Holl🌞

Edward Said throwing a rock across the Lebanese border to Israel, 2002

Long live Lebanon

I could have skipped that whole rant earlier and just said this. Nobody is actually worried about fairness in school sports. This is just a way to label trans people as "other" in some kind of formal or official setting, so that it may be referred to as precedent to other them everywhere else.

“Destroying Beirut” — Time Magazine cover, August 1982.

Israel bombed this same beach (Ramlat al-Bayda) last night, killing 8 displaced people who had been staying in tents along the beach.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

a woman is making a funny face while holding her hand up to her ear . Alt: Carmella Soprano a white woman in expensive earings gesturing to a servant to come and do something for her by pulling her pressed together fingers towards her palm. This is a clip from the Sopranos TV show.

Liberals to anti-war protesters now there's a war *they* don't like:

I think about this a lot.

Reminder that people who had high trust in Musk and Doge scored high in "need for chaos" in our research:
theconversation.com/a-need-for-c...

On the same fucking day man, c'mon!

tara @weedlejuice.bsky.social HR sending out a company wide email reminding everyone that noticing the omens can be done after work 9:02 PM • Jan 15, 2026

Me in the presence of gossip, tittle tattle, scandal, scuttlebutt

“She’s the exception, I am the rule.”

Such articulate cutting through of the nonsense around puberty blockers and eg Keira Bell’s detransitioning from Stephanie Lynnette on GMB this morning. It is also a refreshing relief to see a trans person actually being allowed to speak for once!

Sorry everyone, we have to allow the different flavours of grifting self interested fash to remain in place until sensibles like Duncan detect absolutely no inconsistencies in responses to a media drubbing about stories completely unrelated to political policy!

Stinks of manufacturing consent, they shouldn’t trust the BBC and respond to disingenuous queries like this

Hundreds of GPs tell BBC they have never refused a fit note over mental health concerns The number of fit notes issued has been rising, with more than 11.2m approved in England last year.

And why should they?

I hate that the sparkle icon is shorthand for AI. They want us to think it’s magic. Fuck you!!! Magic is when you lose a glob of mustard from your sandwich but it doesn’t land on you. When you win at 20 questions. Sparkles belong to Liberace. A baby’s smiling eyes. I will put you in the ground!!!!!!

"Don't forget what you're fighting for" 4 images: Funko Pops, pollution, homelessness and never-ending traffic.

a newly unearthed interview?
from 2013?
on the day the mandelson files were made public?
what a coincidence

Hundreds of MPs just voted to abolish one of the fundamental pillars of democracy (the right to jury trial), but yeah, let's reheat "hypnotits" that's important.

Getting thrown out of Tesco after they refuse to take my £44 banknote with Gef the Talking Mongoose on it.

buried under a mountain of C&Ds one suspects

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

Beth Rigby O @BethRigby NEW: Mandelson received £75k severance payment - he asked for over £500k

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Kneecap: Government loses appeal over terror charge Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, known as Mo Chara, had been accused of showing support for proscribed organisation Hezbollah following a gig in London in 2024.

Geet it up yaaa

saying "working hard should get you a nice life" is exactly the same as the "workers and shirkers" is an impressive failure of comprehension, even by the standards of Our Fearless Press

The person in this article states ICE officers told her they receive bonuses per head for every person they detain, the DHS refuted this but in the vague say nothing press release language that implies it is absolutely the case. Don’t got to the USA.

Boycott the World Cup

KISHWER FALKNER | THUNDERER Special protection for Muslims means a two-tier system Defining 'anti-Muslim hostility' damages equality and social cohesion and is a step on the road to a blasphemy law we do not want or need Kishwer Falkner Tuesday March 10 2026, 7.40pm, The Times

Former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, here. It’s wrong to interpret this as oddly malleable rules or double standards. The problem is that *there are no standards at all*, and there are no rules of any kind, except “Fuck you, here’s what we want this week”.

It’s all about the oil. But also the military industry & private security contractors. It’s also for hegemony in the Middle East, & they consider Muslims and brown people disposable. Also Hegseth/Rubio/Trump like killing people. & don’t forget Christian Zionists who want to bring about the end times

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Iran latest: Oil price passes $100 for first time since 2022, as Khamenei's son named leader UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves will join an emergency meeting of G7 finance ministers later to discuss oil prices. Meanwhile, 32 civilians are injured by an Iranian drone attack on Bahrain.

And after all, isn’t that beautiful?