Morgan McSweeney Picks up the blame in the lurch from a Mandelson scheme Leading the team Overton window moved to the right but he wants to keep moving some more Votes for Reform

M2 • 35mm Ultron f2 • Kodak 500T #filmphotography #35mm

I'm standing by this prediction.

Oh, you know the ones

The vague use of the looky-eyes emoji to denote the presence of banter 👀

Respectful cum country. #Starmer

Is it my turn yet papa

Norfolk resident opines on Andrew Mountbatten

ah fuck. accidentally cooked a animorph

Falling to your death in slow motion from the rooftop of the Nakatomi Plaza while saying “aaaaaaaargh” is not funny or evidence of low character.

Stepping on a roller skate and rolling down the street on one leg with flailing arms before landing head-first in a rubbish bin full of fish skeletons is not *in itself* funny or evidence of low character, and if it happened to my elderly father I would only be upset.

Crashing into the back of a truck, causing it to dump its load of manure into your open convertible and all over you, obliging you to spit it out and exclaim “I hate manure!”, is not *in itself* funny or evidence of low character.

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

Wanting to be thin isn’t a fringe perspective, nor is it edgy. It is the dominant narrative in a profoundly anti-fat culture. And in this particular moment, making media about how it’s okay to want to be thin also acts as de facto advertising for some of the wealthiest corporations in the world.

I wasn't planning to watch the Melania movie but now that it auto plays on my phone's lock screen, and when I pause my smart tv, and on the fridge display, and on my car's digital screen when I brake, and on the baby monitors, and is whispered through my white noise app, I'm starting to get into it.

Steve Coogan has an opportunity to make a really simple but devastating parody of that Reform UK party political broadcast.

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

I just finished season 5 of Fargo, and it’s a really good sorta-parable, sorta explicit exploration of the American conservative right and All This. It’s even set in Minnesota. Strong recommend.

PSA for anyone who needs it. bsky.app/profile/dran...

Is it really thirty years since I first thought CHANNEL 4 TOOK THE RISK WITH BIG NIGHT OUT YOU LYING GETS

no, you're wrong. using one of these books is infinitely preferable to someone using nothing but a reused password 9,000 times. they're especially good for older people who don't go out much. if your book is at risk in your home, you have bigger problems than "they're going to steal my amazon login"

I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.

Lovely for the yield

Not now, “Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse” !

i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory

I really think if politicians regularly had the stupid things they say on TV dismantled and reflected back at them in the moment by journalists who are able for it, we might not be where we are.

Spare a thought for Adam Curtis

This is why we talk about "skill regression" after diagnosis - it isn't actually skill regression, that's just how it can look from the outside. It's actually self-acceptance progression.

Conservatives and their reactionary cousins believe that their views are true because they believe them. They don't need hard proof or to be able to argue for them. They're "common sense." This viewpoint is the fundamental unifier of everyone on the right, from atheist ancaps to Christofascists.

Last night I met a guy who said everyone in his office uses ChatGPT "because you just type in two lines and it generates a whole email for you!" And I *very correctly* replied that "no one wants that 'whole email' they just want the two lines - and they all hate you"

“Send reinforcements. We are going to advance.” “Send three-and-fourpence. We are going to a dance.”

Jessie was the emotional support animal for everyone in this room, they are falling to bits now. #thetraitors

This is the best thing I have ever seen.

This is like a magic eye picture.

Like, I'm sorry the fascists are giving you difficult choices. But that's what fascists fucking do. The only legit answer is "fuck you make me". The only answer that shows you have actual fucking principles not preferences is "fuck you make me". And that sucks. But here we are.

🕯️My cousin Brian passed away last night. After a courageous 3 wk stint with ICE. He slipped on a fellow agent’s frozen peepee puddle & somersaulted many times in the air, yelling “yabbada yabbada yabbada” & tragically aspirating (a different) agent’s pee he’d been gargling. He hated women🇺🇸💔

A PLAN A man a plan A Panaman Panapamam Mapanapam Mamapanap Namanapa Nalpanama Nal-pa (to the tune of last of the summer wine)

OH he condemns THIS! Will he also condemn THAT??

His cap is on backwards 😭 #TheTraitors

Cat among the chickens, aye #TheTraitors

Imagine a member of the secret service was just like "Aye fuck it, I'll go down in history".

“Donald Trump says” Ok, bbc, good job x

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

This wheel is to the boy squirrel the way that the football is to Charlie Brown and it still makes me laugh every time he tries to use it only to be immediately spun.

Gavin & Stacey (since nobody’s said it yet)

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*