you’re the one i want

anya. 21+. mixed. bisexual. engaged. not a terf safe space. she/her. black lives matter - now and always. i'm setting off, but not without my muse, no not without you

[havanaberry]

the cure (2026)

[saydontgo]

:p

[fandom-geek]

Homes set on fire in Belfast night of violence as MP says people targeted based on skin colour - follow live

On one street, hundreds of masked men carrying bottles and bricks set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out", our reporter says.

i really don't have the words for how things have escalated to outright race riots in the last few weeks. just to collect a few of the stories the bbc is reporting in their live thread:

Families led to safety through flames (Dan Johnson) Homes were targeted and burned. Families had to be led to safety through the flames - rescued by emergency services risking their lives in the most dangerous situation. It’s what the authorities feared all day. What they warned against and pleaded not to see. The condemnation came quickly and was widespread. It wasn’t just homes, cars were also torched by young masked man in these predominantly unionist streets but the target here was immigrants and the message to entirely innocent families was: "You’re not welcome". In the north of the city, more people were forced to flee including an African family who’ve lived here for 20 years.

People being put out 'because they're black' - pastor A pastor who has been helping those in houses targeted in tonight's violence says people were being put out of their homes "because they're black". Pastor Jack McKee was at the scene where multiple houses were on fire around the Crumlin Road in north Belfast - he says some members of his church "who have been with us for 20 years" were "getting put out of their home, had their house attacked, windows smashed, houses beside them burned". "They're good Christian people and they're getting put out just because they're black," he says. "I'm doing my best to help them, it's as simple as that." [...]

Masked men shouting 'foreigners out' (Kelly Bonner) Last night on the Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast hundreds of masked men walked down the street carrying bottles, bricks and masonry. They set bins on fire and shouted "foreigners out". As they walked street to street, they were banging on doors, kicking doors down and breaking windows. Masked man set cars alight and at one point I witnessed them trying to burn a car until a woman came out of her home and told them it belonged to a "local and not a foreigner" and they stopped. A young family had to be moved from their home by police. The scenes of this young family fleeing their home were really quite shocking.

We're seeing a 'race-based pogrom' in Belfast, MP tells BBC Claire Hanna, Belfast MP and leader of the Social Democratic & Labour Party, has spoken to Newsnight about the "nightmarish" attack on Monday, which she says has "understandably revulsed and shocked" people in Belfast. However, she condemned the scenes that erupted on Tuesday afternoon, suggesting that "negative actors online and politicians locally who don't really care what communities in north Belfast have been through" have used the knife attack to incite violence and seed division. "What you're seeing is a race-based pogrom. We are seeing men going door to door asking to get the foreigners out based exclusively on the colour of their skin," she has said. "It's not based on what they're contributing to society, what their status here is and it's terrifying for people in Belfast who want this sort of politics to be far beyond them."

[sprinkledsalt]

I was reading a really long essay recently about the sheer incomprehensible scale of violence that happened during World War II, and among other things, it reminded me that this isn’t the worst time to be alive for the general human population. I can very much picture people during WWII thinking it was the end of days, and for millions of people, it was. Up to 60-75 million people died during WWII, and that doesn’t count those who survived injuries, starvation, occupation, bombings, etc. Millions upon millions of people killed or mentally fucked up for the rest of their lives, and this was after the first World War! Imagine the psychological toll of going through two world wars. None of us really can, nor can we comprehend that body count. WWII was so bad that, just in terms of numbers regarding the death count, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a drop in the bucket. Even the Holocaust didn't make up the majority of the death count, despite killing an insanely high amount of people at an insanely fast pace. It's hard to quantify the worst events in human history, but WWII has to be up there.

Obviously, a shit ton of scholarship has been written on the long-term effects of WWII both on individual societies and the world as a whole, so it's not like the war ended and then everything was fine and dandy, but the fact that human society continued to exist after that at all, and even thrive in some cases, is insane. It's just something to keep in mind as you're inundated with a constant stream of "nothing will ever get better" posts from people clinical depression posting on main. Things were so, so, so much worse not even 100 years ago.

[sprinkledsalt]

The anniversary of D-Day passed recently. It made me think of this post and the essay that inspired it:

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

Despite being one of the most talked-about events from history, I still don't think we talk about WWII enough. I think it's partly because it's hard for us to conceptualize the amount of violence and destruction, and I think, as suggested by the essay, it was partly a trauma response. The general population didn't want to talk about it after it was over, they wanted to move on. Now I think people either don't believe things were that bad (because the mindset is "if things were that bad, wouldn't we be talking about them more?"), or they don't want to grapple with what the end result of letting fascism and authoritarianism (and Jew hatred) run rampant actually looked like. But forgetting does two things: makes it easier to bring the world closer to destruction by repeating mistakes of the past, and gives people a false sense of the past and present. I think it becomes more difficult to prevent things from getting to that worst case scenario endpoint if you incorrectly convince people that they're already there and there's no point in fighting.

