If you see this, post a concert pic that you took.

Released on this day in 1983: Dear Prudence #SiouxsieAndTheBanshees youtu.be/M6rrTROoZIw?si…

@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social pointing out what apparent “real journalists” refuse to. These idealogical fire starters (just look at how ‘successfully’ they are in running local government) only want the world to burn… As long as they are safe, they don’t care about anyone else. Anyone.

A billion times this!

Honest to god. I dread to think what the front pages of the tabloids are, given these are the supposedly serious papers. The immigration ‘debate’ has become a ruinous madness. (Trump also said he’d settled the war between Azerbaijan and Albania, so why are we listening to *anything* he says?)

#5debutalbums0004 Feeling extremely happy to remedy this one completely bypassing me. 4 tracks in and it’s gorgeous. Thanks @ineeddirection.bsky.social!

Trump’s hypocrisy & lies laid bare. Free speech, but not if I don’t agree with it (the press, Kimmel, Colbert, academics… ) Freedom, but if I am friends with dictators then excellent, even better if I can enforce my will on other countries, better if I own them. So sick of the bowing to this dic

“The most frustrating thing about.. this moment has been the wildly inadequate political reaction to the hate crimes and racist intimidation.” “Racism is unacceptable – and deeply unpatriotic.” Starmer - and the rest of civil society - must say so. Loudly. takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

I find it extraordinary how we as a species have reached this point. We have craved knowledge, discovery, explored, researched, built mathematics, science, art & literature and yet… some people will always choose ignorance because it’s easier to be led, than reach for more. Ignorance IS a CHOICE.

I find these two men (particularly these two) telling us their approved version of parenting - deeply sinister. I hope their christofascist, MAGA-flavoured manoeuvrings backfire so dramatically, in our secular, progressive country, that they rue the day they decided to tell us how to live our lives.

Maybe it’s just much easier to arrest peaceful non violent pensioners, than actually deal with violent threatening groups of people who are, you know, actually terrorising ordinary folk.

It’s almost like there’s a pattern we should watch for more carefully.

Musk, Tommy Robinson - fascist Britain. A hellpit of violence and racism. They’re using our flag as their rallying cry. And X as their megaphone. No more appeasement. No more ‘legitimate concerns’ horseshit. It’s beyond time to sanction Musk, regulate X and shut these fuckers down. (Sunday Times)

I HOPE @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social words are heeded. Labour & Tories are cowards who won’t stand for what’s right. Reaction to the RW “protests” points to weak,pathetic leaders. Complicity is followed by a ‘strong’ group of racists, bigots, & rights hating morons in charge who will destroy the UK.

Narcisscists, of any kind, have a REAL problem with anybody pointing out who they are. They prefer gullible Chumps to eat their BS and swear it is chocolate - and even ask for more!

John stating that which I feel most of us feel.

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested. Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested. The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

Treat yourself like @marzid.bsky.social has and get exploiting the Dave Godwin Deep Soul Treasures collections. So very good. #soul #SoulMusic

Here is the where we’re heading. Look to the US where DT & his goons defy the law, or his Supreme Court picks allow his racist, bigoted, facist dream of deportations & camps echo 30’s Germany, where rights are denied. The UK has shifted already. Trans rights… protest rights… race rights… what next?

I’m loving this.

This is what happens when you legitimise the ludicrous “concerns” of folk too stupid to think for themselves. They’ve been grifted by Far@ge & have been used & do this BECAUSE they have been made to feel it’s ok. The facts don’t bear any of it out. They should learn, hate & ignorance are a choice.

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social Don’t pander or tolerate. Attack this for what it is; disgusting, racist, xenophobic, bigotry, which YOU cheer on via your fear of ref0rm. You & the Tories were scared for the wrong reasons. The @libdems.org.uk @greenparty.org.uk & @snp.org understood this. Stand up!

There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.

Any fool blithely saying they’ve now had a bit of a think about the ECHR and we should leave - is part of why we’re now stuck in the mess of Brexit, being told by the far right to hand our human rights over to them to administer. FFS people. Have you learned nothing from the last decade of failure?

