The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

Anti-trans groups have been calling themselves women's rights groups, LGB groups and child safeguarding groups for the last decade. It is and always was a fiction. They are now leveraging that fiction, using Rowling's money, to try to take down anyone who points out that they are anti-trans groups.

Taking this as confirmation McConnell is dead or incapacitated and they’re down 2 senators.

Sam Neill was, of course, utterly brilliant in Jurassic Park but I think his best work was in Hunt for the Wilderpeople. He's poignant, vulnerable and extremely funny in a role nobody else could have played as well. RIP.

If you’re ever wondering whether person (x) is reasonable or whether they’re just a hooting wingnut crackpot, then I have always found “do they have serious, very aggro beef with Amnesty International” is one of the best indicators.

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

I never thought I’d feel protective of the England team but this visceral anti-England BSky discourse is pissing me off. Somehow England’s ethnically diverse team represents the arrogance of the Brexit right but France’s ethnically diverse team represents progressive values? Come on

Bluesky during England-Argentina

I live pretty close to a large men's prison and I am currently not watching the football but experiencing it through the extremely enthusiastic yelling and signing of the prisoners. Not radio, not TV, but the distant singing of lost souls.

Just went to feed the cat and opened the backdoor for a bit of fresh air and then heard my entire beloved city start screaming with joy, so I assume England just scored.

Last night I got to DJ a bloody great industrial rave for a few hundred people at the venue where I proposed to my wife around eight years ago. It was stupidly awesome and extremely, extremely loud. Hell yeah.

This joke does the rounds every heatwave and it's fine I guess but also seriously it is boiling. I do not own any clothes that aren't heavy and black. The nights are too short. Give me water and shade pls.

I'm not going to delete my earlier post, I stand by it, but it does appear something monstrous has happened here and saying so is not politically or morally inconsistent.

No one is obligated to be kind about someone who would never have been kind about them.

She was a horrendous homophobe who made the lives of my friends worse both measurably and deliberately. I don't care how personally kind she was, this sort of halo polishing is an insult to the LGBT+ community.

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

Guess I'm going to have to temporarily become a Binfaceista. He won't win. I mean yes, Farage has been absent and possibly corrupt, and sure Reform underperform hugely in by elections, and sure Binface is smarter than people give him credit for, but Farage will win. Definitely. Probably. *Probably*.

i love how every facet of the Entertainment Industry is a massive money printing machine and across its every tendril the people who actually make that money wind up broke and unemployed

So that’s a country where the poor are left to starve and only the right type of person has rights, where freedoms are exerted by state force. Whom will assert this force? People of will who will not flinch and will do what must be done. Are you seeing what this is and where it’s going yet?

I watched the whole Farage speech and I know it's probably a class thing or something but honestly *what is the appeal of that man*? "Ooooh, everyone's so mean to me just because dodgy crypto billionaires give me millions of pounds for unclear reasons, it's a stitch up by the communists." Shut up.

Nothing says 'man of the people' quite like a politician calling a by-election at public expense on the issue of whether or not he should have the right to secretly take donations from Thai-based crypto billionaires and a convicted fraudster

probably a tasteless hot take on how liberal America's reaction to the red card thing parallels its inability to see why everyone in Europe got so worked up about Greenland, if you want it

More of this, give me more! I love it!

Feeling sorry for all those who actually are unwell today/tonight and can't make it to school/work tomorrow.

Honestly I suspect he can't, or at least not all of it. It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of it's gone on houses and campaigning or whatever.

Profoundly America brained. Imagine looking at the DSA and seeing Stalinism. Full US madness.

This is just racism. Just racism. Matt Goodwin is a gross little racist freak and I don't know why we apparently have to pretend he and his party aren't. It baffles me.

Banter outcome: it swings fully behind Your Party.

Okay, fine, good, but Eggers is going to run out of foundational magic horror monsters soon. I am intrigued to see Robert Eggers's Mummy, maybe even his Zombies, but after that it's going to have to get weird. Eggers's Ogre. Eggers's Yeti. Eggers's Boggart. Okay I actually do want to see these.

It was fine. Reasonably well delivered, had some policy ideas as opposed to none at all. It really wasn't special, it just feels that way because we're that starved for basic competence in the PM's political communications strategy.

It did feel refreshing but honestly a large part of the reason it felt refreshing is because it wasn't Keir Starmer giving it. My cat is a better public speaker than that guy.

She wanted to be in this war and argued that the only reason Keir Starmer didn't want to is that he was in hoc to British Muslims. Not a serious person.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Not to be all wokescold about it, but we've just spent all week yelling about how there are systemic economic, political, policy and structural issues as to why Europeans don't have AC - the same is true for Black, Hispanic and other minority communities in DC. Let's show some actual solidarity.

He's not been in the job all that long and I dont live anywhere near him so I can't judge much of his record, but I can say with absolute certainty that Mamdani is absolutely superb at PR. Just astoundingly good at it. The million dollar smile doesn't hurt.

Awaiting the scores of skeets from NYT "journalists" telling you all it's your fault you died because you couldn't afford A/C, just like they've been loudly yelling that all of Europe should just install A/C or die this week.

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

Every last one of these people is a racist, homophobic, transphobic traitor. All of them.

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

Because in America all politics are fundamentally about racism they assume it is elsewhere too. They comfort themselves with the lie that other places are somehow more racist, even though their government includes Stephen Miller.

Möther when will I return from the âïṛ č̣ŏnditïønịɲģ wäŕş

you try and drag me back to France yourself, you weasel-faced I'm not going to finish that sentence publicly because unfortunately I would like to remain gainfully employed

I don't think Reform believe that people will fight for their friends and loved ones. They don't really get that it's the sort of thing that makes people take up arms against their own government.

If I were European I would simply solve the heatwave using good old American moxie. But I will not use said moxie to solve the USA's intractable social problems because America is a real country and I am very busy.

Brutus was a principled and decent man who killed Caesar because he legitimately wanted to prevent a monarchy in Rome but he was made out to be a treacherous scumbag by Augustus and his propagandists for political reasons. It's low stakes *now* but admittedly wouldn't have been then.

This is Starmerism.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.