So bright.

Jeff Bezos says the future is so bright, he “doesn’t see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now.” Speaking at Italian Tech Week 2025 earlier this month with Ferrari and Stellantis chair John Elkann, the Amazon and Blue Origin founder laid out a plan to launch humanity into orbit — literally.

I wonder if being a billionaire makes it difficult for him to see how other people can be discouraged. Several of those people are not billionaires. Several people have no money at all. Several people have health issues. Several people have problems of various kinds, which can lead to being discouraged.

The conversation started on Earth but didn’t stay there long. Bezos dove

Graham Linehan talks to Julie Bindel:

When I ask if he has any regrets about any of it, he says: “People often ask me this, and to be honest, not really. Some of my tweets are angry, and invective.

“But I genuinely do hate this evil, misogynistic, homophobic movement. And I want to destroy it.”

When people criticise his conduct or tone, he thinks, “Well, they nailed dead rats to the doors of rape crisis centres”.

And if, one day, the trans rights movement ends and it has anything to do with this “big stubborn Irishman”, he will feel “as much satisfaction as from having written Father Ted. It’s a noble endeavour that I’m involved in. I’m like a

Oops no food for you next month, sorry, start saving those bread crusts now.

The US Department of Agriculture says it will not tap into its $6 billion contingency fund to cover food stamp benefits next month, according to an agency memo obtained by CNN. That means that roughly 42 million Americans will not receive critical food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in November, unless the agency shifts its position.

Never mind. It’s only a month.

The loss of the critical safety net program ramps up pressure on Congress to end the federal government shutdown, which began on October 1, by agreeing to a federal spending package. Democrats have said they will not support

Another extinction:

Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but not anymore. These crucial coral species are now “functionally extinct” in the region after record-breaking ocean temperatures, according to a study published Thursday.

The corals, which have been dominant reef builders in Florida for the past 10,000 years, were already critically endangered due to a host of factors including disease, pollution, hurricanes and ocean warming. But an unprecedented marine heat wave may have delivered a fatal blow.

In the summer of 2023, Florida’s water temperatures peaked at more than 90 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest recorded in the region for at least 150 years.

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The heat wave marks

Trump has tantrum chapter eleventy million.

Donald Trump has announced an immediate end to “all trade negotiations” with Canada over a television advertisement opposing US tariffs that quoted the former US president Ronald Reagan.

The ad, which was paid for by the government of the Canadian province of Ontario, uses excerpts of a 1987 speech where Reagan says “trade barriers hurt every American worker”.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Canada had “fraudulently used an advertisment[sic]”, which he called “FAKE”, and accused the country of trying to interfere with US court decisions on the levies. “Based on their egregious behavior, all trade negotiations with Canada are hereby terminated,” he wrote.

He doesn’t even know the difference between … Read the rest

Whatever, bro. You’re still a man.… Read the rest

A tiny bit callous maybe?

Apparently, one of the Darlington Nurses was claiming she was having possibly a panic attack because she was in the presence of a trans woman colleague. Well, she is either lying, or, she has a trauma that is personal to her and it needs sorting. It’s not anyone else’s issue.

— Marianne Oakes (@OakesMarianne) October 23, 2025

Ah well, no surprise there, “Marianne” Oakes is a man.… Read the rest

Jail time for saying that men are not women.

A man in Switzerland is facing 10 days in prison after refusing to pay a fine for an “offensive” social media post. Emanuel Brünisholz, a wind instrument repairman from Burgdorf, was convicted under anti-discrimination laws for making [a] statement emphasizing skeletal evidence of binary sex.

It’s a crime in Switzerland to say that there are skeletal differences between women and men. The popes had their inquisitions and now the gender popes have theirs.

Brünisholz’s ordeal began in December of 2022 when he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner. In his comment, Brünisholz wrote: “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll

Originally a comment by Artymorty on For rejecting an ideology.

So glad you highlighted this. It can’t be said often enough. Graham is a deeply compassionate, and passionate man. The Glinner we see in his exquisite writing — every single side-splitting joke in every single episode of The IT Crowd was penned by him alone, against all odds and deadlines and budget constraints, and all the other challenges that are faced by a sole showrunner who is also the sole director who is also the sole creator and who is also the sole writer of a hit comedy series that runs for years — is the same Glinner I have the privilege to know in person: he’s a deeply … Read the rest

I’ll just say this – it’s going to look ridiculous. It’s way out of scale, so it looks like a damn warehouse.

That huge box on the right side: that’s the stupid ballroom. The entire population of Queens could fit in there.

Euan McColm in the Scottish Daily Mail on Graham Linehan and the deranged ideology that trashed his life:

By rights, Mr Linehan should be revered, just as contemporaries such as Ricky Gervais and Simpsons creator Matt Groening are, as a visionary in his field. Instead, his career has been destroyed and his personal life upturned after years of relentless harassment by trans activists.

For rejecting an ideology –still hugely fashionable in the showbiz world from which Mr Linehan is now an outcast – he saw projects cancelled and friends turn on him. A long-planned musical based on Father Ted, the hit show Mr Linehan created alongside his one-time writing partner Arthur Matthews, was called-off while former colleagues denounced him as

Wait, who was unreasonable here?

