I’m really getting tired of this narrative that everything the alt-right is doing is the left’s fault. “The left” didn’t abandon anyone, you just don’t bother listening

Honestly I’m so glad I started biking to my high school all those years ago, it conditioned me to view biking as a natural solution for my daily commutes.

So much this.

"- I hate the fact that my landlord gets half the money I make without doing anything to earn it!

-If you think it’s so easy why don’t you buy yourself a flat and rent it?"

Well because I don’t fucking want to become a bloodsucking leech myself, is that so hard to understand?

I’m sure some hearts got really warm in that headquarters, with the fire and all

Google CEO Sundar Pichai

We’re we Here fuck We’re shit Queer up

Almost sounds like poetry

Edit : now that I think about it, “Queer up” could be a great thing to say to someone who’s been closeted for a long time. “Come on man, queer up! You can do it!”

L’état de la presse généraliste me terrifie en ce moment. Ou est le travail journalistique quand on se contente de régurgiter les communiqués officiels sans prendre la peine d’aller vérifier les sources ne serait-ce que 15 petites minutes ?

Je ne jette pas la pierre aux journalistes en tant qu’individus, j’imagine qu’ils doivent avoir beaucoup de pression de la part de leur hiérarchie pour produire du contenu le plus rapidement possible, mais au bout d’un moment il va quand même falloir se poser deux minutes et se demander si leur métier est vraiment d’être le relais de la propagande d’État ou si ils veulent garder une vague prétention a être un cinquième pouvoir.

Nah, too risky. What if during those two days someone puts a gun to my head and tells me they’ll shoot unless I post the rowboat emoji? What if I’m stranded in the middle of a lake and need to communicate to an illiterate person that they should get their rowboat and come help me?

The guy tried to humiliate you in front of his daughter in some kind of weird power move, and there was no answer that could have saved the situation. He brought this onto himself

My father was an Arab muslim, and was involved in the fight for Palestinian rights for as a long as I can remember, until he died of cancer a few months before the October 7th attacks. I never really thought much about his activism and was never curious enough to ask him questions about what he was actually doing.

When he was on his death bed at the hospital and I was staying with him, we got visited by members of his town’s Jewish community. They told me he was a great guy, and that throughout his years as an activist for Palestinian rights he has always strived to build bridges between Muslim and Jewish communities and always made it clear that the palestine-israel conflict shouldn’t be an excuse to antisemitism or islamophobia. They also told me he took part in a humanitarian trip in Palestine with them, as a translator, and was instrumental in bridging the gap between them and their Palestinian contacts. I never knew he did all that and it really made me proud.

What sometimes still keeps me up at night is to think that, should he have lived to see the current events, he would probably have been called a raging antisemite by the assholes we see all over the media.

You know, I can somewhat understand how some people that have been exposed to Israeli propaganda can think Israel isn’t in the wrong. I don’t excuse it, mind you, because all the evidence is right here to disprove it if they bothered to check, but ultimately it just shows how effective propaganda can be in the information age.

What I can’t wrap my mind around is how a seemingly smart person can say they saw all the evidence, talk about the “carnage” going on and how “powerful people are hurting the weak”, and still come to the conclusion that the real victims are those same powerful people responsible for the carnage. I really can’t understand what must happen in someone’s brain to be like that

So how is this not blasphemy? Not that I care, mind you, but they’re supposed to

I recall hearing in a documentary that filters were just yet another PR scheme by Big Tobacco to make smoking more appealing when studies started to show up about the health effects of cigarettes.

I don’t have a source in mind so don’t quote me on this, but I even seem to remember that those filters are designed to take a yellow/brownish colour when you smoke to make it look like they filter out all the nasty stuff that would otherwise end up in your body

Yup, I’ve been in my (heterosexual but not married) relationship for long enough that the word “girlfriend” doesn’t really feel like a good descriptor anymore.

I think it’s both, or rather that the word “partner” doesn’t fit in their very narrow view of acceptable relationships (heterosexual marriage)

I was about to buy a new Xbox controller to replace my old 360 controller that’s starting to show its age, but I guess I’ll at least wait until the price reveal of the Steam controller’s price

After years hearing about how awful haggis is, I’ve been very pleasantly surprised when I finally got to taste it earlier this year. It tastes like mutton, which I love, and the oats give it a very pleasant texture. Definitely in my top tier of British food

They obviously had vested interests

Stop making my show about an alt-right villain with a god complex polical libruls

Really? Do you have more info on that, it’s the first time I’m hearing about it and I’m genuinely intrigued