oh shit

They even talk about the Iranian revolution in the same episode, but I gave up after waiting for them to acknowledge the obvious.

Depressed face meme

I started listening to the new Espiner/Daniell podcast The Agency because I thought their earlier collab, The Service, was great. Halfway through episode 2, I hear, "I know the CIA had its problems in the past, but when I was seconded there in 1979, it was good."

CPJ calls for immediate rescue of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, trapped under rubble in southern Lebanon - Committee to Protect Journalists UPDATE: On April 22, the Red Cross reported that they had found the body of Amal Khalil under the rubble. Beirut, April 22, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that the Israeli Defen...

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue:
cpj.org?p=583367

I will never vote for Hasan Piker.

My honours dissertation was on whether the Turing Test is still relevant (it's not!) while my masters was on whether extended mind has implications for personal identity (it does!)

More like schlubstack am I right.

Evasive manoeuvers in the dark.

Headline: Student polit asked to 'provide explanation' for penis shaped solo flight in school plane (with a map showing a flight path that looks like a cock and balls.)

Oh hey did we ever get an explanation for this:

"New rules are forcing people to sell homes they'd prefer to keep"

Yes, that is what the new rules were introduced to do. System working as intended.

A very bad BRANCO American political cartoon showing an elephant in a suit with "Never Trumper" written on the back hugging Karl Marx while saying "You had me at Hate Trump."

The prophecy is coming true (based):

Is it, though? 👀👀

Another way to have reasonable replies is to post well

38 y/o gf who still sings “greensleeves”: they’re debating whether trollop is a slur and i just can’t with the tavern today.
Me [heard “trollop” and got so hard my humors get unbalanced]: i think i hauve st. anthony’s fire

At least they're proposing cash payments rather than something like tax credits or claimable expenses, I guess? But it's far too late to treat their response seriously, the changes to behaviour that lead to economic damage are already done.

Lol. So much for being fiscally prudent.

Government considered $350 payment to everyone making under $100k Newly-released advice shows the Government considered some far wider options for fuel relief.

NEW: The Government considered a $350 payment to everyone making under $100k as part of its fuel crisis response
www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

Half of the votes National has lost since the election have gone to NZF, so National has to say NZF will go with Labour.

Half of NZF new votes have come from National, so NZF has to rule out Labour (at least until the day after the election).

This dynamic will repeat until election day

When the woman asked the then-CEO why she never got to work with MrBeast, she was allegedly told:

“Let’s just say that when you’re around and [MrBeast] goes to the restroom, he’s not actually using the restroom.”

(I know that's not technically a conspiracy theory, but I'm using it in the folk sense.)

I forgot to post this the other day in response to that "What conspiracy theory do you think is true?" prompt, but I do think that MrBeast is the Antichrist, despite the fact that I'm not a Christian.

Ironically, we were discussing Catherine Elgin's "Epistemic Ecology" and I was just discussing how epistemic communities adapt to changing membership.

I was 20 minutes into my first philosophy reading group meeting on Teams for the semester and they decided to have a fire drill. So my colleagues are sitting in the meeting staring at my empty chair.

Before anyone takes this seriously, recall that Larry Johnson is the guy who claimed, before the 2008 election, that there was a tape of Michelle Obama “railing against Whitey.”

The point of KF is, eventually, to end. It takes a toll on the hosts because it's about an awful person doing awful things. But some fans want to keep it going forever.

The hosts of Knowledge Fight have released a podcast where they talk about how they're not sure if the Onion's plans to turn Infowars into a parody site is a good idea, and the subreddit is filled with listeners getting mad at the suggestion that ever-increasing amounts of AJ content might be bad.

misidentified Netflix descriptor screen: text says "tidying up with Marie Kondo" and photo is a person with an assault rifle in the desert

seriously, get rid of your crap

Zarbiv describing taking blindfolded Gazan prisoners back to their neighborhoods for release after they’d been leveled by IDF earthmovers:

“When we took the cloth off their eyes, they were completely disoriented, they did not understand where they were.”

At least 10 scientists tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared in recent years, sparking federal investigation The death or disappearance of at least 10 scientists linked to sensitive US investigations has triggered a federal investigation.

Oof - RNZ running this overly credulous CNN piece on something that’s been called the single dumbest conspiracy of 2026: www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...