Annie Kelly

I would really like any of the people who support this war to address this rather than going on about how the 49% of the country who oppose it are secret Islamists who love the Ayatollah

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
www.reuters.com/world/middle...

If society can survive bisexuality being invented in 1995, we'll make it through some theoretically ethical non-monogamy

Bethany S. Mandel✔ @bethanyshondark Follow The goal is the complete destruction of every building block of our society. Once you understand that, everything else makes sense. nytimes.com/2026/03/04/pod... "I was devastated. Our initial conversation was a lot of me crying and being like, I don't want anyone else." Lindy West on the "Modern Love" podcast discussing when her husband told her he wanted to be non-monogamous. David. Jaewon Oh for The New York Times

If "I have a boyfriend AND a girlfriend. And I think that's very interesting" thinkpieces could dismantle society that effectively then civilization would have collapsed sometime in 2018

Oh I wasn't having a go at you! Like I say it's understandable given how the issue's been misreported, I just always try to correct the record where I can

Really not that many of them! Just lots of the ones with newspaper columns. Gay cis women in this country are consistently the most supportive demographic of trans rights when polled. This comes as a shock to lots of people here because of how the media paints the story as "trans women vs lesbians"

DOCTOR: Looks great! Anything else?
ME: Yeah, can I get the government printout detailing the hidden flaw they identified in me at birth?
DOCTOR: Sorry, I don’t know what you’re talking about.
ME: No worries, had to try.
DOCTOR: Of course. I’m hoping to see my own form someday.

Honestly lots of people let their political ideologies relax a little when it comes to their personal lives and white supremacists, odd as it might seem, don't really seem to be an exception to that rule

No one is moving like her

Reminded of when media outlets kept on describing his "Deus Vult" tattoo as a "Christian tattoo" or "believed to be based on historic crusader battlecry", I guess because "gamer phrase widely adopted as a meme by 4chan Nazis" sounded too pathetic even if more accurate

A little bit of that but more being outshone, of someone making you look worse by comparison simply by being there.. Tbh when you strip away all the masculinity bullshit I've found it to be quite a relatable feeling!

Stop this is making me have too many summer feelings and it's only march..

When I'm sat feeding my toddler chips in the pub and another mother cracks out her tupperware of homemade spinach muffins, I cannot find a better word for the feeling than "mum-mogged"

Tbh there is so much cross-pollination between those communities in the early days there may be no way of knowing what's right

Is that right? My understanding of its origin was that it came from PUA reports stemming from getting AMOGed (Alpha Male of Group) - when someone more Chadly than you would come along and throw off your game

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I'll be honest, while I think all of this stuff going mainstream is very bad, "mogged" is probably one of my favourite bits of manosphere slang. Unlike a lot of their bullshit it feels actually useful as a term. Sometimes you really do just get mogged

American Unreality — Part 2: The Social Gravity of the Lie Springfield and the Social Production of Reality

New post (thanks to @annieknk.bsky.social for her edits+feedback) looking at the structural forces that make misinformation and disinformation so hard to combat, why current responses like fact-checking keep falling short, and what that means for American democracy.
open.substack.com/pub/american...

I think that might have got a reference in the credits!

Ok what's funny about this is it's very old PUA lingo! It comes from the forum days - probably whoever originally invented it is at least 45 now

It's got a pretty limited release understandably, but I thought the Testament of Ann Lee was a really extraordinary film. One of the most inventive and interesting films about religion I've seen

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Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

Christiaan Triebert @trortc X.com At least two young children were killed in the strike (likely on the state broadcaster across the street that heavily damaged the Gandhi Hospital, per the spokesperson for Iran's health ministry. Warning: these are graphic images. w/@anushkapatil Yesterday in southern Iran, around 180 young children lost their lives in a single missile strike. Tonight in Tehran, Gandhi Hospital was targeted by the same kind of missile. My colleagues are now in the process of evacuating the hospital.

Two babies.

The Israeli strike on the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran killed two babies.

(I’m not going to share the images, but I saw them.)

TASNIM WEWS Majid @Majid5963 Follow § Translated from Persian Show original Tasnim: Nurses at Gandhi Hospital are transferring newborns.

Christiaan Triebert @trortc X.com The video showing the incubator is also filmed on that same street. See buildings in the background. x.com/ Majid5963/stat... TASNIM @ Majid @Majid5963•2h Translated from Persian Tasnim: Nurses at Gandhi Hospital are transferring newborns.

There is verified video of nurses frantically trying to transport newborns in incubators away from the targeted hospital:

I wonder if she's obliquely trying to do a "Britain isn't BRITISH anymore" kind of thing, those are very popular rn, but wouldn't want to make that claim until I've had a look at the account

Given the location and the spices she singles out this feels like it's less about the British and more of a hate crime against Yotam Ottolenghi specifically

Screenshot of Telegraph article from 2024 Labour Together failed to declare £700k in donations amid antiSemitism fears Morgan McSweeney did not reveal source of funds over concerns about the safety of a Jewish donor

excerpt from Simons' resignation letter I should explain why I was so concerned. I feared the narratives that this confidential material would be used to push ahead of an election campaign. After the EHRC investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party, you said "those who seek to blame others or downplay what happened in our party are, themselves, part of the problem." I was particularly concerned about the upcoming publication of a book by Paul Holden, who had obtained this confidential material. I believe those concerns were justified. The book diminishes the antisemitism that infected Labour under its previous leadership. It refers constantly to the 'antisemitism crisis' in quotation marks, implying it was confected. Its front cover featured an endorsement from Andrew Feinstein, a man who appeared at an event called "How Jeremy Corbyn was destroyed by a smear campaign led by Istael." The Labour

2024: Labour Together briefs that donations were not reported to protect the "safety" of Trevor Chinn due to antisemitism.

2026: Josh Simons justifies investigating journalists who reported on the donations because one also wrote a book that "diminishes" Labour antisemitism.

Grotesquely cynical.

Toddler embracing a book about dinosaurs

My son has developed a very sweet little routine where he flicks through this book about dinosaurs until he finds the page with the Allosaurus, then clumsily tries to give it a cuddle