people will make any excuse to stay and there isn’t a single good one left.
Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥
My colleague @hannahalothman.bsky.social is in Belfast tonight. This is what she’s seen.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Protests across the city turned violent on Tuesday night – with some police officers acting as if it wasn’t safe to intervene
"GRAND JUROR: I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit then and I still think it is."
"I don’t believe independent media is the full answer to corporate media’s failures, but the rise in flourishing independent outlets is instructive, showing us that many crave values-driven journalism instead of shareholder-pleasing slop"
As Marisa notes, the slop is also authoritarian-pleasing
you are the company you keep. if you’re still on X, you are a part of that community. there is no separating yourself and claiming a higher purpose. your presence is tacit support for the worst people in the world.
it’s insane how this is the new normal and for no fucking reason
elia ayoub
Troublemakers
Josh Halliday
Marisa Kabas
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
The case revolved around a September protest and collapsed last month amid revelations of apparent prosecutorial misconduct during the grand jury proceedings.
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
