David Heffernan

Exactly this

"Drivers struck and killed 7,080 people walking in the United States in 2024, 72% more than in 2009, when pedestrian deaths were at their lowest."

Just saw a thing where a director talked about taking out sex/nudity because audiences don’t want to see it. Here’s an idea: fuck the audience. I’m the chef & they’ll eat what I serve them and like it. *The audience* knows what they want? Why don’t you let a toddler drive a car next?

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

"earners"

Wordle players assemble and prepare for a bloody coup 🙁

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. #Oslo & #Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero...” What if your city actually MEANT #VisionZero?

🇫🇮🇺🇦🇷🇺“Ukrainians are eliminating about 35,000 Russian soldiers per month, and Russia cannot recruit as many as it loses.” - Alexander Stubb President of Finland

look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years

Gorilla Playing Saxophone with Balloons has dropped out of the White House concert

Utterly the wrong call. Weak. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Please share. 💔

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, three times

Great to hear London Labour MPs panicking about losing their seats to the Green Party. For clarity, though - this goes way beyond just London. Across England & Wales, we're saying lower bills, tax billionaires and we're ready to take on Reform. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Me finding out @zohrankmamdani won. Captured by the great Faraz Ansari

❤️ London

British.

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

A great philosopher once wrote...

Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't want you to know the name of her opponent but will try every desperate attempt to save her seat. My name is Shawn Harris. I am a Democrat, husband, father, Retired Brigadier General, farmer, and I'm running against MTG. Can you spread the word?

It would, obviously, be asking too much for our media and political class to care more about the repeated, state-directed criminal massacres of starving civilians in Gaza than what some rappers say at Glastonbury. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve been hanging onto these images for literally years waiting for the the right moment to post them and it’s safe to say that day is finally here

Bunch of rich people here - calling for more tax on rich people. It’s not a class war.

Are men okay? They are not

The Lib Dems do ask to recall parliament very frequently, so I'm surprised not to see more of them in the chamber on the rare occasion it is recalled.

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

Happy International Trans Day of Visibility! #TDOV

Le Pen proves less mighty than le gavel.

This will end with kids dying and being left damaged and disabled for life by diseases basic science has cured. RFK Jr will be gone sooner or later (ideally sooner) but nothing will bring those kids back or repair the damage done to their families.

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.

They could go door-to-door in the US and not find anyone either.

Astonishing reporting that the concern is described as "hitting other cars". What about road users, or is the US so car-pilled that it can't perceive their being other users.

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