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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege

Anyway, to be clear, this isn't about the people giving interesting, nuanced opinions on the situation. It's the ones who are making memes. And even then, not saying they're bad to do so. i think I'm just lamenting how we process information.

I think i also feel surprisingly anxious about Mamdani. Now that he's won, he needs to deliver and unfortunately, we're all watching.

Or like you'red endeared towards him. Like some of the things he's done are just absurd developments in a TV show. And also, I guess sometimes that's the way to process these things because confronting the reality of it all the time is - for lack of a better term - overwhelming.

Trying to collect my thoughts on Mamdani/Trump and struggling. Which I think is the point? To some extent it's a trap. It all plays into Cult of Personality politics which plays out so bizarrely on social media. But I think my actual issue is that some of you are chatting like you like Trump.

Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.

Mayor Mamdani is right yet again.

Free busing works!

Pass the news to Governor Hochul.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

“Just as Prometheus stole fire for humanity’s benefit only to be condemned by Zeus to everlasting torment, the Wet Bandits left the faucets running and were similarly damned by the mischievous child deity Kevin. In this essay I will…”

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Home Alone makes changes to the Die Hard formula that render it hard for me to enjoy. The McClain character should feel overawed. And in theory having Kevin be a child versus adults achieves that. But the thing is: Kevin is a god. It's not just Tom & Jerry. This is some random punks versus Anansi.

Ex-leader of Reform UK in Wales sentenced to 10-and-a-half years for taking pro-Russian bribes The judge tells Nathan Gill his actions were a

This story is all Nigel Farage should be asked about by journalists for months

Photo of a pack of colour pencils. There are eighteen coloured pencils. The packet is green and has a slightly messed-up looking tiger on it with an ever-so-slightly-sneering expression.

A close up of the text above the tiger. it reads: "What is learned/ in the cradle/ is carried to the grave."

A close up on the tiger. It is judging you and your meaty mortality with its printed stare.

Hey. HEY. Just look at these pencils a mate of mine found in a pound shop earlier.

The majority of the UK media, encouraged by the UK's equality body, is waging a campaign to encourage the public, employers and health providers to harass anyone who doesn't fit their definition of what a woman should look like.

This is what JK Rowling is funding.

This is going to be fun, waiting to be policed that one is not femme enough in public spaces. It's an open door for almost any kind of harassment and possibly sexual assault, by anyone.
Thanks you absolute fuckwit terfs. This is on you. And we know who you are.

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

So much in the world would be so different if men could just be normal about women.

You ever think about how many people must have said "nah, he's just like that" about you and shudder?

every time I hear that stupid ass speech from Senator Eric Schmitt about the American "nation-state" or these stupid pro-war zoomers, i keep coming back to this from Nagisa Oshima's Death By Hanging (1968)

Even with my bedrock low opinion of Labour, I was clinging to some shred of hope that even they would realise that stealing the last remaining possessions of people who have fled for their lives was a disgusting policy. Turns out there isn't a bottom to this particular barrel they are scraping.

Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

For fairly obvious reasons when people flee their countries of origin to seek asylum elsewhere they can't carry much. Often things like jewellery are all they have to hold onto. This isn't just stripping people of "assets", it is stealing their memories. 57/
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

too real lol

Another reason why "No Kings" is a Dem liberal psyop

Besides the fact that Trump isn't a "king," us genuine anticapitalist/anti-imperialist leftists* don't simply want to replace Trump

We want to dismantle the system.

"No Kings" heroes made Trump happen.

Before Trump, Obama was top ICE deporter!

it’s cool how every newspaper is now like “hehe bribery isn’t real when the king says so”

Apropos of nothing, Muse Score utilises Dark Patterns to trick you into paying for a paid sub, and then makes cancelling that sub as cumbersome as possible. Yuck. Boo. Gross. Get the fuck out of here.

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the IWGB Game Workers Union exercising their right to organize following reports of union-busting at Rockstar. Our members’ union performances on Rockstar games are an integral part of the success and legacy of games like Grand Theft Auto. All Rockstar workers deserve the same. We are in this fight together.

SAG-AFTRA stands in solidarity with the IWGB Game Workers Union exercising their right to organize following reports of union-busting at Rockstar. Our members’ union performances on Rockstar games are an integral part of the success and legacy of games like Grand Theft Auto.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers?

We've been in court all day at the hearing for our case against the EHRC's interim guidance.

We stand by what we said: the guidance is transphobic, harmful - and legally wrong.

One way that I am racist is I quite like Fancy by Iggy Azalea.