These days you can’t even say you’re English and took a £5 million pound gift from a crypto bro without a parliamentary investigation. These days.

I’m fucking sobbing

A cap like that is basically saying the rich should still have influence but it should be cheaper for them to buy it lol

Hearing I'm Not Okay word for word from a mile away. Is that... okay?

I’ll take “extremely niche groups you did not expect to see on a pride march but makes sense when you think about it” for 10, please

Distant sound of Kings of Leon and overwhelming smell of second hand weed smoke. Just like being a teenager out on the balcony tonight. And not in a good way. A solid reminder that nostalgia is bullshit.

It has come to my attention that endlessly watching bad Michael Douglas films might be some sort of neurodivergent thing and not a normal coping mechanism for a neurodivergent mind doing well.

In preparation for the faint sound of Kings of Leon drifting over from Bellahouston later, I've been listening to Kings of Leon. Those first two albums were legitimately great? Or did they just come out when I was a teenager and I'm being old and nostalgic? Who's to say...

The very first thing I did at the bouldering centre this morning was fall off a v1 from a very small height, and land appallingly badly. So I did what any grown up would do, and cried about it, before getting back on the wall and doing some (shorter) v3s.

We watched a Dropout improv special and I briefly thought I should do improv again. Signing up for improv classes while watching good improv is like going to the supermarket when you're hungry, though. And, I'll never be as funny as TonyCat, so why bother?

Me. I am the kind of people who consider The Princess Bride to he one of the most amazing films of all time!

The rightmove listing to end all rightmove listings. If it wasn't for popbitch I wouldn't have caught this one. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/9...

Wee Gordy McKee clearly saw how the Holyrood elections went, took a look at the demographics of his constituency and went "oh shit, maybe I should actually send replies that make it look like I read the emails, rather than just telling people I have a position of authority." The bar is in hell.

Short story pitch: an episode of The Repair Shop where someone brings in the Lament Configuration from Hellraiser.

disabled transport nerds, apply to work with me!

comprehensive overview of water companies in public ownership in devolved nations you got there shame if someone were to ctrl-f scot

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.

YOU 🫵 get to kick out a foreigner AND YOU 🫵 get to kick out a foreigner EVERYONE gets to be a border guard and satisfy their bloodlust

Suggested to S. that we make a podcast series about all the Shyamalan films. We could call it Date Night Shyamalan.

See what I just remembered? Years back I wrote a piece for QueerAF about how anyone claiming Kate Forbes was normal but just a lil bit churchy was acting in entirely bad faith. I don't know if it's even still online. I wonder if I can convince them to let me write another piece that just goes 'see?'

'testosterone and the bible are the new punk rock' kinda shit your youth pastor tells you while sitting backwards on a folding chair two weeks before getting shuffled off to another ministry because a 16 year old girl tempted him into the sin of lust

Gonna watch the Sheep Detective in a bit. S. said 'and we can try to figure out who did it?' Might start some Discourse claiming that's problematic. If the writer wanted you to know, they'd have told you at the start. Not sure who needs to hear this. Etc.

Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

My view: if you're an organisation celebrating this bill you're doing so to advance your own interests rather than those of trans people. The bill is a disgrace which is in reality more likely to hurt trans people than help them. 👇🏻

If it wasn't such an obvious, deliberate move to open the floodgates to all sorts of appalling lawfare, the implication that there are conversion practices to convert people TO becoming LGBTQ+ would be kind of iconic.

I've said it before but the rise in adult ADHD diagnoses is just because it stopped being socially acceptable to unknowingly self-medicate with cigarettes as a cheap stimulant and fidget toy.

S: this show has that lady you like Me [snapping round to look at the tv]: Sarah Paulson?! S: No. What a first place to go.

I've been saying for MONTHS that the relentless news stories about student debt, and degrees not leading to jobs, really do feel like they are less about problems with the student loan system and more about keeping a particular type of 18-year-old firmly in their place.

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

Today was my 6th consecutive migraine day this month. The weather has broken me. But at least I made my greatest ever vegan meatball marinara sandwich after my migraine nap when then postdrome hunger hit. Shame my brain was so fuzzy I have no idea what I put in the sauce.

My strongest memory of Starmer will be his 2024 conference speech, where he said "every child deserves respect", a young activist said "does that include the children of Gaza?", and he laughed and said "he's obviously got a pass to the 2019 conference".

This is good Wikipedia. bsky.app/profile/cjte...

For many LGBT folk like me, and especially trans folk, Keir Starmer will be remembered in the same way as Margaret Thatcher: with deep contempt for having overseen a deeply hostile, queerphobic government, which rolled back human rights and set society back by at least a decade. Good riddance.

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If I were Starmer, I would just resign now, then go to bed. Wake up fresh and have a lazy Sunday. Does the man not have terrible appointment paralysis? What will he be doing all day tomorrow? Are the neurotypicals okay?

Obsessed with the person sitting along from us at the GFT's Bleak Week screening of Twin Peaks s3e8 who brought a whole big Terry's Chocolate Orange as a cinema snack. He ate a good third of it before the curtains even opened.

What is it about white people that makes them so violent? Should we tolerate white culture in the UK? Is the fact he was arrested without violence evidence of two-tier policing? Should white people still be given housing when non-whites remain homeless? Will white leaders condemn this? etc.

I have so few followers, and even fewer good takes, so opening bluesky and seeing "30+" notifications was unexpected and alarming.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

Why are people still talking about anonymity being the source of all online harm? There was a woman who was so obsessively posting about me, under her real name, that a former colleague of hers found me on LinkedIn to send solidarity and check I was okay. Again, she did that UNDER HER REAL NAME.

I am begging UK queer organisers to please use petition.parliament.uk instead of change.org, the latter is an American site that the UK government has no obligation to respond to

Can we have a 12-month moratorium on banning things just to see if we can come up with any policies that aren't just "ban it"

Troubling reports out of England of 30 year-olds being socially transitioned into same-sex attraction without parental consent! One can only hope that the UK bans coming out as gay until a child is at least 35!

Are you leech body ready? Are you engorged with delicious, iron-rich blood? Ignore the sea and take a dip in this tepid, murky pond!

My real name was in The Times once. A pack of TERFs cried about it sounding like a fake name while swapping tips on how to find out more about me and my limited online presence. But sure, the internet would be better if we made it easier to hound anyone who dare speak up about anything ever.

has anyone considered that maybe the UK government is like, sponsored by nord vpn and all of this is actually a sales tactic

Just invented a new kind of sock that's much less comfortable to wear than a regular sock. "But I don't want that," you're probably thinking. Unfortunately it's mandatory.

Ah, some journalists have Noticed that actually some "grassroots" groups are well-funded psyops by our enemies! Surely they will now apply this knowledge widely and examine other "grassroots" campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...