Xoraurea, Weaver of Unholy Scripture

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Why does it often feel like everyone working at a major tech company forgot how to design user interfaces from 2012 onwards

The science GCs say they have v the science they actually have

(54656,0x1fc35a0c0) malloc: tiny_free_list_remove_ptr: Internal invariant broken (prev ptr of next): ptr=0x138b04660, next_prev=0x138b04600 (54656,0x1fc35a0c0) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in malloc_error_break to debug

Don't you love it when you encounter a memory error you've never seen before in your life

I haven’t seen anyone call someone a noob in so long. We need to go back to more innocent pejoratives

Ninety-nine red balloons, floating in the Texas sky
Panic bells, it's red alert, there's something here from somewhere else
The War Department springs to life, opens up one laser eye

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote tweet: lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp. ... A picture of a woman in the back of a car bundled up in winter clothing, writing by car light. The world is pitch black outside

The text after that ... in the quoted post is: "Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post"

WELL WELL WELL

Don’t ever let people forget this.

GNU Alex Pretti.

The Telegraph: Yes but this one kid we found who looks like the Demon Headmaster’s son has been posting a lot online so are young British men actually turning to the right? We ask our political correspondent.

Janet Gender-Crytical: That’s true, it’s to fight the noble fight against gender ideology.

“Neocolonialism is bad” should not be a hard line for any Democrat to take, let alone Bernie. Alas

Email invitation to Dr. Emma Hilton from Sex Matters about meeting the new chair, Dr. Mary-Ann Stephenson.

FOI reveals that within the first week in office, Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson requested a meeting with Sex Matters to discuss "mutual priorities and ways to work together going forward"

Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

A resurgence of puritanism as a mainstream moral value system has occurred concurrently with a push towards flat design and all-consuming minimalism. Could these two trends be linked? Is Minimalism Inherently Puritan? In this essay I will

https://floppy.loop0.sh

a write-only message board hosted on a bootable floppy disk! once it's full it's full!

Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform Louise Eccles and Caroline Wheeler Anti-immigration protesters outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, last summer. Immigration is among the biggest concerns of Mumsnet users Reform has become the top political party for traditionally left-leaning mothers, a survey of Mumsnet users found, in what has been labelled a wake-up call for Labour. The parenting forum has become a barometer for mothers’ voting intentions. Analysis of Mumsnet conversations correctly predicted the country would choose to leave the EU in the 2016 referendum. Now research shows 20 per cent of users intend to vote Reform UK in the next election, placing the party ahead of Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats. It is the first time since the Mumsnet political poll began in 2009 that Labour has been usurped by any party. Justine Roberts, the cofounder of Mumsnet, said she was surprised by the results from the poll of more than 1,000 adults, but understood “why many mums have become disillusioned” with the government. Analysis of conversations on Mumsnet found there was anger about rising taxes, failed welfare reforms, NHS pressures and the perceived effect of immigration on public services.

"Left-leaning mothers of Mumsnet are deserting Labour for Reform" [Times]

I can't stop laughing long enough to come up with something sarcastic to say about this headline.

This is pathetic. If the world shrugs its shoulders, as it inevitably will, an EU country will be the target of exactly this kind of invasion and abduction one day. Don't you remember the poem?

I've seen no less than FIVE takes now suggesting this is "just a distraction from the Epstein Files" and, seriously, stfu. Please.

I think it's time for some regime change in the United States

2027 prediction: the most tedious people imaginable make a separatist 'anti-woke' firework display, broadcast only on GB News

From Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to Zack Polanski - it's been a tumultuous year.

A very normal headline from a very normal newspaper.

I find the idea that you need to know “how to use” AI tools really funny, as if it isn’t incredibly easy to type in prompts and the marketing these tools is that literally anyone can do it

British Quakers are refusing room bookings from terfs as policy.
If you were waiting for an org to stand up for LGBTQIA+ rights, and unflinchingly withstand bullying and lawfare, here you go, friends.
Good luck to the raging bigots, they'll get nowhere with threats.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

What the fuck is this like haha look at us being cute doing right wing slogans but ironically 😉 of course we aren’t part of the bigoted establishment 😉

Sure is interesting that the article declines to mention that her appointment was opposed by the Women and Equalities Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights, who both wrote to Bridget Phillipson to object to her appointment. No, the opposition is only from "trans campaigners", apparently.