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The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

In which @lewisgoodall.com outside himself as a reader of Popbitch, which did make me smile.

Q: "What did Watson and Crick discover?"

A: "Rosalind Franklin's notes."

…They should ask themselves why so many young (45 and under) people are so unhappy with the economy/politics and convinced that capitalism isn’t working for them. Because in the main- it isn’t.

Michael Burry Returns With Two Big Shorts: Palantir and Nvidia Signs of an AI bubble abound: Stock valuations have become uncomfortably rich, AI-related debt is ballooning, and a sustainable financial model for the technology has largely yet to emerge. Now Michae...

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst - played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” - just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism: 1). They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement bc they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled thru terror 2). If they can’t terrorize you 24/7 in your mind, they have already lost the war 3). The single best way you can resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you constantly. Protect your mental health to ensure you are not constantly in a terrorized state 4). Keep connecting to who you are at your core. Your values, preferences, ethics, and beliefs. Build up capacity to resist 5). Remember they are like abusive parents: they only see us extensions of them. They have no clue how powerful joy and community and self-expression can be. We can use this to our advantage — we can be the strong-willed child they never saw coming. Spending time connecting to your true self is not selfish in these times — it’s intricately connected to a resistance movement that is tied to honoring our bodies, our communities, and to the land. We have to build capacity to resist by being exactly who we are!

DLMayfield:

"Here’s my pep talk after studying authoritarianism:

They never truly expect a long-term resistance movement because they think people are a collection of trauma triggers who are easily controlled through terror.

The best way to resist fascism is to not let them terrorize you."

The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage's defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues Adam Bienkov

🔴The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage’s Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks

Despite widespread media predictions of a Reform victory on Thursday, Farage’s defeat shows his party continues to be overestimated, argues @adambienkov.bsky.social

I fail to see the purpose of inviting someone solely famous for lying, cheating and grifting on as an interviewee. What light can an interview shed when every word is suspect?

Nazir Afzal is the person I miss most since leaving Twitter. Please post here more!

DOUBLED!!!

Absolutely extraordinary.

Thank you everyone.

This is the movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

People are starting to acknowledge that the (AI) emperor has no clothes.

Fascinating thread on building a protest movement:

#NoKings

If a condition of being a socially acceptable woman is to spend thousands and thousands of dollars and endure untold pain in order to cut yourself open and mutate your face and body into shapes that do not appear in nature then I think that might be a sign of gendered oppression, actually.

All these people choosing hope!

Retweet as this, in two crisp sentences, is the platonic ideal of a social media post:

The Kent Reform group have been surprised to find that their intuitions & messages about profligate and pointless spending which could be painlessly cut were an imaginary projection
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Why aren't leading Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer more outspoken in organising against Trump as he threatens democracy? What are they doing to hold him to account?

You know how Trump (partly) blamed the 2020 election loss on the voting machines, and the company that made the machines took legal action to force them to retract the allegation? Is the same thing going to happen with Tylenol?

Linguistics.

Emily was wrong to say Christian Nationalism is about sowing (sewing?) the teachings of Christ into the workings of government. Christian Nationalism is entirely antithetical to the teachings of Christ ("whatever you do unto the least of these, you do unto me").

I was an active leaflet-dropping, door-knocking Lib Dem for years until 2017. Now I have joined the Greens, because I feel Zack Polanski offers hope that British politics doesn't have to be a joyless trudge in Trump's authoritarian footsteps. I'm excited about this new hope!

The real way to help children with autism and neurodivergence is to FUND SCHOOLS. Fund the welfare state. Create opportunities for parents to have an education and well paying jobs. More EAs in school, more doctors.

Our society is anti-child, and this is why so many children are in burnout.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade

Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’

Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

Sigh.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

How frightening, but so glad he was seen quickly. Love to you all.