I volunteer to help coat him in spitballs

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

good, productive feminism explains that gender isn't innate and the patriarchy can be deconstructed; essentially telling young women that all men are creeps and predators and will never change is actually just weirdly reactionary and purposeless

It will be minimum a year, if not 18 months to 2 years before it comes to Switch. They won't port it to consoles until it's the full version, not Early Access.

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.

So forgive me if I smell a rat.

Please please please someone ask starmer “mister prime minister which is it, are you corrupt or are you thick?”

This is a really odd argument because I think at the heart of it, there is a deep misunderstanding about what writing is for. I write to communicate my thoughts and ideas, and to bring people along with me, which AI cannot do for me because it isn't me.

They claim “everyone’s autistic now” and yet Pachycephalosaurus is lumped in with “other”

I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]

A highly detailed photo of a field mouse snuggled up asleep inside a purple and yellow flower.

I just found out that tiny little field mice climb into flowers like tulips and take little naps in them like hammocks and I feel like this information is too important for me not to share with anyone. 🥹

In the 1980s, the UK media responded to an increase in visibility/support of gay people with a relentless, well-funded, Right-Wing campaign against gay rights, and when support went down, allowing Thatcher to bring in Section 28, the media turned around and blamed gay people for demanding too much.

lrt i think my favorite factoid about the "PIRACY. IT'S A CRIME." ads is that the typeface used in them was a pirated version of a commercial use typeface. piracy for me but not for thee ig lol

30% of UK adults don't drive.

The weird idea that if you don't drive your view is illegitimate really needs to die. It's their tax you'll be using to subsidise everyone else!

5) I cannot stress this enough. Wireless did NOT invite Kanye West because they believe in the magical power of forgiveness for mental health.

They invited him because they sought to financially gain. Painting this now as some sort of #bekind thing insults anyone with a brain.

A woman looks embarrassed with her hand over her face as she sits on a sofa in a living room.

An autistic woman has been left “mortified” after being caught in a clinch with her new special interest, eyewitnesses have said.

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One of the first people known to change their gender was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt's history — but whose legacy was erased for over 3,000 years.

NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt's history — but whose legacy was erased for over 3,000 years.

I think there's going to be a huge problem in a huge number of industries in 5-10 years when there just aren't "grunts" to promote who have gained expertise. I do believe that LLMs can substitute for a junior (job) when a senior is reviewing it, but that junior gains so much from these tasks.

Wes telling trans youngsters that he hasn't forgotten about them comes across as a threat.

In trade world "ambitious" means "I want this to sound more impressive than it actually is".

Because people with disposable income after mostly insufferable?

I’m Supposed to be Visible Today — But Why? Every year I wonder if visibility and joy are the same thing. And every year I am more and more convinced that the answer is no.

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us.

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if you think age verification for social media is about protecting children I also have three magic beans i'm willing to part with for a bargain

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy.

As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

Speaking as someone who is *definitely* going to hell,
"The lord only speaks through big naturals" is an objectively hilarious statement.

A complete TTRPG called PIG AT A WEDDING. You can download a text-only version of it here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at-wedding-153576626

PIG AT A WEDDING is a one-page TTRPG where you must sneak a pig into a wedding and release it at the most traumatic possible moment.

PDF, text-only version, and a largely unrelated dev diary here: www.patreon.com/posts/pig-at...

Well, after last night’s GBNews debate I no longer need to explain to students the risks of using AI to write papers since Matt G has done us all a favour by having a fever dream meltdown trying to justify it.

And to think we thought his contributions to academia were over.

I’m a big fan of gallows humor but yall that only works if *you’re* the one facing the gallows. If you are cis, then you are not

"DnD is a gateway drug" carries with it the less-than-subtle implication that there are other TTRPGs that are harder, more addictive, and less accessible.

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Crudely drawn picture of a robot head on fire, with the slogan “AI is for cunts, draw terrible art”

I got to meet @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social AND I got these badass stickers!