Alisdair "Diversity is the Spice of Life" McGregor

Melchior looks deeply unimpressed at the position he's being held in 😂

I keep thinking about how the legacy of The Hunger Games is the anti-junta resistance in Myanmar using the salute which honestly goes hard as fuck.

Meanwhile this is the legacy of Harry Potter.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

A good excuse for my favourite 'Conservatism in the UK in 2025' image: first story is from 2022, second is from autumn of last year.

2022 tweet from genspect saying 18-25 year olds shouldnt be making life altering decisions- they're still adolescents, their brains havent fully matured yet. trauma, mental health issues, neurodiversity and difficulty accepting homo/bisexuality can cause gender distress & are better addressed with therapy

Every time you say "the brain doesn't mature until age 25" going "adult minors" you're repeating anti-trans, ableist propaganda meant to strip adults of their healthcare autonomy. It's a misrepresentation of the study, when someone is 18 they're an adult! SHUT! UP! (SOURCES BELOW)🧵

Pagliacci [watching footage of his own show]: This isn’t bad. Areas to improve, but overall, it works. Huh. It’s funny, I avoided this for so long. I was afraid of taking stock of myself. And I was so focused on the road ahead, I never stopped to consider how far I’d come. Thank you, doctor

Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂

Max Mallowan - Wikipedia

Somewhat unsurprisingly, given that Christie was married to prominent Archaeologist and near-east classics academic Max Mallowan.

Her available knowledge of the subject would have been pretty much as good as it could have been for her day.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mal...

Firing billionaires into the sun is a waste of resources. It takes far far less delta-v to exceed the sun's escape velocity than it does to negate your orbital velocity around it.

Yeet the billionaires into the cold dark outer beyond, please.

Everybody's Free (except not to wear sunscreen)

It’s not “the trans lobby’s” reaction to “the inclusion of a book by a gay man”, it’s the LGBTQ community’s reaction to the inclusion of a transphobic hack who compared cis women supporting trans rights to holding down people to be raped, and got in a fight with the Auschwitz memorial!

Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread...

This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c

Is the coming American line going to be that Russia "earned" the parts of Ukraine they stole via an illegal invasion?

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

It’s amazing how ineffective cancel culture has been at actually cancelling people.

It honestly keeps reshocking me that the bloke who had a row with the Holocaust museum about his dogshit Holocaust book, the bloke who went TERF after being criticised for writing a similarly awful novel about trans kids, and the bloke who plagiarised Zelda by mistake, are all the same bloke.

Art.

Original painting: art, deliberate, soulful

AI 'exploration' of original painting: not art, ghoulish, inhuman, emperor's new clothes

Putting the Doom UI over it: art, intentional, hilarious, human, quietly profound

Protesters in Israel march against Netanyahu’s plan to escalate Gaza war Families of hostages were among the protesters amid new fears over the 50 remaining captives, with 20 of them thought to be alive, held by Hamas.

Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets across Israel to protest against the Netanyahu government’s plan to expand its military operation in the Gaza Strip.

A white square with art nouveau border and text reading "Membership Wave 2: Live in Five! Good Luck!"

Just five short minutes until we open the turnstile for Wave 2! Head over to our purchase portal here: www.tickettailor.com...

Good Luck!

A man standing on what appears to be a balcony of his home.

The man's living room. There's a couch, coffee table, and foot stool, as well as some tall windows. Lots of wood.

Another living space with a fireplace and bookshelf. Possibly a compression hallway leading to this room.

The outside of the home.

Incredible.

Roland Reisley is 101 years old, the last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright. He still lives in the 3,200 square foot home that Wright built for him in 1952.

The price? $40,000. Or a little less than half a million in today's money.

Great idea. Mastercard DID NOT WANT to be brought up negatively in the context of their sponsorship of Riot's esports

Weaponize that against them

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything

me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Happy birthday!

UK organisations with trans members/service users: this is the time to:-

a) refuse to comply with transphobia
b) make it clear to your trans members/service users that you are going to refuse, so they know they are safe.

Don't be intimidated into appeasing fascists, please.

WTF are Hamptons, anyway?

Proof, were it needed, that New York has fallen *far* from the state of grace that is Yorkshire.

if I ever go properly "screaming about nothing in particular in the street" mad it will be due to having spent too much time having read about the opinions of men who have absolutely never cared about women's rights for one moment in their lives but decided to pretend just for the sake of racism

a video game where you have to steal the pierogi you've been denied

every run of the game starts from scratch on a randomized map

it's called a pieroguelike