sgìth

air do shocair!

[lena dunham’s third plastic surgeon @intentionalisms]

It is actually a distortion of the sheer scale of the Holocaust that we think of the Holocaust as the blueprint for genocide - the term was coined first to refer to the *armenian genocide* two decades earlier. The *armenian* genocide is the blueprint.

The sheer scale of the Holocaust, which genuinely was maniacal hate-filled bureaucrats deciding to carry out industrial mass death on an explicitly, documented ethnic basis has made us think almost *nothing* is genocide unless it reaches the Holocaust threshold, which was genuinely historically unique. Under ���Holocaust criteria”, only Rwanda really qualifies. This is a *distortion*.

[Peter @MePeterNicholls]

BAD BAD BAD.

Brian Cox put it better than I could ever. You don’t do only science that can be commercialised. You’ve no idea what is or isn’t commercial. That’s not the point of science!

[Patrick Heizer @PatrickHeizer]

The paternal leave policy at my company uses "birthing parent." It's neither inclusive nor dehumanizing.

They just don't want to give lesbians double maternity time.

[Mini Modu @MinModulation]

this really helps you undertand most discourses happening right now

[Jennifer Ostopovich @jrostopovich]

They sell high dynamic range (the amount of detail visible in light and shadows) as a feature of digital but it’s really a bug. More detail isn’t always better. It’s why movies look cartoonish now and everyone looks so haggard in photos without filters.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

IMO, a lot of people don't have a worldview. For them, politics is about gender performance. Andrew Schulz fantasizes about joining the military to fight for his country, but won't set his thermostat to 78°. It's not about civic responsibility, but about performing machismo.

[anti-zionist dog 🇵🇸 @puppydog_gaming]

i will say lindsey graham being asked by a reporter how mitch mcconnell is doing, answering “i don’t know, i’m going to check right now” and then dying is hilarious

[big_pedestrian @big_pedestrian]

A huge amount of US policy around the public realm is making it uncomfortable and unpleasant enough that someone can’t use it as housing. When people have places to live that aren’t parks, libraries and buses public order becomes *much* easier. The housing theory of everything.

[Nate Bear @NateB_Panic]

A rocket hasn't been fired from Gaza in 18 months. And Hamas has handed administrative control over to a technocratic interim committee. Yet the apartheid state continues killing children daily. Almost as if it's a holocaust and not a war

[Winter 🏹 @winterduck04]

my contribution to the conversation of ann widdecombe’s death

[Sinking 🇪🇸🏆 @EisakuOtomo]

I think about this at least once every week

[sgìth @kakdellaa]

@lfcdiarmid @tuffluffjimmy @ScottishCommie ig overall there was a delay between the 1990s being the 'end of history' or w/ever and China's success today. China's not rlly framed as a true 'competitor', ppl can be affronted at the suggestion even. The Soviet legacy of influence meant even at the end it was still a threat

[sgìth @kakdellaa]

@lfcdiarmid @tuffluffjimmy @ScottishCommie went on in the Global South (3rd world, where the term comes from) partly till 91. Funding political orgs, military training. Soft power supporting arts, vaccines, textbooks, free study at Soviet unis. The west 'competed for hearts and minds' too. Ton of literature if interested

[TaglesTopGuy 🇻🇦 @TaglesTopGuy]

The right gets mad whenever they see a brown child and thus imagine the left gets mad whenever they see white children

[thelefttake @thelefttake]

It’s really funny how transparently Reform and Nigel Farage planned this campaign and its associated materials in advance and how none of it makes sense now that his only opponent is a bin.

[🇫🇮✸⌘Lucien Lambent⌘✸🇫🇮🇪🇪🇲🇳🇭🇺 @LambentLucien]

This wasn't a normal loss. The numbers on the board show a majority of MEPs actually voted to reject Chat Control today. It failed anyway, because the EPP used a rarely-invoked procedural maneuver to force a second reading, which flips the threshold from "simple majority to block" to "361 absolute majority to block," meaning every absent or abstaining MEP effectively counts as a yes for reinstating the scanning regime.

Parliament had already rejected this exact measure twice this year, most recently by a wide 311-228 margin in March. Getting it revived required deliberately timing the vote for the last session before summer recess, when attendance is predictably lower, specifically to make the 361 threshold hard to reach even with majority opposition in the room.

It's about a procedural trick engineered to make the popular outcome structurally unreachable regardless of how people actually vote.

Redo the vote until you get the outcome you want.

[Ben Schouten @BenGSchout]

The cherry on top is that the solution was a well known technique in chocolate making that he just didn't do for some reason

[Roberto 🌹🇵🇸 @r0berto_mid_5]

I’m sorry but at some point we need to do what is good for society. We’re not going to make busses slower just because the unions want that

[just matt @questionableway]

as a society we need to collectively re-learn that children are people and dogs are dogs