Lizzy

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Ohhhh, ok. I saw a TikTok yesterday with someone showing how long it took her to annotate something (like, working on it since January) and this explains it. Cannot remember the specific book, but it was a Penguin Classic of some description.

Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.

Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.

Importantly *not* one of the breakfast sandwiches. A lunch sandwich.

Shoutout to the guy on my train who just ate a full Pret sandwich for breakfast.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

I am once again on a train to London.

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

regardless of if they're misogynists or genuinely nice guys, a lot of men assume sexism looks like catcalling and sexual advances. distinct actions that people either do or don't do

to any men seeing this post, read this paragraph. live in it for a while. imagine finding this experience everywhere.

Agent Hunt — ANDREA PHILLIPS // secret.works It’s worked more than once that I tell the universe what I want and it delivers, so let’s try this again — Quite some time ago, I emailed my literary agent to introduce her to a friend and discovered...

RIGHT this works surprisingly often so: hey, friends! I need a new agent! Do you know an agent who would love my stuff?

secret.works/blog/dwfhed9...

💀💀💀💀💀

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Gross

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

My guess is you keep across the news. You know Andy Mountbatten-Windsor has just had the worst birthday ever; that tall hotels in Dubai don’t make for a great holiday right now; and that Keir Starmer’s engagements diary for 2027 will be remarkably clear. Still, there is one headline I’ll bet you haven’t seen, even though it directly affects your life. It’s about your life, and mine, and those of our families and friends and neighbours. I didn’t spot it either, until a few days ago when the Guardian ran a reader’s letter. It came from Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield. Why, he asked, hadn’t this newspaper made more of the latest “shocking” figures on healthy life expectancy? I looked up the report from the Office for National Statistics, and he’s absolutely right: the findings are indeed “momentous”, and they should be on the front pages, because they expose a serious truth about the state we’re in

The intro is also damning about our media ecosystem and its complicity in the death of democracy (or anything vaguely resembling it)

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:

"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

I get why, and it's incredible that it's still there tbh, but it's still sad to see it go. RIP Ianto, you will never be forgotten.

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

People my age: welcome to your 32nd consecutive year of "events mean your life has to get shitter"

You know, the longer I work in publishing, the more and more I hate the weeks leading up to London Book Fair.

It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.

Greg Davies: Walked out of the underworld. Didn't look back once. Job done!

Orpheus: Thanks

Alex Horne: We did want to show you one more clip of when he came out...

Companies after Pride Month is over

I really think we deserve for it to be at least Thursday already.

I saw it on my watch this afternoon 😂

I’m not sure I would resist if I had a new mattress.

Buoy in the goalie line-up. As it should be.