ANCIENT GREEK PRO WRESTLING PROMOTER: ok so you're going to be what's known as a "heel"
ACHILLES: fuck you

England is truly such a shithole

every empire in history was either a persia or a mongolia. rome was a persia, alexander's empire was a mongolia. charlemagne's empire was another mongolia, but the HRE was a persia. despite being conquered by mongols and ruled by the descendants of genghis khan, the great yuan was actually a persia.

Did somebody explain to JD Vance how this whole catholic thing works when he converted or is he going on vibes?

Orban's inability to prevent last year's Pride protests—attended by 300k despite being banned—was a turning point in his authoritarian grip of the country.

Queer people are always leading the fight against authoritarianism, as we are often its first targets. Never cower to fear.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.

I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

They were in deep denial for a while and couldn't even name the aggressors in the conflict properly but it turns out everyone's suddenly more agreeable and deferent when they realize their energy supply doesn't exist in a vacuum

I will not be going to the Strive monthly this weekend as I'm in Brighton for a music festival but you should totally go and support the local 🖤

Is this in Nairobi compared to London? It'd be cool to see how this compares once you get out of the cities too, I always find it interesting how it varies!

This whole “hyper-visibility vs invisibility” shorthand ignores the way that as marginalized women, trans women are seen (dissected as subjects of public discourse) but not heard (lack of inclusion in academia / queer spaces / WOMEN’S spaces, being talked over, seen as alien to womanhood, etc).

*watching the world descend into an inferno fueled by immigrant panic, gender conservatism and fascistic cultural vandalism* "This is the fault of DEI and pronouns"

Baiken feels so lame now lmao
Not even concerned about the balance, just a bit sad spending 100s of hours practicing oki and then it's all gone the next day.

Oh well!

Except they already did! Cause they're bombing Lebanon! But it was never part of the deal apparently!

Official of state most likely to violate ceasefire speculates that it's a coinflip whether ceasefire holds

The only "un-American" thing about this is he's not pretending the US isn't engaging in open imperialism.

This peri peri chicken will fix me (it's been a rough one)

yep! she's gay

Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why. YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The response to the conversion therapy video has been amazing. I’ve gotten messages from lots of NHS staff appalled to learn about the present-day abuses, who want to hold senior managers to account. As I say in the video, allowing this abuse undermines the entire NHS! 🏥

youtu.be/_S5w18sjYLk?...

"I allowed myself to be tokenized and cosigned a bunch of conservative propaganda, and now the reactionaries who tolerated me for a little bit have gone back to openly despising me"

Womp fucking womp.

The Strive patch notes are cool, but I admit I found it hard to care about HKab not being a hard knockdown anymore or whatever since the moment I woke up I rushed to check if the US plunged us into nuclear war or not

The ceasefire is a crushing defeat for the US, but I can't help but envision Israel looming in the background going "isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"

The inclusion of Lebanon in the ceasefire is extremely important, and given Israel's track record with ceasefires idk what's gonna happen

She lost a chess match to a dog, has zero object permanence and is STILL yapping about women's sports this deep in the article?????

genuinely, what I think USians don't get it's that it's not even the "not instantly cooking up a revolution" thing that makes everyone mad.

it's the exceptionalism. this rhetoric where it seems like they're the only country with extensive territory and militarized police.

Edward Said has once again entered the chat (he never left)

If you think about it, China doing literally nothing at all is pretty sinister

I realized how depressing it was that I so badly wanted to be excited for it, and yet every time I stare at the US flag on the stream I just see a hate symbol

The Artemis II crew having a cute chat with their pedophile fascist president while he repeatedly keeps announcing his intention to do infinite war crimes

Call me a killjoy, but I grew up as a starry-eyed space and robotics nerd, and I just can't bring myself to stomach the contradiction anymore

I'm sorry to say it, but I think the fact that the Artemis II astronauts aren't condemning trump is an act of cowardice, at a minimum. They have the most worldwide platform ever conceived, yet when he was on radio with them they just clapped and smiled and did fist pumps as he yammered.

a lot of the artemis II love also feels in a way like a final swan song to the idealized version of "america" for those who bought it. the one that under a bloodstained "pax americana" portrayed itself as a bastion of scientific progress & multiethnic tolerance. now more true in space than on earth