things bullets say

If you've never been to Gaza, you won't appreciate what the yellow line means. Basically Israel now holds most of Gaza's small but important agricultural land. Continued Israeli occupation, which I judge the likely outcome, makes Gaza even more unliveable and more dependent on outside goods.

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

It's not often I'm lost for words, but... :O

DAAAAAAAMN!!!! Another spot on amazing piece of artwork!!!

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

To make up for how Power Rangers is an old Japanese show they filmed additional scenes with Americans for we should do the opposite and make the casts of Law & Order SVU and Grey’s Anatomy stop a couple times an episode to fight people in werewolf costumes

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

Me politically

We can't keep up... Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000. Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 32% (-3) LAB: 17% (-2) CON: 17% (+3) GRN: 15% (+4) LDM: 12% (=) SNP: 3% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 8 Oct. Changes w/ 1 Oct.

We just hit 93,000 members. We're polling on average higher than we have ever before. Over 1000 people joining a day! Join our movement. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Gutted Corsica Studios is closing (sort of). So many memories, many not for public consumption. We had The Quietus 5th & 10th birthday parties there. It was where I discovered I adored being pummelled by heavy, grubby techno that made the urinals vibrate pleasingly 🖤 thequietus.com/news/london-...

Love love love Corsica Studios.

This photo of Virginia Woolf is both a mood and a vibe

Enough of this Tetris shit. Time for an impractical and unenforcable agreement on all book widths.

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

Horrifying news out of Crumpsall this morning following a major incident. I want to thank the police for swift action. Praying for the whole community on this holy day. Violence is never the answer and Manchester must stand together against these actions.

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Repeat after me: people hate this mad king shit

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

There is no such thing as an unsatisfying Timothy Olyphant interview

If you haven't read MOBY DICK I think it's easy to be like "oh there are some passages that can mistakenly be read in a homoerotic or homoromantic light" and then you read it and Ishmael is like "from that moment on Queequeg and I were a married couple that is in love"

Most people who write about politics, right or left, have internalized the concept of the Trump supporter as the authentic american Volk and so many of their conclusions proceed from that bsky.app/profile/qjur...

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

this is an extraordinary canary in the coal mine

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

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Happy anniversary to the first time this nerdy xennial saw her generation - and especially a young woman - depicted not as a glossy sexy size 6 with wealthy parents nor a 2D avatar written by boomers to feed her boomer parents setups for witty comeback lines, but as a relatable loveable fuckin loser

It took them under a decade to get Gamergate and fash YouTube to total political ascendancy in the world hegemon. Fewer than ten years to get the ideology of Roosh V. and Sargon of Akkad and Davis Aurini and Lauren Southern to the pinnacle of global power. We should all be so fucking ashamed.

Christian persecution in America is best defined by this image: No actual struggle, wearing clothes that cost more than my entire wardrobe, polished cross instead of rugged, and surrounded by crowds of fellow hypocrites cheering on bigotry who believe they're the victims.

Reform's plans to end indefinite leave to remain go to the post I wrote last week on their slide towards chaotic authoritarianism. The British constitution would allow them to do it if they had a majority but at vast cost to our society and way of life. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Going to be clear here: I don’t think paracetamol causes autism

*gulp* send help.

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

I like George R. R. Martin well enough, but he does not hold a candle to Tolkien. His books don’t have enough weird little guys. Fantasy thrives on weird little guys.

Update: A Green Party of England & Wales spokesperson tells me they've just broken 78,000 members Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

I still greet people like this.

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

BRING HER BACK

Penguin Random House are to rerelease Clive Barker's Books of Blood with a new cover, a new introduction from Clive and an afterword by @gradyhendrix.bsky.social Check it out here, along with a brillaint essay about the collection from @exaggeratedelegy.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/clive-barker...

RIP to one of the hottest men this country has ever produced

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today