Pretty scuzzy sort of headline.

Yet somehow will have no consequences.

They tried to reverse the bus and it became a sub

obviously the science here is egregious, but it's also so embarrassing to contact your institution's press office and have them launder this nothing article into the mainstream media. what are we even doing

This guy. Always this guy.

Back on my Chris van Tulleken hatred

The study seems to be relying on people saying "I seem to recall after having an entire Viennetta that I wasn't as sharp as usual"

When someone tries to murder someone because they share an ethnicity with people who commit atrocities, you don't minimise their actions, justify their motives or criticise those stopping the murder. If you can't even manage this for the optics let alone the morals, get the fuck out of politics.

Zack keeps being fucking bad, guys.

Prevent continuing to be an ironic name.

I cannot overstate how completely insane this story is

Nigel Farage having a photo op in a Jewish community after an antisemitic attack is like Josef Goebbles having a photo op in a Jewish community after an antisemitic attack. Sorry; I couldn’t think of a funny analogy that was more apt.

It's been bumped by the Elections tab. We don't have to have an embolism over everything.

I think the tonal thing I miss in Star Trek is the arrogance of its optimism. It wasn’t ostensively trying to convince you of its progressive values, it was flat out telling you that one day you and your petty bigotries would be dead and gone and laughed at. I’d like some of that energy in the 2030s

I have nothing particularly useful to contribute except this: this is the direct consequence of Polanski's uncritical embrace of the idea that the Labour antisemitism scandal was basically fake. He opened the door to those people and lo and behold

Thinking about an interview John Waters gave where he saw Jackass 2 and went "oh my God, they're doing the type of stuff I've always wanted to do onscreen but they've tricked straight people into watching it" and Knoxville later responded "that was 100% intentional"

We're not gonna turn the tide on this stuff by waiting for some organisation or steering group whose recent output largely consists of 'guys, we've come up with ANOTHER impenetrable and kinda offensive alternative to the term ethnic minority!' to do anything useful.

I could live to be a thousand years old and not understand how people do not understand that the logic of 'blowback' only motivates you to do something if you are *already* racist.

Democrats forgot to Honoré de Balzac

Feel like Farage failing to declare a £5 million donation from 'Bitcoin billionaire Christopher Harborne' before standing in the 2024 general election should be a bigger story

Can Victorian ghosts sue people?

Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety

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Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

BOUDICCA SCHERAZADE

The collapse of the Soviet Union was such a severe blow to the American psyche it simply refused to belive it happened

sorry

The lucky winner of the strip of Citalopram 40mg in the Sertraline 100mg box will win the Sertraline Factory after going on a magical tour

Sectarianism? Family voting? No, what British Muslims are doing with their votes is called democracy | Taj Ali

I'm bored. Going to go on all the clips of mediocre 90s comedy sketches and say "Back when we were allowed to make jokes".

This has "just discovered Victor Frankenstein is the real monster" energy. This is the fucking text.

Reform *did* support Labour as it did all those things, of course. Why that's the case and what it says about homophobia and transphobia in the UK today is something every Labour-supporting ally and member of the Labour Party ought to think long and hard about. 5/5

Reform didn't plead helplessness when the Supreme Court eviscerated trans rights. Reform didn't stand idly by while charities and businesses and social clubs were bullied into dropping trans-inclusive policies by transphobic lawfare. Reform didn't dissemble about rising trans kid suicide rates. /4

Reform didn't ban trans women from the Labour women's conference. Reform didn't cancel leadership elections for LGBT Labour when a pro-trans was slated to win. Reform didn't go from saying 'trans women are women' to 'women can't have a penis' in the space of 3 years. /3

Reform didn't extend Baroness Falkner's term as EHRC lead, nor appoint Mary-Ann Stephenson over the objections of the Women and Equalities Committee. Reform didn't implement the Cass report. Reform didn't erase trans kids from RSE guidance. Reform didn't ban indefinitely puberty blockers. /2

I have a lot of time for @kateosbornemp.bsky.social; she is a true ally. However, no explanation of the rise of discrimination and violence against LGBT+ people in the UK makes sense without acknolwedging the complicitly and encouragement of the Labour government. 1/

Last week I had time off yanked away by client needing stuff. Today they have left me alone. Have I even began to do what I wanted to do with the free time last week? Like fuck have I.

If only all those schools had ballrooms, so many shootings could have been avoided

Amazon: "We've found something we think you'll love!" It's a power strip.

All the defences for MPs drinking at work basically boil down to defending an utterly broken workplace.

Battersea Birds this afternoon

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Look there’s no way Trumps team could stage any assassination attempt without Kash or Pete or someone accidentally sending the NYT an email with the subject line “FW: Fw: fw FW: re. Assassination TOP SECRET”

Just watching video of the correspondents dinner and fucking hell what an incompetent mess of a security detail. Did they replace all the secret service with podcasters as well?

I bought a French duck I was going to cook in a Cantonese-style barbecue sauce; but the duck escaped, covered me in the glaze, and forced me into the oven. I was hoisined by my own canard

"No, the NHS Didn’t Say “Raining Cats and Dogs” Was Offensive.How a Misleading Headline Turned NHS Guidance Into a Culture War Myth". @monkemma.bsky.social is second to none at picking these things apart, well worth a read. monkdebunks.substack.com/p/no-the-nhs...

In an astonishing discovery, the vacuum cleaner is far more effective when you clean out the filter.