has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

Throughout history, protest has been the voice of the people. Protests are how people challenge the status quo. It’s how laws change, societies evolve and freedoms are gained. To remove the right to protest is to remove our democratic rights

I really don’t like how people are diagnosing these fascists with personality disorders instead of acknowledging that this is the type of personality that psychology never bothered to pathologize because it neatly fits into our society and upholds the status quo

I don't know much about art, but I know what I like

You've heard of Elf on the Shelf? Well get ready for seasonal depression on top of your regular depression.

If voters could vote against a party (More in Common)

As cruel and horrific as this world can feel at times—our world, the world we humans have made—it is very important to remember that this world, our world, which awaits us every day, is beautiful, and it is wonderful. And it is important that we believe in it.

It's very obvious that if any other prominent politician had been so racist in school that it's haunted 20+ former classmates ever since, it would be treated like a bigger deal. We should examine how and why "still being very racist four decades later" is acting as Farage's protective shield.

So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"

@adilray.bsky.social asks Alison McGovern if we should apply the same rules and sanctions against Israel that we do with Russia McGovern dodges the question about sanctions on Israel & instead says the govt is straining every sinew to make them effective against Russia.

The EBU dropped plans for a vote on excluding Israel because of the ceasefire This is the point of the pretend ceasefire. Not to stop the genocide but to allow countries & organisations to more easily resist calls to put pressure on Israel & to reverse actions already taken

Is it unusual for the west to fling a ton of weaponry at people fighting one of our great enemies, let them get shredded for years on end and then decide we’ve had enough, leaving the people who live there to eat shit? Nope, it is not unusual at all, and it’s not like it was unforeseeable here.

The British army wanted an armoured monster truck with a gun on it. £6 billion and 31 hospitalised soldiers later, they got one of the biggest procurement fuckups of all time defence-blog.com/insider-says...

I don’t use this app but I noticed some supportive messages popping up and I really appreciate that 🥹💞

If you ever want to know the cult of genocidal support Israel has established in the "never again, unless" Europe, consider that Eurovision would overwhelmingly rather have a genodical apartheid country committing endless war crimes on board than the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Slovenia.

With respect to Hillary Clinton's condescending comments toward young Jewish Americans, my rabbi's post-election sermon was far more perceptive cbebk.org/november-7-r...

“Former ISIS member… backed by Israel” would be a fun one to spring on a panel of experts, live on TV. On you go lads, bear in mind everyone is watching.

I see a lot of hate on here towards Nigel Farage. Before you post any abuse please remember the man is a husband, a father and a complete cunt.

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

It is really clear that the right are gleefully radicalising themselves, pumping it into the public space, and the government are now treating it as normal and not an extremely unusual position.

Hey Wes, I can save you the trouble. The reason a lot of people are struggling with their mental health in the UK is it fucking sucks here. Aside from usual late-stage capitalism stuff, everything that could be cool about living here has been systematically made worse by people like you, you cunt.

Western liberalism is increasingly the "ingroups the law protects but does not bind, outgroups it binds but does not protect" thing, but where the ingroup is simply "the state and its agents" and the outgroups are "everyone else." Which is somewhat ironic.

From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland. Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.

I distinctly remember Boris Johnson in 2019, before the election, taking a reporter’s phone and pocketing it to avoid seeing a photo of a four-year-old boy lying on coats on a hospital floor awaiting treatment. He was elected by a landslide a couple of days later.

the “when all this is over” idea some of them cling to is ridiculous - you’ve re-wired your brain for brief flashes of dopamine from performative cruelty, there is no “over” for you, you’ve robbed your life of joy

This, and they’re *children*. Children don’t care what their friends are, they only care that they’re friends. There was never any danger. It was always a confidence building space. All they’ve done is tell bullies that it’s okay to pick on someone for what they are.

Facial recognition, scrapping juries, and mandatory digital ID. This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right. The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

It's great how the British Press are still unaware of how much they are fucking LOATHED by the public.

He's not running the NHS in the public interest goodlawproject.org/how-private-...

I'd hate to be a boat owner after this passes. Imagine all the information that could be be useful for your navigation but which would ALSO be potentially useful to those guiding small boats across the Channel. Will the Shipping Forecast cease broadcasting? That, after all, makes crossings easier.

The thing is that writers have always been horny and weird, but before the age of social media they really had to channel that into their writing and at least produce interesting work. Now you can just post anything and the worst part about it is that it’s just dull and porn brained

There’s a word for what all this very obviously is, and it isn’t “war”.

It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK. The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented. And the result is endless horror.

I’m old enough to remember the Bosnian war, which was regarded as bringing irredeemable shame on all of Europe. This stuff is *massively* worse than that - far more cruel, calculated and deliberately intended as cull of the civilian populace - and it’s been done with our active aid and complicity.

I don’t want the benefits I want the fucking meds so I can function in your shitty fucking capitalist paradigm Wes….

Girl Guides of Canada has made a statement, likely in response to the cowardly decisions of Girlguiding UK. 🏳️‍⚧️

Heard part of a Guardian podcast this morning talking to Zack Polanksi, and they posed this question to him about the 'unifit to lead' left, how that's the majority view of lots of the British press, and therefore, 'by default' the British public, which is quite an interesting way of phrasing it.

Latest in 'accidentally saying the quiet part out loud' by the media wing of the regime here:

Logging out to take care of grief stuff in me rather than avoid and distract myself on here, back soon. Be excellent to each other and don't let the bastards grind you down.

A trend becoming clear.... Determined to cut spending on the disabled? Redefine disability Determined to cut spending on SEND? Redefine SEND Determined to cut spending on mental health? Redefine mental health In reality, an egregious attack on the vulnerable www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My 19 month old son is super into sealife and oceans and can now identify and name anglerfish and angelfish, which is pretty impressive given he's still taking a random punt on whether any particular woman in the room is Mama

Looks like a crazed conspiracy theory, doesn’t it: a Bolshevik plot to undermine Britain by depraving the youth and the kultur. That’s because it is one, it’s because it is absolutely apeshit Mein Kampf stuff. In every Tesco and petrol station, on every TV and radio, for at least a decade now.

The UK Labour Party, everyone

Enoch Burke was, for a brief moment, the cause célèbre of UK newspapers, because he was attempting to harm trans students. Over the past few years, the media, embarrassed at his increasingly obsessive and erratic behaviour (publicly threatening a schoolmaster, trespassing, etc.), quietly dropped him

this is unrelated but i really did laugh a lot seeing his big collection of DC comics in the background. Another reminder that the best way to understand politics right now is recognising that the most influential talking heads are resentful nerds and gamers

I wrote this about the UK government appeasing the far right in February. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

this doesn't look good for corbyn