Since we understand now that all politics is gender maybe we can have discourse about how the Canadian party leader with the most genuine and accomplished working class background by far was Jagmeet Singh, who was from the start endlessly caricatured in the Canadian media as a prissy dilettante

Cool kid.

I was reflecting earlier - having rewatched the Mr Bean section of the London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony (which is perfect in many ways) - how Britain really hasn't experienced much of a sustained, unifying feelgood factor since then.

I genuinely think this post is the best discourse on pop music of the past 5 years

this is a perfect 30 rock joke

This is a manifestation of one way that social media is corrosive of liberalism is that it directly attacks a really important part of liberalism, which is going “that seems like a mistake, but crucially, it’s not my mistake”.

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

there should be a word in English for when somebody tells a story that they think valorizes them but they're the obvious villain

it is necessary to invent Hell so that Elon Musk can be sent there

Had an evil thought about an extended parody of the prison camp arc of where a train breaks down and a bunch of travellers get stranded at a remote train station and essentially imprisoned by the officious station staff

Mohammed Bin Salman was basically playing out this sketch but in real life www.youtube.com/watch?v=agFW...

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

Very bizarre to try and pit these shows against each other when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are very close friends and colleagues who’ve been very open about how much they‘ve influenced each other’s works

Quite famously Margaret Thatcher got acting lessons from literally Lawrence Olivier www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

That “tax burden highest for 70 years” stat is such a fucking albatross, and lefties perpetuating it when the Tories were in government was so fucking short-sighted

pov: you are a rape apologist animal abusing tankie streamer

This is literally what Kamala Harris ran on last year. She provided substantive policies related to all of these issues. Folks need to admit that they had trouble hearing this message when the messenger was a Black woman.

lol. lmao.

Transphobia is a luxury belief and doesn't matter in a crisis.

For some perspective, the baby Olivia Colman was pregnant with in S1 of The Night Manager is now ten years old

the irony of Brexit is that it ended up making UK politics look much more like European ones, albeit still stuck with a voting system that totally fails at this level of party split

Its genuinely fascinating how this applies to almost everything: the forces in the UK now lean left, as does (the player base at least) rugby union and the Church. The participants of the worlds most Tory things are now left because theyre A) young B) leave the house

Every compromise is more dead & injured people of all sorts. And it doesn’t matter, Ford still banned them. So stop compromising & take a real stand. All this does is make drivers feel more emboldened to drive dangerously.

since 2016 there’s been a huge backlash against things women like, women’s styles of communication, women’s jobs, and women themselves. if you think that had nothing to do with politics, or that it was all on the right, you’re at best deluding yourself

i need to make this for skocpol and IRL social gathering places "meet up"

just saw Herbie Hancock at the Strathmore. played almost exclusively progressive jazz, went ~1 hour over time, much of the overage stemming from a nearly 40m lecture on evolution, compassion, & futurism done entirely via vocoder, and saved almost all the accessible fusion for post-lecture. the GOAT!

Ahead of the weekly grocery run, Canadians want all the groceries to go in one bag, but they don’t want that bag to be heavy globalnews.ca/news/1150523...

“Performative reading” is the anxiety of an illiterate culture

We're definitely seeing a (positive) vibe shift when this stuff is becoming sayable again

Eminently beatable

In depths of Wikipedia updates, reading about Ireland’s “Vanishing Triangle”, the theory that a bunch of murders and missing persons cases clustered in Leinster, the most heavily populated province of Ireland, represents some kind of sinister pattern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland...

why would he come for online trads like this

Extremely funny to me that Pierre Poilievre‘s campaign slogan got appropriated by the Blue Jays, a thing Canadians actually like

Sign the petition in the thread. NIMBY groups are gathering again to defeat retail in neighbourhoods. Just saw a letter from “no more noise” objecting. It’s a city. Stop sterilizing it. Biz/cafes/even bars in neighbourhoods work in humane cities around the world.

Everyone who makes money on housing understands that strict zoning and politicized permitting is good for landlords and bad for tenants.

I was not expecting Buckingham Palace to release a statement all but saying that that they know Andrew Windsor is a rapist and that they believe the accounts of his victims

Yep, Doctor Who is exactly where Star Trek was when Enterprise got canceled - the current creative regime is tapped out, and this version of the show has just been around so long that everybody is taking it for granted, especially since it has nothing new to really do or say.

Reading Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca rn and it's reminded me of the parody David Mitchell and Robert Webb did of it, which I think is one of the best skits they ever did www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqoN...

i'm a classical social democrat. i think we should raise tax on the upper tax brackets, increase broad-based tax enforcement, and provide universal programs on transit, housing, and healthcare. this apparently is viewed as neoliberalism

This is such a delightful account about one of the real jewels of the Internet era. We should inscribe it on stone tablets in multiple languages so the octopus people who come after us can appreciate it.

Banging this drum again but I think this is another symptom of how the left sub-contracted out so much of thinking and morality to libertarianism

Broadly I think that a lot of people on the online left do need to realise they are instinctive liberals rather than socialists or communists (lol), but if that ever happened the consequences would just be a lot of socialists or communists realising they're actually quite politically friendless

the political reason to build more housing and more public transit

Finishing the interview, Jean-Pierre handles herself quite poorly but Chotnier is being very tactless and obtuse as well, in a way that I suspect KJP is familiar with as a black woman in politics

The Disney plus era wasn’t good exactly but the actual problem was the BBC putting the show in the hands of a flaky streamer that has no idea what it wants to be and has no idea if Doctor Who fits into that at all. Good to see the Beeb just cutting their losses and moving on

Lads.

Counterpoint yes it will