Anyway, I really feel like with WWII, no matter how bad you imagine it was, things were worse.

[tswiftw]

Taylor Swift out in NYC, 2026

[myjetpack]

My latest cartoon for New Scientist

[voroxpete]

To be clear, this isn't a bit. This is what they actually did. "Its too late" is the new "Climate change isn't real"... And its still a lie!

Every serious climate scientist agrees that there is no such as thing as too late, just as there is no such thing as too early. We should have done a lot more than we have to fight climate change, and the world will suffer for our inaction, but there is no point of no return. We can always work to reduce the amount of suffering that occurs, and eventually turn things around to the point where our planet is healing once again. Do not believe anyone who says it's "too late".

[februarytrash]

[stella-draws-things]

[the-big-mood]

[folklorefairy]

BASTILLE | MTV Unplugged (Photography by Yas Cowan)

[taylorswiftstyle]

Attending Toy Story 5 | Los Angeles, CA | June 9, 2026

Erdem Fall 2026 Aleví Milano ‘Bar 110 Sandals’ - €670,00

Taylor at the world premiere of Toy Story 5 in Erdem. Her original song for the film, “I Knew It, I Knew You”, broke records upon release as the biggest soundtrack single based on first-day plays.

As always, I had initial opinions when I first saw photos of Taylor. Then came the thoughts that benefited from a closer look. Among my surface-level takeaways was what a playful homage the dress is to the landscape of Toy Story. It’s a little Western (perhaps a nod to Jessie, the character who inspired “I Knew It”) and a little whimsical yet sweet - fitting for a family film. There’s also a nod to Taylor’s magpie tendencies; has she ever met a sequin she didn’t love? Styling-wise, I’m a sucker for a bow and a minimalist sandal, both of which get checks from me. A half-updo, minimal jewelry, and a plait keep things relaxed and unfussy. The shoes are also a new-to-Taylor brand. Where I typically would have expected standbys like Jimmy Choo or Giuseppe Zanotti to be at play for a red carpet look, we instead get an introduction to Aleví Milano. While a powder blue or metallic silver hue might have been more expected, I thought the warm tan shade of her heels grounds the look and, perhaps I’m reaching, felt like a strappy stiletto way of nodding to a pair of cowgirl boots.

Diving deeper, Taylor’s dress comes from Erdem’s Fall 2026 presentation titled “The Imaginary Conversation.” Created for the house’s 20th anniversary, Erdem Moralıoğlu conceived the collection as a “dialogue” between Erdem’s muses. That conversation is woven into the looks through richly textured brocades, florals, and frayed edges. Moralıoğlu described the concept as a “mashup” rather than a retrospective, thoughtfully revisiting Erdem house codes through his signature romantic lens.

Several parallels caught my attention. Wearing a dress celebrating 20 years of Erdem to an event positioning Taylor’s return to her country roots feels like an apt bookend as her career approaches the 20th anniversary of her debut album this fall. It’s the second time she’s recently nodded to a 20th anniversary, following the Stella McCartney x H&M top she wore to a Cavaliers game last month. Toy Story 5 also arrives in theatres on June 19 — the 20th anniversary of her first single, “Tim McGraw.”

The idea of a mashup also brought me back to The Eras Tour. The show itself was a supercut of Taylor’s past eras, but its most literal mashups came during the acoustic set, where Taylor paired songs from across her catalogue to deepen old stories and create new meaning. That same connective spirit feels echoed in the dress’ patchwork details which brings contrasting fabrics together into a cohesive whole and also nods to the (presumed vintage) jacket from the “I Knew It” visuals.

Photo by Kevin Mazur via Getty Images

[dearreader]

one thing about jack antonoff is you give him an instrument and he plays it like his life depends on it

[shutoffthelights]

never underestimate the average online nerd to think harder about your fictional economy than you ever will

[princemolder]

My bad. I was looking for a stupid job that didn't mean anything where I didn't have to do stuff. Sorry, I guess.

[brainstatic]

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

[embervoices]

If the solution to your problems sounds like “we need a blank slate” it’s a lie. There are no blank slates, and the closest approximation people can generally imagine is “burn it all down and let God/fate/history sort it out”.

That’s not problem solving. It’s barely catharsis, in practice. It doesn’t just create more problems than it solves, it destroys more solutions than it creates.

Put the apocalypse down, and back away slowly.

Real solutions to complex, systemic problems are not so easily reduced to “us good, them evil; kill them.”

[isitcasualnow]

ahead the new Olivia album coming out pick from my current favourite Olivia songs?

logical

good 4 u

vampire

de ja vu

traitor

all-american bitch

love is embarrassing

girl i've always been

get him back!

brutal

favorite crime

1 step forward, 3 steps back

Remaining time: 2 days 3 hours

[nerdygaymormon]

[dunkthebiscuit]

This is why Pride is not just a party. It's a joyful celebration, but it's also a pointed and colourful two-finger salute to a world that stood back whilst so many of us died. And we'll never go quietly, never again.