Author Sally Rooney has been cancelled so her books can’t be sold in the UK… because she objects to genocide and that makes her a terrorist, which gets her life sanctioned by the crown

Russia not only broke the energy peace as fast as they could, they also bombed US property in Ukraine, including Coca Cola and Pepsi. Nil says the lardass.

Top U.S. banks dropped customers over political and religious views, regulator says - CBS News

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/debanking-top-us-banks-occ-report/

I woke Bertie up by taking his photo

#cat

Somebody butchered lambs in a school woodworking shop after hours. Who even eats lamb?

Opening international news like

actual democracy is impossible without a highly informed and motivated electorate which is why it may never exist in the US ever again - if it ever did...

Reality tv. Is it unclever to reveal that you used to work at the CIA even if you have since left?

drink

Greta Gerwig channels Bowie in psychedelic The Magician's Nephew trailer

"Have you ever seen a world born?"
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/10/greta-gerwig-channels-bowie-in-psychedelic-the-magicians-nephew-trailer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The best private institutes of learning are intended to teach their students to instill intentional class hierarchy (including its subsequent hostilities) in them and to display cruelty with casual ease

are you a janky GUI for linux? because you’re a little Qt. :WhyNotZoidberg:

Mao was incompetent, dumb, conceited and delusional. Killed 40-80 million people. Trump would have loved him.

The catskills are still available and undeveloped?

That time Jim quit Dunder Mifflin after Michael retired and got a job at the CIA as an analyst and live munition prankster

That time Trudy Monk ran away and got a management job at Dunder Mifflin

My wife is Brazilian. She says there's a new mood in Brazil of defiance, resistance, mobilization of the streets. Our friends in the Workers Party are literally risking their lives against the fascists and gangsters. Out canvassing. Getting on buses with flags. And people are asking: 'Where can we get those flags?' There is a group of 3.5 million organized on the Internet, taking on the fascist algorithm. Whatever happens, millions will resist and they are organized and resilient.

"In 2003, the early days of what has since become his dictatorship, Putin jailed just one billionaire oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and all the rest immediately fell into line. When a few press outlets dared challenge him, reporter Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in her apartment building’s elevator and the Russian press hasn’t spoken up since."

"In the weeks after the Reichstag fire in 1933, Hitler opened a detention facility at Dachau and threw a few thousand leftwing commentators, politicians, and journalist (among them Carl von Ossietzky) in as a message to the rest of the country."

You can be brave, but you'll never be as brave as the brand new dad asking a group chat of 15 moms "How can I tell why it's crying?"

#parenting