RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

Genuinely pleased for the guy. Him and his brother seem like such lovely blokes I can't quite believe they're footballers. And his passing is 🤩. In good teams it'll be a serious weapon. And he's gonna lob an 80 yard goal at some point. The ping with no backlift is immense. #swfc #wawaw

Let the binface backlash begin

don't worry though Israel was trying to bomb a different guy and just killed a bunch of other people who happened to be nearby, too

Saying the quiet part out loud here aren't we Nige?

One of my hardest-won political lessons is that it’s never, ever worth it to treat ppl as ~indispensable no matter what they do~ —bc we *see* the contributions & potential of the abusive men & we don’t get to see that in the women they drive out. We never actually get to know what we’ve squandered

The Balogun thing is funny though right. Can we not just agree that it's funny? It's totally normal to be happy that your team benefitted outrageously outside the rules. It's sadly also normal to rationalise that is an exceptional example of justice being served irregularly.

Idk who first said it but the unifying ideology of Britain really is "It's shit, you're not meant to like it."

I can't believe I have to say this but the point is not "corrupt World Cups are not new". It's that this specific World Cup has been a succession of "f**k yous" to various parts of the global football community, and this is the latest one. And I doubt it will be the last.

donald trump intervening to allow balogun to play when it is also his position that people who have citizenship the way balogun got it shouldn't is quite darkly funny. the rare double unjust position

Also, the "if you weren't a coward" part irks the shit out of me. I have seen ordinary people do extraordinary things and take deadly risks during the last year in defense of others—many people who never imagined themselves doing such things. Some had politics that didn't impress me. And so what?

seeing more of a particular brand of aggro post lately ("if you weren't a coward you'd be doing xyz thing that would have you dead or in jail" from posters who appear to themselves neither be dead or in jail). could just be feds/bots/trolls trying to entrap people on here but a PSA just in case

People talk about a game being "one for the purists", Paraguay v France is one for the absolute sickos. No-one should enjoy this. And yet. #WorldCup

And remember...

You know which English team has won at the Azteca? Sheffield Wednesday, that’s who. 4-1 against Toluca, Mexican champions, in summer 1967 #swfc #wawaw

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I'd say this is the worst thing England have done to the DRC this decade, but they did give Paul Kagame a cool few hundred mil for no reason

Air conditioning is an artificial advantage for European teams

Things to be out of rainy fascist island for: Queen dying ✅ England in a major tournament ✅

If you don’t take a firm, consistent position on ‘culture war’ issues then the one your opponents make up for you is the only one the public will hear

With Andy, we still can

This tells you a lot about the Labour Party and it's function as well as about Starmer and the wankers around him

One thing you have to understand about Starmer is that his political project was primarily about control of the Labour Party rather than the government. Getting to form a government in the wake of the Tory collapse was basically a nice fringe benefit.

What are your highlights? I will never forget racist riots taking place where they were trying to burn people alive and he took about 8 business days to call them racist and sent Yvette Cooper out to talk about how much she loves England flags and has them in bunting form

A #poem for #transpride in Plymouth today #lgbtq #lgbt Back in Devon and Cornwall for ten gigs from Monday www.robinince.com

"The DfT calculates the net present value of the scheme... to be between -£23.4bn and -£62.5bn. Net present value is defined by the DfT as the overall social value of expanding Heathrow, compared with not doing it, adding all costs and benefits." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

consider these two facts: ▪️ starmer radically transformed the country to appease the new right ▪️ starmer's premiership was a historic failure if you hold them in your head together, a conclusion emerges but that is basically unthinkable for our press, so they're treated as entirely separate

ZERO! None. Not one. Science is incredible. What incredible news to start the day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Also, this sign at Vienna pride which, honestly, fair.

Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people. Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority. Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.

I note that none of our Official Extremism Experts appear all that perturbed by three years of far right riots and mobs of masked men attacking and burning homes and hotels

How teams/delegations are received in Mexico versus the US

Receipts btw: sex-matters.org/wp-content/u... They're quite explicit about curtailing rights in order to "no longer make transition a desirable goal" and thus eliminate trans people from public life.

Every few months a police WhatsApp group gets leaked and we get to read the rape and murder fantasies of a bunch of Nazi cops but, sure, they’re all too woke and white people are the ones to suffer, ok, fine.

A policeman who had the nickname “the rapist” kidnapped, raped and murdered a woman and the reactionary right went “look away, nothing to see here, leave the boys in blue alone, ladies, just flag down a bus if a policeman tries to murder-rape you”.

"This keeps happening" can quickly become "this always happens" and then "it's always been this way," until you're locked into a sense of permanence and inevitability that have been manufactured by the oppressor.

Sarah Everard. Fuck The Police. Sheku Bayoh. Fuck The Police. Mark Duggan. Fuck The Police. Ian Tomlinson. Fuck The Police. Jean Charles de Menezes. Fuck The Police. Henry Nowak. Fuck The Police. Fuck every single rioting Nazi and also Fuck The Police.

the advance of the far right in Britain has sometimes forced people who regard themselves as left wing into the defence of institutions or individuals that might more naturally be our enemies, but we absolutely must not stop saying Fuck The Police just because racists are also saying Fuck The Police

One of the fundamental reasons policing doesn't work is because the police are dangerous to victims of crime.

I actually think it's an important thing to look at the police response to Zack Polanski's very mild criticism and Farage and his crew inciting race riots. Not really keen on people deciding that it's "not the time" when the horse has already bolted.

this is a pride flag made from real nasa imagery happy pride month 🏳️‍🌈✨

You don’t get it guys, The Good Guys™️ have to do Evil Things, or The Evil Guys™️ will do them: it’s good when The Good Guys™️ do Evil Things cos it’s smart, but if The Evil Guys™️ do them, it’s bad :(

Richie on the ball

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1/ UCU Hallam are on strike for 18 days over job losses and plans for a subco. UEB has refused to listen. Savings could come from cutting capital spend and using VSS—protecting teaching, research, and education quality. #SaveSheffieldHallam Financial decision-making and governance at SHU: Thread 🧵

We've reached the stage where just reading out the press releases of what the Israeli state intends to do makes you sound like a frothing deranged conspiracist, like if you're not paying attention it just seems unbelievable that a state could be doing all this without sanction.

I'm asking every cis person who follows me to read this article and take it in. It's a sobering account of how quickly things turned in the UK - with detail that often doesn't make the news - and, yes, what it means for you www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...