Frank Brinkley

patient : doctor i am depressed .
doctor : solution is simple , watch the muppet show special with sabrina carpenter
patient : ohh good idea !! i actually perform as a clown named pagliacci so im big into comedy

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Fun fact! Canada has roughly the same population as Greater Tokyo, around 40 million people. But our population density is much lower. (4.5 per km² vs. 2,642 per km²)

If Canada had the same density as Tokyo, it would hold 23,219,745,400 people. Nearly triple the population of Earth.

We have space.

I don't know about y'all, but I've managed to live 38 years as an autistic person without being a fucking pedophile.

Do you like cat photos? Are you constantly distracted? You’re probably actually quite good at focussing: 10 myths about attention Every second, 11m bits of information enter our brains, which then efficiently prioritise them. We need to learn to work with the process, rather than against it

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... this was really interesting. In my line of work, the tyranny of social media, of phones demanding our time, can often crop up and this felt a really good examination of some of those pressures and what we might want to do in response.

“It's important to try to write when you are in the wrong mood or when the weather is wrong.” — John Ashbery

A new question we need to be asking ourselves and each other is “to what end?”
Not just why, but what is the ultimate point?

It’s exactly the kind of hopeless, bodged-together thing you’d expect, with companies demanding your data & promoting their wares
(thread seems a bit broken, at one point you might need to click penultimate post to see the rest)

it is beautiful how we are having another moment of Bluesky unity. everybody basking in the glow of how Ilhan Omar was very visibly gonna punch that dude in the mouth

I think what’s fascinating about this is how well it demonstrates that you can take over the free world but still be literally unable, even when you burn millions on trying, to be even slightly culturally relevant in a positive sense outside your bubble. Not EVEN the Reform weirdos bothering here.

Put it like this - there are probably literally hundreds of teenage cover bands that’ll play better attended events this month than the president of the USA was able to muster by giving cinemas *millions of dollars*. That’s the level of cultural capital they have outside their sphere.

Lo, as the Great Seer hath foretold:

I mean, we all laugh at David Cameron because he fucked it into the sun chasing the votes of racist pensioners, but he did at least get a few of them, and not none.

A moment that changed me: my client was accused of a crime he didn’t commit – and it led me to confront my past As a defence lawyer, I rely on witness statements. But one unusual case prompted me to reconsider the role of memory, and a traumatic experience that had affected me for years

This is a fascinating story about the fallibility of memory and how therapy doesn’t need to work with factual recollection* to do its thing: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... *if there is such a thing

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

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There is no strategy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

This is great - Andrea is incredible* and has so much to offer other writers!

*I am biased, I know!

Good to see space for these views to be explored in detail; a refreshing read explaining the bubble and how responses against AI aren’t simply fear…

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

feminist analysis requires that you understand power relations and harms to marginalized communities, and fight to destroy those forces. to use AI is one of the most anti-feminist things you can do on many levels, and that’s why tech bros and AI boosters love it.

“Instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for.”

Amen to this. Even creatives are urged to use gen AI and yet the point I always come back to is WHY use it.

And the only answers to that I’ve ever seen are: it’s quicker, and cheaper. So: a win for bosses not creatives.

A very cute but forlorn looking brown and white puppy with big eyes and floppy ears, sitting on a forest themed blanket. Facebook post message: “Central PA Humane Society: Susan from Accounting is a 4 month old female. We were told she is a Beagle/Australian shepherd mix”

BREAKING: This dog is named Susan From Accounting

After an intense discussion about geopolitics, these are the last two things my Uber driver said to me: “As I see it, World War Three is inevitable. Please rate me five stars.”

Just saw Sentimental Value at the movies. Probably going to be tough to top that in 2026. Was utterly engrossed and moved, a beautiful film, I think.

if these fuckers invade Boston all I ask as a Massachusetts native is to hear a bunch of guys from Southie going FACK YOU YA FACKIN NAZIS on camera