Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.
They’re finally being made to say the quiet part out loud.
They’re not ‘anti-DEI’ or ‘anti-woke.’
They’re Anti-women. Antisemetic.
They’re sexists. Racists.
Words have power. We should use the real names for these things.
Strongly encourage all academics, novelists, reporters, bloggers, whatever to just email this account and state that you want to opt out of this idiocy.
Overload them with emails and make them regret they ever tried this shit.
expertoptout@superhuman.com
A brilliant, devastating response to Grammarly et al by @moryan.bsky.social that you really should read.
I love reading all the words that come from this "underpaid, deeply creative heart".
And, I assume, it's a strategy where some number of minesweepers would be useful...
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🧵A thread about the Jewish community, Democrats, and Israel🧵
Rahm Emanuel, the über-centrist former Chicago mayor eyeing a presidential bid, just told a reporter that Bibi "led the Jewish people into a ghetto."
Jewish establishment sees cracks like this as a crisis. I believe it's an opportunity.
Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
![SCENE: A PASSPORT CONTROL GATE, IN THE SKY, ON A CLOUD. THE PASSPORT CONTROL GATE HAS ‘CORPOREAL REALM’ WRITTEN ON IT.
PASSPORT CONTROL OFFICIAL: Passport please, sir.
OFFICIAL [LOOKING AT PASSPORT]: Ah - the famous Dr Jenner!
EDWARD JENNER, A FLOATING GHOST IN EDWARDIAN GARB: Indeed, haha
OFFICIAL: And what's the purpose of your visit to the corporeal realm, Dr Jenner?
EDWARD JENNER: Haunting.
OFFICIAL: Oh lovely. Anyone nice?
EDWARD JENNER: Just a little tour of some anti-vaxxers.
OFFICIAL: Wonderful. I hear Andrew Wakefield’s bedroom is just •perfect• at this time of year.
EDWARD JENNER: It is! I spent last summer standing by his bed, calling him a c--.
OFFICIAL: Lucky yooou…
OFFICIAL [LOOKING AT DOCUMENTS]: Oh... oh dear...
EDWARD JENNER: Is everything OK?
OFFICIAL: I’m afraid your card says you haven’t had the required stupidity vaccination for your trip.
EDWARD JENNER: Oh dear!
OFFICIAL: It’s fine - we can do it here…
Just read this anti-vax tweet by Jim Carrey
EDWARD JENNER [reading a smartphone]: Egads!
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SCENE: A PASSPORT CONTROL GATE, IN THE SKY, ON A CLOUD. THE PASSPORT CONTROL GATE HAS ‘CORPOREAL REALM’ WRITTEN ON IT. PASSPORT CONTROL OFFICIAL: Passport please, sir. OFFICIAL [LOOKING AT PASSPORT]: Ah - the famous Dr Jenner! EDWARD JENNER, A FLOATING GHOST IN EDWARDIAN GARB: Indeed, haha OFFICIAL: And what's the purpose of your visit to the corporeal realm, Dr Jenner? EDWARD JENNER: Haunting. OFFICIAL: Oh lovely. Anyone nice? EDWARD JENNER: Just a little tour of some anti-vaxxers. OFFICIAL: Wonderful. I hear Andrew Wakefield’s bedroom is just •perfect• at this time of year. EDWARD JENNER: It is! I spent last summer standing by his bed, calling him a c--. OFFICIAL: Lucky yooou… OFFICIAL [LOOKING AT DOCUMENTS]: Oh... oh dear... EDWARD JENNER: Is everything OK? OFFICIAL: I’m afraid your card says you haven’t had the required stupidity vaccination for your trip. EDWARD JENNER: Oh dear! OFFICIAL: It’s fine - we can do it here… Just read this anti-vax tweet by Jim Carrey EDWARD JENNER [reading a smartphone]: Egads! [Ends]
From 2019
This is disingenuous. I've done ID checks on new starters at my place of work. EVERY ONE of them has to prove they have a right to work, so according to Normington anyone changing jobs would have to have a Digital ID.
The Necessary Guide to Role Models For Men Boys need role models !! Or we'll mollycoddle them to Milly Molly Mandy-ness Disavow them of their god given power Turn them into "an absolute shower" We must Show them what they can achieve How they can lead With examples of tenacity Perspicacity Human prime meat That won't accept defeat Let them be inspired to be.... As fearless as Greta As brave as Malala Boadicea and Rosa (Luxembourg and Parks) Imaginations like Wharton and Atwood And Muriel Spark's Dream of space with Cristoferreti, Tereshkova and Sharman Or taking to the stage like Eilish or Lauper or Dolly Parton You don't need to "grow a pair!" To breath revolution into the air We will only be fully grown When it doesn't matter if the letter of the chromosome Can be y or can be x And our heroes can be any sex
Poem for #internationalwomensday
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
I thought journalists were more likely to be pickled than seasoned...
The nice people at @locusmag.bsky.social have put online my piece about the best sf & fantasy I read in 2025: locusmag.com/feature/the-...
Cis people need to pay attention to the way they communicate this. They freely admit that after all of their research, they came up with zero evidence that HRT was harmful.
Then they banned it anyway, claiming their inability to find a reason is a reason in of itself.
I hadn't thought about that, but yes, it's true. And deservedly so.
Why are you pretending that Lily The Pink doesn't exist?
Paddington in Godzilla Minus One (2023)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1765
An instance of Dwayne Johnson. Yes, they all call themselves THE Rock, but that's the cover up the fact they've lost track of which one was the original.
Deeply satisfying and also very frustrating because I would give anything to be this cunty with such literary flair
I have a persistent daydream of being pulled out of a deep sleep by the sound of cheering and car horns, and I'll know precisely what happened.
Title: "The Haters" panel 1. Two round characters sit in a cinema. Yellow blob "I hate this!" Red Blob "Me too!" Panel 2. They have left the cinema Red blob "I hated every minute of that film! It was nothing like the book!" Panel 3. "Did you like the book?" asks Yellow. Red replies "I hated it!" then asks "You?" Panel 4. Yellow blob "I've not read it. I hated the film purely on its own merits." Panel 5. Red blob "I'll lend you my copy." Yello blob"That's very kind." Panel 6. Caption: "Later" Yellow, reading the book "I hate this!" Red (happily) "I knew you would!!"
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
Wow.
Image is line paper with writing showing an English word followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled and pronounced. The words are protect women's rights and pronounced ahdahstayluh-huh ahneegay-yuh needooyoogawduh
Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "ahdahstayluh-huh ahneegay-yuh needooyoogawduh"
Godzilla and Kong
Obviously...
Party politics has made me so weary over the past decade or so but I joined the Greens this week and this kind of thing makes me very glad I did.
The Iran War, in Maps
An ethnic, environmental, religious and sociological breakdown from an expert — @devadasa.bsky.social: chills.substack.com/p/the-iran-w...
Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”
Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"
