Don’t forget mutual aid requests

That and cheap and cheerful musical keyboards.

Would Japan have been better had the shogunate continued?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

The 18-24 male voters are single-issue voters, who just want to see feminism defeated and to be issued with the subservient tradwife that Andrew Tate told them is their birthright.

And the thing is, you know the game is going to be something really mid you play on your phone on the toilet that looks like an AAA strategy game but is flatteringly easy with the right in-app purchases and annoying otherwise. Still, with all those glowing hexagons and stuff, it looks more complex than a slot machine, so it’s lost Donnie.

It’s obviously from the parallel timeline in which German became the official language of the United States.

Cutting out everyone but the middleman

Finally, they can make a robo-Rogan that can radicalise young men at a fraction of the cost

BlueSky has already received finding from venture capital, and so will need to find a way to monetise its user base. Once enough people depend on the site for their social connections and friend circles, the promise of decentralisation will be quietly removed, APIs will be restricted (as on Reddit/Xitter), terms of service updated to ban circumvention, and the user-controlled algorithms modified to deliver your eyeballs to the advertisers and your data to data brokers, and before long, it’ll be an Instagram-style slot machine, where you mostly see ads and AI pink-slime, but keep pulling the lever in case there’s another update you care about in there somewhere.

Their US and Australian divisions are solid. The UK one varies, and has some decent people, but also has a persistent infestation of TERF/SWERFs. A few high-profile ones have left after their comments became irreconcilable with the paper’s ostensibly liberal/progressive line, but you still get regular Observer opinion columns about pronoun-mongers sexualising our children or other scare campaigns. There’s a rumour that the editor, Kath Viner, is herself a TERF and personally protecting them, though I haven’t seen any evidence one way or the other.

They could spin up a Mastodon instance, but given how lousy their UK editorial department is with TERFs, it would be justifiably blocked for transphobia.

There will be, in the same way that they have elections in Russia and Turkey.

The ones I’ve seen look machine-made, probably in huge quantities. They’re thin, and look slightly less disposable than a paper coffee cup.

America, fuck yeah!

The UK did this about a decade ago by a 2-to-1 margin, on the same grounds. Commentators in Australia (which have had ranked choice voting for generations) quipped that this was final proof that Australians are smarter than Brits.

Wasn’t that also their issue with Falun Gong, which started out as an apolitical mass meditation/exercise movement, though committed the crime of challenging the Party’s monopoly on organising mass activities of any sort?

I read that as “flurry of executions”, and though “sounds plausible”

They still make these

Do they want to get France kicked out of NATO?