4 panel comic Panel 1: Purple Guy steps in bear trap and screams Panel 2: Purple Guy gets punched in the penis by a boxing glove Panel 3: Purple Guy gets set on fire Panel 4: Purple Guy lying on the ground, almost dead. Blue guy sticks head into shot and says: Heads up, things are about to get bad
what being alive currently feels like
It’s literally in the screenshot of the definition. Why are you so opposed to acknowledging clear, publicly-stated genocidal intent?
I mean, the president is literally saying “We will commit genocide” and the government’s response is “ah but we said they couldn’t use our bases to do that”. Great. I’m sure they genuinely believe the US will respect that.
If you give unstable and violent leaders saying “We will commit genocide” the benefit of the doubt, then you let situations escalate to the point genocide happens.
Wireless Festival boss defends Kanye West appearance
The managing director of Wireless Festival has defended the decision to choose Kanye West as a headliner, encouraging people to offer the rapper "forgiveness". It follows a backlash over West's scheduled appearance in July, which has seen sponsors pull out of the London event and criticism from politicians. The star released a song called Heil Hitler and sold swastika T-shirts last year. He later apologised and blamed his bipolar disorder.
I've worked in/around the mental health world for many years. It's been my job to teach the nuances of it to qualified medics. I'm very much aware that there are literally thousands of way in which symptoms of a mental health disorder can manifest.
To my knowledge, 'merchandise' isn't one of them.
Right, but… will you support that? Nuremberg trials for Musk, Trump, everyone who funded his election? Jail for the Dems who didn’t arrest him in 2021, the generals who followed his orders? Expropriating Fox, X, other propaganda channels used to get him elected?
“you’re not americannn, why do u care about U.S politicssss?”
Fell into the pond 60 seconds into the Easter Egg hunt.
why saying that AI is incredible followed by a series of non-loading comments because the vibe-coded site is fucking broken
I don't think I could make a joke better than this
Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.
The US’ leadership is definitely making statements of genocidal intent (‘surrender or we destroy all your infrastructure, electricity and water, which will kill vast swathes of your civilian population’). We don’t have to wait until they actually do it to break out the word.
Dresden was *arguably* just a war crime but the nukes were definitely killing civilians for the purpose of killing civilians. If the US was going to nuke every Japanese city until they won, it would definitely be genocide.
imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda
throwback to a few years ago when easter, passover, and ramadan all overlapped on margaret thatcher's death day
Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Article Il In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: 1. Killing members of the group; 2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; 3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; 4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
I mean, if you perform acts whose intended purpose is to destroy a group, it’s genocide. That wasn’t the case for killing German soldiers, but destroying all the power in a nation that relies on desalination for water would definitely qualify. You can’t *not* know it would cause mass death.
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Michael Gove admits crush on Shabana Mahmood Former Tory minister says he spends 'quite a lot' of internet browsing time looking at images of Home Secretary
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 listeners, Mr Gove said that he thought Ms Mahmood was "gorgeous" and "fantastic". When he was asked whether his thoughts were political or romantic, he replied: "Both". Mr Gove told the Matt Forde Focus Group programme: "I think she's gorgeous. I do worry, though, that if Shabana Mahmood had access to my browsing history, she would discover that quite a lot of my browsing is me typing in 'Shabana Mahmood images' or 'Shabana Mahmood history. "I'm a huge fan," he said. "T'll have to tell my girlfriend about this," he added.
This is so creepy and unprofessional
Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”
a generative AI image of a fake climate solution
a generative AI image of a fake climate solution
a generative AI image of a fake climate solution
a generative AI image of a fake climate solution
There an entire Facebook generative-AI slop factory pumping these out, all with roughly the same formatting. A few of them going pretty viral
I mean, did they manage to show it wasn’t just that those vectors are also associated with words like “error”, “failure” and other negative messages that enter their context as tests fail?
this could be the subject of a dissertation
“Israel Palestine Pub Quiz” - the greatest brawl in the history of bars, stopped by the police after 12,239 arrests
Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”
Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!
Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.
Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.
I dreamt of the beach (1/4)
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.
It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
Black and white picture of OCP officer Alex Murphy
Good Friday. Time to remember a man who died and returned days later to save us all.
Watching Keir Starmer as Prime Minister is like watching paint dry, except it's one of Hitler's paintings.
