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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

submitted 16 days ago • 336 comments

“What are you going to do for women?” “Nuclear power plants, Brian.” “I was thinking more in terms of work-life balance.” “Cheaper petrol?” “Really?” “Defund the ABC?” “You don’t know women what women want.” “I think I do, Brian. They want fewer restrictions for mining companies.” #auspol

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Look, I understand the urge to say "I'm autistic and I date and I pay taxes," but that's unintentionally just buying into his argument. We are not the autistic people he is talking about. Some autistic people CANNOT IN FACT do these things. They also deserve care, protection, and basic dignity.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Happy Bat Appreciation Day! The German word for a bat, Fledermaus, means “flutter mouse.” The Basque word, saguzar, means “old mouse.” And the Estonian word, nahkhiir, means “leather mouse.” But to me (and to anyone who’s seen the picture below) the correct term for bats will always be “sky puppies”

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

autistic people not having to pay taxes is news to me. i want those back

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Technically, we are all in space right now, so

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

I do not know how anyone takes these people seriously after they universally responded to the Olympics "controversy" by saying that they believed that someone born with a female birth certificate and female sex characteristics should be classified as male because of her hormonal levels.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I've been in a relationship for 22 years and I pay my taxes, thank you very much. And if more autistic people are recognized, maybe it's because we pay more attention to them. I was only diagnosed last year when I was 43, and nobody cared that I was a bit different as a child.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACCINE. AND, UNTIL RECENTLY, ALMOST EVERYONE TOOK IT. Remarkably, nowhere in the article does the word "vaccine" appear. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/w...

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

I worked in a prison just across the Ohio River from West Virginia & can tell you exactly why WV has reduced its recidivism rate so much (and, thus, its overall crime rate which is among the ten lowest in the country): unlike most red states, they've funded & bolstered their prison college program

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

These were the people that, among other things, saved the GPS network.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Observations need context. Not a kneejerk spasm into the antivax underbelly of the X sewer. MMR contains 3 live but attenuated viruses. In rare occasions they can still cause mild disease. Active disease does not happen with fully functional immune systems. This can be an indication of an 1/3

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

News is awful Post Godzilla

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

News is awful Post Godzilla

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Are we being too harsh here. If I was Dutton's son then I'd have to seriously sit down, look in the mirror and ask "is the cunt a big enough cunt to let me sleep on the streets while he has 26 properties." "Yeah, probably"

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

chatgpt has been a project by Stanford to discover the world's most entitled and laziest politicians, thank you for your cooperation.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Just insane stories from the graduate school communities, students getting kicked out of the country - medical and science researchers - because of trivial, decade-old violations, like speeding tickets, long ago, paid in full

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

To the people who think racist authoritarians should be posting more on Bluesky: What the actual fuck is wrong with you, fuck off with that mealy-mouth "both sides" bullshit, thank you for your attention, now go fuck yourselves

submitted 5 days ago • 286 comments

Oh fuck oh shit

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

Today I learned vegemite is illegal in Canada.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 6 days ago • 120 comments

Yes do tell us about the emotionless men when their team wins and loses.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

The morning after the election, I had a panicked thought: “My threat model is wrong.” I’d been giving privacy advice for years, but my counsel would not protect against an authoritarian president seeking revenge against political enemies. Tyranny was going to require a new threat model.

submitted 6 days ago • 33 comments

Shakespeare's comedies are about jocks and his tragedies are about goths, I don't make the rules. Hamlet is a goth who hates his stepdad. King Lear has three goth daughters. Macbeth kills his boss because his goth girlfriend told him to. Bottom: jock.

submitted 6 days ago • 25 comments

People will always say they’re your friend and they support you no matter what but then they’ll say some toxic shit to you like “you have to let go of the cursed amulet, it’s changing who you are” and “don’t let its power corrupt you” all because they want the amulet for themselves

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

Wednesday wasn't luck. It was insider trading at historic scale. Millions in zero-day options precisely 29min before Trump's announcement. This could only have been executed by sophisticated pros with advance knowledge. My third newsletter post: data-and-politics.ghost.io/this-is-what...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Tech bros think they invented the taxi and influencers think they invented anxiety.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Every prisoner swap with Russia is like "she is a 14-year-old girl who Putin said sang 'Carol of the Bells' too aggressively and he is a top Russian spy who personally strangled a dissident to death in a London coffee shop"

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

THE GORGE (2025, apple telly) was totally daft and I enjoyed it a lot.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The 👏 point 👏 of 👏 vaccination 👏 is 👏 that 👏 we 👏 don’t 👏 have 👏 to 👏 urgently 👏 treat 👏 severely 👏 ill 👏 children

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

Tiny little gachapon PlayStations with wee little discs. All together now, "Aww... 😍"

submitted 430 days ago • 40 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 9 days ago • 394 comments

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

submitted 9 days ago • 871 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

This is a COMPLETELY MISLEADING headline. The toxins are part of a contrast agent used in a small percentage of MRI imaging, NOT FROM MRI ITSELF.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

I do think it's worth marking and remembering that these people were willing to tolerate everything we've experienced since January and more provided it didn't disrupt the economy.

submitted 12 days ago • 98 comments

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

If someone else is happy, it’s okay If someone else is happy, it’s okay You don’t need to feelings dump, You don’t need to bring up Trump If someone else is happy, it’s okay

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments