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I spent a decade arguing with antivaxxers on X. Showing them papers. Explaining their errors. Correcting their disinformation. I've done my bit for "dialogue with people I disagree with". I'm here to hang out with people I like. For everyone else, I have no guilt about using the block button.

A very revealing post about Twitter v. Bluesky culture, and about how some people who are consciously aware of that difference are nevertheless willing to accept popularity on Twitter despite now knowing what that means.

Racism remains an unbeatable marker for stupidity. There are no clever racists.

Profoundly depressing

Basically, no we don't, because we've never needed to. Until recently, the climate was such that we didn't get particularly disastrous weather events. No hurricanes, lethal tornadoes, wildfires, etc. We don't even have deadly animals.

Fun fact: Russia sent an actual neo-Nazi to represent them at the United Nations. There's an expression about stones and glass houses... www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Dear Yahoo I neither need nor want you to gamify my inbox. I just want to read my fucking emails in as quick, efficient and frictionless a manner as possible. Signed, Literally everyone.

I have never seen this before. I wonder if @disabilitystor1.bsky.social has...

The "abysses of the inhumane Nazi dictatorship" are better and more poignantly memorialised with ash anyway.

Most leaders are bad leaders because they mishandle existing crises. Trump has to be considered the worst leader because he creates crises where there weren’t any before and then loses any interest in handling them at all.

'The Immortal Memory!' Happy Trafalgar Day to all and most particularly to all who serve, or have served, in the British Fleet. Image: early 19th-century lithographic print, National Maritime Museum: PAD3758. #RoyalNavy #Trafalgar #TrafalgarDay

Q: what, Biblically speaking, is the root of all evil?

Having just had to pay for my winter heating oil, this is, in fact, the British government trying to address the cost of living crisis in the UK.

Perhaps Merriam-Webster will be pleased to learn that it did in Northern Ireland, where phrases like "take thon thing and put it on that shelf there" are still common parlance. There was even a joke about an NI Take That cover band called "Take Thon."

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

"Yes, Russia illegally and unwarrantedly invaded a sovereign European country, and that's bad, but let's not forget the other side of that coin: Ukraine, unforgivably, got invaded."

LMAO. I did not know this about Top Gun.

The UK population funds the BBC. When Trump sued it, he didn't sue a company: he sued *all 60 million of us*. So we're all* cheering on the BBC, because as a nation we despise bullies. *except for those wretched quislings led by Farage, of course.

Our enemies will always act like thugs and gangsters, because that's their entire goal. It is far more dangerous that supposed progressives talk like Neo Nazis and revel in the right to use their own hard R words and say Zio as if it wasn't coined by David Duke

Someone who is truly bad will never want for admirers.

I reserve the right to use whatever form of language is most congenial to me, and, with wild hypocrisy, judge everybody else who does the same.

This is a good point. The answer, of course, is that people use the products of maths and science every day, so even if they're not good at those subjects themselves, they see the benefit of them. I imagine that if you forced people to watch *only* AI products for entertainment, they'd wise up.

Hegseth claims that among American forces, "ISAF" stood for "I Saw Americans Fighting". Perhaps, in a spirit of transatlantic education, he would like to know that among non-US NATO forces in theatre, it stood for "I Saw Americans Fucking-up." www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It's always worth remembering that Hegseth, as a Fox News regular, spent more time in makeup than he did in camouflage, and regularly demonstrates that if brains were RDX, he wouldn't have enough to blow his nose.

Not only outlasted by a lettuce but also outthought by one too.

When it's easy, it isn't courage.

Lol. Not seen a better demonstration of 'desire path'

I have somehow never seen this before but it is immaculate. I imagine it would have received a standing ovation from Steve Coogan and @aiannucci.bsky.social . Just utterly magnificent.

The inability of certain Brits to recall that part of the UK exists on the other side of the Irish Sea is always extraordinary to observe.

This is your occasional reminder that some of the UK exists on the other side of the Irish Sea.

Remember when there used to be a program called "Law & Order" and those words weren't the punchline to a bad joke?

Stop! Hammer time.

Fascism takes refuge in an imagined past because it cannot imagine a future.

At long last, we have found a piece of news that Mike Johnson managed to hear at the same time as everyone else.

Billionaires get mad at things that can't be bought, like talent. Surely they should be able to write books and perform music and have mathematical insights just as well as the talented -- they're rich! If we let them dismiss and devalue real talent, we're going to pay a big price.

This "Boko Haramdroid" bullshit needs to be very firmly put back in its box.

[Jared Harris in The Expanse voice]

1950 casualties a day is wholly unsustainable for Russia.

This is the best argument I've yet seen for mass producing the damn things.

Not only did the lettuce outlast her, it's still crispy.

Congrats to incoming White House press secretary Tilly Norwood

I love this answer so much because it gets at the heart of what humanities scholars do and what's so threatening to authoritarians about it: Criticism is not inherently a negative. Criticism is looking at something to understand the parts of it and form deeper opinions about it with appreciation.

Sink the Bismarck for Tax Purposes.

This is, in my estimation, the single biggest impossibility in the books. Reacher is 6'5"; I am 6'4", and I can tell you from experience that the chances of a thrift store having trousers long enough to fit are pretty much zero.

Trump’s latest betrayal of Ukraine isn’t just immoral and callous. It is also deeply stupid and strategically illiterate. It benefits absolutely nobody except Vladimir Putin. More Ukrainians are going to die as a result. It is awful.