Very disappointed that today's NYT Spelling Bee didn't allow Cockblock as a word. It's in the dictionary people!
Your outie thinks Severance is a reality show.
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Very disappointed that today's NYT Spelling Bee didn't allow Cockblock as a word. It's in the dictionary people!
End of the World. And Everybody Hurts. And The One I Love.
See also onesies until the whole nappy leak/poo explosion thing gets under control.
Clearly a bot
I know that of course, but we are both talking generally.
Europe knows; we are already at war. Everyone has ramped up defence spending (beneficiaries, US) after your nation installed an asset in the top seat while we have a war on our borders. Many thanks to US for destabilising the world. Nice job.
Everyone who stays enables and enriches musk. They're part of the problem of global instability, not the solution.
What I have noticed is an awful lot of people who aren't Jewish telling people what anti-Semitism is or isn't, despite having zero experience of it themselves. I can't think of another example of a wholesale denial and gaslighting of another minority's lived experience. Everyone's lost their minds.
Also I don't need to adjust; like anyone else I post what I want when and where I want. Engagement for those of us with few followers is extremely low compared to other apps, whether you post frequently or not. It's a noticeable difference.
Clearly I understand the curation is personal, but if people you follow restrict their discourse on a topic to only people they follow, any discussion will naturally be largely limited to people who agree with them. This encourages the echo chamber effect.
I honestly don't think people understand their own lineage anymore. It's like the Australian marches. Barring First Nations people, literally every other Australian is a result of immigration & colonisation, including Britain sending its unwanteds to a far off inhospitable land (sound familiar?).
That's true about Threads although in the beginning it was a relaxed, supportive place stuffed full of creatives, particularly photographers & artists exiled from Insta when it aggressively shifted gears into reels. I do think the overly tight curation here exacerbates the echo chamber effect.
On X I could post & get a convo going immediately. I've been here since the first months & it's definitely improved, particularly with the US Xodus. But the weird thing here is I can post & get zero engagement- it's like you don't even exist in the algo- that makes it unlike any other SM app I use.
It sort of feels like you're in a vast room with Speakers Corner at one end, and then a bunch of huddled cliques that you can listen to but not interact with.
I use social media (outside of friends) like reading or watching news. Bluesky is a newspaper. TT/Insta/YT are tv. But I find vanishingly little engagement on here. I think people setting replies to only those you follow and tightly curating their followers stifles discussion & audience build.
Every child that dies or is injured around the world from parents deciding not to vaccinate their children or themselves, is another body to add to the pile at feet of Andrew Wakefield, the progenitor of fallacious vaccine bunkum. He has dragged public health and vaccine intelligence back decades.
Ma'am, you're shouting at bread.
A garden visitor today. Stout chap.
Big Asthma
Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.
Deforestation kills more than trees.
Of course. But it is striking that people do not apply the same level of passion & anger to what's happening inside their own borders in terms of oppression & inequity for their own marginalised communities. Australia is a good case in point when it voted against a First Nations voice to parliament.
Everyone must now keep to the left on tube escalators.
That was a classic 🏆
The high positions taken seem often to forget their own countries are quite fond of subjugation of other nations and/or ethnicities or races and many are either currently, actively indulging in it themselves both within their own borders or without, or are hisotrically made from it.
😆 they've clearly never watched Is It Cake.
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
Fascinating! 🙌
Oh I saw a scaffolding truck with huge flags flying on either side yesterday; now it makes sense.
None of us outside the US understand what's happening because in a lot of countries, Cracker Barrel is a cheese.
i am so sick of the dumbest people alive being in charge of everything and the second dumbest people alive writing opinion columns about how it's good
Does that happen often?
That's some pretzel logic there.
Exactly as my uncle (farmer) liked it.
Goats on coffee! Now that's something I'd like to see. What's their favourite - ristretto, espresso, macchiato?
Truth
I wonder what the scene is like when all these religious hucksters get to the pearly gates and Jesus or, I'd like to think Robin Williams, glances up from his newspaper, says 'not today Satan', & they get shuffled off to the fiery pits while Chet Baker plays 'Wah Wah Wah Waaahhhh' on his trumpet.
Same in Oz
Starbucks is what you get when you remove Italian people and real coffee.
WTAF!
Radio Lento is the biz 👌
I recognise that logo!
Seriously if they only just realised they'd booked two people with the same views that's a terrible producer or a terrible researcher or both.
You had me at magic pencil. Can it right/write all the world's ills?
Exit through the gift shop.
Not the only reason tho. Italy/Spain/Greece had more small boats than UK in 2024. Global instability, wars, etc. The razing of camps & enforcement at Calais where people used to get across in cars and lorries is a factor. The camps were razed in Oct 2016 so they found other methods after that.
Stunning!
This is wholly true. Just when you think you've escaped the parental 'are you going out in that' and 'what is going on with your hair' and 'what are you doing with your life', the eldest daughter takes up the mantle.
They'll be sure to very assertively let us all know their opinion on it at the next family gathering.
