Amy

Married her yesterday.

When I see arguments about whether mental health problems are caused by trauma or neurotype or society or brain chemistry I feel like I'm watching two people have a fist fight over whether Kermit is a Muppet or a frog. Multiple things can be the case simultaneously. One does not negate the others.

An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens Neo-Nazis are targeting the rich and the young to fill their ranks – and coffers. And one of Andrew Tate’s right-hand men is helping them draw boys in.

Followers of rapist and sex trafficker misogynist influencer Andrew Tate have been responsible for multiple rapes and murders. Now his right-hand man, Stirling Cooper aka Nigel Clifford, is helping recruit teenage boys for the National Socialist Network. www.smh.com.au/national/an-...

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

"You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | My commentary on Bill Gates' flawed new climate missive for @thebulletin.org: thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-...

Once again stressing I am NOT Catholic, but it's so crazy I get to be alive for a Cool Pope.

This announcement was deliberately timed for 'taking out the trash' on late Friday afternoon.

It's time that the #NACC trash was taken out properly, with Brereton's resignation. #auspol

It’s what the world needs right now, it would be criminal not to

Shire suggests blowing up dead whale as alternative to expensive disposal A coastal shire in WA suggests towing a rotting whale carcass out to sea and blowing it up, saying it cannot afford to dispose of the whale itself.

Lol it is clear that no one on Waroona Shire council is on the internet. I so hope they do this.

“Waroona Shire suggests blowing up rotting whale carcass to save money” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A newspaper full page ad with a brightly colored burst of exploding powder, Adobe logo in the corner, copy reading “experience the magic of buying new software every month forever”

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

I'm really asking a lot of these multivitamins

Royals meet Royalty 👑⚾️ Former Kansas City Royals player Mike Sweeney and wife Shara presented Pope Leo XIV with a special jersey on Wednesday, October 1, 2025, symbolizing his role as the 267th successor of St. Peter. Photo: Vatican Media

Being Pope means just receiving baseball jerseys all day long of teams he hates

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

Getting the distinct impression that the thing holding up US markets is the lack of official numbers.
(I guess the govt shutdown is serving its purpose.)
Also: the AI bubble, which is going to burst soon.

Beautiful things made by actual people

Tolkien fought in the Battle of the Somme. He saw the horrors of war, and the moments of bravery and fear within it up close.

And after all that. ALL that. He wrote Lord of the Rings. He declared true bravery and masculinity to be love, friendship and humbleness.

Musk is everything he hated.

Tolkien understood masculinity to a level Elon Musk and fascist tech bros can NEVER understand.

All the shit they do in Call of Duty he did for real in the mud and blood of the Western Front.

He came out of that rejecting all of the macho bullshit they claim it teaches you.

Fuck 'em.

Excerpt from the article about women in countries where they walk days for prenatal and birth care and the help of properly qualified helpers.

Excerpt from the article about the advocates for unattended or home birth too far from skilled and teained assistance for complications, who then disappear when somebody dies or is disabled. Unlike medical staff, they don't always face consequences for dangerous or false advice.

Text from the article about influencers and advocates who don't understand you can't choose your birth experience. You can't guarantee a safe birth just by believing. They don't see or acknowledge the horror of a post-partum haemorrhage, or the immediate emergency of a baby born not breathing in a room of people who don't know enough to help.

Text from the article about how medical science is there to help mothers and babies who are still damaged or dying because 'someone told them they would be fine'.

Dr Vinay Rane in The Age on the tragic crises, injuries & deaths repeatedly caused by people who oppose prenatal tests & vaccinations, & insist on 'freebirths' & home-births in any circumstances. Women are lied to about risks, giving birth in danger too far from specialist care if things go wrong.

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

Because people think you're a bitch if you don't.

See also: add emoticons, softening qualifiers, and any other happy-go-lucky, no-worries-if-not! flair.

It's genocide. That's all it has ever been.

They don't make underwear catalogues like they used to.

Fesshole screenshot: I may have nearly knocked out my gynecologist by shooting a speculum at his head. It wasn't my fault. He made me laugh, my muscles contracted, and suddenly my twat was a cannon.

It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...

RFK Jr tells everyone they need nutrition, not meds, then the government makes sure people can't have either.

Grog's rule of privatisation:

"The day you decide to allow the private sector deliver a public service is also the day you should set the future date for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system."

Disappearing jewels. Today’s Age cartoon

Scientists Oppose Huge Array of Mirrors in Space That Shines Nighttime Sunlight on Wealthy Customers The astronomical community is horrified at plans made by a for-profit company to flood the night sky with sunlight.

There is no guillotine sharp enough y'all
futurism.com/space/scient...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you have friends struggling through the shutdown, consider inviting them over for a family dinner this week. Make too much. Insist they take leftovers home. Some folks can't say they need help out loud but will appreciate the kindness.

"things get bad when people are hungry" has been the #1 rule of societies since the literal beginning of civilization as a concept to the point saying hunger causes unrest isn't a prediction so much as it is an observation

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.