It’s all just horrible isn’t it

This, on the horrifying implications of giving Ozempic to obese unemployed people, is excellent. standard.co.uk/comment/weight…

United Utilities illegally dumped 140 million litres of raw sewage into one of England's most famous lakes - Windermere - over 3 yrs, the BBC can reveal The firm failed to report most of it bbc.com/news/articles/…

Society viewing sewing and other textile work as “feminine” and therefore easy and lesser is in part of what keeps our wages less than other industrial fields even though it is highly specialized skilled work 🙃🥲

i’m mad that everything about the internet that was fun & useful 10 years ago is broken now. this site, obviously. reviews are astroturf lies. search is ai hallucination. no place to share with friends & family without influencer / meme / polarized content overrunning the feed.

Something that’s interesting is how 6 months ago if you called it a genocide you’d get pedants quibbling about article 4 clause 9 of some esoteric UN document saying “well technically…” but no one does that anymore. Not even the Zionists. Everyone is fully aware it’s a genocide

It’s still happening, and they won’t stop unless we make them.

Does anybody else think it's weird that we can't mobilize to stop climate change but within an incredibly short time span we've gone from having never heard of Chat GPT to building nuclear generators in order to feed its rapacious energy needs?

it’s crazy to me that in just two years we’ve effectively destroyed the internet for the sake of a product whose only discernible use is helping students cheat on their homework.

It’s so interesting to me how men never apply this logic to women’s misandry. To men, their radicalization to misogyny due to “kill all men” jokes is understandable, but women’s radicalization to misandry due to rape jokes and actual historical oppression isn’t understandable.

The fucking audacity to put polar bears in this commercial like they didn't just melt another iceberg with this

I think you're meant to tag posts like these with #ad since the new rules came in

Just found out the reason Hobgoblin is a bit shit now and the branding has gone to hell is THEY CLOSED WYCHWOOD end of last year. What the fuck were they thinking?

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

⏳ Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

In the last year I've given my landlord enough money to use as house deposit, had I kept it. I pay the council tax, I pay the bills, I clean the place and I even do the gardening. In return, he's spent 6 months not fitting curtains in the living room. His "expenses" are zero.