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“The rain fell slow Down on all the roofs of uncertainty”

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

On a personal level, I also don’t understand it. It seems foolish. On another, the past few years have demonstrated to me that a surprisingly large number of people even in serious positions are essentially bullshitters. They don’t actually understand their jobs well, but they fake it.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

We are all going to have to get used to immediately checking for watermarks on all videos (like on this one, where you can see the 'Veo' logo in the bottom-right, proving it's not real). Except within a few weeks there will be a tool to remove them. Fucking hell the future is EXHAUSTING

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

"In this moment of global reaction, Australia has never felt so much like an island refuge. And I am deeply grateful for that. But I mourn the open-hearted country that I remember Britain being." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Do we know the identities of the GC women who harassed a trans woman at Portcullis House on Wednesday and had earlier been physically embraced by Baroness Falkner?

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Many people have the comeback that an LLM shouldn’t be expected to know how to play chess. In that case, what other things is it not supposed be to be good at, but people are using/recommending it for?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1057 comments

I mean, I can’t believe it was deliberate unless it was sabotage, but the levels of incompetence also needed for this to get out there are pretty stunning.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

So just to keep things on the right side of the truth, that footage isn’t from the No Kings protest. It’s from Hands Off a couple of months ago. bsky.app/profile/jjnm...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Our military deserves better than this empty charade. Yikes. The tank squeaking over silence is incredible.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2271 comments

The soldiers couldn’t march straight, and at some points the crowd was so quiet and sparse all you could hear was the squeaking of tank wheels.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

So I had to look this up. It’s a famous anti-war song about how the sons of the rich and powerful dodged being sent to Vietnam. The marching is comically bad. What is going on?

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

There is only one side in American politics that consistently supports and endorses political violence. People need to stop being afraid to say so.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Where are the NRA? Why aren’t they confronting ICE? Why aren’t they confronting the Marines and the National Guard?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just a day before the assassinations by a right winger in his own state.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Why won’t he say how he knows the “police car” isn’t actually a police car?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

submitted 1 day ago • 2252 comments

When media amplify right wing demonisation of the left as intolerant, when they treat lunatic far right ideas as “reasonable concerns”, this is what you get. People acting as if that’s true and not bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So Mark Cuban has been complaining about BlueSky Is he perhaps taking things personally?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is everywhere. Every academic institution I know is held together by some exhausted woman in her early 40's who waits until the old white male professors have finished their vague rants and says, "alright, so concretely can I propose the following next steps..." She makes half their salary.

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

It is 22 years ago today that my best friend, Nick Everton, died. He was 17 years old. Not much time to leave a mark on the world you would think. But those of us who knew him came away irreversibly altered by even the short time we shared together.... 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Looking across the papers today, anti-trans rights commentators and politicians also seem to be the ones opposing making abortion legal. It shouldn’t be a shock to anyone - they’re against bodily autonomy. For everyone.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

JKR has gone full mask-off now - this is an overt incitement to violence. And digging up an old, weird lie about 1970s paedophilia to make herself feel even better about it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I missed this interview at the time. It’s very good hearing someone put unprofessional transphobe Justin Webb in his place. www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/22/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

More of this tone please 😏

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Block and report this far right extremist account.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

How the attempt to insert AI into our lives isolates us:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

but then something strange happened. suddenly there were kevins everywhere. kevins in places kevins were supposed to be. kevins hiding in plain sight.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments