Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale.
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.
Something something Torment Nexus (for some reason BlueSky is refusing to let me upload the bit)
Holy crap. Just seen a C4 ad for The Hunt.
It's basically The Hunger Games for up to a £100k cash prize.
When will we learn?!
Also would like to point out: the UK has free healthcare. Nobody goes bankrupt or dies from lack of funds. In fact I had major emergency spinal surgery (including two ambulance transfers) 13 months ago & I'm not only able to walk, but I'm also not paying for it out of my bank balance?
if you were to write a prophecy of the future back in 2000 that "in 2026, President Donald John Trump has launched a war on Iran with Israel after previously attempting a coup to stay in power in 2020", people would think you've gone insane
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
My dad was a prick but at least he died before Trump's first inauguration. He'd be spinning so fast in his urn, it might actually create nuclear fusion.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
1. This is despicably evil.
2. This needs to be fought at every level. There is no world in which this cannot be considered cruel and unusual punishment.
3. Those behind this effort need to be exposed and never know a moments peace.
Don't forget - our last school shooting was in 1996!
The UK was declared measles free in 2017.
Vaccine programs completely eliminated it.
Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.
GALLEGO: After Renee Good was killed, the agent called her a "fucking bitch" on camera. Is this how your agents are trained to act?
SCOTT: No sir
GALLEGO: Is that professional?
SCOTT: No sir
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I gotta say I do not love that artist drawing dead trans women’s faces on Harry Potter books. Like, when I die the last thing I want is to be associated with someone who hates my entire existence. Distasteful.
(Oops, was that political? No sir not me) 🙃
Dear Mr. Nadeau: As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness. Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed, sometimes rather suddenly. It is quite obvious that the human race has made a queer mess of life on this planet. But as a people we probably harbor seeds of goodness that have lain for a long time waiting to sprout when the conditions are right. Man’s curiosity, his relentlessness, his inventiveness, his ingenuity have led him into deep trouble. We can only hope that these same traits will enable him to claw his way out. Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. Sincerely, E. B. White
I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:
Watching the Winter Olympics & can safely categorise all the events into one of two categories (with some overlap).
Basically it's either:
"Ice? Fuck you"
Or:
"Gravity? Fuck you"
(Or both. Examples: luge, skeleton & bobsleigh)
@soozuk.bsky.social so one of my trans groups asked on behalf of C4 if they knew any trans comedians & someone nominated you! (Had to gently point out that you're an ally but very much cis) 😂
The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.
What a way to leave X.
Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
Ugh, this is going to hit differently. RIP Kevin’s mom.
Bellingcat community members have already found two files detailing explicit allegations that President Trump engaged in sexual activities with children.
One file is an FBI complaint form and the other is an FBI email chain.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
white supremacists really like fantasizing about Black people in chains, for some reason.
BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56
This is a disgracefully dishonest headline from the BBC. Its motivation can only be deliberately to mislead the public about who lost the case.
When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?
In theater. So they think they’re at war.
BREAKING: WIN 🏳️⚧️ 💥
The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged.
Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.
