irony is dead and all but it’s pretty depressing to see Ghibli A.I. slop on the timeline not only because Miyazaki famously thinks A.I. art is disgusting but because he’s spent the last 50 years making art about environmental waste for petty human uses

“I am utterly disgusted… This is an insult to life itself.” Hayao Miyazaki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, is going viral for his reaction to seeing an AI-generated animation in 2016

‘Small government’

Can't get over how we're being asked to pretend "Death, death to the IDF" is some kind of hate crime at the exact same time IDF soldiers are telling the Israeli press they're being ordered to massacre starving civilians at aid sites.

Protest songs in the 60s were so much sweeter and nicer. ('Masters of War' - Bob Dylan)

We are witnessing with despair the iniquitous use of hunger as a weapon of war. Burning crops, stealing livestock, and blocking aid are tactics increasingly used by armed militias. As civilians languish in misery, political elites grow fat with impunity. It is time to sanction

Note the date

Unbelievably grim

This 83-year-old priest has just been arrested for holding a sign which read: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” According to Starmer’s new law, this puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist, with a prison sentence of up to 14 years.

Michael Rosen: Letter to the Prime Minister and Home Secretary michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2025/07/letter…

So … is this 100 years of “progress”?

The Alignment Problem

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world Moustafa Bayoumi The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

This is where we are

“they’re putting grok in teslas” ive heard this song before and it ended weird

i have received some version of this notification everyday for the last several months. what are we doing

Watching politicians and mainstream media suddenly change their rhetoric on the genocide makes me feel like I’ve truly gone crazy. Can someone please confirm that a few weeks ago they villainized us on the front pages for being against this while they were very much pro-genocide.