Headline form The Irish News website: Palestine Action grandmother says she was arrested after speaking Irish The 74-year-old west Belfast woman remains defiant following the arrest

"One of the police officers came over and asked me my name, so I gave him my name. I gave it in Irish. He asked me my address, I gave him my address in Irish, and he went away and came back and said 'you have to give it in English or we will arrest you'.

These days, if you don't give your name in English you get arrested and thrown in jail.

New signposting in the UK.

A sulky looking tri girl.

WUT U WANT.

almost like the real gamble is even going

Also, FFS. Get out of my mentions with your AI defenses. I am talking about literature in my magazine. Not about cancer research or whatever the fuck you are twisting into a justifcation about using programs trained on stolen art and writing to make crappy stories to flood my submission portal.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Illustrated comic by Yeppenny Doodles of a cute bunny reluctant to rest, and a cat tucking the bunny into a blanket and reminding them that rest isn’t a reward but rather it is part of their progress.

You deserve rest 💙 #art #comics

Wearyingly frequently necessary reminder that "social darwinism" or anything else that equates notions of intelligence with "fitness to live" is just ableist eugenicist bullshit derived from a fascist-minded misapplication of darwinism, no matter how clever and snarky and cool you think you're being

Please Do Not Howl human howling causes stress to wolves

the zoo is homphobic

This video shows the process behind one continuous shot showing a condensed period of time in a woman's life and the changes to her apartment in the show Kidding. AI could make something that looks kind of like this but it could never make you wonder about it. You'd never discuss it with friends.

Blue pink white trans flag spray-painted, with a pirate skull symbol painted in black with the word YARRRR! underneath.

When you're walking along an old railroad right of way sometimes you discover trans pirates have been there already.

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

The UK is slogging through an online age-gate apocalypse A lot of IP addressess moved overseas this weekend.

Reddit has officially blocked subreddits such as r/periods, r/stopsmoking, r/stopdrinking, and r/sexualassault for UK minors and anyone in the UK who is unwilling to submit their age/identity information.

All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.

Dear U.K. Labour. The fact that VPNs can easily bypass large parts of the Online Safety Act is *not* a reason to ban VPNs. It’s a reason to rethink the Online Safety Act.

We did tell you. Many times.

Don’t throw good money after bad.

You have met one plural person then you have met ... an unknown number of plural people who may or may not identify as people and it's complicated and yeah.

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

There are few creatures in nature more impressive than a transsexual from the countryside

Werner Herzog voice:
"It's like a curse
weighing on an entire landscape.
And whoever...
goes too deep into this...
has his share of that curse.
So we are cursed
with what we are doing here"

I like to think I'm that curse on the rural landscape

As a native Spanish speaker, it baffles me the dissonance between written and oral languages in English.

For instance, you write "BlueSky is a dead echo chamber for libs", but it reads "I want to post slurs without being blocked".

Just remembered that America’s Next Top Model had multiple race swapping photo shoots and cancel culture hasn’t gone far enough

moveslikekeithrichards on Tumblr: "may your next ibuprofen take effect swiftly and noticeably"

A multi panel cartoon in which a priest named X’tharr sells the prayers of a church full of orphans to manipulate the gods to get victories for whichever fans pay more for their team

@maxgladstone.bsky.social I saw this on oglaf.com the other day and was reminded of your books

One of the most consistent reactions I hear to Barry Levinson’s The Bay (2012) is how often it propels viewers who go to the beach or leave in coastal areas to learn more about the deadly seriousness of Vibrio.

Ollie collie

Have you heard the good news? Dogs are real

A friendly Prime Day reminder that there are over 7 ongoing investigations into Amazon's illegal practices and worker safety violations.

Jeff Bezos is worth over $236 billion and yet can’t bring himself to protect his employees or pay them a livable wage.

Amazon Workers Win a Union as Company’s Tactics Slammed | The Tyee BC’s labour board grants automatic certification because of an unfair anti-union campaign. Amazon plans to fight.

Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab

yes, this is why Lichen is Yuri