I simply do not understand why this homophobic nonsense makes more sense to so many people than the obvious truth that sexual attraction does not equate to respect, love or empathy.

A Virgin with a Unicorn

#pixelart #ドット絵

Without National Trust/tourism far more of these buildings would have been demolished. Fundamentally, the stately home was the creation of certain economic nexus which was destroyed by the wars and the decline of domestic service. They are museums because they can't be much else.

people saying “i don’t have the answer, BUT” and then fairly definitively saying that a disabled man should not be allowed to go outside. that actually can’t ever be the answer. (I have motor & vocal tics, no coprolalia, tics can be physically agonising & still I won’t stop)

Black filmmaker Jonte Richardson says he is stepping down as a BAFTA judge:

the author of the NYT ai writing quiz does not seem to know writing either. What is the punctuation they think is missing here? really bleak

yorkshire doing astral projection

I think we need some term like "industry-level death drive" to capture this ubiquitous phenomenon of fields like journalism (also, programming!) cheering on their own demise