Every time I have to ring my broadband provider I’m driven to a murderous rage sitting on hold for 40 minute for a 3 minute conversation. And every 30 seconds you get the “did you know you can find info online…” things. If you could fix this on the website I wouldn’t be ringing you!
"I'm nearly finished," Starmer tells crying electorate.
Photo shows young white woman in a white tan top with from the river to the sea in black all caps text. She’s flanked by security or police Text of X screenshot: An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." In Australia, you can bankroll mass murder and sleep fine. But wear a shirt that says "from the river to the sea"?Two years in prison.
I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.
Imagine being that free 🥲
Only learned for the first time a few weeks ago that NYC has widespread free street parking and it still blows my mind. What the hell are they doing over there???
Noah Smith is the poor man's Matthew Yglesias, and let me tell you, they ain't exactly selling Matty for top dollar these days, y'know?
The one that really bowled me over: “Having the same skin color or physical features is an element of collective identity that is important to the Japanese but not, for example, to Israelis” BZZZZT nope that’s not true, it’s obviously not true, no one even pretends to believe that
This is extremely racist and evil, of course, but it’s also so, so STUPID. Just a whole load of things you have to be a real dumb dumb to believe casually reeled off like they’re common sense
New level of middle aged unlocked: just found a white nose hair
Really wanna get a good TV and a disc player and become a blu-ray guy. Some day soon…
Oh baby
Ok but if Trump buys you shoes that are the wrong size would you not just… buy the same pair in the correct size? These people are rich and on good salaries even when they’re not insider trading and self dealing, so why not just buy another pair? You think Trump will notice the difference? C’mon
You ever see a post about gas prices in the US and how they’re so high and people are furious and then do the conversion? Extremely funny. Oh no, 73c per litre? You poor thing
this junkballing Czech electrician is a folk hero in Japan for striking out Ohtani in the last WBC (stopped for photos/autographs etc) but he's retiring after this bc Czech league ball doesn't pay the bills.
I love the way he took in in this one last surreal moment before going back to normalcy
Cinematrix said “Romeo and Juliet” was wrong because it wanted “Romeo + Juliet” I have never been so mad, Baz Luhrmann you are my enemy
He’s such a LOSER, I would hate to work for him too
I've watched EU elites and EU political discourse get more unhinged, anti-democratic and right wing since I was a child in the 1980s, these trends were always visible, and I understand that there's a boiling a frog quality to it but the EU's dominant political faction is now dangerously radicalized.
Tweet from Finbar Bermingham, March 9th 2026, on Ursula bvon der Leyen speech: Wow: VDL asks if the global rules-based order is "more a help or hindrance" to Europe "Whether the system we built – with well-intentioned attempts at consensus & compromise – is more help or a hindrance to our credibility as a geopolitical actor."
Politics isn't Bluesky's thing but Ursula von der Leyen has just given a big foreign policy speech to EU ambassadors condoning the US/Israeli war on Iran, announcing that international law and multilateralism are a hindrance to EU interests and basically recasting the EU as a security project.
An homage to a panel from the Achewood web comic. Phillipe, a young and eager otter, who is wearing a shirt and tie and a helmet for some reason, is happily singing a song to himself as follows: Born... in the USA! I went to school and I got an... A! I ate a hamburger and said hooray! Maybe it will happen today! The final line is obviously my addition. The art was redrawn by me and is not just a copy of the original panel. Done in black lines and halftone shading on a toned paper background. You do not need to trouble Chris Onstad about this.
Very good thread. Scroll up.
A screenshot of a notification on my iPhone from the RTÉ Player app: “Match Started 🏉 Ireland v Wales”
A screenshot of notification settings with Allow Notifications switched off
Yeah… no thank you
The thing about Anthropic is I’m never sure if they’re consciously lying. Those people are nuts, they really believe Claude is alive and strong and their friend. It’s half startup, half cult (many such cases etc but this one even more so)
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
This guy knows the way
Alex’s suit does not fit. He looks terrible.
“I would honestly be shocked if Alex said yes to me today” oh baby honey sweetie. No. Go to therapy.
Ashley is a thin, blond, attractive woman who votes republican and keeps saying “I’m not everyone’s cup of tea, not everyone likes me here [Ohio]”. What on Earth.
Less than 2 months ago EU leaders were insisting on strategic independence from an increasingly aggressive US demanding territorial expansion in Greenland. Now, they're tripping over their heels to join that US in an illegal war of aggression and regime change. What weak cowards with short memories.
The attitudes I'm seeing from Bahrainis online are fascinating, a lot of accounts of people just openly cheering and celebrating Iranian attacks and in turn a lot of reports of Bahraini state repression. People who talk about "listening to local voices" should probably contend with this too.
