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This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

What the world allowed to happen in Gaza has totally normalized the intentional targeting of schools, hospitals, children.

This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right

Nigeria’s captain & PSG forward Rasheedat Ajibade expresses her disappointment with the handling of WAFCON. CAF made the decision to move the tournament to the summer due to “unforeseen circumstances” 12 days before it was due to start.

Players & fans deserve so much better.

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

there are like 50 people in the country who want the UK to get involved in the Iran War, one of them is Kemi Badenoch, one of them is Nigel Farage, and the other 48 are newspaper columnists

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

"Hold talks"...This is getting utterly ridicuous.

As Brian Glanville said (and said again, and again), "it's football. It doesn't matter".

I'm a bit more concerned by crooks, criminals, autocratic states and dodgy private equity funds buying our clubs myself, but priorities, eh.

more statements coming out re: Iran’s women’s national team. @fifpro.bsky.social Asia/Oceania is calling on #FIFA and the #AFC to uphold their human rights obligations and protect the players.

Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor

You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆

A post by that dickhead Robert Peston reads The final report of the Water Commission includes this calculation: "We estimate that over £85 billion has been extracted from the English water system by shareholders and affiliated parties since privatisation." Given the parlous, creaking, under-invested condition of Britain's water industry, this was egregious pillaging by shareholders that was licensed by successive governments and the regulator. As the report says, company executives and boards, regulators, ministers, all were to blame. It summarises: "this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined.".

From what I’ve been told by several human briefcases, it’s not economically viable to nationalise the water industry

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Hong Kong’s democracy fight is also a battle for women’s freedom Despite gendered repression, smear campaigns and imprisonment by Beijing authorities, women in Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement continue to lead and resist.

Commentary: On International Women’s Day, we honor all those women who refuse to be sidelined, no matter the odds.

Al Jazeera live update from 11:50 GMT which reads: International football stadium ‘destroyed’ in strikes Tehran’s Azadi stadium, which has hosted international football matches, has been “destroyed” in the strikes on the country, Iran’s state broadcaster is reporting. IRIB posted footage showing extensive damage to the stadium, with clouds of smoke billowing from the stands.

AMAZING

‘Wartime traitors’: Iran state TV condemns women’s football team for anthem silence Iranian commentators have warned the lives of Iran’s national team “are in imminent danger”.

there is a very real public threat to the lives of Iran’s women’s national team players after state media accused them of being “wartime traitors” for refusing to sing the anthem. surely @ausgov.bsky.social cannot allow these players to return to Iran?!

www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...

ok well I was gonna change over to the new outlook (I am avoiding doing my real work) but I can't get previews of attachments to NOT pop out in a new window soooo fuck that

The Iranian regime exists as a direct result of US and UK policy towards them over the 20th century, couping Mossadegh, installing the Shah and kneecapping leftist/democratic elements in the country ensuring only the religious zealots were in a position to take power.

Two games in a row, Joe. If I have to tap it a 3rd time, I can't be held responsible for what @laenij.bsky.social will do.

USL emails players about union resignation procedures as strike looms The email, sent to all USL Championship players, includes an “FAQ” section on crossing a potential picket line

REPORT: On Wednesday, the USL emailed all Championship players with information on procedures for crossing a potential picket line and resigning their union membership, multiple sources have confirmed to The Guardian.

Details, including the attached "FAQs" pdf: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

UK 🇬🇧

The creators of Play On, John Reavey and Joe Revens, have said homophobia and toxic dressing-room culture still push LGBTQ+ players away from football, highlighting the importance of initiatives like Football v Homophobia.
www.attitude.co.uk/culture/play...

Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal ... The Iranian ship will not be where it was if we had not invited it to talk part in our Milan exercise. We were the hosts. I am told that as per protocol for this exercise ships cannot carry any ammunition. It was defenceless. The Iranian naval personnel had paraded before our president. The attack by the US submarine was premeditated as the US was aware of the Iranian ship's presence in the exercise to which the US navy was invited but withdrew from participation at the last minute, presumably with this operation in mind. The US has ignored India's sensitivities as the ship was in these waters because of India's invitation. We are far from politically or militarily responsible for the US attack. Our"responsibility" is at a moral and human plane. A word of condolence by the Indian Navy ( after political clearance) at the loss of lives of those who were our invitees and saluted our president would be in order.

This is fucking dirty behaviour from the US. I’m so ashamed to be in a allied country with its bases.

For real, I really need people to please stop going, "Look! The chatbot 'told' me..." with things. See: www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

The US and Israel have hit 10, TEN hospitals now. Including Neonatal sites.

Gaza was the rehearsal, to see what they could get away with. Now they are doing it in Iran.

Double Tap attacks have been reported.

Don’t look away

4 teams managed to figure out how to celebrate Black people during the regular season outside of June. EVERY team figured out how to celebrate Pride outside of June in the regular season. Teams make it work if they want to make it work. Be mad at your team, not the ask to celebrate Black people.

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”