Reposted by Ernie PiperRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization. 292400730
Reposted by Ernie PiperDaniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I really hate the framing of these stories as "an AI agent broke out and hacked something." No, an inadequate sandbox meant that a powerful and unpredictable computer program was set loose on the open internet by the company that designed it. The agency isn't with the "AI agent", it's with the firm 431632459
Reposted by Ernie PiperRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago. 153108992684
Reposted by Ernie Piperlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/08/2026Fine, I condemn Bong Bong the Clown. I find his japes perfunctory. His balloon animals strike me as vulgar. The bursts of laughter he evokes from children ring hollow to my ears. Now can we please get this city council meeting back on track 353152476
Reposted by Ernie PiperJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 23/08/2026Will anyone acknowledge how revealing it is about the underpinnings of "gender critical" ideology that they're all coming out to bat for the self-described "race realist"? 161751404
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 19/08/2026this clip does a great job of demonstrating this podcast's very boring central premise, which is that people only move left because they have been persuaded by bad, crazy ideas. socialism is "psycholological", rather than a rational political response to corporate greed and government corruption. 130
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Newscord was linked dozens of places, including with a "hit list" of journalists who wrote stories about Arday. It doesn't look at the content or angle of any of those stories, nor does it list the editors who may have commissioned those stories. It's run solely by Nima Akram, a data scientist. 100
Reposted by Ernie PiperJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-... 10154571823
Reposted by Ernie PiperBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I think the ultimate test of this is actually Boris Johnson. Boris *was fired from his first job* for making up stories, only to go on to be hired into a prestigious role at the Telegraph and spend years lying about the EU at Brussels. And I mean literally lying here; not bad punditry. 312475567
Reposted by Ernie PiperOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763112016
Reposted by Ernie PiperHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I think it’s just worth remembering that as the media handwring to justify publicly humiliating and hounding a man to death, just two weeks ago they gave glowing eulogies to another man with a history of domestic violence and brushed off his own statements about having pedophillic impulses 121692451
Reposted by Ernie PiperJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism) 2434611034
Reposted by Ernie PiperMadeline Peltz @peltzmadeline.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I'm proud to share the cover of my book, GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES: HOW CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS TARGETING GEN Z, coming Feb '27. It's a culmination of years of on-the-ground reporting and thousands of hours of media monitoring. Now available for preorder: www.sourcebooks.com/978146425540... 655695
Reposted by Ernie PiperJack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comOne Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE DetentionMy husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare. 11835222210
Reposted by Ernie PiperDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/08/2026the witch hysteria is apt. they lived in a time of backbreaking labor, amidst a tiny colony planted on the edge of a vast continent. the witch hysteria imbued that mundane, backbreaking life with cosmic meaning god and the devil himself at war in a pail of spoiled milk 218435
Reposted by Ernie PiperJess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇goodlaw.socialWe’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law ProjectThe government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back 101872818
Reposted by Ernie Piperrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like 472905395
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026When it turns political, conspiracism creates the thrill of challenging authority with truth, but the result is precisely the opposite: the bullshit upholds the status quo. Like if the lab leak were true, what does it suggest? It's all China's fault and we don't have to change anything. 020
Reposted by Ernie PiperLux 🌸 Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 01/08/2026Just a hunch but I feel like Batman was a post-9/11 movie where the threat of centralized *government* surveillance felt very real and present (and bad) and twenty years on surveillance has become decentralized in a way that feels less ominous because it’s just you and your neighbors with cams 3435
Reposted by Ernie Piperamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 31/07/2026“The government hasn’t paid for any work performed since November, providers say, and in recent months has insisted it will only hand over the money in exchange for information about the children that the lawyers say is confidential.” 7233143
Reposted by Ernie Pipermore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i got too much fuckin wicker on me 1393282
Reposted by Ernie PiperEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...theonion.comTranslator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film AdaptationPHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ... 257239334577
Reposted by Ernie PiperMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 30/07/2026Countless women's sports teams have independently spoken up in favour of trans inclusion in sports only to be targeted by attacks from people who hate women's sports 3671167
Reposted by Ernie Piperryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/07/2026I remember when she was one of the few people talking sense about masks in like March 2020. since gone completely bug fuck 1426822
Reposted by Ernie PiperSam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 30/07/2026“Lab leak” and “trans panic” are the two weirdest brain diseases that people who ought to know better have contracted over the last few years and I’ll be damned if I understand why 1644565
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Zeynep Tufekci is still completely insane over the lab leak idea. "There is a conspiracy to cover this up" is not evidence for "covid was a bioweapon that escaped from a lab". It could also be evidence for my theory, "please stop talking about this stupid idea" 5175970
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I have hate-followed this strange propaganda podcast with no real audience hosted by this uncharismatic man. join me as I tweet about it never 240
