Out for drinks in Sacramento which is … an experience

there are many horrible brainworms you can catch online but none of them are as all-encompassing in their destruction of you as a human being as transphobia start down that road and you become incapable of normal human interaction

This absolutely makes sense when you remember that SF’s strategists think their path to power is by winning over FF voters and not through a left coalition

For my sins, I finally got around to reading the Countess’s new anti-immigration policy document and it’s as misinformed and badly written as you’d expect but the funniest part is when it says we should limit migration from countries that don’t respect “LGBT rights” #speirghorm

In a bar in San Francisco (yes Christmas drinking is a thing here) and instead of buying her a shot the customer next to me offers the barmaid a joint saying “that’s my house weed” I love this city, why did I ever leave

Tl;dr “I’m alright, Jack” Do not read this, it will enrage you

You did support genocide when you voted for Kamala, in the same way that Trump voters did support crippling tariffs and deporting that nice lady who works in their local diner. You can’t divorce your vote from the candidate’s platform any more than they can.

Indiana State Senator wishes you a Merry Christmas by… posting images of himself assaulting Santa Claus. Are the fascists okay?

Back in the old usenet days I posted that I thought a particular new album sucked and an offended fan of the artist replied “It does not suck you low life fan of Lisa Loeb”

Noted TERF author, natch

I’m a trained social worker. I worked with cases of CSA and other horrifying traumas. I didn’t learn til 6 months before I burnt out how dangerous and cumulative vicarious and secondary trauma are. You don’t want this in your head and you don’t want it to live in your body. It doesn’t leave.

Happy Christmas to all from San Francisco, where dinner is about to happen!

"And Tiny Tim, who did not get a job", - Leo Varadkar

The lessons to take from this: 1) If you're in the US, leverage that legal protection to say these things for your UK friends who can't! 2) Stop fucking giving Head Bigot JK Rowling money to finance legal terrorism against people who identify raging bigots as raging bigots.

there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

I am so sick of these people getting away with calling themselves “Christians”

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Imagine having these doses show up to your charity busk, you’d nearly ask for donations to get them to fuck off www.independent.ie/irish-news/b...

Every time I see Ireland pop up on these lists I think "I wish" and also, "does any country actually have universal healthcare if *we're* being included on the list?"

Someone really needs to find out who these men were #speirghorm

Why Your Internet Brain Rotted Fascist Parents And In-laws Are For Life Not Just For Christmas By me in this Saturday's Times

Happy Christmas Eve Day! If you’re going out to buy presents today: what they’ve got is on the floor there’s nothing more in back if all that’s left is the expensive stuff, consider it the procrastination tax.

Not mentioning once that this guy was an elected representative for the Tories is an interesting editorial choice www.independent.ie/world-news/b...

Another brutal day for the cats.🐱

2025 Headline of the Year nominee (July)

Everyone involved in deciding to use an ai avatar in court should lose their fucking licenses to practice law and anything else The hell is wrong with you

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Just think what could have been done if, rather than practicing class solidarity and looking after the old boys network, Joe Biden and the Democrats had tried to actually fight.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Here is a list of what Die Hard is known as in five other countries… 5. Very Hard to Die (Greece) 4. Difficult to Kill (Romania) 3. Tough Death (Turkey) 2. Die Slowly (Germany) 1. The Glass Jungle (Spain)

HELLO SAN FRANCISCO

I am beginning to think the Irish government wants to see race riots

I’m reminded of watching two old ladies ask a teenage goth for directions and she politely told them and when she was out of earshot one lady said “You know where you are with a goth”

The level of class solidarity among the worst people in Britain cannot be underestimated

He looks like an old school Mancunian who never got over the Hacienda closing.

Teuta Hoxha, 29, has been in prison without trial for 13 months. news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt

Post an iconic brunette

The scare quotes are in the wrong place in this headline. The Taoiseach isn’t going to do shit

RIP James Ransone Ziggy in The Wire irritated a lot of people but when you see his final scene you realise what an exceptional job Ransone did to make you deeply sympathise with him & feel that a family tragedy has slowly but inevitably unfolded before your eyes. youtu.be/pkxYIHsmUQo?...

It's amazing that they all simultaneously say that they're fighting for the majority, common sense position in the country, and that they've lost multiple friends etc as a result. Like surely both of those things can't be true at once?

I feel like there's a word for a legal system that explicitly has different rules for different ethnic groups: www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

🚨 #GE2029 | Seat projection: ➡️ REF: 238 (+233) 🔵 CON: 139 (+18) 🟢 GRN: 83 (+79) 🟠 LD: 68 (-4) 🟡 SNP: 46 (+37) 🔴 LAB: 38 (-373) 🟢 PLAID: 7 (+3) Based on @LordAPolls survey, 11-15 Dec

🚨 NEW | Poll shows Greens ahead of Labour ➡️ REF: 25% (-1) 🔵 CON: 22% (+2) 🟢 GRN: 19% (+1) 🔴 LAB: 18% (=) 🟠 LD: 10% (-1) Via @LordAPolls, 11-15 Dec (+/- vs 17 Nov)

Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers. An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social

#speirgorm if you are in the Clonliffe Road area please keep an eye out for our lovely former foster boy Ernie

for too long our southern neighbours have stolen the sun. but this ends today