The Doge's Palace (Le Palais ducal) - 1908 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1316146

THEY LITERALLY TEACH US TO NEVER DO THIS IN SCHOOL WHEN WE'RE 6 YEARS OLD, WHAT

This is how @monroetempleton.bsky.social makes me feel

only girls and women should be allowed to use the internet

I’ve seen everything now. I’ve seen a Labour influencer saying Mamdanis bus policy is stolen from West Yorkshire.

solipsist History Day is every day. Maybe be someone who is fat, a trans person or part of Blue MAGA or even someone who has ironic detachment. You should reevaluate your solipsist privilege Bobby. You never had to fight for your right to coexist in society.

Work sucks etc but they do not want you to be able to support yourself or pursue your dreams; they want you dependent on a man, so he can treat you as badly as he feels like without you having the option to leave.

Among the first quotes of this post were someone using it to make a Trump reference and someone tagging a hypnotist to say “I WANT TO BE YOUR PIGWHORE”. Can we have a normal day here. Can we just enjoy the pig bath. Look how happy he is. He doesn’t know about Republicans or kink.

Say what now

I think the most charitable take of the sort of left-lib tax populism we're getting now is that it's not a million miles away from how Lloyd George went on in the 1910s, and while you couldn't run a modern state on that, it was a necessary step on the road to legitimising the stuff that /did/ work

Excited to learn that the Economist is now critical of low income tax rates

Please can you promise to bail us out because potential lenders think we might not be able to pay them back because perhaps what we build won’t generate the revenues to pay them back but they are wrong, scouts’ honour.

I'm not sharing the link directly because, obviously, the SWP can do one, but That Lot From Glasgow have given a direct interview to their newspaper! Genuinely shameful stuff. They absolutely will be chumming with Tommy Sheridan ere long.

Fuck OFF did David Lammy stand up in the House of Commons and go 'I took a DNA test and I'm 5% Scottish actually', what is he, an American on Facebook

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I know people bristle at such comparisons but the term "Trumpian" does seem apt: having seen their prospects of winning an election drop, the Top Tier Government decides to cynically deploy its institutional heft in a fundamentally inappropriate manner against partisan foes in Lower Tier Governments

By now we should all be concerned of pronouncements from the Labour party normalising extremist Reform rhetoric and dragging the Overton window into increasingly anti-liberal territory. Unsurprising to see this now applied to SNP as well as immigrants and other minority groups

I don't care what Wes Streeting or Bridget Phillipson think about Zohran Mamdani, I know too much about Wes Streeting or Bridget Phillipson's opinions as is

Big day for fans of Pan African union. This means that the legislative council of the gold coast- (I am hurriedly handed a note) wait it's not Nkrumah? There's another Kwame? What about free Ghana? (I am hurriedly handed another note) Oh. Well that's (I am hurriedly handed a final note) oh. Oh no.

As an Eastern European and a member of the SNP I find this not only tedious, reductive, and a lie, I demand that David Lammy and Dougie Alexander explain to me, personally, why they believe I am a traitor to my people.

Completely agree with this take but it's also notable how many of the influencers he engaged with were the ones who do bits out and about in the real world, rather than the ones who sit in a basement somewhere.

Okay I'll bite. Who is Zohran Mamdani

One part of Mamdani's campaign people in other countries probably should study is how he did the Instagram/Tiktok influencer circuit the same way past politicians might have done the talk show circuit

Inspiring slogan: 'Labour: we don't just talk shite'

Studying this

have they tried just making a good movie instead of worrying about making it the requisite amount of "adoring of the superhero genre"

lmao, total cultural victory

ngl not even my city but this got me bawling. imagine being included instead of toewalked around or stepped on. imagine them being normal to and about us.

What's interesting about the current state of the British intelligentsia is that it's quite obviously more insular, more paranoid, more bereft of ideas or cultural contributions than it has been at any point in history. All it can do nowadays is circle wagons around each other.

LRT: I don't think it's a case of 'more or less important', but that thread does get at my discomfort with the 'oh we were doing literally everything wrong in the 2010s' revisionism I'm seeing from some trans micro-celebs atm

I think there is an idea on here that Access to Medical Transition is the most radical/root Material Demand, which is why there is a certain anger when that framing gets questioned. But I believe that while obviously access to medical transition is part of the agenda it's far from the most important

"i could smell the onions and mustard"

Congratulations to the United States on her bottom surgery, no more Dick 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

Dick Shotman United States, Census, 1950

The Matrix's answer to the question "what is a woman" is "idk really fucking cool?"

VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon has been found not guilty of terrorist offences. But hundreds of pensioners standing peacefully with Palestine Action placards are. What terrible standards!

This is gonna cause a diplomatic incident when the Egyptian FM realises it's only half a pyramid

The living mirror / Le miroir vivant - 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/18806

Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.

It’s either a cryptofash occupied government with zero empathy, discernment, nuance, and basic reading comprehension or a liberal arts major, pick your poison

Zack Polanski, the English Robert Habeck

So when does the first poll with GPEW at 20% drop

Arthouse lineup for November is so absurdly stacked I might have to finally bite the bullet and get a monthly pass

I’m stepping up to be your @snp.org candidate for the Whitburn and Blackburn by-election. West Lothian’s Labour-Tory coalition has been running our services into the ground – I’ve had enough, and I’m sure you have too! So vote Callum #1 on Dec/11 for a local, fresh and committed voice!

weird that they've called it Your Party given they're actively courting people who are scared of pronouns

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

Cis people don’t have any automatic ordained right to insist that they set the parameters of our existence, and the level to which we can participate in public life. We are quite simply a legitimate category of human experience - we are *never* going away. So might be time to start accepting that.

I keep seeing supposedly progressive podcasts saying “the problem is that people feel like they just can’t talk about these issues” while these issues are frequently the *only* thing that people are talking about 😩