Yes these are concerning

Bricolage Grotesque — Free & Open Source Variable Font

An expressive variable font that blends iconic French and British designs across three axes: weight, width, and optical size. It visually expresses what it feels like when you cannot be what you were and yet you can never truly be anybody else.

Gargoyles and grotesques: Parliament Hill’s sinister sentinels

The misshapen demons scattered through Centre Block, West Block and East Block are one of Parliament’s more bizarre architectural features. Their pedigree dates back to the Middle Ages and, no, they’re not all gargoyles.

What About the Rapists and Murderers?

Trigger warning: rape, sexual assault, murder, torture, ablelism, trauma.

Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty

The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty

Well-intentioned obscenity

An LLM lied about me at the office and I'm cranky about it. That interaction makes me think a lot about how LLMs are becoming normalized, though, and what we're looking at in terms of their role in human-to-human interactions in the future.

Fascist femboys, autogynephilia, and flattering narratives

Among those who believe [autogynephilia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanchard'stranssexualismtypology) is real and the primary explanation for many or mo...

Henry A. Giroux on Twitter / X

My new article, “When Monsters Walk Among Us,” which argues that monsters are neither born outside of history nor reducible to particular individuals. They are produced by societies, institutions, and power that make the intolerable appear ordinary.https://t.co/eGXcLGSQcE— Henry A. Giroux (@HenryGiroux) September 18, 2026

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity.This piece has been updated from its original email version.Genocide scholars are sounding the alarm over what they describe as escalating attacks targeting transgender, nonbinary, and intersex Americans in the United States.Experts, including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), warn that the nation may already be in the early stages of committ

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

Transhumanism and the Denial of Death

Autism Checklist of DOOM

Our autism checklist of doom is meant to help people the kinds of things that may upset an autistic person, ones that aren't always obvious.

HuggingFace Attack Postmortem: Civilizations, Reactions and Next Actions

Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.