By all means, let's stop experiencing things. Let's pay a rentier class of technocrats for a simulacrum of those things displayed on a screen.

We're letting machines do our thinking for us, and pretty soon, if guys like this are any indication, we'll let them do our feeling for us as well. He's right, why bother going anywhere, just read the wiki. Why stand in front of the Mona Lisa, your screen has 4k resolution. Why date, just play Sims

@anneliesedoddsmp.bsky.social - you were at Oxford Pride yesterday but you haven't yet signed the motion against the trabsphobic EHRC "guidance" Why not? You can't have your cake and eat it. edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... @laylamoran.bsky.social thank you for attending AND signing @tacc.org.uk

Tiktok currently full of people "taking the knee for Henry Nowak", misunderstanding both the circumstances behind BLM and the circumstances of Nowak's death.

But very few people have a full overview of policing in this country, or remember the many incidents that undermine the idea of anti-white two-tier policing So if there is a years long patter of high-profile figures claiming it is happening after shocking incidents, people will start to believe it

For several years now, far right groups and populist politicians have been cherry picking incidents to back the idea of two-tier policing and raising its salience But it would be easy to find criminal incidents to string together to create the impression of any type of discrimination or conspiracy

Most politicians now using the term two-tier policing probably don't know its origin. If told they would probably defend themselves by saying it needs to be investigated regardless From interviews I've seen, many seem to think it's an organic and widely held public concern. I'm not sure that's true

In August 2024 I researched the term's origin and discussed it in this appearance on BBC Radio 5 live The use of the term has shifted from Covid, when it was used by people opposing restrictions, to wider state-backed conspiracies against white people and/or the "right wing"

The phrase "two-tier" policing first entered Britain's political mainstream in August 2024, when people supporting the Southport rioters were complaining of their treatment But it is not a mainstream term - it originated with far right and conspiracist groups trying to push their own narratives

Profoundly anti-misogynistic, anti-AI, anti-capitalist nightmare fuel. Loved it.

I’m middle class, left wing, and my lived experience has taught me that I’ve been afforded more human rights on account of features I was born with and can’t control (skin colour, location of birth, cisgender, etc) than other people, and that makes me fucking furious because that’s unjust

Contrary to what the Chryon says, this despicable gowl dishonours everyone who died liberating Europe from the Nazis. Fascists like this deserve scaffolds not podiums.

We have fulfilled our Kickstarter (some of you still need to fill surveys) so JANUARY, my postcard writing game for two people about lifelong friends living tenderly in a world full of kaiju, is now available for purchase! shingyinkhor.bigcartel.com/product/janu...

Wondered what happens at a large reenactment event? It's so easy, we got a 10-year-old to talk you through it! Join Penny as she guides you through what happens, from arrival to hometime youtu.be/M1wevBwEzM4

I am SO sick of headlines like this. The public sees "AI" as being LLMs/ChatGPT, not an ML algorithm - and articles like this mislead the public into thinking that LLMs are discovering novel things. It's a cool thing! I'm excited! But it is lazy reporting to suddenly use "AI" as such a broad term

Booked tickets to go see Goblin Band again, so at least I'll be crying in an old working men's club rather than at my desk.

... And since Government interests are indebted to Corporate interests, we are seeing the Police protecting The interests of the harmful and the oppressors. THIS is what I wanted to say on LBC, but the host cut me off and pushed me into answering a question about a single tragic incident.

... unopposed until a line is crossed. Then it's 'can you calm down a bit mate? No, ok, you can cause a bit of damage and intimidation but only over here in the brown area'. The Police have always been a tool to protect Government interests...

The sad thing about all this is... There is 'two tier' policing. If you look at any pro-Palestine rally, or a JSO protest, you're going to see the police arresting anyone with a placard (the older or more vulnerable the better) whereas they pretty much allow racist riots to proceed...

The Fiasco of Faithful Fortescue 🐴

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind". When was that, precisely? The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.

This episode of "Today" desperately needs a historian of policing, to explain why things like anti-racism training were introduced in the first place. This wasn't some departure from a world in which the police treated everyone the same. It was an attempt to bring that world fractionally closer.

In Orbit THIS Wednesday! She knows what you're thinking - with Psi-Div devastated by the recent events of Oubliette, @molcher.bsky.social and @cuntersthompson.bsky.social dive into Judge Anderson's life in the astral plane! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAkn...

Do you know how utterly useless you have to be to handcuff a man who's been stabbed in the heart? These people shouldnt be let near a uniform again. And we're out here talking about equality. I beg your pardon? We should be talking about horrific incompetence

Police are so well protected when they handcuff a dying man, their superiors want to blame anti racism guidelines, not their absolute cruelty and fucking idiocy. None of the officers involved should have jobs right now. But we're discussing paperwork they prob haven't even read

THE CHAFF PROJECT Hi! Are you cis in the UK and you'd like to support trans rights? Great! How: buy a trans flag pin and wear it in public. Why: chaff is an overwhelming amount of false positives so that when a missile gets close to the plane, it hits the chaff and not the plane.

The Supreme Court has today "strip[ped] fundamental human rights protections from potentially hundreds of thousands of severely disabled people" say a group of National Charities for disabled people. www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig...

Who, I wonder, is too racist for the BBC now? This is the language of the NF and the BNP, neither of which were invited on to the sofa to chat politics. Racism spreads when institutions legitimise it

Fascism gears up for climate genocide.

But, but, but, the SC told us we wouldn’t lose any rights. 🤣 Can’t wait for all the ‘dignity’ I’m going to be shown, the next time I have to go to a hospital. The Equality Act is now dead; because if they can flip the default from inclusion to exclusion for us, they can switch it for anyone.

“those with power in society are deeply intolerant of any space in which exceptions are possible, in which something could happen” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

Not keen on this physical-labour-after-work thing, but it's the only way to get this done. Baby steps. Deeply boring adult baby steps.

I’ve been working on a comic book scriptwriting tool for a while, and since it seems other people are interested, too, we’re going to roll it out for anyone to use. These are *very early days*, but if you want access to the alpha version, register at nornstory.com

“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”

This sounds bonkers and then you realize it’s merely a boringly factual statement of what actually happened. He needs to marched in chains & an orange jumpsuit to jail for the rest of his life.

The thing you don't realise about grief, until it comes, is how utterly exhausting it is. Your heart is running at full capacity, filled to the brim with love that has nowhere to go, from the moment you wake to the moment you fall asleep.

Want to understand how we got into this mess? 'I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future' ➡️ bit.ly/4d042Si

A day of rest, as the Lord decreed.

Is he visible? Listen bud, you can see circulating blood - #Discourse2000 reaches THE VISIBLE MAN, a minor gem from early #2000AD by Mills, Trigo and Montero. Features discussion of superheroes, girls comics, and much more freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...

This is a fascinating & kind of terrifying piece, the way it rules out various reasons for collapse you might guess (famine, climate) to leave the impression these people just decided to slaughter each other

if you’re wondering what TV & radio would look like without the bbc if the right had its way, picture the state of our privatised rivers & seas, but instead it’s raw sewage pumped into your telly & speakers

I have good news for Americans enjoying freakouts on X - we are now nine years into our most famous city being run by a friendly Muslim guy and the far right are still incapable of being normal about it even for a single day

Sharing this again because it just doesn't stop being relevant: the racism and spite of Reform isn't a logical or coherent political philosophy, "they want revenge, they want their wages of Britishness".