british fan chat

It’s really frightening.

Do people understand yet that this was never about reasonable concerns. That no compromise would ever be enough for them. They want to be able to actively discriminate against us. They want us not to exist.

You had a few days off from Cilla singing and Rick Stein's jizzy jeans, so today's psychic damage is Noel Edmonds looking like one of those creepy AI ads that try to tell you 15 minutes Tai Chi every day will give you a ripped bod.

I can only guess that it’ll be because an enforced choice of “Horrible Centrists nobody likes or wants, or the racist far right” makes a cranky 74-year-old socialist sound desirable by contrast.

Pretty sure they've realised there's going to be incidents of cis people getting aggressively challenged, and they don't want the blame

"Deviant behaviour". Well, looks like we're firmly back in the 1950s

Sex Matters have written to Bridget Phillipson to ask her to withdraw the “asking about sex” part of the EHRC guidance, because they’ve decided that they don’t like it, page 4 of their letter is particularly spiteful. Forstater is a fucking ghoul, daring to say that they’re a human rights charity.

Despite the headline, this is the third paragraph in this article: “There is no consensus among the broader scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is what cracks me up every time ppl start going off about antidepressants and adhd meds being ‘overprescribed’. yes, scripts have gone up! and you know what’s gone down? nicotine and booze use

Based on no real research, I feel like boomers and gen-x got their brains cooked by social media far worse to no real consequence.

Just let people die. Now we have a talentless family making money from bones.

As soon as they are able to beam famous dead people into your brains they will do it. It'll be like when U2 put their album on the iPhone, only you'll wake up one morning and Bono will be the voice of your inner monologue x

When you order Rod Stewart and Tina Turner on Temu...

"G'Kar's career change from diplomat to drag artist entertainer was short lived."

Should not be feeling too sweaty warm while sedentary at 7.51am. Ever.

TERFs knocking on the toilet cubicle door.

i think about this so often

"Anthropic is the clean coal of AI. And clean coal doesn't exist" - Karen Hao speaking at Hay yesterday.

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

You'd think in 2026 there would be a better way to get a doctor's appointment than the whole country phoning up at 8am.

Saltburn prequel just dropped.

Bob would hate AI. He understood that the satisfaction in art wasnt banging out Picassos, it was in the doing, the seeing, the learning, and the way perseverance in the face of f̶a̶i̶l̶u̶r̶e̶s̶ happy accidents is what helps develops your own technique. youtu.be/_CpdwTcvBU8?...

Bob Ross’ paintings are ok, not bad, nor amazing What makes Bob Ross, the man, special, is his ability to inspire others to either create or enjoy the process of creation, and the sense of fulfillment that comes from the act of creation itself He is the Fred Rogers of Art: he believes in you

I don’t think enough cis women appreciate how much all of this noise around ‘bathroom bans’ will affect us. (I also think it’s notable that after a chat between me, a cis woman and Steph, a trans woman, a correspondent text in to ask ‘why wasn’t there a woman in the conversation, for balance?’)

Someone should really look into why so many Reform Councillors were Buddhist in their youth. There seems to be a real correlation that I just can't put my finger on.

Every Reform candidate ever;

My cat in this weather is in full all inclusive holiday mode. Sunning himself all day, pops in for meals and treats and has his water on tap

One thing that keeps me going is remembering how deeply anti-human our opponents are on a fundamental level. Maybe what you make won't "make it" but at least it'll be made with a joy these people can't understand.

youtu.be/_PycXs9LpEM?... How's your mum and dad? How's your mum and dad? How's your mum and dad? How is your mum? How is your dad?

Who said Americans can't do irony.

More proof satire is dead. "I don't believe you so I asked the hallucination machine for lonely old men to fact check you."

Here in Worcestershire, Tories were banned from working with Greens to stop Reform, while Labour preferred a Reform leader over voting for a Green leader. These parties put their self interest over residents interest. They are out of touch.

Heard Violet Grohl on the radio for the first time say and I have to admit, say what you want about nepobabies, but at least now I know what Foo Fighters songs would sound like with a 20 year old woman singing them.

I grew up like most in the US, convinced it had the best healthcare in the world. Then I watched the US healthcare system kill my dad. I also have lived for years with healthcare in France and also used the system in Spain and would never in a million years want US healthcare again.

‘Alright, so do me a picture of a couple of knights with horses fighting.’ ‘Bit odd, but okay.’ *later* ‘Have you done that picture with the knights on horseback fighting yet?’ ‘Oh yeah, actually that does make more sense.’ ‘Than what?’ ‘...nothing.’ ‘Than WHAT?’

*Roy Castle playing the Record Breakers theme on trumpet in minor key*

oh you're hanging out with friends again?? ok well.. enjoy your echo chamber. i will be out with my enemies having a productive and intellectually enriching night of angrily stating and restating our standpoints on today's most important issues

lol lmao & roffle

lol, lmao

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

In celebration of The Mandalorian & Grogu, the cinema down the way is advertising an "AT-AT popcorn holder", for "only" £50, and I feel like I'm losing my already somewhat slender grip on reality.

Too damn hot. Temperature isn't ideal either, wayhay!

For those who don't know, there are 12 SC judges. 10 are men. 11 are Oxbridge educated. Lady Simler is the closest they come to being ethnically diverse. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme...

It really is not normal to have a national press that behaves like shit gangsters, beating the shit out of anyone they don’t like. Britain is internationally remarkable in this regard.

This feels like a long-winded way of saying that anyone in public life who speaks up at all against the destruction of the Gaza Strip is likely to get targeted for The Treatment by a motley crew of very nasty, very right wing cranks, operating hand in hand with our horrific newspapers.

On this day in 1988 Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, banning the "promotion" of homosexuality by councils. Four protesters stormed the BBC 6 O'Clock news studio, giving us this headline for the ages in the Daily Mirror. Shamefully, Section 28 was not repealed until 2000.

In which the TERFs argue that because Dax has had a male host they are now socialised male and must now be treated as male regardless of the nature of subsequent hosts.

My for my sixth year high school computing report I was allocated comparing Windows NT to IBM OS/2.