the only political group that supports Putin in Portugal are the communists.

I’m very much a leftist and this is just something I haven’t managed to wrap my mind around. How can anyone claim to be a leftist and support an extremist right wing dictator?

Surprising that Euronews is still running pro-Ukraine news considering it’s now owned by Orbánists

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

Orders a

If you’re 100% white you probably won’t notice.

100% white, cis, and straight.

There’s this transmasc / enby / bigender “influencer” (Eddie Engels) who’s planning on moving to the UK (and not exactly to what anybody would call a liberal-minded area either iirc) to be close to his currently long-distance boyfriend, and I feel sorry for the guy. He’s just such a quintessentially queer character that it’s likely he’s actually not going to be safe there, and I really don’t know if he’s thought this thing through too well…

the things we do for love 🤷

Edit: I had to check because somebody asked, but it was actually Bristol he’s moving to, which should be completely fine. Vague memory was vague, heh

Just goes to show that conservatives are the single biggest threat to civilised societies everywhere.

How do we deal with them? It should be obvious by now that something needs to be done, but the rest of us can’t just go full conservative and shove them in extermination camps like they’d do to us

Interesting that they released Yashin. I wonder if he got asylum from somewhere or if he’s staying in Russia? Neither NPR or The Guardian mentioned anything and I haven’t done any searching yet.

Also, I had no idea who Whelan is so I went and read his wiki page – apparently he’s a former US Marine who got arrested in Russia over charges of espionage. Based on the article I was left with the impression that the charges seem like bullshit, but his FSB buddy thing was, well… pretty weird if nothing else. Apparently he was in Russia for the wedding of a friend who’s also a former Marine, and it somehow struck me as funny that jarheads seem to like Russia

From a historical perspective, it’s stranger that swearing isn’t normal for some people; it seems to be a universal feature of human languages throughout history and around the world.

The exact swear / taboo words vary of course, but in general it does seem like just about every culture ever has had and used swear words.

a stabbing attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance and yoga class this morning.
[…]
A man, 17, born in Cardiff and living near Southport, has been arrested

I wonder if this was yet another *chan / reddit incel

I guess “consumer pullback” is one way to describe what’s going on with the economy…

Conservatives are a cancer on society

Well, only one session left for that to happen. Let’s see, who knows?

Jesus fuck, I didn’t even know about this. That’s an actually dystopian draft, holy shit that’s bad – here’s to hoping that either the final is much saner than what the current draft is, or that it just doesn’t get signed by eg. EU countries, but I’m not exactly feeling hopeful

Javascript bad.

Applause please.

which is something they care deeply about.

They care about quarterly profits. Preventing fuckups of this scale requires long-term effort which is not profitable by itself, it only prevents possible future fuckups, and this is why proper QC etc. aren’t done. Short term profits over everything else.

Well, if the executive leech class wants workers to have bossware, there’s not all that much people can do about it. Can’t just decide to not use it if your employer demands it

Coincidentally this is pretty much the diagnosed ADHD starter pack as well