"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

FUCK SOCIAL MEDIA. MARRY BOOKS. KILL AI.

A story in three parts

happy 7th birthday baby girl ❤️❤️❤️

No doubt this de-banking will also be splashed across the front pages of every single newspaper in the country and lead BBC bulletins for weeks on end too? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

might be the cutest dice set i own as of rn

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry. (He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

As Nigel Farage complains that he feels more worried than ever about the state of broken Britain, police have identified the person who broke it.

Farewell to one of the greats www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

At a time when new cyberattacks debilitate British businesses seemingly daily, the UK government is demanding that security is made worse for UK users.

Can we stop doing this? There is no sense in debating whether people are themselves racist, or sexist, or homophobic, if the context for this debate is how these people have done racist, sexist or homophobic things

Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits

It's pretty fucking dire if The Beano knows its (mostly primary school aged) audience will not only see you as a punchline, but also get the joke that you're a gullible bullshitter.

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

I’m really glad for these people that they’ve been able to come here without danger, but it’s absurd that their good fortune depends on someone else first having put themselves at risk in the Channel and then having the misfortune to be sent back. How can this possibly be a way to run a system?

It is hardly the point but a) trans people existed in Medieval Europe, b) lots of currencies were used in Medieval Europe, not just gold, which was in fact uncommon, c) alchemy was a lot more common in early modern Europe, d) women are not a commodity you absolute weapons????

If the folks marching in London today got their wish and a Reform UK government deported everyone not born in the UK, here’s what would happen. Instantly, over 15% of the population and 20% of employees would be gone overnight. The shock would hit GDP, tax revenues and public services hard. 🧵

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Young people being slagged off by the sexually incontinent serial liar who fucked up their future with the biggest act of self harm in history.

I have *never* used ChatGPT. Not once. I’m not saying I’m better than you… oh fuck it, I’m better than you.

Goodnight, I’m hoping to wake up to a slew of posts from anti-woke “comedians” who have spent years complaining about cancel culture and the oppression of free speech, defending Kimmel and condemning the F.C.C. Unless it was only an issue when you wanted to make jokes about the trans community?

The cowardice and complacency of so much of the UK political class in the face of what is both an obvious moral evil and a serious socio-political threat is as discrediting as it is dispiriting

Anyone who mocks or otherwise doesn’t properly mourn the death of our beloved Dark Lord Sauron will find themselves taken into orc custody and brought to Barad-dûr for questioning. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

These meetups go by in a flash. It's ridiculous 😭 But as always, I have had an absolutely amazing time with you, @likeazurestars.bsky.social, our second wedding together, lovely days out, and just enjoying being together! I love you so fucking much Luke, I'll see you in November ❤️

time passes way too quickly and it never gets easier at the end. but you're so worth all of this and more, there's nobody else i would do this with. i love you with all i have, and i'll see you soon as possible, my love ❤️❤️❤️ @itsthatonenerd.bsky.social

Hm, so now that the shooter has turned out to be a 4chan chud, can we talk about how quickly and aggressively the "leftist shooter" counter-narrative was pushed? They want an excuse so bad

All these bizarre Kirk civilwashing pieces really are the logical endpoint of a decade where the constant invocation of free speech always seemed to involve wild obfuscations of what the speech actually was.

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Everyone remember your Luigi lesson: They're lying about the reward and you will lose your job.

Publishing something this irresponsible, this poorly sourced, this quickly, is only one thing: an incitement to political violence against trans people. They don't care about whether or not political violence happens: they care that it happened to someone who looked like them.

Kier Starmer's statement that includes the words "We must all be free to debate openly and freely without fear - there can be no justification for political violence" feels *slightly* hypocritical when he criminalises peaceful protest, endorses transphobia, and fully backs UK arms sales to Israel.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

ohhh this is something I keep meaning to write about - think an underrated dynamic in Westminster is that becoming an MP or a peer (usually Tory but clearly sometimes Labour) will push you into a world of people richer than you and some people can resist those siren calls but....not everyone will

If you consistently advocate for policies that make political violence possible, the end result will be political violence. I don’t understand how people don’t see this as an end result of decades of pushing for exactly this.

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I mean, British actors are going to be transphobic as hell, it's in their contracts or something. BUT ALSO Can we give this sort of attention to other, better, newer books for goddamned once? We can't leave that transphobic bitch behind IF WE KEEP THROWING MONEY AT HER HAND OVERE FIST

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

[opposing devastating cuts to welfare] You can no longer be a Labour MP [sending birthday messages to convicted paedophile, sex trafficker and "best pal" Jeffrey Epstein then continuing contact after his first conviction] Well now hold on a second he's said he's sorry jeez

As an understander of politics, I'm happy to confirm that this is terrific strategic advice

BREAKING 🚨 The updated EHRC Code of Practice has now been sent to the Government. The Code is just as bad as we feared. It would mean a mandatory trans bathroom ban, and trans people's exclusion from public life. The impact would be devastating. But politicians still have time to stop this.

Tenner says he caves before the weekend

When I'm right I'm right

Be right back, just going to re-hire Michael.