A_thankless_task

It's not that I am deeply ironic, overtly sarcastic, or obtuse, it's just that you don't get it because your minnow like intellect defies rational explanation.

[MASTR @MastrXYZ]

Turns out Hunter Biden is actually pretty good at dealing with MAGA idiots.

He answers calmly and with facts.

Something the Fox News damaged crowd clearly is not used to.

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

When paying Musk £8 a month isn't enough, you can always pay to have your incomprehensible dribbly nonsense ad-boosted.

Nowak died because of injuries and a poor initial response, not "authoritarianism". Not "left-leaning". Not "unaccountable". Not "police apparatus".

[Torsten Prochnow @TorstenProchnow]

Excesses like this expose the dangerous consequences that arise when a left-leaning authoritarian state and its unaccountable police apparatus expand without meaningful restraint.

A force created to protect citizens is gradually turned into a coercive instrument of control, surveillance, intimidation, censorship, and political enforcement. When such a rogue and uncontrolled police apparatus resorts to unlawful methods and, as in the case of Henry Nowak, lethal force against its own population, it has crossed a decisive and dangerous line.

Europeans find themselves in a particularly vulnerable position here, since they lack the constitutional safeguards that Americans still retain through the First and Second Amendments.

History has repeatedly demonstrated this pattern. The Nuremberg trials established one principle with unmistakable clarity: the claim of simply following orders or just doing one’s job provides no moral or legal defense. Those who execute the orders of the state while wielding enormous power have consistently hidden behind such excuses rather than confronting the reality of what they were doing.

The core distinction is not merely the scale of power, but whether police operate above the law, as authoritarian systems have repeatedly shown, or under the law, as required in a genuine democracy.

Anyone in the police force who blindly carries out the orders of an authoritarian state, particularly when those orders involve brute force against peaceful citizens, would do well to reflect on this history before the point of no return is reached.

That moment is approaching faster than many appear willing to acknowledge, because public patience with such abuses of power has clear limits.

[Bennie🕊️ @Bennieeexyz]

A customer at the library asked me a question I wasn't prepared for.

Customer: Excuse me.

Customer: Why does this machine require flesh?

Me: ...what?

Customer: This machine.

Customer: I am touching it, but it does not work.

Customer: Is because... flesh?

At this point I was trying very hard to figure out whether I had accidentally wandered into a horror movie.

Then she held up her hands.

She was wearing gloves.

Me: Oh!

Me: The touchscreen.

Me: Right.

Me: Yeah, it probably can't detect your fingers through the gloves.

Customer: Ah.

Customer: Okay.

Customer: Sorry to bother.

Me: No, no.

Me: That's the best thing I've heard all week.

She laughed.

The machine worked.

And I thought that was the end of it.

It was not.

Now whenever one of our library computers stops working, someone inevitably says:

Staff: It requires flesh.

Staff: The machine must be fed.

Another staff member: Who's volunteering?

So thanks to one perfectly innocent question, our library now sounds like a cult every time the self-checkout freezes.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Clearing out my parent's house. Found a box of pics of me from the 90s. It was when I was going through my Stone Cold Steve Austin phase. Every pic is skinny me with bald head, bum fluff beard & a leather waist jacket which used to be my Mums. Binned them so my wife wouldn't see

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@aasmundbjorkan

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@CoviLeaks @thedodgydriver @Safety @elonmusk @cstanley @SimonHarrisMBD He's an ex-GP exactly for this same behaviour. Claiming you didn't see it is a completely unserious engagement with the facts at large.

[John Bye @_johnbye]

Useful overview of how Naomi Wolf's long history of making embarrassing mistakes as an author and academic set her up perfectly to become a misinformation superspreader. She's always had an unerring ability to jump to daft conclusions by misunderstanding basic facts and figures.

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

I convinced my husband-to-be to choose a different best man. Why? Because I'd had the original choice's dick in my mouth two weeks before we dated, and was worried he might do an obscure gag about it in his speech.

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@The_Ouroboros__ They engage almost exclusively with the world from that mindset and framework, so everything looks like its out to get them. And if it isn't then they just make it up anyway because, y'know, bluetick.

[Ouroboros @The_Ouroboros__]

This is beyond a joke.

Now men shouldn’t walk through underwear departments because Alicia gets freaked out over it. How do people live being this fragile? GCs are getting beyond a joke.

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@PaulTassi This is an instance where you have to go "eh, maybe this should have been an op-ed?"

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

05:58 intercity train yesterday. One other chap on the platform. He opened a 250ml bottle of rum and necked half of it just before our train arrived. And I could only find admiration in my heart for such an amazing act of self-destruction. The hi-viz workwear only added to it.

[Chris Hammer @ChrisHammer180]

So classy from Luke Humphries to go over to a tearful Luke Littler after the Premier League final 👏

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@RealTimVine @ChrisHammer180 One thing Brits love more than a plucky underdog is a serial winner that they can decide to hate.

Davis, Hendry, Beckham, Hamilton, Grealish, endless cricketers.

All so they can enjoy other peoples suffering.

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@PaulTassi I mean there is a way, they could make good content and bring players back?

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@PaulTassi Whatever it might cost, the question is how much money do they make and what monetisation model are they thinking of?

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Just watched Jason's (first ever?) YouTube video about Destiny 2 and why it failed. A lot of recap of his past reporting and not tons of new info, but worth watching to catch up. No info on where things are planning to go from here

He estimates a Destiny 3 would probably cost $500 million itself, to say nothing of marketing and support after that.

https://t.co/qxGbXRxAfB

[A_thankless_task @AThankless]

@cultured_spice 10/10, would read again.

[Rosie 🦠🗿 @cultured_spice]

I am relieved to say that after ~4 years, Steven Bennett has been convicted of harassment without violence against me following a guilty plea. A restraining order has been issued.

If anyone becomes aware of behaviour they believe breaches the order, please contact me privately.