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Various and sundry links

for your perusal this weekend

Starmer Out, by Toby Buckle.

Keir Starmer Proves that Triangulation is a Dead End, by Jamelle Bouie.

Níor chóir glacadh leis! Níl maitheas ar bith in their politics for you and me.

— Kneecap, Liar’s Tale

It’s The Centrism, Stupid, by Katelyn Burns.

Starmer’s Resignation And Labour’s Collapse Shows Why Democrats Must Avoid Abandoning Trans People, by Erin Reed.


A Grecian-style statue of three women embracing stands in front of a building in the style of a Spanish cathedral.
Gals being pals, Hearst Castle, June 2026

Also by Erin:

Federal judge blocks DOJ from seeking NYC trans care information via grand jury subpoena, by Chris Geidner.

NYC Pride Marshals, Parents of Trans Kids Blast Hospitals Marching After Dropping Trans Kids, by s. baum.


Via Eryn: E73, by Stewart Russell, is a faithful recreation of the ECMA-42 bitmap printer font. A73 builds on it and extrapolates more codepoint coverage. With my retrocomputing and typography nerd hat on—and my Uachtarán na hEcma hat firmly off—I freaking love this.


A young girl stands under the “sunset” lesbian pride flag.
EJ celebrating Pride, June 2023

Notes on Amazon v. Perplexity, by ekr.

Lectures en cours : après le libre et les communs, par Antoine Fauchié, via Karl.


Om Malik, 1966–2026.

The Retweeting Class, by Robin.

La souveraineté numérique se construit par étapes, et si les institutions ne bougent pas, le public ne bougera pas, par Robin et Nicolas Hénin. [English]

Umyazu, by mandy brown.


The Boeing 747 Begins Its Final Descent, by Ian Bogost, via Kottke.

A History of Menus is a Menu of History, from The Pudding, via Andy Baio.


Three strips of photo booth photos are side by side. The same three women appear in them, in various silly poses.
Eryn, Laura, and me at Mother over the years, most recently March 2026.

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family, by Pete Buttigieg.