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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 13 days ago • 411 comments

The real MeToo “cancel culture” was what happened to the women and other victims who came forward. They were retraumatized, harassed, humiliated, sued, fired, and blacklisted. Then they were the subject of a revisionist history that MeToo went “too far” and deserved a reactionary backlash

submitted 16 days ago • 72 comments

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

submitted 16 days ago • 2088 comments

Why is nobody talking about this?

submitted 17 days ago • 105 comments

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do! www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 508 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 35 days ago • 1360 comments

Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

submitted 37 days ago • 191 comments

I've literally just dragged the empty bins up the path. Living the dream.

submitted 38 days ago • 28 comments

pls take a 10s emotional break and look at my cat

submitted 38 days ago • 132 comments

People who know how to pose with sculptures... 1/20

submitted 45 days ago • 9 comments

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

submitted 47 days ago • 3302 comments

The perfect spot.. 😊

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

So I decided to get off Facebook today. Downloaded my data and found a bunch of files about my activity off Meta/Facebook. I found records about things I'd recently bought online. No link AT ALL to Facebook through these organisations. WTF??

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Tigger was a fox?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls

submitted 50 days ago • 267 comments

ok but what about five baby foxes playing in the snow, though, did you even consider that

submitted 51 days ago • 108 comments

Happy birthday to this unimprovable bunch of words.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Word of the day is ‘pavonise’ (19th century): to strut about like a peacock, all puffed up with conceit.

submitted 51 days ago • 130 comments

I cannot stop looking at this. There's something new to discover with every view of every photo.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

"The Woman with the Handbag": Danuta Danielsson strikes a marching Neo-Nazi with her handbag during a protest in Växjö, Sweden. Photographed by Hans Runesson on April 13, 1985.

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

Pity Farage wasn’t asked about this - he should be forced to own it @bbclaurak.bsky.social @theneweuropean.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 231 comments

A List of Predictions Made in 1925 About 2025 🧵

submitted 58 days ago • 34 comments

Two of my favourite X-Twitter responses to "Xmas Messages from Politicians"...

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

submitted 66 days ago • 123 comments

Here are just some of the now deleted Tweets previously put out by the man Kemi Badenoch has just made an ennobled peer of the realm

submitted 69 days ago • 133 comments

Ken Loach’s Bambi.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

A List of Things People Blamed for World War I 🧵

submitted 70 days ago • 26 comments

NEWS: Sales of ‘any old sh*t’ expected to treble as men start Christmas shopping.

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

A list of sorely missed Victorian-era slang… Got the morbs = temporary sadness Gigglemug = always smiling Scandal water = tea Bitch the pot = pour the tea Sauce-box = mouth Cupid’s kettle drums = breasts Dash my wig = OMG Tight as a boiled owl = drunk Poked up = embarrassed Not up to dick = unwell

submitted 70 days ago • 120 comments

My favourite example of nominative determinism is the window cleaner called Mr Bitt. Followed closely by the two authors of a paper on the urethral syndrome called J Splatt and D Weedon.

submitted 71 days ago • 139 comments

The real problem of This

submitted 71 days ago • 147 comments

Literally crying hearing how French women applaud Gisele Pelicot every day as she walks out of court. #r4today Everywhere around the world women watch & applaud her bravery too. She stood up for all of us. Because the shame has to switch sides.

submitted 71 days ago • 138 comments

BREAKING: All 51 defendants including ex-husband Dominique Pelicot found guilty in Gisèle Pelicot trial

submitted 71 days ago • 45 comments

Retain faith in our democracy

submitted 71 days ago • 357 comments

No matter what’s changing for a child, the comfort of a good book is timeless. A £10 donation to our #MagicOfBooks appeal will give a child in need a gift they’ll enjoy now and long after the festive season. Donate here - and thank you ✨👇 donate.booktrust.org.uk/xmas3?utm_so...

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Something to light up a dark night, a Japanese pufferfish lantern! Made from a real fish, this lamp was donated to the Museum in 1909 and puts mere paper lanterns in the shade...