We are in the era of Bro-medics.
Beautiful!
Ooh the foreman is going to be cross he's not checked the safety gear back in before going off site
It’s meant to be scary, but “Snakes” by the Pixies is actually the cutest song ever
This is putting two completely different things together to create an equivalence that doesn't even make sense. For a start one is a tv talk show host, the others are war journalists. Journalists who choose to go to a war zone know the risks they're taking. It's a vastly different scenario.
Internationally murdering journalists is outrageous and unconscionable in a tsunami of outrageous and unconscionable actions.
No, I don't want to 'circle back'. I want to stare at the sea and wonder where the Puffins go.
Rocket/spinach base. Cubed roasted sweet potato. Cubed beetroot. Toasted pecans. Dress with olive oil and proper sticky balsamic (not the watery stuff).
Surely this is going completely off the rails from the purpose. The idea is to support Palestine, not a proscribed group. When a group gets the headlines and not the actual cause, then there's something going wrong.
I've seen that before on Extinction Rebellion marches/actions.
Exactly. No waving to him. Or perhaps he's warning aliens to not stop here. Our reputation precedes us.
No waving at aliens.
I'm curious about the numbers: how many people does the US currently want or need to deport? He says he's stepping up which echos armed forces language, so it sounds very serious. How many illegals are there in the US right now? And then after they're all deported, then what happens to this force?
That's factually untrue. Unfortunately, the world, by objective measure, has definitely seen it before, both in recent and current history. Multiple genocides, violence to women and children, starvation of populations. There are many others.
He is genuinely insane.
I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!
logging onto Bluesky
I hear what you're saying, but all contracts can be nulled, even 30 years later. Or they can give him space without platforming & promoting such obviously inflammatory headlines. I've read it for years like most & it really does feel that Guardian has taken a definite turn to clickbait.
Yeah but they don't have to - they can get rid of people, or bury them, or not do clickbait shared all over soc media designed to get us riled. They're definitely leaning into the whole shit-stirring thing.
I would definitely watch this
It depends on overthrowing them, and rigorously adhering to setting up systems that disallows both accumulation of extreme wealth and prohibits the concentration of power in the hands of the few because it will always, always, in every known system, be abused.
The Guardian has been very noticeably increasing its clickbait pieces. It's a shame to see its decline into the morass in its quest for numbers. Maybe even worse, they do it with a veneer of assumed respectability or even moral righteousness.
That's really interesting, thank you. The differing viewpoints could also explain my confusion. I've just noticed it seems to have become interchangeable with 'Jewish' on anti-Semitic rants,but also used by people to protest they are not anti-Semitic because their hate is directed toward Zionists.🤷🏽♀️
In the aftermath of October 7 I looked it up on Wiki to try and understand it better and there was a simple entry at the time. Now the entry is vastly changed and as there is so much disinformation and anyone can edit Wiki, i don't know what is true. Could you help explain what Zionism is and isn't?
This is a really educative post, thank you. May I ask a question? I am very confused about the meaning of the word Zionism which seems to have been co-opted to allow people to express some horribly anti-Semitic views.
M&S is now charging 40p for a paper bag, 4x more than the initial plastic bag surcharge.
Spotify - pays artists fuck all money and destroys the industry - puts millions of dollars into joe rogan's pocket, helping to decimate the political landscape - started to create and flood it's service with LLM crap to further oust musicians - winds up directly funding drone warfare via it's CEO
Younger Gen Z, eg those nascent 16 year olds they want to capture, do not use X. You Tube, TikTok, Insta are their thing. If they're not visually present, they're invisible.
Brilliant work. A*
In our experience, that is also true of 111 (hanging for 45 minutes, no call backs from doctors etc) so if it's worse than 111, it must be truly terrible.
It's sublime.
Just tell them you bring joy to many people. And when they ask could you elaborate, show them this:
The canary in the coal mine just dropped dead. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
Why does it say 'Jewish president Donald Trump on the video' when he is not Jewish. Is there more than one Donald Trump?
And connections. Sheesh
Fascinating story! What woman was she referring to here?
Concidentally a Guardian crossword last week was themed around the book and my brain had also replaced the name Phileas with Phineas somewhere along the line. Passepartout also an excellent character name.
They just hand their hoard on to their offspring, and so the cycle continues.
Wednesday is with us again, so grab your family and friends and drag them out to buy a book! - Michael
Those who hoard skills and knowledge eventually find their skills and knowledge stolen by those who hoard gold
July on the tube is when we Londoners swap our balaclavas for little handheld personal fans, which we obviously take to the next knife fight. Mine's pink.
My dad however had Iberian, Middle Eastern and North African genes so his weapon of choice was the scuff (sandal).
My Australian mother ruled the dinner table with a wooden spoon for years. She broke it across my hand once whacking me for some infraction between me and my brothers and gave herself such a fright she never used it again.
You don't have to be Lebanese but it helps
Just out after a week of it. Eughhh.
@thegodpodcast.com, are you up for a bit of smiting today.