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It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent. Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

submitted 7 days ago • 254 comments

People are getting pretty squeamish about endorsing or encouraging violence towards Musk and/or Trump and tbh I think you probably have to get over that because this is very much a Nazis Are Here Now situation.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I don’t know who the showrunner is on 2025 and I know we’re not that far into the season, but the writing feels really heavy-handed and honestly barely plausible so far

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

what AI boosterism reminds me of is Uri Geller's "psychic" spoon-bending. even if it works, we have better, quicker, more reliable ways to bend spoons. but more to the point: we don't need bent spoons

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Post a picture of you, all dressed up.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that things have actively gotten worse for trans people under Labour.

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Normal people: You should ban child torture Labour Party: Well, we met some people from the How to Torture Your Child Discord and they said a ban would actually be *more* harmful Centrists: Truly this is a complex issue 🤔 There are no easy answers 😞

submitted 21 days ago • 30 comments

The Labour Party are basically like the ghosts in sixth sense who don't know they're dead apart from they don't know they're right wing bastards and also the ghosts can be reasoned with.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

trans rights forever

submitted 26 days ago • 46 comments

Find it very annoying that in light of the horrible shit that’s happening to trans people in the US, the narrative of cis progressives is still “he won’t stop at trans people!!” when it is actually bad even if he did stop there as trans people are, in fact, people

submitted 25 days ago • 13 comments

Can Wes Streeting just defect to Reform already and get it over and done with? Cheers.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Saudi Human rights advocates to visit Newcastle on Feb 18th - DONATE TO HELP US PUBLICISE THIS VISIT AND SUPPORT OUR CONTINUING CAMPAIGN. A small donation from each of our supporters will ensure the voices of the victims of the owners of @NUFC are heard. www.paypal.com/pools/c/9boJ...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Can verify that Josh is a good egg (I have been to his house and everything) so if you have a story to tell, he’s a safe person to tell it to!

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Department for Work and Pensions civil servants who commissioned a key piece of research on claimants of out-of-work disability benefits blocked researchers from discussing “shocking” data showing how many of them had attempted suicide.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Marine insurance was a significant motor of the Atlantic slave trade, but finding direct evidence of this is often very challenging, so I too am frustrated that a link to the report isn't provided. Historians/the general public should be able to scrutinise the report and the material it draws on

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

For anyone wondering how legacy media could be so unhelpful in the face of overt fascism, here’s the NYT covering Hitler for the first time in 1922. This is who they’ve always been. Don’t look to them for help.

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submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

submitted 34 days ago • 195 comments

Five decades of Saturday nights out and I swear that there is still nothing more pointlessly cool than wearing sunglasses in the dark.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments