One of the glorious and wonderful things about humanity is that we are nowhere near as independent as our current overculture would like us to believe. We are all dependent on the stories of the past, and the future is built on what we make of the brief time we are here.

Travelling today and my colour coordination is on point 😎

Oh so the super rich are vast swatges of nectrotizing cancer in the organism of the city? Cool cool cool that's great

THANK YOU to all the amazing #SheffieldGreens who worked so hard to get #HannahThePlumber elected! 💚 Lost count of trains🚆 carpools arranged 🚗 help & generosity🙏 Hannah inspired support all across these islands, from Cornwall to Shetland, NI to Norfolk. So proud of everyone. People Power! ✊

It took me about 2 seconds to link them to a CIA group by the way.

If you've never heard the term "family voting" before, it's because it's a term made up by Democracy Volunteers who really like to frequent elections in Tower Hamlets en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_...

The really dark fun is that Labour can't make Starmer resign because they need him as a human meat airbag to handle getting absolutely vivisected in the May local elections.

THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE!!!!!! Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson....you boys took a HELL of a beating tonight. @greenpartyhan.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social This is just the beginning.

Presumably there will now be wall to.wall coverage of Green policies and Polanski will be all over the TV. Isn't this how it works for Farage?

Starmer must now call a snap general election for no reason other than seeing tonight replicated in about 350 seats at once would be the funniest event in human history

The Reform bandwagon stalls again. Three times in three by-elections: Gorton and Denton: Green; Caerphilly: Plaid Cymru; Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse: Labour. The media said Reform were favourites in each. Maybe we could hear a bit less abt the Reform bandwagon from them from now on.

Interesting little discussion

Not to get all Gender Studies on you, but it almost vibes like there's a gender thing going on here. Real power is when you dig shit up and burn it, all manly-like, while you eat a steak and potatoes. Wind and solar just aren't muscular and dirty enough. Am I off base here? sigh

And once you understand why misogynists would say only men need be heard on women's rights you also understand why the BBC has decided only cis people need be heard on trans rights: their inherent inferiority means they are not worth listening to.

If you want to understand why the BBC's stance on trans rights - only platforming cis people (and only those with a sceptical perspective) - is so outrageous imagine if it only platformed men talking about women's rights (and only those with a sceptical perspective).

"Let's look through the right-hand window. People who come to Britain are called migrants. Jim is a Brit who lives outside the UK, but Jim is not called a migrant, because he is white and very rich. Jim is called an ex-pat, which is much nicer."

Yeah, I get it

Vote labour, get Reform

Literally the first episode of Star Trek is about a man in a wheelchair.

This is Elon Musk territory, isn't it? A woman's purpose is to bear children.

Labour there, vote splitting.

The article's interesting, but this nugget reminded me of this video by Abby Cox, a sewing YouTuber, about Hermes, their value, and their values. It's well worth a watch youtu.be/nZD2iClIDzU?...

Lower bills. Defend the NHS. Rebuild our public services. Only the Green Party can stop Reform. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

After a gap of ages not writing anything, apparently bus routes were the thing that got my fingers tapping! substack.com/profile/1696...

Zack, did you see this? 🤣

In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.

I always believed the purpose of Brexit was to destroy the ability of nation states to take on spiv capitalism. I never expected to see actual evidence of it.

The Hidden Palace is BACK! I'll be returning to @radiosega.net to talk about some strange and unusual peripherals and controllers. Send me your related music requests and tune in at 9pm UK time.

So proud of my city. And disgusted by the WI.

Yes please. I don't know that we'll end up with anyone better, but we can't allow him to stay. The precedent would be horrific.

And never forget that Dame Hilary Cass belittled as "shroud wavers" those of us asking, begging, for a regime that would keep trans children alive.

After a gap of ages not writing anything, apparently bus routes were the thing that got my fingers tapping! substack.com/profile/1696...

People defending billionaires at this stage are giving "temporarily embarrassed inclusion in the Epstein files"

Are they discussing whether Lord MacDonald is properly Jewish before they decide to talk to him?

The very same. Unless there was another Ken Macdonald at Matrix at the time (the chambers organised the apparently standard 20k fee.)

Sorry, being slow here, but surely you're not talking about Ken Macdonald - the man who lobbied hard for Keir to take over from him in the DPP job - are you?

In 2008, Martine Vik Magnusson was raped and killed and her body dumped in a Gt Portland Street basement. Billionaire's son Farouk Abdulhak, who did it, fled back to Yemen the next morning. Here's Jeffrey Epstein seeking legal advice (from an ex-DPP) on how he could be sheltered from justice.

Can we please try PR now? Please? Just, y'know, give it a go? See what happens?

Peter Mandelson, who had major influence over UK health policy, was appointed 🇬🇧 ambassador to 🇺🇸 by Starmer despite known Epstein ties—now under criminal probe. Labour MP John McDonnell: "This is one of those issues that can not just bring down a prime minister; it can bring down a government" 🧵

I put together a list of peer-reviewed critiques of The Cass Review, which itself was not peer-reviewed. The media completely ignores these. I’ve been in academia since 1999 & never seen anything as widely criticized as Cass. It is a media/propaganda event, not an academic/scientific one.

NEW | Journalists who used Peter Mandelson as a resource for years are now pretending to be surprised about his character… Shock! as 'Prince of Darkness' revealed to be a dodgy, duplicitous wrong 'un brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/shock-as-p...

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

"Common sense" is Politicianese for "worthless".

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Sacre bleu

What's that you say! It was all just fear pushing by bad faith groups and that trans women pose no threat to cisgender women. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

the labour party faction in power are going to be shameless enough to try to foist mandleson protégé streeting on the country if starmer is forced to go aren't they. they've rolled him out to spin this has anyone seen a single 'journalist' bring up his close personal relationship with mandelson

In what world do you underfund education? This is on every politician over the last 50 years. It should be the country's biggest area of investment.

brb gonna hack DNC fundraising emails and ActBlue and send half of every donation to a Food Not Bombs type local set up and check back in a generation or so. for science

I note that in 2018, both Mandelson and Johnson’s political careers were completely fucked due to their own crookedness, and both were deliberately brought back via extremely dubious media campaigns because they were useful in defeating the left. Should we learn any lessons from these Cane toads?