I love it. The gist is:

• hate speech is running rampant on your platform.
• you're doing nothing to stop it.
• here's our evidence.
• where's your e idence?
• why are you spending time and money on fighting us instead of on fighting the literal white supremacist death threats on your platform?
• telling us we've not sampled enough tweets while you're in the process of making impossible the mass sampling of tweets is...a bit rich.
• we're not intimidated by your threats
• your threats are also bullshit
• we're not gonna stop

It's a textbook example of "no u" in grown up language. Bravo.

If you search his name, you'll see exactly zero big news orgs covering this story. BBC, Reuters, AFP, every British newspaper, all notable by their absence. Why? This is A Story, right?

Plasma is electrically charged, so it interacts with magnetic lines.
The sun has magnetic field lines just as the earth does. It also rotates. But- since it's not solid, it doesn't have to rotate all at the same speed. The plasma in fast-rotating regions drags the field lines further than the plasma in slow rotating areas, creating weird loops, breaks and reconnections in the field lines. I'm almost certain that what we're seeing in this lovely bit of photography is a cloud of plasma travelling across, or trapped by one of those rogue field lines which has been pushed upwards from the surface by differential rotation.

Hello.

Fuck The Sun.

Goodbye.

"those who make monopolistic fortunes off the sick while also dictating refusal of care to the sick" is hardly arbitrary, though, is it. It's quite a high bar to clear, that. It's rational too, since they do many orders of magnitude more harm than e.g. a death row inmate, whom society is content to destroy.

It still makes me sad to look at the Antonov.
RIP AN-225, 1988-2022

My kid was the last one in their school year to get a smartphone. He was bullied for not having a smartphone. He used to ask me for one several times a day and I stuck to what I'd said, he'll get one on his birthday. I still feel it was far too early. He was 10 when he got it.

A lot of people wouldn't call a fourteen-year-old a child? Which people? I don't know of any.

Assuming the literal meaning of "literal", a child is, according to the OED, literally:

a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.

Can you explain how the pictured human being does not fit the description above?

Israel is an apartheid state, currently committing genocide. Why do they get to go to the Eurovision and the Olympics when Russia, another state engaging in genocide, don't? Israel doesn't deserve to go to the Olympics. It's really as simple as that.

Sometimes decisions are incorrect.

It's called paisley. Originated in Persia, but named after a town in Scotland.

Israel is not "the Jews". You might think it's pedantic but now is really not the time to make that generalisation.

Don't Americans idolise their astronauts anymore? I thought they were seen as heroes, even by the MAGAs?

The forest of Skund was indeed enchanted, which was nothing unusual on the Disc, and was also the only forest in the whole universe to be called -- in the local language -- Your Finger You Fool, which was the literal meaning of the word Skund.

The reason for this is regrettably all too common. When the first explorers from the warm lands around the Circle Sea travelled into the chilly hinterland they filled in the blank spaces on their maps by grabbing the nearest native, pointing at some distant landmark, speaking very clearly in a loud voice, and writing down whatever the bemused man told them. Thus were immortalised in generations of atlases such geographical oddities as Just A Mountain, I Don't Know, What? and, of course, Your Finger You Fool.

Rainclouds clustered around the bald heights of Mt. Oolskunrahod ('Who is this Fool who does Not Know what a Mountain is') and the Luggage settled itself more comfortably under a dripping tree, which tried unsuccessfully to strike up a conversation.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

...while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

-Nate White, on why British people don't like Donald Trump

As a guitarist this has inspired my new exercise regimen:

• Switch Fitbit to right arm
• Play more NOFX riffs

Watch as the Israeli talking heads wheel out this poll as an excuse for killing Gazan civilians.

You're denying the moon landing happened although the moon landing definitely, demonstrably happened. You're getting downvoted for peddling batshit.

An Irish beer company, weirdly.

Capitalism is the root cause of a whole heap of major problems. Almost all of them in fact. I suppose you could go one further and settle on greed as the cause. But since capitalism is institutionalised greed, it still wouldn't excuse capitalism even if you did.

I think this depends heavily on your circadian type. For me, very little of use happens before around 3pm. This is independent of waking routine.