Pff. Tourist.

I try not to be a grammar Nazi or get hung up on stupid things, but there is an apostrophe in 'Hallowe'en' and I will die on this hill with glee.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

It is racist, and framing the story in this way is also racist. Preston is a casually racist idiot and his team are casually racist idiots.

Just had a look at what the news channels had to say about the Caerphilly by election and this is a really profound difference in emphasis, isn't it.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral." I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

I know the world is kind of a mess and US politics is arguably one of the messiest parts but the fact that any Democrat is defending someone having an SS Totenkopf tattooed on his chest is disgusting. Get him out of the party and get everyone who took his side out of the party. What are you doing.

(if anyone would like to maybe start some sort of campaigning or pressure group of and on behalf of immigrants with ILR and settled status in Britain then I would be interested in helping, or indeed trying to get it off the ground myself, email in bio, etc)

this also drives me insane, this idea that it is the most normal thing in the world for a young (white) man to have a nazi curious phase. it isn’t!

I was at the Louvre last weekend, the Sunday before this heist, and it sort of seems like people don't quite fully understand how massive the place is. Bunch of people traipsing around in high vis vests are going to blend right in, if they're noticed at all. It's just huge.

The existence of fee paying private schools is inexcusable in any and all circumstances.

I mean sure but the actual answer is 'extremely obviously the pink panthers' and those jewels are now gone forever.

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I went to the Louvre last week so, naturally, all my friends are now messaging me asking if I had something to do with today's robbery. I'm honestly kind of flattered they think I could pull off such a daring caper.

Okay it should probably be in the privacy policy, but I don't really understand why people make such a fuss about blocking. I block for literally any reason. Bad politics? Block. Bad at posting? Block. Cringe posting? Block. Irritating? Block. Cheerful posting while I'm in a bad mood? Block.

This might be a fair critique but what deeper analysis are any of the parties actually using? Labour and the tories are just reacting to Reform tweets, Reform is just reacting to far right memes, the lib dems are still cheering liberalism but are nowhere near power so... So what?

Went to the Louvre this morning and now, exhausted, am scrolling through the posts of the Louvre of Bluesky. One tells us a great deal about our human story, our rich culture, the way we present our moment to the world and the way we view ourselves, and the other does the same thing.

Today I walked face first into a cobweb in the Paris catacombs so I think I've achieved peak goth. If anyone has any questions I'll be brooding in my belfry while writing poetry.

Some news stuff probably happened today but, more importantly I had a bhaji roll (like a sausage roll but with onion bhaji instead of sausage) and it's definitely the most brilliant culinary innovation since anything Louis Pasteur ever did and probably since someone tried applying fire to raw meat.

I know why the Chancellor said what she said, I understand the tortured logic, but actually if you support removing indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it you are, in fact, racist. A bad person. You just are.

Seeing some weird news about some people in Labour finally coming out with 'strong' arguments against Reform and making 'strong' statements about their policies, but they aren't. They just aren't. Reform are a far right party with racist policies and a racist leader. Say it. Say it again and again.

That's it? That was Starmer's big speech about racism? A speech that didn't even use the word 'racism'? That's what we're getting? Useless. Inadequate. Cowardly. Shameful.

It is deeply immoral, even with the best of intentions, to build the infrastructure for a police state. It's even more immoral when a far right party is ahead in the polls. This is a very stupid and desperate idea from a team who don't think things through, don't care, and think it's still the 90s.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

Farage saying that people from "different cultures" are eating swans and carp from parks is a racist lie. It's not subtle or defensible, it's a lie, a racist one, and any political leader worth their salt would say so. Starmer will not.

Oh, I see he's in Ukraine's side this week. Next week it'll change. Or maybe not. Basically he's a chaotic idiot and has absolutely no interest in his own foreign policy so he just kind of makes stuff up and mostly just says whatever might play well to his base at any given minute.

why is this news how is this news why is he being interviewed I'm losing my MIND

It still counts as listening if you read the book version of the audiobook.

tapping the sign again, lads

Think I'm beginning to understand why the Democrats are doing so, so badly in the US.

Twitter is so abysmal that, aside from the open Nazis that Infest that place like flies on a month old corpse, one of the most boosted accounts is a right wing weirdo calling themselves 'catturd2'. It's a horrible place full of horrible people, just a grim, course, gross, joyless wasteland.

A surprising number of people seem to regard Nazism as an understandable and natural reaction to heavy eye makeup.

Penny Mourdant really has shown herself to be devoid of principles here. Standing up for basic human rights is a matter of conscience, it has to be done, dismissing it as 'student politics' (a meaningless term invented by moral cowards) is grotesque.

Seems to be some disagreement on American Bluesky about whether or not you should register to attend a protest, and I have to ask: why is there a register at all for a protest? I have been to many protests and there's never been a register of any kind because why would there be? What are you doing.

It's D by an absolutely unbelievable margin. I mean it's not even close.

Not really the point, admittedly, but something that's really starting to annoy me is that the name of the game is 'fuck, marry, kill'. 'Snog, marry, avoid' was the name given to a terrible cheap reality TV program that was terrible and also demeaning to everyone involved.

My 'Kier Starmer is a casually racist bro surrounded by toxic macho dickheads' theory is looking more accurate by the minute. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If you think Starmer voluntarily chose Sunday afternoon to make a belated statement about the riots rather than that he was bounced into doing it by the justified denunciation of his silence, I'm not sure you should be commenting on UK politics.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

I have stood with friends and comrades in front of baying mobs of fascists trying to attack hotels, I have heard their poisonous racism first hand, seen them give Nazi salutes, heard them sing about their love of Robinson. The fact the PM can't even bring himself to condemn them is disgusting.

Keep thinking of arguments for why it would be completely insane to dump a prime minister with a huge majority just 14 months in, and also about how if he's not going to say a single word in opposition to the kind of shit we saw today then I no longer feel convinced by any of those arguments.

Incredible that those covering far right march in London are failing to link to history of far right in UK. Tell it how it is: this extremist movement is the descendant of the BNP, Combat-18, Moseley's black shirts. Either short memories or deliberate forgetting.

American media is so intensely hateful, bigoted and poisoned it's almost breathtaking.

If you build a country where everyone is armed, fight like hell to keep everyone armed, and deliberately intensify political polarisation to the point of utter hatred, it should come as no surprise when people begin to die violent deaths. America looks, from afar, like Rwanda in 1994.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.

I miss university. I'd spend hours reading Jane Eyre or Henry V and then get to the lecture and they'd be all 'the immortal science of Marxism is the doctrine of the liberation of the proletariat.'

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Lenin once called the Economist 'a journal which speaks for British millionaires' and honestly every time I see Economist writers complain about anything it feels very much like he was right then and is still sort of right now.