Whenever a certain TERF columnist pops up I recall hearing of a Christmas she spent with her daughters *begging* her to stop discussing trans people and speculating about a trans journalist’s medical history. A complete loser with no life!!!

I was hoping whatever was bursting out of the guy's chest in Alien would be something nice

So proud of my city. 👊❤️ (Albany Park is a diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago.) * Continuing to fight the "Chicago is a hellhole" narrative: I saw this because I biked a few miles to a lovely chocolate cafe on a gorgeous fall day where the leaves were starting to turn golden.

“We need an inquiry to establish if those doing the shooting in Ballymurphy were the same ones who opened fire six months later in Derry." The parallels between what happened in Ballymurphy and in Derry are uncanny” www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jun/...

I would love to read tributes to the late Kaleb Horton in Vanity Fair….so many comedians, musicians, and artists admired his work, and Graydon Carter knew he had a diamond on his hands.

This podcast is a treasure trove of incredible bits

My tribute to Kaleb Horton and The Last Exit Show, a podcast he hosted with @jameslatrmurphy.bsky.social

The genocide still happened, Palestine still isn't free, their homes, hospitals, schools and places of worship are still rubble and tens of thousands if not more are dead and Keir Starmer's Labour and the British media and establishment facilitate every bit of it. The blood will never wash off.

An underrated Drew Struzan poster that I spent ages looking at in Seattle’s museum of pop culture.

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

It was a privilege to write Michael Culver’s obituary for @equityuk.bsky.social’s magazine. A true peace campaigner, Culver visited Brian Haw’s camp up to 3x a week with supplies (incl the T-shirts he designed) If you want to know more about him: this is worth a watch youtu.be/mToyl2E4uRs?...

Horton’s work was extremely popular here in the UK, not just in America. I hope an editor on this side of the pond takes note. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Any time anyone makes this point I think it is entirely valid to point out that the current Prime Minister of the UK appointed a man who maintained a friendship with a convicted child sex trafficker as US ambassador to the UK while ignoring and overruling warnings about doing so.

I can't begin to describe how accurate this is.

Sure, but if she’s an early years expert then why does she subject her own children to the British press and The Firm? Giving pictures of your kids to the Daily Mail is freak behaviour www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If you’re a parent in London interested in mutual aid and community organising that benefits children and their families then I’m always up for a chat as I’m struggling to meet other parents who are into that instead of say, raw milk and being anti-vax

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

not to merge discourses but a reason ppl get mad re: the bari weiss of it all is bc most actual journalists toil in anonymity & will quit on principle rather than to set up a lucrative rightward heel turn, but there's never money for them. this person may well never work in journalism again.

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

give greta thunberg a gundam

Also love the idea that you can "stop traffic" in Soho, which assumes that the [motor] traffic was ever moving in the first place.

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path. [Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

greta ily what an outfit

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years. This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Statement from Jewish Bloc for Palestine

Every single march I’ve been on has had a big Jewish presence - and Jewish speakers. I even saw an ex Israeli bloc consisting of ex Israelis who have left the colony once. And then of course there are the Holocaust survivors and their descendants, and the Orthodox protestors. Fogarty has no shame.

And again: the reason politics and media are this reckless, hateful and deliberately inflammatory is all down to decisions that were made in 2018-19 about what is acceptable conduct in public life, and we are all going to live with the consequences of that for a very long time.

I think we can look back to the contents of the Forde Report, because he was quite blunt about what this type of behaviour is.

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

Shame on you for publishing this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Reminder: this paper said their initial reporting of abuse rings in northern England were a declaration of war upon multiculturalism and liberalism. I’m not even paraphrasing, that was the language used. That was in 2011, and it didn’t get better after that.

October

And SEND provision is already abysmal but they’re trying to tell us how lucky disabled kids are for being treated like shit by the system…

They were using the same language for SEND provision which they will no doubt be coming for next

The greatest film fancam edit since the Barry Lyndon x 21 Savage one imo

Flanthippe, the creator of the best known Barry Lyndon edit, has put a 4K version out based on the new remaster: youtu.be/PDSeCm78A6s

BARRY LYNDON (1975) dir. S. Kubrick

I was very moved to see so many people remembering Kaleb Horton so fondly over the past few days. What I haven’t seen thus far are any obituaries in any “real” magazines or news sites. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-would-like...

Ah…the free time I have after 7:30pm stretches out like the horizon. Time to map the rise and fall of people saying “hello, mum” on camera.

Here’s Kaleb Horton’s masterpiece on Merle Haggard, with a new introduction written in February 2025. kalebhorton.ghost.io/from-the-arc...

Amazing work here by @alexnpress.bsky.social eulogizing Kaleb Horton and gathering his writing in one easy to locate place. If any indie publishers want to do an edition of his work, I’d volunteer time to see it done. thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-hort...

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Late Afternoon Light ~ Cyril Cox, 1958

There was a time, when we were still boys on opposite ends of the planet, when messaging eachother was the first thing we did in the morning and the last thing we did at night. For years! Maybe eight years? He was always funny. The influences that formed his rhythms and humour, he gave to me.