We cancelled Ghomeshi. That man was *the* Canadian media darling. He was not convicted on any of the charges he faced. But we all collectively sent his ass packing. We've cancelled abusers before and we can do it again. So, why don't we?

you cannot support his work in any way anymore

Literally doing this

"e-bike shame" is a fascinating social dynamic. e-bikes are a kind of mobility aid. People don't use the term, but they recognize it. So e-biking gets a stigma, like walking with a walker gets a stigma. And like walkers, wheelchairs, etc, using a more-assistive car instead isn't stigmatized.

I haven’t seen a single video of a Muscovite exclaiming “NATO/the West is finally invading us! We were right to worry”. They’re all confused and incredulous that Moscow is under attack. So much for claims that Russians are afraid of an invasion. Anyone claiming that is whitewashing Ru aggression!

Not to get all "why does Keir seem to drive everyone up the wall?" When it barely matters, but a consistent problem is that Keir does remind people of their bad boss who will say whatever is convenient to get to the end of the meeting, and then never do anything towards it again.

Queen Victoria celebrates birthday by getting wasted at cottage

Others have said this but I do think we do need at some point to talk about how many Americans don't actually think the rest of the worlds is as diverse as them

Basically most right-wing discourse now consists of people having screaming meltdowns about the fact the UK is among the most successfully multicultural socities in history because are now unable to outright their own failures by dint of privilege

Wuthering Heights (1847)

> looking at tech sector layoffs > ask the hr manager if the layoffs are from ai or from the end of zirp > she doesn't understand > pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is ai replacement and what is zirp > she laughs and says "they’re good layoffs sir” > check the data > its zirp

oh so they are just working backwards through the acronym, lots of very intelligent people said this wouldnt happen

I basically think the core problem with modern dating is that smartphones and apps, through no fault of their own, invert the dating process from “are you attracted to this person and do you like them?” to “do you like this person enough to meet and find out if you are attracted to them?”

My only contribution to sex scene discourse is that I can never un-see how most sex scenes end up looking like the sex scene montage from Team America

I was talking to someone in the AI industry* who is fuming about this dynamic. 'These guys are just begging for our industry to be regulated out of existence'. *Or as they would immediately correct me, the LLM industry.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

watch video like this and it becomes very obvious why the industry is desperate to pay celebrities and influencers to promote the product instead because the current public-facing boosters have the drawback of emanating contempt & disdain for said public

I'm sure that some people are opposed to our support for Ukraine and we used to have effective ways of recognising those sort of feelings

Yeah I'm gonna say that fair or not AI will be like GMO or Nuclear in Europe politically. Incredible bag fumble by SV

I have to admit, I do see the appeal of a mental world in which only two countries exist and one of them is just the opposite of America. So much less annoying detail to keep track of.

Someone once said this to me irl and I had to hide how mad it made me

Really loving Drake’s Tonya Harding era

Me, after the 1832 Reform Act:

Governments rise and fall. Monarchs come and go. The Angus Steakhouse at Leicester Square is forever.

Epistemological systems for determining what is true and what is not are the backbone of modern society. We have annihilated them all in a decade, and replaced them with a digital dreamscape in which anything that is felt strongly enough automatically BECOMES true.

One side of this war has actively murdered British citizens and committed numerous sabotage attacks across the the UK for fucks sake.

itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b... To repeat the point i made here, I'm currently sat at a Carribean Festival in Wolverhampton. What could be more English than sitting in the rain desperately trying to recreate the West Indies lol

‘No second class citizens’ apart from the class of people you think should be quite literally segregated in hospital wards and toilets.

A lot of people don’t seem to understand that “the cordon sanitaire against racism is rebuilt” means, e.g. “once again this stuff is said by the *Conservative leader*” let alone “a politician on the Labour right they dislike”.

This is why I have no tolerance for people who scold pedestrians/cyclists about road safety being a shared responsibility. People are killed by drivers while on the sidewalk in America, and the paper writes it up like the car just happened to have a life of its own

Grandpa is the ultimate quiet quitter tbh. We don't have any one person performing the duties of President of the United States because grandpa is lazy and would rather do leisure stuff like grand planning, parties, and trips

My only James Bond casting take is that whoever they get to play M should be the same age as Bond (or a few years older at most)

Best moment this government has had was unleashing the police & courts on the far-right in August 2024. It was morally right, politically popular & played to Starmer's strengths. They disgracefully & idiotically allowed themselves to be spooked away from this by a right-wing press that nobody reads

Lupita Nyong'o should be the next Bond too

the insistence (esp. on bluesky) that the only reasons to be concerned about birthrates is either racism or neoliberal capitalism is really grating to me. sorry i want to ensure there are enough resources (for governments!) to take care of people both in rich and middle income places like vietnam?

Post a meme you made

the book was actually about how British all boys schools don’t actually prepare the children they’re educating to run british society, or indeed any society, in a way that doesn’t devolve into an authoritarian classist regime that maintains its rule through violence against people viewed as inferior

A thing thats kind of grating on me is that: a) these people probably agree with me that the US is a threat b) probably agree with me that we should stop sending weapons to israel c) oppose literally anything that would solve a) + b)

You find a great meme being shared by someone and then within 30 seconds you find out they're sharing psychotic stuff about Ukraine too.

a lot of people have moved on from the fact that Russia has been waging a war of ethnic cleansing against Ukrainian civilians for almost half a decade at this point

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

Very funny that the by-election is going to be on the same day as the Battle of Waterloo. -My god sir, I’ve lost my Premiership. -My god sir, so you have.

He was a fucking liar! Rivers of Blood is full of shit he just fucking made up!

as I noted earlier, this is a bad business strategy - surprise! - because views and clicks are far less important than subscriptions in media at this point, and the more they remind bsky's liberal, educated audience how shit they are the more people are like 'oh right i need to cancel that sub'

My actual most right wing take was that British Rail privatization was Fine, Actually and the actual blunder was not privatizing it as one unit (BR PLC, as proposed by BR’s management)

It kinda makes you think about what posts Musk tuned the algorithm on Vichy Twitter to show left-leaning users (easy to identify)

Turns out the best solution for AI is setting standards & enforcing them, just like every other kind of cutting corners

To wade back into meta discourse again, I have noticed that quite a lot of the hate posts about Stancil are transparently chomping at the bit to call him a snivelling faggot