Me on the way to the rapture

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Thanks to a Google News alert, I've discovered I'm not the most embarrassing person with my name.

It just straightforwardly *insane* how much political chatter in the United Kingdom is about the next general election, an event that is a long way in the future, and how basically none of it is about 'uh, this policy agenda doesn't look adequate to the scale of the inherited problem'.

What Im wearing to the Rapture

Farage blaming Boris Johnson for immigration, so I guess none of the media will ask him why he stood down Brexit Party candidates to help the Tories in 2019, will they? The only politician who can never be held accountable for anything he ever did.

I'm hoping this is building up to a stunt during his leader's speech where he deletes his and the party's X accounts live on stage and urges everyone else there to do the same.

And compare the coverage that gets to the Lib Dem conference which is currently happening.

At the risk of repeating myself: there’s no bargaining with these people. What they’re calling for now is mass expulsions of long-term residents deemed insufficiently economically productive. There’s no way these demands won’t get even more extreme by election time.

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

I would always rather be us than them, every fucking day, no matter how angry or scared I get trading our humanity for the feeble hope that proximity to power will protect us is not fucking worth it we all die as we live and their picture of what "success" looks like is truly so fucking bleak

If rhe Rapture were to come it'd be amusing to watch how quickly Evangelicals would start saying it didn't happen because none of them were judged worthy and righteous enough to be amongst the 144,000 taken up to heaven.

Went to Buttermere today, which meant I was able to pick up a special treat for the transport geeks here on the way back:

You know when you read a history book and there's some group that obviously made perfect sense at the time but are really hard to explain to modern audiences? Think of future historians having to explain Disney Adults.

Ellie Kildunne somehow doesn't look very fast when she runs (even though she clearly is), which makes the way she leaves defenders in the dust even more impressive.

First new video from me in a while, featuring Dougal barking at a large rock.

I have said this many times - if politicians are faced with journalists who behave in this bigoted and utterly bizarre way, they should answer as follows: 'Why are you asking me a question that is not a question but a statement meant to demean trans women?'

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

Had to drive to and from Ambleside a few times this week and noticed someone sprayed a red cross on the mini roundabout near Dove Cottage, and wondering whether you'd see the English flag (rather than the Union flag) much in the early 1800s.

American tradcaths are going to be reporting miracles in his name soon, then they'll be demanding the Pope make him a saint.

To me, it feels like Sultana has spent the last few months learning that what she's joined isn't what she was expecting and this is her attempt to get around the Independent Alliance MPs by having an actual membership to back her up.

All Hail Joshua I, the one true Emperor of America!

Jokes aside, this is precisely why Reform and Silicon Valley are so deeply in cahoots. They intend to steamroll the public interest to give the billionaire techbros what they want - and what they want is everything.

👀"Pupils could not recall similar contests linked to previous visits over the past year, nor political memorabilia being offered as prizes in the past." (Source: www.localauthority.news/p/farage-foo...)

"But Antifa isn't a real organisation and Trump doesn't have the power to..." are we still imagining that reality and rules are going to get in the way of fascists declaring they have the power to do what they want to anyone they don't like?

So, she was the Young Ones' Fifth Housemate all along.

"We need a promo picture for our think tank. Can you give us the vibe of that moment in the horror movie when the protagonist thinks they're saved but it turns out they've just found a rival group of cannibals?"

I'd like to thank my sleeping brain for throwing words together in a dream so I now have the phrase "gland foam" stuck in my head.

First new video from me in a while, featuring Dougal barking at a large rock.

There must be dozens of country songwriters right now trying to find rhymes for "Charlie Kirk" in the hope that their three minutes of glurge will become the MAGA Horst Wessel Song. (If some songs are already out there, I do not want to hear them)

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

Looking forward to My Son's A Fascist week on Bake Off.

Suppose you tried to solve math problems by rolling dice to get the answer Sometimes, the dice will give the correct answer. Other times, not. If you were to insist that the wrong answers were the *dice* malfunctioning, people would rightly mock the shit out of you.

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

Last night there was a post here by Ed Davey actually criticising Musk for appearing at the far right rally yesterday. That's good, but it's not backed by any further action like no longer posting on X/Twitter.

I know Musk directly calling on the fsr right to bring down the British government is serious but part of me remains convinced he's only doing it because he believe he'll be getting one up on Bezos by having James Bond sent to assassinate him.

it's not that I thought government would save the country from what's been bubbling for the last 10+ years, I'm not that naive. but I guess I just didn't expect that they would literally offer it up on a plate

One of the best bits of British political commentary from the last decade was a joke article that explained the 2017 election result as Theresa May's promise of "endless suffering for everyone" being countered by Jeremy Corbyn's "maybe not that". (1/3)

100,000 people attended Trans Pride in London. It didn't almost immediately descend into chaos with attendees launching projectiles at police in order to get to those counterprotesting to try and beat the seven shades out of them. Yet, this lot are treated as the "legitimate concerns" brigade.

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested. Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested. The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

"Billionaires are using the far right to whip up hatred of minorities to protect themselves" isn't meant to have such a literal example.

In which the richest man in the world tries to incite turmoil, fear and loathing in my city from the safety of his fortified home thousands of miles away. The pathetic little coward. Also why are these patriots being directed by an American? Can't they organise their own fist fight?

When 100 thousand trans people rallied in London it was only worthy for the "local news" section.

Still freaks my nut out to this day.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

Make a band singular: And You Shall Know Me By The Corpse