if anyone understands the concept that Martyn Hett would have been obsessed with Sheila Diamond then please DM me right away

ok meet me outside then, it's on

Experiences here means differential property ownership, the experience of work in the 21st century and the relation between that and *strengthening* socially liberal attitudes, how the right are at odds with the *really existing* working class, and push policies fundamentally against their interests

‘Most of human history has never been digitised’ is genuinely a very important message that needs to be repeated enough to become mainstream knowledge

worth recalling these moments again and again, just breathtaking things to say when there were people feeling intimidated and worse in the places where they lived. People from communities who had generally supported the Labour Party though thick and thin, as well

Dawkins at Claudia's bedside, pleading with doctors (that he's hallucinating) to do all they can

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Wilfred Frost is a great example of Dawn Foster's “if I’ve heard of yer da, I don’t need to hear from you” rule. A nepo baby of media aristocracy and literal bloodline aristocracy, Oxbridge PPE, did a *weekend course* in journalism to start his career

literally any senior politician, in fact any politician outside of the Green Party, saying something strongly in favour of trans rights would be monumental in Britain right now, really quite shocking, such that you’d need to double source it to make sure it actually happened

Happy suburban pride month

an elaborate courtly dance, here. Does the ingenue health secretary know the correct moves, can he safely be admitted to the great ball of the British establishment

Lawrence Stephen Lowry, Ships Near Cumberland Coast, 1963 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135624

something is afoot (complimentary)

today is the actual type of warm day we need, just cycled in and out of town in perfect conditions which I was free to do instead of being a prisoner of the sun. Anyone who wants it warmer than this is insane to me, apologies for any offence caused (I do not mean this, I really think you’re insane)

Tony Blair is "contemptuous of democracy, greases up to wealth and power and lets the poor go to hell. He is ruthless, mendacious, slippery and shameless...." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social in 2009, when it was already well time for "arresting Blair": www.monbiot.com/2009/10/26/a...

yet to see a nowadays Blair policy position that isn’t overtly right wing; his ‘radical centre’ idea is errant shite. Imagine some organ of the British media pointing that out to his face, imagine if that were remotely possible

reassuring to note that Blair remains wrong about literally everything, perhaps at an increasing intensity

feel free to come for me in 2030 when the Russian Federation flag is fluttering over Tallinn but for now I tend to think that NATO wargames in Charing Cross tube are happening because the military think it makes them look based, and nudges their experience closer to a film they once watched

would happily stake every pound I’ll ever earn on this sequence of events

I always find it pretty disgusting how someone can march in a pride parade only to stab the people there in the back as soon as it becomes convenient. Many cases of Labour MPs doing so.

love how there’s an elite modernist park in London that nobody ever talks about

the Liverpool result here is peerless, simply no notes

if I was the Green Party I would simply hire someone who can use the internet, and read. Amateurish doesn’t cover it, it’s disgusting this could happen.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the peonies herself. Once she’d found a place that wasn’t robbing her half blind for a bunch of, like, four of the bastards

once again institutional capture by a small minority of hateful, well funded bigots rains down cruelty purely for the sake of cruelty, helping no-one, protecting no-one. pure petty malevolence, astroturfed by our open sewer of a media, a few genuine psychos and a shit ton of useful liberal idiots

bigotry makes you insane and before you know it you’re writing reams of unworkable regulatory code in dumbfuck legalese outlining all the ways in which you are indeed utterly fucking bananas

found this buried somewhere on my phone while looking for something else, Bluesky should find a way to do random archival Twitter posts, happier days

There we have it - you have to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces (so maybe avoid having them if you can). A bathroom ban from people who recognise that they’re doing a bathroom ban, and feel guilty about it. Shameful. www.gov.uk/government/p...

me when AI tries to do historical research or write a novel: well this fucking sucks, what the fuck me when AI ends mathematics: hahahah fuck yeah! yes!

Because the Overton window is now smashed in, crudely boarded up and scrawled with graffiti (by an ostensibly soft left Labour MP) about immigrants eating your liver and selling your Nan‘s cardigan on Facebook marketplace

The birth rate in the UK in the mid to late 1930s was almost as low as it is today and I can assure you that it wasn’t because Stanley Baldwin’s teenagers wouldn’t get off their phones. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

I am not ready for what lies ahead. Go on without me, save yourself

This looks absolutely excellent and well worth your time if you can get there. @grindrod.bsky.social and @matthewwhitfield.bsky.social talking suburbs. What's not to like?!

the QR scanners that Royal Mail delivery people have now has such a distinctive bleep bloop that you can hear them delivering to neighbours even if they don’t come to you. If you were doing a ‘soundscape of 2026’ piece it should be included.

So this is what ‘moving away from having a reporter-led newsroom’ means for Pink News, an AI hallucinating some nonsense. Great work.

really need a bluesky economist with experience at HM Treasury and a paid-off mortgage to tell me this is incorrect, and that we’re all actually really well off (like him)

am compering this, my sequinned jacket currently at the cleaners

for Sam, YIMBY was perhaps always a synonym for Lebensraum

this terrazzo, used once in North Greenwich tube in 1999, never used again anywhere because it was too powerful

for some reason there’s a large cadre of lib politicians who went to university, whose kids went (or will definitely go) obsessed with non-university routes for others. Technical/vocational training needs investment, naturally, but that part never appears to be their priority

Personally I’m not watching and pretty sad about that. This is an incisive thread on the Eurovision situation we find ourselves in.

lol the shame

can’t say off the top of my head what this ‘discrimination’ looks like to them (and the BBC aren’t teasing any more from their vox pops from the march) and I genuinely do want to know more, what is structuring their thought?

HAPPY 31ST BIRTHDAY YES

from the last one, in September. I would only decide to encounter this again if I had no other choice, or was part of something organised. Truly poisonous energy, stay well away

I recall a few days where there was ambiguity about this, for people online and not on the ground in Gorton. Absolutely it was real, and should never be forgotten. Below gutter politics. Sewer politics.

Spectacular levels of cope www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

at the new QEII garden, Regents Park

At the bottom of my street and on my running route for a few years, just completely camp

okay a lot going on here, it’s deeply unsettling, but we need to process the patio furniture in the middle of the roundabout