They've heard it 🙏

This latest spasm of racism, protests, flags, ‘legitimate concerns’, ‘political prisoner’ bullshit is the ugly hangover of a Brexit that failed to deliver the social change it promised because it was all a lie. Now, instead of facing up to that, we get more lies, more hatred. It can only ever fail.

Wee morning listening to some tunes… “If You Found A Thread” is utterly brilliant & beautiful. Indie pop perfection… @carlajeaston.bsky.social has created a new landscape for us to explore. I am in love. This song is an open heart, full of love & romance in the best ways. Can’t wait for the new LP.

This is the real silent majority.

Beyond disgraceful of Badenoch to be writing to Tory councils urging them to take the govt to court over asylum seeker hotels in their areas. Her govt rocket-boosted this dismal, unsafe, but hugely profitable nightmare. And now she wants to jump on the racist bandwagon for votes. Truly despicable.

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

Who in the name of jeebus are these “serious politicians” in Ref0rm? Every one is either a racist, rich cosplaying “Everyman”, bigot, certified moron, or, all of the above. 🤦‍♂️

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Cracking LP at a cracking price.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. George Orwell

Where to start… A startling example of projection… An authoritarian christofascist, racist regime judges the UK and finds it wanting. And our govt meekly apes the far right while Tory politicians wine and dine Vance because they’re all in this together. Profiteering from prejudice. Repulsive.

Every day, politicians and the right wing media whip up hatred and fear of migrants. None of them say this is wrong. None of them make the positive case for immigration. None of them tell the truth. And then, today, someone did speak out, and the sodding BBC sodding apologised for them. I give up.

Is there a worse, more horrific “journalist” & “human being” than Poppy Coburn? She is clearly a privileged contrarian who on one hand says we are “bound by an outdated idea of rights.” & the other that “JD Vance is an intellectual base of MAGA” indicating she is utterly clueless about real life.

Are you still talking about the BIGGEST political scandal of all-time EPSTEIN & how the president of the United States is connected to the most notorious child-sex-trafficker ever AND is covering up his own involvement???!!! Good. #RememberTheUnderageVICTIMS 💔

The people who brought you Brexit on a promise of ‘control’ now threaten civil unrest and frothing racism as govt policy… For love of god can we just stop listening to anything they have to say. They represent nothing but inadequacy and failure. Surely our country can do better than this.

The killings of Anas al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa by the IDF is a war crime. They are civilians. The IDF must provide evidence of the terrorist claims, and explain why an entire tent was targeted when they would know other civilians would be present.

“The spectacle of politicians knowingly peddling inflammatory narratives is nauseating – and… they are starting to look like desperate people throwing matches on kindling that refuses to ignite. That is a remarkable way for self-styled patriots to behave” Indeed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The whole situation is absolutely sinister. THIS government were meant to make things BETTER, not double down on idiotic Ref0rm “concerns” attack our own people & the helpless; why are they so afraid of standing up for the citizens who voted them into power? For what is morally right? Cowards.

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

“Whatever happens, the damage that has already been done by the constant media indulgence of Farage and his divisive, inflammatory and outright racist views will take many years for this country to recover from.” Yes. A disgraceful, unforgivable failure. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/reform-dog...

I wonder what it could be about the cost, queues, red tape, loss of investment, loss of opportunity, isolation, dishonesty, failure and downright tedium of the Brexit moronathon that has led to people not rating it any more…

I tried to stay. Twitter WAS a fantastic place you could find your tribes, be informed, share opinions…. Now it’s a bot-ridden, bigot filled, hatescape… & that’s before you have to wade through shite ads & p0rn. The removal of blocking had 2 aims: to promote hate, & make money for a desperate Mu$k.

Just tremendous to have Trump summoning Starmer to his golf club to tell him our London mayor is “nasty” and that he should cut taxes, crime and immigration. And our right wing loving him for it. None of their usual ‘patriotic’ howling at this crass and deranged foreign leader sticking his nose in.

WHO'S THE BIGGEST GOLF CHEAT? Judge Smails from Caddyshack, James Bond villain Goldfinger, or Donald J. Trump. Play the video...

An advertising van displaying a photograph of Donald Trump with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is travelling around Aberdeen all day today (Mon). The US President is arriving to the city to visit his golf course and meet PM Keir Starmer. H/t Everyone Hates Elon campaign