Sandie Peggie’s legal team says it is seriously concerned about the content of secret briefings for SNP ministers prepared by NHS Fife and uncovered by The Herald.

Confidential correspondence between the board and the Scottish Government, obtained through freedom of information, contains unredacted details about the nurse, including references to her occupational health appointments and other internal employment matters.

The documents outline NHS Fife’s account of events surrounding the employment tribunal and seek to reassure ministers that the board acted appropriately throughout.

In them, the board suggest Ms Peggie’s “personal circumstances” may have “contributed to the incident” and that the nurse should have had the “skills and knowledge to de-escalate or remove herself from this

Teen Vogue tells us:

Suing her school was not how Evelyn Parts envisioned her final semester at Swarthmore College. Parts, 22, a distance runner and team captain of the school’s varsity cross country and track team, set big goals for senior year. The Towson, Maryland native had qualified for the 5,000 meters in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s Division III Centennial Conference Championship for Women’s Indoor Track & Field set for last March in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For her, it was the biggest competition of the season.

But she was never given a chance to run. Parts, who goes by Evie, was banned from competing with her team because she is a transgender woman.

Thus Teen Vogue cheerfully admits … Read the rest

Via What a Maroon, Moumen Al-Natour writes in the Washington Post of the two Gazas:

Trump’s ceasefire has split Gaza into two alternate realities on either side of the “yellow line” behind which the Israel Defense Forces have withdrawn under Phase 1 of the ceasefire deal. On one side is a Gaza that is desperate for Trump’s plan to succeed; on the other is a Gaza that is being pulled back into the abyss once again. It is impossible for these two Gazas to exist simultaneously for more than a moment in time, and soon enough one will consume the other. Fighting over the weekend underscores just how precarious the balance remains.

My Gaza, where I wish

Fun fact it just occurred to me to look up to make sure it is a fact.

All of Trump’s grandparents were immigrants. All of them. One two three four.

On October 7, 1885, Friedrich Trump, a 16-year-old German barber, boarded a ship with a one-way ticket to America, escaping three years of compulsory German military service. He had been a sickly child, unsuited to hard labor, and feared the effects of the draft.

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Trump is the son, and grandson, of immigrants: German on his father’s side, and Scottish on his mother’s. None of his grandparents, and only one of his parents, was born in the United States or spoke English as their mother tongue. (His mother’s

Once again we see that religions have actual substantive beliefs about other people, specifically the kind of beliefs that lead to quarrels, fights, wars, genocides.

We’re supposed to pretend otherwise. We’re supposed to pretend that religions are entirely a force for good.

A pro-Gaza MP who welcomed the ban on Israeli football fans from Villa Park previously cast doubt on the atrocities committed in the Oct 7 attacks. Ayoub Khan, the independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, cast doubt on claims that women were raped during the Hamas-led massacre in 2023.

Religion! Ethnicity! History! Theocracy! Rivalry! A toxic brew. Football doesn’t improve it.

His comments have come to light as he faces a backlash for celebrating the decision to

Man knocks out woman in boxing ring surprise.

Olympic gender-row boxer Lin Yu-ting controversially romped to victory on her return to the ring on Tuesday night, knocking out a 19-year-old female university student in just 94 seconds.

Lin, 29, won gold in the women’s featherweight division during last year’s Paris Olympics, despite being disqualified from the 2023 World Championships for failing a gender eligibility test.

If you don’t already know that Lin is a man you wouldn’t learn it from that beginning. What is the point of obscuring the truth this way? It’s not HER return to the ring, it’s HIS. He’s a man determined to punch women and he knocked one out yesterday. That’s the story. Saying … Read the rest

Fined how much for doing what?

A woman says she was “shocked” when she was fined £150 for tipping the remnants of her coffee down a road gully in west London.

Burcu Yesilyurt, who lives in Kew, said she thought she was acting “responsibly” when she poured out a small amount of coffee from her reusable cup down the drain rather than risk spilling it on the bus she was about to catch to work.

But to her surprise, she was then stopped by three enforcement officers at the bus stop near Richmond station and fined under Section 33 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

Who were hanging out waiting for someone to pour a bit of coffee into … Read the rest

Yet more outrageous monetizing of everything by the monster:

Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him, according to people familiar with the matter, who added that any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit.

The situation has no parallel in American history, as Mr. Trump, a presidential candidate, was pursued by federal law enforcement and eventually won the election, taking over the very government that must now review his claims. It is also the starkest example yet of potential ethical conflicts created by installing the president’s former lawyers atop the Justice Department.

Just a tad.

Mr.

Originally a comment by Jim Baerg; posted with the permission of his sister/source.

From my sister in Maine:

Went to this yesterday. There were about 2000 people there and it looked pretty much like this photo from June’s that I missed.

I had my little Canadian flag along with a little American flag. Progressives are trying to take back what it means to be a patriotic American.

One guy jokingly said to me, “You don’t have to gloat about being Canadian.” And I replied, “Yes, I do”. All in good spirit.

Lots of creative signage. My favorites were:

They’re eating the immigrants! Soylent Green is People! (Remember in the debates when Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants were eating their … Read the rest