Reposted by Ernie PiperSarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I'm slightly biased because me, my dad and my favourite purveyors of cake, vintage clothes and soft play centres are in it... but this portrait of Clacton by @timburrows.bsky.social and 📷 Andy Hall is superb. Balanced, diverse, intelligent, so so well done: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.com‘Farage’s got to come clean or clear off’: what voters on Clacton beach think about their MP – and the countryNigel Farage’s constituency takes in genteel resorts and one of England’s poorest villages. With a snap byelection approaching, what do the residents want from the Reform UK leader – or the bin who’s ... 108420
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026it would be bizarre if someone normal thinking rational thoughts did that, but we're talking about ross douthat, who is a big dummy. so from that perspective it makes sense 030
Reposted by Ernie PiperTom King @tallgeekychap.bsky.social · 28/07/2026THE CRUELLEST MONTH. THIS APRIL. 141
Reposted by Ernie Piperamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The point of an anti stalking order is for the police to know whose door to knock on first after they find your body. 91611287
Reposted by Ernie PiperAlan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026This was carried out before Palestine Action was proscribed. Will judges be applying a similar approach to the actions of, for example, Just Stop Oil or Extinction Rebellion? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comPalestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists over bank damageExclusive: Judge intends to consider ‘terrorist connection’ after convicting five for damage to Barclays in Burnley 2137
Reposted by Ernie PiperEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026When proof reliably produces none of that, people learn the rational lesson that facts don't matter, and that's the ground populists recruit from, they offer fast consequences instead, aimed at enemies rather than wrongdoers. 1658
Reposted by Ernie PiperDiane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study saysft.comPalantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study saysThink-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform 23802358
Reposted by Ernie PiperProspect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 27/07/2026People of colour are 12 times more likely to be at risk of losing British citizenship than their white counterparts. Samira Shackle on how draconian rules created second-class citizens on the basis of heritageprospectmagazine.co.ukBritain’s citizens of nowhereHundreds of UK nationals have been made stateless, and left trapped in squalid refugee camps, without being convicted of any crime 1116
Reposted by Ernie Pipere.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/07/2026still processing the fact the world's richest person thinks his politics arise from being in touch with "normal people," and that anyone who disagrees with him (and the media in particular) "lives a cloistered life" 1358052
Reposted by Ernie PiperClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026ELEVEN ANGRY EX-MONKS ROLLING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT TO THROW THEIR ABBOT IN THE TRUNK OF THEIR CAR AND TAKE OVER THE MONASTERY, WHAT THE FUCK AM I READING 191310264
Reposted by Ernie PiperMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 22/07/2026This shit sounds like magic to normies but someone left an open door at a data warehouse and some other useless wanker left a Roomba roaming around a public space and the Roomba wandered into the open door. 739187
Reposted by Ernie PiperLouisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Well, this article is incredibly depressing for cooking enthusiasts. The short version: private equity has, over the last couple of decades, quietly bought up most of the classic brands you’ve heard of and then traded on their names while drastically cutting quality and closing American factories 11529631157
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Dumb question but why is every uk university firing everyone and closing departments like languages, film, drama etc? isn't everyone in forever student debt? doesn't any of that get back to the schools? what are we.doing here 020
Reposted by Ernie Piperthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 18/07/2026a great piece from Parker that i hope you all read. i would humbly add that no matter the issue, policy, statement, or scandal, we’re more than a decade into the MAGAverse and have seen how little we gain with cries of “aha, hypocrite!”—these freaks can’t act in good faith and don’t deserve yours 12860160
Reposted by Ernie Piperamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/07/2026“You will always be the love of my life, until my heart stops beating,” Alvarez addressed her late husband, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, in her first public remarks since he was killed by ICE in Maine on Monday. “Watch over me. Help me carry all of this. Help me care for and protect our daughter.”turtlediaries.net“My soul is broken. He was everything to me.”“He had so many dreams left to fulfill,” Karolina Rojas Alvarez said today of her husband, Johan Sebastian Guerrero. 3593152
Reposted by Ernie Piperjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/07/2026roberts et al have a mental model of racism as being defined entirely by the most atavistic mania of the jim crow south. if it isn’t that, if it wears suits and ties and speaks the language of national security and executive authority, then it not only doesn’t count, *it’s not racism* 733338689
Ernie Piper @whoisernie.bsky.social · 11/07/2026a fabulous blow by blow of the crashout of the new catholic schism 020
Reposted by Ernie PiperMichael Tomasky @mjtoma.bsky.social · 09/07/2026From @melissagiragrant.com: "Since Trump returned to office, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo is the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed." trib.al/sOr88IDtrib.alICE Is Hoping You Won’t Notice the Man Agents Killed In TexasThe administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all. 7229104
Reposted by Ernie PiperLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is the dirtiest type of research. Princeton scientists took $15 million from BP and shaped their research on carbon capture in consultation with the oil company: www.propublica.org/article/wedg... 02913
Reposted by Ernie PiperRachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.adweek.comPublishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google SearchThe nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators 7843671467
Reposted by Ernie PiperMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 03/07/2026Vital analysis of how the EHRC have misled global human rights regulators and parliament about the nature of criticisms of the UK and the EHRC from the UN independent expert on sexual orientation and gender identity. 4315128