What was your #childhoodcinema Harrogate Odeon. I think I had quite a good one.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

The British press in action, ladies and gentlemen.

Hands up who thought "America is now like Germany in 1939" had some merits but was basically hyperbole and the orange clown would be gone soon enough. Fuck.

This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Where might a gang of US Nazi chuds have got the impression that Britain is ruled by an immovable class of Bolshevik Islamist sex criminals who jail whole swathes of the populace for thinking? Well, if they lived here, they could easily have got it from the news stand in Asda.

feels like the met should raid x: the everything app’s office, shut them down, confiscate their hard drives and, if they find any csam, prosecute the ceo and put them on the sex offenders’ register this is what i like to call “the moderate position”

do you think it is worth pointing out at all what the response would be if a Muslim politician said Allah told them to remove human rights

Websites need to realise that no one ever, ever wants the site to be able to send them notifications.

Every new year feels like a threat

Starting the year as I mean to go on (breakfast consisting of 4 packets of crisps and some bucks fizz)

Well. It's been a year, and like other years I've felt like it's been pointless then sat and written out my highlights and filled a page in 2 minutes. The moral, as ever, is to carry on and see what happens. Happy New Year to all xxx

Perfect photo. Devoto being a weird awkward non-pop star. Shelley in eyeliner. Everyone else minding their business.

With our best wishes for 1977.

McSweeney et al spent a year bragging to journalists about how they deliberately smashed Britain into Johnson and hard Brexit so that they could get their important jobs back, specifically so they could then inflict this new shitshow upon everyone. Do you think they wouldn’t fuck us all over, again?

The plan is to lock the cabin door to keep the passengers out and then fly the plane into the mountain, hoping that when the wreckage slides to a stop, you will still be in the pilot’s seat.

100 years ago: a wealth tax or "capital levy" was Labour party policy before they took office in 1924 but was not implemented; Chancellor Philip Snowden noted his budget "relieved the feelings of the rich, who had feared there might be drastic impositions on their class"

you can equally easily answer this question by asking 'which members of the public is this party supposed to appeal to?' and realising that it's a demographic almost exclusively comprised of journalists

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Gosh.

Just considering how both Wonderful Christmastime and In Dulce Jubilo - two of the canonical Christmas tunes - were recorded solo. Two men on their own, alone in their home studios, probably late at night on their 70th fag, conjuring up bonhomie and companionship with that last sleighbell overdue.

chinny reckon, that is quite a claim chinny reckon, run that by again chinny reckon I don't believe you, we're at an impasse I think you're talking out your arse

Someone has been a big nerd about The Modern Lovers and I'm delighted about it.

The first generation of fascists saw their buddies get machine gunned in half at Verdun. These idiots are raging because they took the racist cartoon off marmalade jars, and fired that crackpot out of the Star Wars show.

If you choose to buy an SUV/4x4 to drive in the city, you have prioritised your own desires over the environment or the safety of others. That's fine - just ensure you fully understand what that says about you. Don't go around thinking you're a nice person.

Every single voice message anyone has ever sent on WhatsApp could have been a text.

Hang on, Fred Dineage is The Krays' official biographer??

Well that’s worked, hasn’t it – disapproval absolutely skyrocketing among Labour voters, but 1% down among Reform voters! Surely at some point Starmer will have to stop courting the votes of people who’ll never vote for him. But has he left it too late to rescure the votes of people who once did?

- speeds up climate change x100 but hey, you can get to see yourself as a ghibli character!

I don't really post anymore, but I would like to carry on writing books at some point in the future. Hate to be annoying, but any chance you could retweet so old twitter followers can find me if they want to? Going to delete my twitter, or at least abandon it on lock and let it die a slow death.

Thanks Pizza Express, I'd love an assistance dog!

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

You will be visited by three spirits

You will be visited by three spirits

He looks like he’s trying to stop his dog from leaving him

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

It's Bandcamp Friday and I've remembered we have a Bluesky account so head on down to thewind-upbirds.bandcamp.com and get some (or all) of our stuff (This is Mat btw but you can tell that from the accent)

The fact there's even the tiniest hint of a debate about whether or not this very obviously racist man who has built his entire career on being a racist is a racist or not. I... I just can't.

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

Just did put this to the test and wow, it's absolutely true 🥹

Just called my boss and told him I have explosive diarrhea. It’s my day off but I like to keep him informed

wife: i want another kid me: yeah, fuck brian

interviewer: where do you see yourself in 5 years? me: [picturing a bleak post-apocalyptic landscape in which i compete with my neighbors for scraps of food] management

How many times do we need to see the same type of shitehawks being slimed into top jobs by the same media outlets, only to explode almost instantly on contact with power? At some point, we have to admit the problem is: trying to permanently prop up fucked Thatcherism, by lying to the public.