"We are going to win against Donald Trump, but we have a much bigger victory that we need to be aiming for. We need to Reconstruct this country. We must put liberal democracy on the right footing to face the challenges of the era we live in."

WHOA!! WtF happened?!

This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland

It’s incredibly dangerous, obviously malicious stuff. It’s only a hop, skip and a jump from this, to: “extremist” ethnic populations protesting is intimidating and threatening Britons; “extremists” voting is threatening democracy; “extremists” being here at all is a threat to all white people.

I think you need to remember that comedy is the work of Slaanesh. You may think you’re just chuckling along to a Peter Kaye skit about Jim Bowen on Bullseye, but in reality you’re bringing about the end of the entire universe.

No but seriously, my life is miserable right now... I'm unemployed, extremely poor, I have no friends and I spend my days all by myself studying to get a job as a public librarian which becomes more difficult every year.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As it's the end of 2025, I'm just reposting our 'Outside the box' starter pack. This features accounts who think across tribal lines. Those on it have ideological sympathies, but are open to different traditions and consider issues on a case-by-case basis. Shares welcome ;-) go.bsky.app/HZxZgvh

i may write about this but i feel like the 19th century concept of "social equality" explains quite a bit about reactionary politics today, they're offended by a society that does not recognize their higher status, which is how we get turd coinages like "heritage american" bsky.app/profile/last...

This is, in a sense, reassuring—but it also highlights the sheer weirdness of the English media's compulsive fondling of the 3%'s rank balls

Doggie heaven and squirrel hell are the same place.

I actually find this reassuring given how low that is, it's less than would have thought tbh. That said the strange group of people given this who are like "nothing personal bruv but you gotta go" to the ethnic-minority good-British-citizens is pretty funny to me.

He's the canonical equivalent to Emperor TTS

the entire purpose of Roboute being awake should be having people try to explain the most bizarre wacked out shit to him like it is normal and have him just sit there with his mouth open like the "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about" meme to show how absurd everything is.

reminder that caldwell’s most recent book argues that the civil rights act of 1964 was something akin to a constitutional abomination that produced a world of white subordination

sir mix a lot was an early appreciator of neurodiverse women

its gonns be years of this shit huh

NO i refuse to accept the relation-etymology it's so much better as a boat we are sending (shipping) characters on a voyage! a cruise! a journey of unrealistic and improbable passion!

You should expect this year in Britain will involve ever-greater convergence upon these forms of increasingly Mein Kampfy authoritarian cruelty into a single, incoherent shared ideology within our political/media class, because that is where we have been going at increasing speed since roughly 2001.

Sharp-eyed readers may note the overlaps between “gender ideology is a leftist plot to deprave the youth and molest our womenfolk”; “human rights are a Soviet/Islamist plot to sap our martial will to dominate and destroy our enemies”, and “the volk are threatened by the taint of the lesser races”.

Again: they thought they’d win a shattering court victory with the Harry Potter lady’s money, then the public would rise up in gratitude, salute them as heroes and stomp all over transgender people on their behalf. That hasn’t happened, because the public mostly aren’t vicious cranks, like they are.

I think people over-estimate how much 40k has moved away from its silly roots! This very joke about the time, for instance, was actually a feature of recent canonical books. People made memes of it ("Guilliman's blood pressure readings must look like a swirly drawing by a toddler by this point".)

Administratum guy's mate has a job where he goes to newly conquered worlds and decides if a skull edifice is bad (xenos), bad (chaos), good (imperial) or good but irritating (cogboys)

guy in the 40k universe whose job it is to go to worlds reconquered from chaos and make the call which of the spikes need to be removed for being evil and which are actually necessary (such as the teeth on cogs, the business end of forks etc.)

unstoppable force (US/UK boomer need for care labour) vs immovable object (the global g20 rage against immigrant labour)

This is a category error IMO. They don’t see it as the paper’s job to investigate whether Pepsi actually is The Choice Of A New Generation, or if Coke really is It. Their job is to present you with the proposition, so the public can decide.

You hear this clearly on papers’ and magazines’ podcasts, where the whole job is to repeat whatever important people have said this week and analyse whether they are succeeding or failing, and who is up or down. Is this stuff true, is it good or bad, why is it like this at all? Who knows. Who cares!

Dems never ever should have dropped the "they're weirdos" attack line. Caldwell is doing phrenology for waving wtf

It's like the 9th stupidest thing in this one paragraph, but I'd direct the angry egg-shaped man to this speech from 2005 in which Obama literally namechecks like 50 White sox including (delightfully) Scott Podsednik. obamaspeeches.com/035-Chicago-...

Unlike a regular American, he doesn’t have the mannerisms of the Queen of England, and is more reminiscent of Barack Obama.

This is how Christopher Caldwell begins his essay on Zohran Mamdani for the Claremont Review of Books. Why are these people such freaks?

Two Express articles about the Gibraltar deal, published a mere 4 days apart. Apparently it's both a massive Brexit betrayal and a huge Brexit win. 🤷‍♂️

‘Enormous unlikable asshole who also consistently does the right thing at consequential times’ is a kind of guy under represented in fiction I feel like, relative to real life. There’s plenty of anti-heroes but there’s always the tendency to soften how big a prick they are if they’re the protagonist

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

2025 recapped

wow, sorry. Deleting now. I didn’t know she was French

The plot of Death Stranding actually explains the plot of Kingdom Hearts. But this is a complete coincidence.

Beika may have the same extremely low crime rate but it's set in the far future where Japan solved its fertility problem and there are one billion people living in Beika alone. Conan just runs into every single one of them.

Light in Our House — Anette Björk Swensson, 2024 Oil on canvas

I smuggled exactly this point into my diss intro, a real high point for me as I believe it completely justifies the Murderbot-like hours I’ve put in watching Nordic noir

Sounds like you should be more ambitious with your goals.

I really hate the reaction people have developed to other people playing with examination of fiction "I like details" has become tiresome joyless unimaginative or whatever the fuck else

dunno, the timeline checks out

No fuck you me and my friends were just having some lighthearted fun and we weren't strangling culture to death what the fuck

The national anthem of the Soviet Union did kinda bang tho

This, combined with "vice signaling" (taking pride in antisocial behavior) has given us the reign of the Stupid Asshole, something most people are against, but can only be remedied if we're not too polite to talk about it

That whole end bit really is... 80s. There's an older film of the Million Pound Bank Note that's not bad either (but it's been a while since I've seen it). I'd rate Trading Places as one of the better written finance movies of all time, like its use of the commodities markets as plot is genius imo.

Midsomer is 100% some kind of open-air political prison. There's no way so many people would be murdered there constantly with not even a peep from broader society. ;D