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Currently riding a 195 year old railway line. Will be crossing a bog on a wooden raft (on a train) momentarily. [Chat Moss, obv]

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Across the world the response of democracy towards the cancer of fascism trying to destroy it from within has been to give up without a fight. “Oh, we have fascists now. Nothing we can do I guess, apart from just give them everything they want”. There’s almost no ground left to concede now.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Old School US Military: Boring dads (and increasingly moms) who can get a shipping container full of explosives, MREs, & spare parts anywhere in the world in 72 hours with no drama. Cult of the Operator: Midlife crisis dads (and occasionally moms) who will starve to death w/o the old school types.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Once again, AI is doing something that is already a problem but injecting it with steroids. That AI query for 17 versions of the information digs no deeper. Thing is, there can be hundreds of sources that agree on something all based on a error in one master source.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Underneath all of those articles is a deep fury that Bluesky punishes instead of rewarding lazy and/or hostile engagement farming. Try to build a following here with trolling and slurs and you'll find yourself in a ghost town. To them that is simply intolerable.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

You know who are the worst at this: junior engineers who never developed the depth of knowledge that would let them actually be creative and then went into management. There's a reason we call them "executive" summaries.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Wee Free Men “Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!”

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Sorry to be a tiresome old fart about this. I'd like to remind so-called 'old school' trans women that I transitioned in 79, have never been stealth, came out as a dyke in 84 after getting bored with shitty men, have always fought for women's and queer causes and am in solidarity with young queers.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is the one and only thing you need to know about preferential voting. Make sure you vote for everyone who can beat the one you hate.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Also see everything in media about the Columbine shooters that didn't mention they were white supremacists who wrote eugenicist screeds and praised Hitler and nazi Germany.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

In 2008 the security staff employed by Pride tried to gender police the toilets at Trafalgar Square. I warned them that if they did not desist, I would organise a mass sit in within ten minutes. They made the mistake of calling my bluff. Pride eventually apologised to trans people. #Toiletgate2008

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

So basically the protests were peaceful except that two competing cop departments accidentally went to war with each other

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

Has any musicologist ever written about the very American phenomenon of taking very left wing songs and either willfully or unintentionally misinterpreting them to be right wing songs for the sake of state media?

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

submitted 2 days ago • 164 comments

I genuinely feel like "bringing a Gwenn-ha-du to a random event" is just an established vexillological in-joke now

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Read the lyrics, obviously, but also: Really elite military units tend to either have incredibly sharp uniforms and march perfectly, or to be unbelievably sloppy to make a point about how much they don't care. These, though. These are just bad at marching. This is an army that doesn't march.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

submitted 2 days ago • 2164 comments

The only sovereign kings and queens that America has are its people. Long may they reign! And, today especially: Uffda, Minnesota!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name. This is your legacy!

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

Favorite sign I saw today: "Class Solidarity bonus to Constitution saving throws."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The tech industry needs serious, meaningful regulation about the things it can sell and how it can sell them, and the neoliberal bullshit of “free markets” has allowed this nakedly harmful software to proliferate, taking advantage of the fact that more people than ever feel alone and desperate

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

I see the American anti-Trump rallies are "No Kings". Are the Canadian rallies "Just One King, Thanks"

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Man I don’t want to get conspiratorial but a thought I can’t shake is that just like we can’t trust that people presenting themselves as law enforcement are law enforcement, can we trust that a violent person who’s said to have been impersonating law enforcement isn’t law enforcement?

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

this site rolling out blue checks for fiction writers and not giving one to NK Jemisin is certainly a choice

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Those "modern" definitions are, uh, not that modern. Claiming that somewhere's a democracy with women not having the vote seems pretty non-modern to me.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I saw a joke about Jason, but the paywall wanted to fleece me for the punchline.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments