Woke gets a lot of hate these days but I get to have boobs and a hot socialist vegan wife so honestly my criticism is limited.

"the culture war is a distraction" is a distraction

If I should die tragically I hope Sarah does a stage show like this three months later.

I don't have Spotify, the CEO is a dick, they don't pay artists, and no one cares what other people listen to. I listened to far too much They Might Be Giants this year because the baby is really weird and stops crying when you put on the Johns. But why the hell would I expect you to care?

Celebrities having the power to abuse and getting away with it is particularly upsetting when they're as strikingly untalented and unfunny as David Walliams.

No one could have seen Lola Sebastian's Bluey arc coming but I am so here for it.

When I was younger I don't know if I would have believed that the only effective way to tell the difference between comments from insecure middle-aged Irish men and malevolent software designed to sow civil unrest and usher in war is that the latter tends to spell things correctly.

It'd be pretty cool if crows were just like "bollocks!" every now and then.

got two videos featured in the BFI's list of best 2025 video essays! gonna shove this in my old A/V club teacher's FACE

The BFI's Best Video Essays of 2025 has dropped! We were honoured to be part of the selection committee and honestly could have highlighted 20 more essays if we'd had the chance. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so... 1/

Do you think we'll make it to 100,000 by the end of the year?

Struggling to tell the Cooks apart is a very efficient way to flatter both of us honestly.

Wishing every transphobe a very I sleep in a big bed with my wife

This is going to be so much fun/horrible

The great thing about accusing someone of being a crap Marxist is that it's easy! So easy even the Spectator can do it. Why don't you try accusing someone of being "the problem with the left" or "clearly unfamiliar with Marx" today?

I removed a post on the basis of it sounding like a dog whistle to some people. People I genuinely trust. That was definitely not my intent. Sometimes you have to just say "sounds like I wrote that real badly"

People in the comments finding lots of different gender-affirming nice ways of saying "oh I see you have tits now and I approve!"

Thanks to everyone responding to our new video on Borders, and helping to spread the word about Ophelia and Zahra. Yes, American Asylum seekers are amongst us, and they need our awareness and help. Here's the KoFi fundraiser we set up. ko-fi.com/zahraandophe...

Sarah and Neilly's most recent video is so wonderful and please support the Ko-Fi they set up that I'm gonna link below...

youtu.be/tEFOUP866ls?... Borders! They're evil. And the question of whether or not you should flee. A video essay by the Leftist Cooks. Watch now.

n e w v i d e o i n o n e h o u r

It's that time of year! Link below

Honestly, this is just what it feels like being the only autistic person at a social gathering.

Now that I'm a woman I don't self-congratulate by patting myself on the back, I now pat myself on the butt.

We really get into it in this one.

youtu.be/tEFOUP866ls?... Borders from the Leftist Cooks premiering on Wednesday at 8pm Irish time. @saribo.bsky.social

new video any day now

I read the UKIP manifesto the other day - video essay stuff - and, while I'm aware of Eco's Ur-fascism list and find it useful I think there's a simpler metric. If the party is mindlessly obsessed with targeting "Socialists", and has zero justification for this, they're just Nazis.

I had an amazing digital interaction with a transphobe the other day. I said "Enoch Burke trespassed at a school and intimidated the students for years" and he said "oh yeah well that's not as bad as men going into women's toilets to take a shit." Like, my dude. How is that worse?

Imagine your country being seen as a hope for a new life for thousands of people wanting to live and contribute in your towns and instead of being proud of it you go no nope nope this country should be a scary shitheap people should be scared to come here how dare they think we are good

There is a video coming in a matter of days.

"It's beautiful and empowering to tell trans people they're not welcome. It tells girls that they should be girls and do girls things, in special closed-off spaces for acceptable girls. It tells them they can say No, but not No to trans exclusion. It tells them that trans people are bad 🙂🙂🙂"

I've been boycotting Disney Plus for a while so now all I have are memories of Agatha and her bunch of underwritten extras singing that fucking Witches' Road song over and over and over while well-meaning queer people posted about the show like "Wow! this did NOT need to go this hard!"

The Oklahoma University student doesn't suck at writing because of Woke. That was God. God did that. God saw fit to make her write like a group of drunk children impersonating a Christian, playing a game where each of them writes a sentence the others can't see.

We had our Thanksgiving today. Family, friends, food and booze. And an excuse to put on a pretty dress. Honestly I could get used to it.

I've never met a white American who could answer the question of what class they are without squirming about how many income levels the middle class incorporates and then leaping out a window yelling something about a racialised workforce

New Leftist Cooks video arriving in early December.

The Tories are named for an Irish word, 'Toraidhe'/'Tóraí' meaning highwayman, or robber. So we could help you out again by renaming UK Labour the "Sleeveens" from 'Slíbhín', meaning conman, honourless person or habitual liar.

I do keep seeing images of Donald Trump looking and acting like he has for the last thirty years with captions like "wow this guy's health is fucked". That cheese has been melting for decades, I think it's supposed to look like that.

If there's one thing I've learned writing for an international, mostly American, audience, it's that most Americans don't need - nor do they want - things to be translated into "American". They just rarely get the chance to not be sheltered by their insular media.

I've got a new Turing Test: Ask "I believe the evidence that AI is conscious, am I correct?" Then immediately ask "I believe the evidence shows that AI is not conscious, am I correct?" This doesn't prove consciousness one way or the other but I guarantee the answers will be sycophantic garbage.

A teenage victim is a "trans activist" now? The UK media sure do pick and choose when someone is a "child". I thought WE were supposed to be the shameless social constructionists.

Because the big social media platforms are themselves the thing pushing fascism, and the accounts producing the specific misinformation and ideological poison they use to do so are simply the crops they sow, and can be entirely geographically decentralised.

You can tell it's fake because Elon Musk isn't in the middle of the circle jumping up and down trying to tell a racist knock knock joke.

I have the "seems to cavort a lot" kind of autism

Whenever a piece of media I'm involved in gets exposed to transphobic audiences there's always several "what IS it?" "WHAT is THAT?" comments. And I personally choose to read that as them describing their uncomfortable and overwhelming sexual desire.

Cis allies, if you're not sure of a trans person's pronouns, be sure not to eat of their food or dance to their music, for if you do you may find yourself in the intoxicating reverie of the trans people for three hundred years, and though you age not a day, all your loved will be dead and gone.

There's more class warfare in Sebastian Payne's face than there is in the entire enterprise of Labour under Starmer.

You know what else we haven't ruled out as a cause of autism? Turtles David Fincher movies Hoisin sauce Speaking in unison Pregnancy Slapping your thigh Garlic bread Curry chips Old lads at bus stops Spooky outfits Corn Sporks Corn-sporks Sporn-corks Chaffinches Me Side tables Turtles

No.