Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

In a stunning leap backwards for science and basic decency, The Times reports that NHS midwives were officially taught to see the "potential benefits" of first-cousin marriage.

Abolish the crazy thugs at ICE.

he was five foot something, so a bit disappointing, really

Renfrew Christie (11 September 1949 - 21 December 2025), the anti-Apartheid activist who developed plans to blow up Koeberg nuclear power station for the military wing of the ANC once said that "...I learned very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them... I am not a pacifist."

the metric system is intentionally anti-imperialist, and yet folks still insist on using this outdated feudal cock-up that has no bearing on reality - metric is real world physics-based (the speed of light), while imperial is based on what, some king's nose and a row of barley seeds... c'mon already

MAGA just lost everything. Everything with their fingerprints on it is now a joke, everywhere in the world, and headed to a crime lab. Now that we know, let's get to work. NEW VIDEO:
youtu.be/1P1bscF_io0

“Resistance doesn’t move at scale until the comfortable become uncomfortable.” -some dude whose name I forget

ridley scott's alien, the story of a man whose emotions burst out of him (predictably at the dinner table), growing into a monster killing emotion guy and almost everyone else on board, then being ejected into the void of space because that's where emotions belong

found this delightful 3D-printed model on #thingiverse, and to help explain it to myself (it's wonderfully complex), i did this short animation in #Blender - one day i'll find the designer of the original model and thank them for their creativity - til then i give you 'thing:4619645'

700,000 Israelis just realised they're actually Americans and have urgent meetings to get to - but Bibi say no, you are human shields now

nonbinary folk are suddenly in a really tough situation