Bundle of Allen keys, with a wrench inserted outside the pomerium

This is a valid point: whenever you see this sort of high-pressure sales tactic turned on a technology, you can be CERTAIN that it's a fake—actually useful new tech sells itself!

And don't underestimate the effectiveness of FOMO as a tool in the hands of a con artist.

I think Nicola Sturgeon is the (I guess now former?) politician who has gone up the most in my estimation over the last decade. Incredible.

while we measure women's skulls and organs as a surveillance practice CNN broke a story on how 60 million men worldwide are attending an online "rape academy" just a week after a paper was released showing that 91% of men anonymously admitted to trying to coerce women into sex

Growing up in the online world: a national consultation We are consulting on further measures to prepare children for the future in an age of rapid technological change. This includes potential age restrictions on social media and other services such as ga...

A quick heads up; The UK government is currently holding a consultation on the Online Safety Act. The consultation lasts until the end of next month.

Please fill it out if you live in the UK and/or share it around to get more eyes on it.

www.gov.uk/government/c...

polite chaser who loops the charlie kirk snuff film on a projector and blasts HEALTH while fucking you competently

The thing that's bad about AI is surely that it is damaging the ways humans communicate with one another, and these silly fake rules are making that worse!

These idiotic so-called rules for detecting AI are almost as bad as the AI itself. This is a very well-established way to start an email!

Perhaps it's less common in the US than in Britain, I don't know. Either way, this kind of paranoia is just silly.

Sometimes people just use the damn em-dash.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

RATT is a really good name for a band but RAT would be a bad name, the extra T doesn’t mean anything but it really made the difference

The Extended Universe by Vicky Osterweil

Extremely readable look at Disney and IP. Here's a quote from it: "Once capital has maximized the profit it can steal from people’s bodies and labors, it must also take their stories, their memories, their cultures, and their soul."

i once threw up at a smashing pumpkins concert and billy corgan has yet to ask me if i’m feeling any better.

I transitioned because Vaush isn't real

The 'including Otto Von Habsburg' aside is so good.

European politics: Nothing ever changes

ME: [wincing, covering up Starmer's ears] sorry, do you mind not talking about politics around Keir? He doesn't know about scary things like nuclear war or poverty or Peter Mandelson and we'd like to maintain his innocence for a bit longer

KEIR: my father was a drill bit

ME: that's right Keir!

"I think the thought needs to be expressed."

Least true statement ever made.

Also, and I realise I'm debasing myself by even engaging, but a better analogy would be, "If loads of kids say they're trans and a bunch of doctors insist otherwise, the doctors are wrong."

Which, yes, actually.

Shutting up is free.

Hello my loves, I’m sorry to rattle the tin again but just as we were ordering groceries the electricity bill went out, with most of our money 😠

Could a disabled trans woman and her carer please get some help affording to keep the fridge full for the rest of the week?

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just one more apology the culture owes to eddie vedder

Cis people should never, ever, ever, EVER be put in charge of any program designed for trans people. They will always move to put up walls, gatekeep, and limit accessibility all in the name of "helping" us.

instead of posh hungarian baths & too much IG making you a bit jel, how about this. someone in your family has died, they kept getting discharged by various NHS teams for reasons you can't fathom but it's made the person who was caring for them in your family non-verbal. you book a train for the

Picture Engels as Kamala Harris. Now imagine she's trans. Doesn't look so much like my takes are caused by suffering 35 recent concussions now, does it?

Oh my god this is so long, I did a few questions for fun and then realised there were dozens more to go, how could you not warn me? 😭

Secretly, I think this is actually an ADHD test, and I want my prize quite frankly

incredible that this movie doesn't already exist. Statham as a ticket-puncher on the Long Island Railroad who gets embroiled in a terrorist plot and also inexplicably has an English accent

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

We need you, bluntly, to shield us from the violence of the state, from the looming threat of state mandated rape, so that we can have the cover to help each other