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Sam Mendelson retweeted
I bet Trump is shitting his pants right now. He should probably turn on the TV and watch election results, it might take his mind off it.
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On dysfunction in the aboriginal community, and how corrosive it is to make victimhood a cultural identity.
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Whoa- this is the most fantastic pedagogical tool I’ve encountered in as long as I can remember (which is a helluva high bar, considering who I live with).
I’m so excited to have my 6yo play with it! And you all should too.
anyhumanever.com/
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This might be the most beautiful thing I've read in my life. What a privilege to be alive in 2026.
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A German Man, A Swedish Man, and an Israeli Man are kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists...
“Listen up, infidels,” says one of the terrorists, you have one last wish before I kill you.”
The German pleads for mercy, “Germany has always embraced your people; what have I done to deserve this ?”
After no answer, he decides he wants sausage and a good beer.
Next, the Swedish man screams at the top of his lungs, “Have you no humanity !? Sweden has fully welcomed your traditions and faith; why would you do this?!”
After no answer, he finally says he’ll have a nice fish.
Finally, the Israeli yawns and says to the Hamas terrorist, “I don’t want anything from you; I just want you to kick me in the ass.”
Furious with his reply, the Palestinian kicks him in the ass.
The Israeli gets up, turns around, and kills the entire terrorist cell.
Shocked, the German asks,” Why did you ask him to kick you in the ass?”
The Israeli replies, “If he didn’t, you would’ve just said I started it.”
Sam Mendelson retweeted
My take on the Arday debacle. Elevator pitch version: 1) Arday is typical of a thriving alternate-universe academia elevating performance art over curiosity; 2) the "anti-racist" people who supported him are either bigots or caught up in recreational tribalism.
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This feels like a good moment to remember that Ireland got rich not by producing much or innovating anything, but mostly by becoming one of the world's biggest tax havens -- by enabling large companies from other nations to hide their tax revenues from their home nations.
Apple, Microsoft and Google have routed many hundreds of billions of dollars through Ireland to shelter their profits.
Israel, in contrast, got rich by innovating at a colossal scale. It spends 6% of its GDP on R&D, the highest of any nation on Earth. 10% of its workforce works in tech.
That's why those same Apple, Microsoft and Google all built massive R&D centers in Israel, alongside 500 other multinationals. The defense tech is famous, but Israel is also a global powerhouse in water and agriculture. And it draws 10% of global deep-tech investment in medical devices and food R&D.
So a tax-cheat nation that got rich by impoverishing others now refuses a safety system meant to land planes safely in the fog from a nation that actually produces new and useful things for the world.
It's one thing not to buy arms, or to exact political costs for a war you hate. This isn't that. This is just sanctimonious narcissism.
Take the fog safety system, you preening tax-cheats. We promise to look the other way.
The Israel Delirium: Ireland’s new €53m government jet was bought without its Israeli-made landing system required for fog so it is unable to fly in fog– The Irish News irishnews.com/news/northern-…
Sam Mendelson retweeted
I was reported to police over the Arday case. I was doing my job timeshighereducation.com/opi…
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There's a lot more to achieving justice for Morocco than the map below. It is time for Spain to seize this historic moment and take risks for peace. Everyone knows what a two-state solution to the conflict looks like that ensures peace and dignity for all peoples of the Iberian region:
- Divide Madrid so that one half is a Spanish capital and one half is a Muslim capital
- Right of return for descendants of all Muslims expelled in the 15th century Nakba (also known by the settler-colonialist name "Reconquista")
- Spanish withdrawal from all Occupied Territories, including the Occupied Balearic Islands, the Occupied Canary Islands, and Occupied Ceuta and Melilla
- A full UN Human Rights Council investigation into five centuries of genocide and starvation carried out by the Spanish occupiers
Sam Mendelson retweeted
Счёт закрыт. Все пятеро уничтожены . Сегодня последний . Переворачиваем страницу - на ней будут остальные имена террористов . И так до последнего .
Все насильники и убийцы израильтянки Шани Николь Люк - были ликвидированы силами Цахала, занимающейся поиском и устранением всех, кто планировал, осуществлял или иным образом участвовал в массовой резне 7 октября.
Ни один уйдет от возмездия . Амен .
Sam Mendelson retweeted
Civilized people hate voice notes because they’re inherently rude. A voice note is easy to send but hard to receive, since one must interrupt oneself and listen. To send someone a voice note is to say "My time is more valuable than yours." It’s insulting.
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Football has clearly arrived in America. It’s been announced by the nation’s finest traditions of a government insisting internationally agreed rules don’t apply to the USA reinforced by mass popular ignorance towards the rest of the world and its customs.
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Ukrainians have launched a new online “game”: changing fuel station statuses on maps, marking empty stations as supplied and supplied stations as empty.
The result is chaos in Moscow: drivers waste time, burn extra fuel, create traffic jams, and clash at gas stations.
Sam Mendelson retweeted
If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.
One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??
The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.
Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!
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This is glorious. I’ve read it 3 times already and it was only published 71 minutes ago.
Paul Howard: You’ll spend the rest of your life chasing the way your first World Cup made you feel
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Our child got a phone age 11, in 2020 when she was SO lonely and isolated. We'd just moved countries and the local kids were being shits. Within 10 days she "came out" trans. We didn't know WTF was going on but when the school found out they sent us for mandatory "counselling". The 2 psychs (wearing masks on zoom) spoke with such thick Cork accents we didn't understand most of it. They then asked to speak to her alone. I listened at the door. They didn't even ask about the horrible bullying the local kids had put her through, and she spent 15 mins saying "pardon" because she couldn't understand them. Then they told us she was trans and we had to affirm or she would khs. Sent us breastbinding info and sent our GP a letter telling him to refer us to the gender clinic. They put our name down for some bizarre "Big brother" type programme where an adult trans person, a total stranger, with no clinical training, was going to pick her up and take her for an ice cream so she could talk about her feelings. We of course refused, but as the Irish CPS has a horrific reputation for removing kids whose parents don't toe the line, we were deeply uneasy about all of it. We left Ireland shortly after that, returning to South Africa, where the govt does NOT trans your kids.
We found out that she had been groomed online, on her phone on tiktok and other social media, lovebombed by ADULT groomers like Fuzzz99, Jacob Tobia and Jeffrey Marsh (If you think you might be trans, YOU ARE TRANS! Cut off any family that doesn't affirm the REAL you... etc). She begged for blockers and T, which we refused. We did the pronouns and the name change but were very firm that hormones etc were NOT on the table. Natural puberty hit like a freight train. She started wearing push up bras for the breasts she used to tell us she wanted amputated, nails, hair, make up became super NB. Noticing boys, falling in love with her body.
She's now the MOST FEMME creature imaginable, has a long term boyfriend, is fantasising about the names she wants to call the children she told us she was never going to want.
Of the 14 trans kids in the support group we joined in 2022, only ONE is still "trans" and he's a super femme, super autistic "aromantic" and "asexual" gay boy. One of the other girls now has a deep voice and facial hair and is furious at her parents for puttin her on the T she begged for - that she had said she would khs without.
We have been through absolute hell. But thank the Goddess I trusted my instincts and KNEW MY CHILD. It was a trend, a gaslighting cult, an inhuman attack on the family. We were told we were bigots for daring to question any of it. Affirm, affirm, affirm was the only avenue allowed. The mothers have their voices back now and we are NOT GOING TO SHUT UP ANY LONGER.
I challenge every single person who believes minors should be enabled and even encouraged to transition to read this first person testimony to the end.
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via @IWF independentwomen.com/2026/05…
Sam Mendelson retweeted
Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???