D chess by lifting sanctions on iranian oil to use their own oil against them. and we're unsanctioning russian oil too

the US today:

In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

ha! yeah so we need you to fire on that chinese tanker. don't worry about it

Graph of number of terrorism arrests per year since 2002. The average is less than 250 with a spike to a little over 400 in 2017. In 2025 the number skyrockets to almost 1,900 arrests.

Looking at this graph you'd have to assume there are bombs going off all over the UK, seeing as apparently the level of terrorism is higher than during the "war on terror".

The United Kingdom is not involved in the war in Iran

"You've been charged with being cool as shit. How do you plead?"
"Guilty, your honor."
"Bailiff, give this man a Baja Blast and drop him off at the nearest arcade with a cup full of whatever coins we in Ireland put in arcade games."

reads: Introduction In March 2026, an Anthropic employee released the source code of Claude Code, a wrapper around their large language model that is widely used to generate code in programming tasks. Its thousands of lines of Typescript code contained many hopeful prompts and in cantations to shape Claude’s behaviour. Here are some examples: “Report outcomes faithfully”; “Never characterize incomplete or broken work as done”; “Be careful not to introduce security vulnerabilities ” (prompts.ts in Anthropic 2026) . There is more than a passing resemblance here to the Azande witch -doctor apprentice who, while stirring the medicine, utters: “You medicine which I am cooking, mind you always speak the truth to me. Do not let anyone injure me with his witchcraft, but le t me recognize all witches. … Let me be expert at the witch -doctor’s craft so that people will give me many spears on account of my magic.” (Evans-Pritchard 1937: 93). In the case of Claude, the incantation s appeared insufficient: analysis of the codebase, which according to a company executive was “pretty much 100% written by Claude Code ”, revealed severe security vulnerabilities (Townsend 2026).

what an introductory paragraph!!