There is a *slight* nuance here which is Euros (including us) spend ~all our disposable income on holidays. First thing you buy when you’re off the poverty line is a week in Spain, first thing you do when upper middle class is bump that to 3 weeks in Tuscany. Not a bigger house or car But yes

I’m becoming increasingly radicalised against the idea that a party’s history means anything. Truly why am I expected to care about what the early union movement thought. Is it a good idea or is it not.

I’m not an expert but I don’t think it’s good when people discussing geopolitics (accidentally?) quote Harvey Dent from The Dark Knight post Two-Face heel turn, and I can see their point

Devastating news for Ayatollahs Khemenei, Khimenei and Khumenei.

Mojtaba Khamenei is the new Supreme Leader of Iran. Once again a Nepo Baby is taking opportunities away from working-class Mullahs without the family connections.

The thing is Zack Snyder is a liberal Democrat genuinely confused at why everyone else sees any meaning or subject at all in his movies lmao. To quote Patrick Willems, truly out himbo auteur

Just for the record, “anxiety about anti [x] voters in constituencies like [y]” is an entirely legitimate and necessary thing to consider when making decisions in a democracy lmao

It really is hard to avoid mentioning that the only other political movement to explicitly reject the *idea* of morals and ethics in human history ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. ISIS do not reject the idea of morals and ethics.

The real evidence the structures of American society have failed and Trump is no longer bound by the law: he’s using copyrighted material from the Disney corporation without permission and has so far not been taken out by a SWAT team

I know it’s not his first language but you are not telling me a political movement this based around gay panic didn’t notice “Hungary’s energy flowing through the friendship pipeline”

I think immigration broke politics because millions of people in a democracy decided they hate something that just genuinely isn’t a problem. It’s like if your constituents’ top priority was hating socks or the colour yellow, what the fuck are you supposed to do with that?

Thing is, if you’re going to dream of obviously unachievable hypotheticals like winning g every seat by one vote… why not dream of winning 100% of the vote?

Right Rice and Zubi need to not even be in the matchday squad on Saturday, 10 days rest for them and you know what we just might do this #TheFootnall

Kemi Badenoch seems to think Britain is America wrt the Middle East and I’d just like to point out that Kit Malthouse - he of the compromise - signed this. As did a women who just missed out on being Archbishop of Canterbury.

One of the many baffling about Westminster if you have a normal job in 2026 is how much time ministers clearly spend looking at actual bits of paper. Do they not have laptops?

Ok when did the pentagon start calling their soldiers warriors like they’re fucking Dothraki

Welsh History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is deaf, an autistic person or part of ISIS or even someone who has an absent father. You should reevaluate your Welsh privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.

Obviously this is absurd, I also want to reiterate how US brained this is. One of these things is not like the others, sure older white working class voters don’t like the EU or asylum seekers and like cars but ideological attachment to Israel is a very very minority position in Britain

It’s definitely supposed to be about Ukraine but also you’re not telling me they didn’t notice on certain lines during shooting in 2024 and could have changed them if they wanted, or that professional comedy writer James Gunn didn’t know what he was saying here

Labour are openly a compromise so the greens can call them anything and voters don’t take it personally. The greens are actually liked by their voters so people take insulting them as a personal attack, on their friends or them. I’m not saying that’s how it should be. I’m saying that’s how it is.

If the idea is to provide cultural relevance, moments to cond together as nation etc, seems fairly obvious the BBC should be prioritising live sports rights over literally everything else in the “entertain” bit of inform, educate, entertain

You know Bluesky gets stick for being humourless but this is the first comment underneath this video on instagram so I think it’s just the internet and/or boomers www.instagram.com/reel/DU9AsRp...

The internet has a lot of gaming culture and a lot of US sports culture and both are having the almost literally unbelievable effect of making me appreciate the progressiveness of European and specifically English football

I mean like yes it’s quite nice and whoever owns it isn’t living in poverty, it’s not a bedsit. I don’t think Hannah Spencer has ever claimed to live in poverty?

