We are all extraordinary people but most of us are just living ordinary lives

Not sure “my views are 140 years out of date” is the flex he thinks it is

Operation ‘Epic Folly’ you mean? #Iran

Ugh. Accidentally read a Finn McRedmond article

True love is seeing someone exactly as they are and loving them anyway
That is why it is so difficult to love ourselves

I don’t know why you had to undermine your argument at the end there. And it’s *Dublin* coddle, akshully ;-)

I have so many questions

Maybe I am old fashioned but I expect journalists to apprise us of facts and to provide balanced debate to settle differences of opinion. Hilary Cass’s views on trans minors are well known and therefore not ‘news’ and if the entire population of Manchester agreed with Ratcliffe, they’d all be wrong

Later they reported on the remarks of Sir (sic) Jim Ratcliffe on immigrants. The BBC then did a vox pop on the streets of Manchester to see if people agreed with him.

I was idly listening to the BBC TV news at 6pm yesterday. There was a report on gender identity guidelines in schools which involved a conversation with the education conversation and a package featuring Dr Hilary Cass. No trans people’s voices were included.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

DAHABFLEX x ERZIN - ROT [prod. von Miladski] YouTube video by Dahabflex

youtu.be/u01Jyw9XbLA?...

Close up of a sleeping Tabby cat showing the tiniest bit of fang

LD says hi

ZOHRAN MAMDANI press conference TURNS ADORABLE thanks to GOLDEN SNAKE kid YouTube video by Diario AS

youtu.be/pgxVmTADJPY

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman

Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.

It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.

ICE MUST GO‼️

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

No indeed

As usual, the American pronunciation was the universal one but the process of trisyllabic laxing continued in Britain and Ireland changing the pronunciation here

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions Kaden Rummler and Britain Rodriguez tell KTLA and LA Times of being shot at close range during California protest

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Irish people are very familiar with so-called non-lethal “rubber bullets” and “baton rounds” and the deaths and maimings they were responsible for in the hands of Empire in the North of our country

Oh hey, Discord is taking a survey on whether users want generative ai slop machines crowbared into every crevice. They obviously want to but this is an opportunity to hurt a shareholders feelings and that's rare enough these days.

discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

These people are the current worst of humanity and they will keep doing more and worse. History will judge them for the lying, cruel, bigoted, corrupt, cowardly self-serving thieves they are. I cannot hold the Peace Testimony so I lay it down. Miserere mei

‘A warning not an insult’: US doubles down on criticism of Europe Forecast of Europe’s ‘civilisational erasure’ was part of call for pro-growth reform, says Trump official

Your drunk uncle giving you life advice www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you can manage that, everything else will come; if you give in, nothing can help you.
Václav Havel

Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him. And so, from the bottom of my heart, my New Year's wish is that you not lose your hope, faith and ability to delight in the world—even if the world is the way it is.

The more I think about it, the more I incline to the opinion that the most important thing of all is not to lose hope and faith in life itself.
Anyone who does so is lost, regardless of what good fortune may befall him.

This is the solstice, the still point
of the sun, its cusp and midnight,
the year’s threshold
and unlocking, where the past
lets go of and becomes the future;
the place of caught breath, the door
of a vanished house left ajar.

from ‘Shapechangers in Winter’
By @margaretatwood.bsky.social

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