For everyone who was never able to escape the loneliness of childhood. I see you, and I’m so sorry.

Oh great, now that I have confirmation I’m an Irish citizen, I can be personally offended rather than just offended on Ireland’s behalf.

You grin, I pose It’s not about sincerity, everybody knows - Pet Shop Boys, ‘I’m with Stupid’ A relationship that’s more toxic and codependent than at first glance.

So, Heated Rivalry the television series. - Better than the novel - Partly because I think the story lends itself better to television than to literature - Hudson Williams gives a very good performance, but I think the best performance is Connor Storrie’s. 1/

Acting like an arsehole and being an arsehole have no practical differences.

See also: the war on drugs, which was driven in large part by US government racism - Oh.

The Epstein mess is really the perfect vehicle for showing that reflexive heterodox thinking is complete performative and reactionary crap. "Oh, so you think a sex trafficking and pedophilia operation that many powerful people interacted with is *bad*? You rube, let me tell you why you're wrong."

Normal people keep going "man if I had a billion dollars I'd be doing this and this and that, I'd get incredible kicks doing this" But it's impossible to become a billionaire if you are able to have those thoughts. The whole idea is as alien to a billionaire as art is to a cancer cell.

To take one example, no sane philosopher would ever tell you that the Socrates depicted by Plato was the actual Socrates.

Every so often I think ‘gosh, I wish I could run my own business’. Then I see every freelancer chasing clients for late payments in order not to default on their mortgages. Life. Don’t talk to me about life…

… he looks like a drunk driver pleading in court before he’s sobered up.

One of my first memories of international politics was when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. I realised for the first time that my atlas would not be the final version.

I’m so tired of this “how can BAD people make GOOD art????” shock. Good people make bad art all the time. Aesthetics are not morality.

Good heavens! I am shocked!

if you've blocked @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com unblock him long enough to check whether or not you are still following him, because it is so fucking many of you.

Just a reminder that on Bluesky blocking doesn't unfollow, so you might look like you're following him because you've blocked before unfollowing. If you're unsure, unblock, unfollow, reblock.

Whether it is Musk’s Royal Society Fellowship or Andrew’s Duke of York title, organisations need to get better at life-honours being conditional. There should be clear code of conduct rules and expulsion procedures for breaking them. “It’s difficult” isn’t an excuse. Have robust processes.

These files really are the gift that keeps on giving. Name any creep currently around, and their trail of slime will most likely lead back to Epstein.

British American Tobacco - Not Just Killing People with Lung Cancer!

This actually IS an important if not a popular point. Although everyone is rightly pissed at this Administration (for countless things), the blame for keeping the Files secret isn’t necessarily theirs alone. Realistically questions could also be asked of the previous government.

Aluminium Christmas trees.

Don Lemon is not the only reporter who was arrested by federal agents overnight — local independent journalist Georgia Fort just went live on FB to say federal agents were also at her door to take her into custody over her protest coverage in Minneapolis.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

It's a real full-circle moment because rhetoric that was refined in anti-trans propaganda is now being turned around to argue against gay marriage. Note the renewed focus on children and the deployment of "biological parents" as a more-naturalized, more 'legitimate' category.

Oh, fuck off with these crocodile tears. This is such transparent victim blaming. The truth is that, like many sociopaths, you lot thought everyone had as much humanity and ethics as you - zero. And now you’re distressed that you’ve been proven wrong.

I am a stuck record, but fuck off with forcing AI into everything. So many services are completely broken because a bunch of narcissism addled tech bros made idiotic investments that will net a loss if the word doesn't surrender it's criticality to the cool-aide of AI. AI makes services worse.

One reason why we don’t like small talk. Identifying small talk topics we can talk about is surprisingly difficult. Well, surprising to neurotypicals.

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I keep seeing adverts telling me that ‘Nothing beats flying from Gatwick!’ Have the advertisers been to Gatwick?

Exactly. Everyone wants to take refuge in the idea that Trump is a dopey egotist who is bad but wouldn’t be as bad if not for shadowy villains like Bovino and Miller. I agree with the moral assessments of people like Bovino and Miller. But Trump is his own font of wickedness and autocracy.

Trump is loathed in Britain, yet Reform are ahead in the polls. There can be no clearer proof of a radical disconnect in the knowledge & understanding of the public. Not to be reductive but, above all else, this is the media's doing. People in the UK need to be made to see that Reform is MAGA-UK.

I’ve finished reading Heated Rivalry. It’s not bad and it’s not great as a novel, but if Shane Hollander replaces Dr Shaun Murphy as the Media Autistic, it can only be a good thing.

Sharing again, because we still haven't passed the threshold. We are at 77%. This petition is really important. Sign, share and make sure others sign, please. 🙏 eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public #Speirgorm #Speirghorm #JusticeForPalestine

Amidst all that is wrong with the world, take the time to enjoy the good.

"You know Bovino leaving won't st..." Yes I fucking know. I shipped 800 whistles across the country today. I'll ship another 500 tomorrow. I will not stop until they are stopped and also I will take the fucking W when one of their top fash fucks gets the boot.

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

Oh dear, what a pity. Have you considered doing literally anything else?

LOL fascists rats fleeing the fascist ship to aboard a more openly fascist ship.

When I said I wanted to be Prime Minister people laughed, well they're not laughing now...

Well, obviously. Ice does not do wonders for size.

Depression in movies feels like it's still usually the "I'm just never happy and that's who I am as a person" And not the "A couple of hours ago I was laughing with friends and now I've been sitting completely still for 40 minutes because I'm so sad I can't move and I don't really know why."

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

I have turned off autoplay for my account, and you should too: bsky.app/profile/dran...

Yeah there’s no covering this up

The rest of the world should absolutely boycott the World Cup and boycott the Olympics. At minimum.

I will be another voice to say, I have watched the video and you do not need to watch it unless you doubt what is being said. There is no ambiguity. Agents dogpile a person, he is on the ground, one of them starts clubbing with a pistol and then fires repeatedly. Even after the body is still.

Alex Jeffrey Pretti, licensed nurse

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