I don’t disagree but universities pushed very hard to be treated as providers like restaurants- the Browne Review was enthusiastically welcomed by university management- and a pretty significant part of me thinks they if you live by the sword you die by the sword

Very sensible people: the influence of the English language will decline Swedish MP: Madam Speaker, under this government the Swedish economy has become Spursy

Joking aside I do find it quite disturbing how many people take it as read that Charles could have personally vetoed the arrest if he wanted to. Very much hardening my republicanism.

stop endlessly fucking bitching about the officiating, stop bitching about things not going our way, accept that Arsenal are a mental basket case and a disaster offensively, congrats to the sky blue cheats on title number 56 or whatever

I keep saying it but I would give anything - literally anything - to be finishing 8th again so I don’t have hope

So they haven’t got a foreign or defence (!! You’d think they’d be on that at least) spokesperson but they’re leaving two people on the backbenches and still need a whip for those two backbenchers. Ok.

Church historians now believe that St Pancake was not actually martyred by being flattened by a series of increasingly heavy weights, but rather was burnt alive in a giant pan. The former death is now attributed to Pseudo-Pancake the Areopagite, as attested in the Codex Libum of Nicomedia.

People are very reluctant to believe that a) living in a democracy is a huge responsibility and if you’re not engaged and informed, that is a failure by you and you should try harder b) how people vote is a profound expression of their values and how they see the world But it’s very obviously true

I’m sorry I can’t let this go, Keir Starmer does not LOOK like a robot. Arguably he sounds like a robot or acts like a robot. He looks completely normal and quite a lot like an older Matt Goodwin.

Congratulations to Matt Weston maybe now his Wikipedia page can stop asking people if they mean the fictional CIA agent from the mildly successful 2012 Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds movie Safe House

Good to be vindicated as an Everything Everywhere All At Once hater

Realising that if Sinners pips One Battle to Best Picture it’ll be the third consecutive year that my favourite film of the year has actually won the Oscar (Oppenheimer for 2023, Anora for 2024). I may be the most middlebrow person on Earth. I did HATE Everything Everywhere the year before though

Look respect to Emerald Fennell by breaking gender barriers by joining Michael Bay in the “what if the most annoying lad in your Year 9 form became an acclaimed Hollywood director” club

Also hot take, it’s fine. You should replace people who are doing a bad job. Without restarting Party Member Discourse, a big advantage of the Australian MPs’ conclave is you can have as many coups as you like but they’re over in hours or days, not months

I should-l examine how much my feelings have hardened and honestly I feel like a bitter ex. I spent dozens of hours campaigning for Labour in 2024. I donated to the party. I was walking on air after the exit poll. And I feel like I’ve been very personally told that this government dislikes me.

According to the BBFC the cinema release of Armageddon is a 12 and the DVD is a 15 and I put it to you that Ben Affleck bumped up the age rating by saying fuck on the commentary and somehow no one stopped him

Time to start discourse that if the bear can use its evolutionary advantages (big, fast) I saline be allowed to use mine (intelligence, co operation, ingenuity). I should be allowed to call 999 about the bear or hit it with a car. Humans beat bears in fights *all the time*. We shoot them.

People who say Hasan Piker can't be forgiven because they hexed a gibbon are the same people who simp for these folks.

Misconduct in public office is the funniest crime, it’s so broad in how it’s defined it’s almost literally the Crime of Being A Dickhead

I obviously still wouldn’t be in favour of starving kids if it halved the price of a pint but 5p is incredible stuff. Rejoice! Pints are 0.7% cheaper!

fucking _hell_

Hey @hbomberguy.bsky.social I found a SECOND press release with emoticons in it

As a good socialist I’d vote for this to be the actual rates if people born before 1996 weren’t exempt lol

The files show Epstein emailing Mandelson asking if he can set up Leonardo DiCaprio (who he didn’t appear ago to have met although he tried) with brand deals, then 4 days later an irritated message on behalf of DiCaprio’s agent asking him to knock it off. Epstein seemingly was just like that.

As UK Bsky’s Premier Tedious Nolan Apologist I’m very amused to see the gamer right’s weird parasocial elevation of him, a man who went to the women’s march and had a Dem senator cameo in TDK, as The Gamergate Director finally meet reality and them cry about it. But also, have they seen Oppenheimer?

Apparently this is less efficient but I constantly have to fight being negatively polarised into being pro queuing by people pretending “waiting at the bar” was some beloved tradition and the highlight of their night out