Worth reiterating that if it were up to the British press and political class we would not have seen a whiff of any of this, and the only reason we have is that despite our continual sucking up to them the Americans don't give a fuck if they embarrass our public figures.

This, tho I'd also note the importance of forum. As an expert in decolonisation, I have many conversations about its limitations as an approach, and where we may be going wrong. I just don't do it where bad faith actors coukd twist informed constructive criticism into attacks on the concept itself.

Facebook just told me it's been a year to the day since my book came out. If you haven't bought it yet, don't you think you've held back long enough?

I once taught a kid named "Jay-Dee", so I get an additional layer of fun on top of this.

All jokes aside, this is a huge part of why England is so miserably and entirely fucked - we're utterly obsessed with class in every way, except when it comes to actually defining what class means.

I watched When Evil Lurks, a film about how literally everybody keeps getting hurt, or even killed, because men are incapable of listening to women.

There is only one way we will defeat Reform: together. That’s why I’m backing the Greens in the Gorton and Denton by-election. We are a mass movement of all ages, backgrounds and faiths — united in a belief that things can, and will, change.

Are we absolutely sure this isn't the world's greatest satirical performance artist doing a really long-term Andy Kaufman style 'bit'? I mean REALLY sure?

oh yeah, how much did that cost you?

"The Epstein Class" is one of those politically clever phrases that SO easily becomes a not-very-subtle codeword for Jews. Neo-Nazis are already gleefully using "Epstein Class", and anyone nominally on the Left should be extra careful. But a guy with an SS tattoo probably isn't very careful.

Do we really believe Starmer HAS any allies at this point? If he made himself a ventriloquist's dummy it would turn around and tell him to go fuck himself, Corky-style.

Finished Silo S2. Can't recall when F and I tore through a show so quickly. Just the right mix of mystery, drama & revolutionary politics. It sags a bit partway through each year - should have 8 eps each, not 10 - and there's a few nagging ways it doesn't fully hang together. Mainly though, DAMN.

hard to believe that there's not much market for "impractical, barely functional, extremely ugly, prohibitively expensive, and developed by the world's most prominent Nazi."

Embarrassing to live anywhere where the line of succession is being treated as news.

This. I can't see any argument that plenty of people didn't just use Pulaski's early treatment of Data as a handy excuse to hate on a woman who was pushing 50, and who took shit from precisely nobody. Abigail is 100% right about Shaw, and I'd add in Riker's early attitude to Data too.

The absolute refusal to connect American history to American current events is one of the weirdest expressions of modern racism.

Meanwhile what drives me absolutely fucking insane is that I have been described as a "conspiracy theorist" for stating that the entire anti-trans moral panic was a psyop, when they had a public summit in which the principal actors explicitly said "we're going to start an anti-trans moral panic."

Super fun and in no way fucked up that we've gone from "socialism or barbarism" to "socialism or paedophilia", and no-one with a microphone shows the slightest interest in reflecting on whether they might have made the wrong choice.

"A more genuine Starmer" give me fucking strength. You cannot rebrand yourself as not a liar anymore; that's not how things work. You can, at best, demonstrate you have no more loyalty to the people you wanted to impress by your lies than you do those who you wanted to believe the lies. That's it.

Girlduiding and Women's Institute say the law forces them to exclude trans women. But that's not true. We are offering to indemnify them against legal risk if they change course. If they remain trans exclusive, their members can know it's management's ideological choice.

Gruß an alle Otters da draußen 😻🥰

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

Gorillaz are back so time to resurrect the greatest of all music tweets. We're all out here tryna be The Quietus and she just walks up and zeroes in on the essence.

watching curling is like waiting for the dvd logo to land perfectly in the corner of the screen

recently watched an episode of Star Trek TNG with the Duras sisters, so I'm reposting this thing I drew in 2022

Finally got around, at forty-six human years of age, to watching "The Paradise Syndrome". I wasn't expecting anything different, but holy shit, was that not worth the wait.

(sea monster bio) You've probably seen my writhing in The Atlantic

Didn't know any of this, and am now PISSED OFF.

"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology" No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.

It’s Sidney Poitier’s birthday. Here he is in In The Heat of The Night delivering the most satisfying & thrilling slap in cinema.

I would kill any human you chose to name if it got me a buddy heist movie starring The 12th Doctor and Jadzia Dax.

Carrying on the royal tradition of "appearing to have suddenly expired in their car."

Evenin' re-up.

Noted tartan owner winds bum tight after arrest! (6, 11-7)

Out of curiousity i went to Sonia's feed on twitter and Every Single Post is about exactly what youd expect lol

Spoilery review of #StarfleetAcademy 1.7 "Ko'Zeine" up now.

Ok learning that more people were unaware of this then I assumed so as an fyi Scream 7’s production was defined entirely by firing the new trilogy series lead over her pro-Palestine statements

Darkest Hour. Fuck that film and everyone involved in it.

"A pint? That's very nearly 600 millilitres!"

clearly at this point we just need to get rid of the stupid humans at the olympics and replace every event with "dogs running down the ski slope"

Cabin In The Woods (derogatory) and I Saw The TV Zone (complimentary).

I think about this a lot It holds for all kinds of bigotry, too. Like it’s literally easier to just not be an asshole. Not to say you won’t screw up out of ignorance and marinating in toxic cultural sludge your entire life, but even so

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Sigh. Leftists invented whole aesthetics around using technology w/o destroying the world. Anarchist transfems teach classes on solar power and spawn three new electronic music genres weekly. We are notoriously into trains, libraries, vaccines. We just didn't fall for a scam and now y'all are sore.

DAMN, that ratio. I don't even know what I could say to hit that, short of dropping a couple of slurs, or asking when the BBC will spool up some Jim'll Fix It repeats.

*Squid & F watch a gameshow* Show: What is the only one of the seven wonders still standing? S: The Pyramids. F: What are the other six? S: Uh, the Hanging Gardens, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Library of Alexandria, the- F: Wait, are you just listing the options from that 7 Wonders game? S: ...

the only way to improve Star Trek: TNG would be if they'd give each major character an episode where they fucked a ghost trapped in a candle

Saw this ma, thought "What the fuck is going on in Bulgaria", googled it, and found the answer politics-wise is A Lot.

@unison.org.uk Thank you so so much 🏳️‍⚧️ "UNISON, the UK’s largest trade union, has passed a motion condemning the nation’s top equality watchdog’s worrying trans rhetoric." www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/17/u...