Le paysage en feu / The burning landscape - 1928 https://botfrens.com/collections/61/contents/3112420

It feels like we’re playing Jenga with the underpinnings of society. There‘s the peaceful transfer of power norm. There’s the norm against antisemitism. There’s the stable global energy market. Idk how long this is sustainable before something breaks for good.

the thing about the Olde Twitter culture whereby leftism equals being a belligerent dickhead, and the bigger a belligerent dickhead you are the more radical your leftism, is that invariably you get guys who just like saying slurs and reverse engineer "left" excuses for doing it

Multiculturalism is the normal state of human society and monoculturalism is the unnatural aberration.

Every time a Tory says something racist the entire right feels compelled to double down on it or create a more sympathetic spin on it and the Overton window shifts closer to "let's ban muslims" or "race science is good actually". These days the Tories would give Enoch Powell a parade

so many "I am the joker now" moments, so little time

The current "automatic" process involves succeeding in the Life in the UK and English language tests and paying 3000 pounds.

Controlled opposition says what?

Gonna start using this excuse now, "aye I know I didn't pay my rent last month but that was in a former life"

Here they come Reform racist scum Trumps wee hoors To darken our doors.

For the first time in 60 years, Palestinians are being barred from praying at Al Aqsa mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam. This morning, Palestinians tried to pray Eid right outside and were brutally attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces.

Just wanted to get something out of the way: I believe that every one of you are both my attorney and accountant and I consider each post to be financial and legal advice.

You're telling me that the backbone of the far-right in Scotland is, in fact, people who've melted their brains on Facebook and X screaming about Humza Yousaf the muslamic extremist and Nicola Sturgeon's transgender lesbian affairs? Crazy, unforeseeable, no lessons to be learned from this

tfw Badenoch says public religious displays must be "in conformity with our values, our norms, our beliefs", all about our values, and you know this is the same Badenoch who opposed a trans conversion ban because it could mean parents go to jail For Their Religion

I don't want to jinx it but seriously imagine if they do all this and then it's just kinda mid

depressing that the BBC are so quick to say this about a manifesto that is wildly regressive on climate and wants to scrap all quangos. just endlessly willing to take the spin.

The Home Office is racking up profits on the shoulder of people born abroad whilst driving poverty, distress, and poor mental health for people across the country Instead of fixing it, the Government is making it worse — effectively prioritising only the wealthiest migrants.

Amid the distress caused by the settlement changes, the Government has quietly announced yet another visa fee hike. Leave to remain is rising to £1,407. An initial visa now costs over £2,000 — plus £1,000+ yearly paid upfront for the health surcharge. 🧵

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If the main political/media hate figures of the era have been Muslims, transgender people and the left, as well as the National Trust, Stonewall, Amnesty International and some black students who wanted to move a statue: what is that? Because it looks a lot like fascist insanity, doesn’t it.

I get the point, and I respect the writer making it. But Americans have to understand that their country can never be trusted again. Once Trump is gone, and even if MAGA implodes, the damage has been done, and the relationship will never be reset. The US could easily do this again. Too late, sorry.

Once again for the hard of thinking: there‘s no compromising with the Nick Timothys of this world. You can’t satisfy them by fiddling about with immigration controls. They hate people who are different & don’t want them in this country. A single step towards them is legitimating that world view.

If your plan to reform digital accessibility in the NHS is to copy NHS England who gave £330m to Palantir of all companies for the privilege of having your data, then I don't really believe that you've got the best interests of patients at heart.

in 100 years nobody will read adorno, butler, foucault, or habermas. they will, however, read my favorite intellectual, elonolf rowlingyahu, an accountant by training who specializes in, get this, cancel culture on elite college campuses, anti trans semantics, and the excesses of palestine protests

Think it tells you a lot about this government that every formal representative body for basically any kind of creative was virulently opposed to this and it took an intervention from Elton John (he's famous and rich, therefore real)

Perfect

While both points need to happen, number two should've happened the second that the Home Secretary lied to the public and MPs about immigration. Instead she's been allowed to continue to do so, repeatedly. It shouldn't take a backlash as Starmer is facing to hold Ministers to account for falsehoods.

Two things need to happen at this point: 1) Scrap proposals and pull a mea culpa for ever suggesting them 2) Fire Mahmood as Home Secretary and get someone in who isn't chasing soundbites. You can't "water down" proposals which are so obviously inhumane, hostile, unworkable and ignorant of reality.

None of you have the vernacular you think you possess

Sarwar, currently well known in Scotland as “that fucking guy that you have to listen to for ages, before YouTube lets you watch the football highlights”.

re: IRA discourse i have only one spicy take to contribute and it is as follows. it is quite funny that an average American Provo respector will absolutely lose their mind if they see one (1) Ukrainian waving a UPA flag

It's genuinely beyond me how people look at this man and go 'oh yeah once the voters see more of him the only way is up'

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

Starmer/Reeves EU policy: 2024 - reset, but within the red lines 2025 - strategic partnership, but within the red lines 2026 - dynamic alignment, but within the red lines And yet such slow progress, negligible economic dividend. I wonder why. What could the obstacle be?

That's a staggering betrayal of an agreement and if the proposed changes go through no one should trust the Labour party ever again.

The British government when we applied for my wife's spouse visa under the Tories: you don't need to work, it's not a condition for the visa and after 5 years you can settle. Labour now: well actually you should have worked and also earned more than this new income threshold we just came up with.

Just scrap the whole thing and don't look back, it has zero redeeming features even if you don't make it retroactive and anyone to the left of Priti Patel should be furious if it gets laundered through a '''''left-wing''''' Labour leadership

ok but that's just gorillaz

wow! Great work Kate!

Hope, you might have to sit down when I tell you this,

I feel like we're building towards an event where a bunch of billionaires or ministers in some random dictatorship get a bad batch of drugs or steroids and 'mysteriously' die within the same week

there is a distressingly-prevalent idea among the terminally-online that they are effectively the moral babysitters of all that they observe, and that their sole job is to issue judgment of everything they dislike

the new ayatollah won’t see your posts about how he’s either severely injured or dead but all your friends who haven’t been seen in public in ages will

Why does the new Bluesky translation feature require downloading a zip file to my phone? What kind of spaghetti code are they running up there?

also 'without a clear and simple message' is more often 'politically intelligent' than 'politically muddled' unless you want films to be slop for Marxist babies.