Sophia McDougall

Drunk girl yelling at nonplussed guy meme

the reason we don’t have discourse about a crisis of femininity is that any attempt to construct one would collapse under the absurdity of its outmoded gender essentialism, suggesting that masculinity is not so much in crisis as the uncritical belief that masculinity even exists is itself the crisis

These fuckers … we don’t have to let them into our institutions. We just don’t.

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

"I saw a lotus flower for the first time and the first thing I thought was, what if there was a subscription based service that allowed poor people to rent this experience" laughing but also crying bc this is exactly how tech bros and the 1% think

Talk to your neighbour! Start train spotting! Consider tennis! Get a dog and go to puppy classes! What of lawn bowls? What of music lessons! Learn to ceilidh dance! Take French! MY GOD LADS IT DOESNT HAVE TO BE FASCISM.

Terribly sorry that the chaps are lonely again, have they tried volunteering? Only, there’s an awful lot needs done.

Increasingly I think a major function of “masculinity” IS its crisis — a vehicle for the dominant & dominating group to justify focusing their social attentions primarily on themselves

I thought it was 7k?

Screenshot of Telegraph page with a headline reading "Solar farm will blight ancient pilgrim path" - above a UK Government advertisement reading "Our modern Industrial Strategy is making it quicker and easier to do business in the UK"

UK government advertising doesn't just help to fund the Telegraph's toxic commentary, it also helps the newspaper - which is becoming notorious for its misleading coverage across a range of issues - to retain a veneer of legitimacy.

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

@mckelvie.bsky.social has discovered that because I haven’t done the age verification, I can only read the first line of his messages and only briefly….

The end result of this is that a bunch of cis women athletes are going to find out they're intersex.

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Listen I wrote what I wanted to, and if I wanted to write some insipidly punctuated piece of shit instead I would’ve done that

National Theatre Live a production from National Theatre WALES MILLENNIUM CENTRE One man's dream of the NHS Nye a new play by Tim Price picture : actor Michael Sheen a middle aged man with grey hair in front of a blue NHS style ward curtain wearing burgundy and white striped pyjamas

So I saw this last night and it was excellent but you know for a FACT Nye Bevan would not have got his NHS bill approved by the Labour cabinet of 2025. A few wry groans from the audience as he talked about his vision for the NHS including glasses and dental care for everyone!

‘Yes, Twitter is 75% digital ghosts of Oswald Moseley but BlueSky is still a lefty echo chamber and I shan’t be moving by John Fitzroy Bottomley Columnist. Only in the Spectator, right before the colouring in pages.’

i think about it daily, almost hourly some days

...apparently there are THREE seasons of this yet this is the first I'm hearing of it?!

What the fuck are you doing. I mean aside from admittedly starving sick children.

Saying this with as much love as possible, but please stop using AI generated graphics for activism. Plenty of artists willingly donate their time and work designing for activists, and always have. It's not necessary to step on an increasingly struggling group in order to promote worthy causes.

...they should do this. This is fine. They're not exactly going to stop endlessly capitulating to the billionaire-owned press without finding ways to communicate around it, are they?

I get absolutely nothing. No response ever of any kind.

Mockup drawing of a UK parliament petition where the petitioner has asked for "good thing please" with description "we think the UK needs this". Government responded: "No."

Every UK petition is like this

When you climb into the vents of your spaceship to kill the alien but you find Pavarotti offering you tomatoes instead.

The happy realisation of the non-sports fan that the reason there's suddenly a big England flag flying on the estate is NOT fascism.

Ah fuck. I guess in some way I hoped we'd get to keep him forever.

Screenshot of Bluesky post that reads “Hello. I’m a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.”

Look I’m sure I’m just suffering a touch of hungover irritability but this and its replies are tedious. Seeing fictional characters go to the loo isn’t narratively useful! Why don’t you know how drama works??

Badenoch aside, I want to draw attention to the fact that the chyron says:

Bog Geldof: Israel "lying" about starvation in Gaza."

Everything after the colon is obviously a quote. But they had to put "lying" in scare quotes.

the way that books that are widely taught in schools and considered classic literature would violate these content guidelines immediately (brave new world, slaughterhouse five, catcher in the rye)…

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls