I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort

I truly believe that Wes Streeting has the ideas, the charisma, and the likeability to be an even more historically hated Prime Minister than Keir Starmer

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

As I have long since given up on good things happening, I will settle for very, very funny things.

It just clicked that the reason Epstein seems near-illiterate in these emails is that he wasn't trying to communicate information, he was using his terseness to demonstrate power-over. He was basically negging all these powerful and accomplished people, and they all fell for it.

I'm reviving this beautiful ode I composed on the other place: Wes Streeting needs unseating and another thing that fits this rhyme scheme

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This is why you can’t have a ruling class

so there are now some incredibly interesting questions to be asked about email correspondence with lawyers…

Peatlands are absolutely magical, and we should be doing all we can to protect them (up to and including taking the people who threaten peatlands out into the middle of a peat bog and burying them there)

Today I learned there are people who think cities are just big office buildings lol

I love the art that just sits and waits in people, just waiting for the moment to come out. What a character actor! :D

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the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent

good to see the guy from that tweet "I'm George Eaton's only source, I'm roaring drunk and texting him whatever comes into my head, he thinks I'm Mandelson" is alive and steaming

good morning, the world is still ending

I think it's completely designed in: the right and the centre get the "firsts" because the condition of being the first is that you promise you're not planning to bring anyone else with you.

The problem with Labour’s Black and Asian MPs is many actually came up from and lived in their communities and care about their outcomes rather than the Tories’ private school kids but that means they are nearly all far too left wing for the far right Labour party

I mean none of these people did anything positive for women or Black or South Asian people but it’s a fair point why Labour are absolutely incapable of doing this in 2025

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in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

cannot believe I have to now hand it to the kooks who insisted the government was being run by a shadowy cabal of pedophiles

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

Robyn is so good at this, she knows the perfect time to release music to capitalize on the gay people with seasonal depression market

If I was writing fake e-mails that implicated my enemies in apalling sex crimes, they'd be so much more subtle than these.

It pains me that there is an entire generation of people who have now grown up trained to view manipulative, engagement-farming gambling games as the norm for video games. There are countless people who have formative, nostalgic memories of opening loot boxes and the excitement of gacha ten-pulls

this is a twofer because both Dr Gay Hitler and George Washington Hitler are incredible names.

So excited to see how mainstream journalists find a way to maintain neutrality as they report on their own deaths in front of a firing squad or their trips to the camps.

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

I have in my hands definitive evidence that my opponent has committed a world-historic evil. Evidence that, were it to be released to the public, would cause his supporters to abandon him and his entire world to crumble to dust. I therefore have no choice but to give in to every one of his demands

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it’s a classic one as well - the Christofascists vs the fascists who think Christianity is a filthy foreign Jewish invader

It’s like my grandpa always said: fish wife, fish knife

The food pantry at Brashear High School is open once a week, and each student gets about five minutes to shop. Any snacks they don't take often go to teachers, to offer to hungry pupils. n.pr/47NnEYp

People are like “more Epstein dirt won’t change anything so it doesn’t matter” and I think those people are missing the very obvious fact that Trump really hates when people talk about this or when it’s in the news, like it drives him nuts, it makes him unhappy, and that’s good in itself

"why are there so many norse pagans in the military??"

ah yes, it's because they don't want to shave

@pellegrina.bsky.social you should def check this out if you haven’t already, I think it’d be up your street

“The Call Of The Deathbird”, Jozef Van Wissem: ‘apocalyptic avant-folk’ being in my all-time top-5 genres, Jarmusch collaborator & possibly the world’s most famous lutenist (?), JVW’s 9+ mins of plaguesong gothic intensity blow me away. Out of time, we’re out of time: youtu.be/0sV_28EXoxI

I mean, ACAB obv but I’m wondering if we need to remind them all that Phones were a significant piece of evidence in prosecuting her murderers? Maybe that’s the only language they understand.

There's a particular demographic (politicians, commentators, columnists, Policy Exchange/Tufton St bros) who've been slowly boiling in their own piss since Section 28 was repealed, & public homophobia delegitimised This - thanks to TERFs, Cass and the spinelessness of Starmerites - is their revenge

The UK government really will take queer kids' phones away during school and age-restrict their access to queer information rather than abandon Cass, FWS, the EHRC's anti-trans hate, renounce genitally-obsessed bigotry, and go to therapy.

Every. Damn. Day. The way trans issues and trans lives are discussed in contemporary culture is the ultimate example of talking about people like they're not in the room *while we're in the room* begging to speak.

[me humming along to the tune of NIN “Wish”] gotta listen to your big time/hard brine bad luck/fish fuck

good morning fish fuckers

it's widely known that transphobic parents publicly brag about cutting their trans children off from friends and support systems especially by taking away their phones and isolating them from contact with outsiders, this anti-phone push is an attempt to make that the default condition of queer youth

the two discourses on my TL: 1. infamous brutal transfemicide of a teenage girl is being weaponized into a campaign of isolation against queer youth 2. cishet man comparing himself to victims of violent transmisogyny and calling all his transqueer critics "schizophrenic" "bipolar" "queer kids"

When you put it like this I guess I'm not doing as bad as I feared