I don’t wish to alarm anyone, but it’s so hot in France that the government just temporarily banned public alcohol consumption. www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...

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Absolutely fantastic statement for the Telegraph to make in their article where not only did the provider of their MRP forget to remove Greens from constituencies and suggest Reform's strongest seat in Scotland would be Strathkelvin and Bearsden, *they didn't even do D'Hondt correctly*

hello If I don’t find out the exact 5 hot sauces they’re taking to moon I will die I don’t use my 19k count for much but I would like to cash it in on this pls

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Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

guy from our IT department who deals with a lot of our bullshit is genuinely called Joseph Stalin how the mighty have fallen

Look it's very simple, Britain faces an existential threat of socially conservative Muslim voters bringing in Sharia law by voting as a bloc for woke progressives who will turn all our children trans.

Labour’s response to the by-election tracker: 1, Starmer sends a letter saying the voters are bastards, I sense the hand of Galloway behind this 2, Mahmood statement: we’re going to be even more cartoonishly evil 3, we’re going to actively support more war crimes

@rentouljohn.bsky.social wassup

You can't tell if this was a case of vandalism or if he had it commissioned.

The good people behind the Tom Nairn conference are setting up an events series called “Make Hope Possible” (after Raymond Williams quote). Very much worth supporting - first talk here with @CarolineLucas and @AdamRamsay. Signs of life… makehopepossible.org/tickets/

I momentarily forgot about the existence of vet's fees and was really confused about how expensive the butter was.

There‘s lots of political incidents that still need clear accountability but if the Epstein stuff just gets turned into a stupid meme for zany tik toks and reels and there’s no justice then I feel like it will make people more insane than usual. How can anyone carry on pretending like it’s normal

Anas Sarwar launched his Holyrood campaign almost entirely on the foundations of how much people are right to hate and fear trans people and they should be segregated from society. Within a few weeks he then completely botched a coup on his own boss and his career looks likely to be over. Fitting.

Tables are up now. The number of respondents for the headline voting intention, once don't knows and won't votes are removed, is 51. <Meaningful stare>

big L for transphobes to end the week, you say?

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I remain awestruck that you can be chief WH correspondent of the New York Times while apparently accepting the version of history that you were taught in grade school in the 1970’s

people keep being like “hey sorry for the beef last week/year/decade” and I cannot even describe to you how little you care about or even remember any internet beef when you see 50 cars full of masked paramilitaries roll into your immediate neighborhood every day. all is forgiven, fight with us

Okay, but this tragedy has happened right now under Starmer's Labour.

Rob Reiner: I'm going to make a coming of age drama, a fantasy adventure story, a romantic comedy, a psychological horror and then a courtroom drama. Us: Across your entire career? Reiner: In a 6 year period. Us: That sounds- Reiner: -Each one will be arguably the best movie in that genre.

I had to look twice at this because at first I thought Colin the Caterpillar had been in some kind of awful accident

read the first two "Culture" series books while vacationing, and though they are ripping yarns and perfect beach reads (especially Consider Phlebas) the standard view amongst the technology brothers that they are somehow serious looks at a plausible (if deep) future never really occurred to me

i do think there is a degree of deserved poo-poohing that police/prison abolitionists have earned through their inability to articulate their ideas in a readable way but i find it very funny when that comes from americans who believe in equally insane shit like "a for-profit healthcare system"

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

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It is great how on its face ridiculous it is when these transphobes go on about “dangerous biological men“ and its 10 of the hottest women youve ever seen lmao

I for one will not be satisfied until he has the "Andrew" taken away as well. He has three middle names, let him use those.

this is great, FYI Edinburgh people

One of the really, really toxic elements of stale 2-party politics is the notion that parties "own" voters. It's on full display here.

lol

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

Dale Vince’s latest bright idea — giving even more subsidies to oil and gas giants and "optimising" production — is about as sensible as his plan to mass produce gas from grass. Let's discuss!

If I'd arrived in Whitby on the Demeter, I'd be more circumspect about demanding they "stop the boats."

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big lad in front of me at the Kristen Hersh gig has a tshirt on that says THE TALLEST MAN IN THE WORLD which isn't true but I sort of admire it

amazing that David Attenborough has put out a film about the world's seas on his 99th birthday, including footage from Scotland's beautiful inshore, all very much worthy of @emmaroddicksnp.bsky.social's motion to Parliament and comment from @bluemarinef.bsky.social news.stv.tv/scotland/sir...

The Minister for National Security here, bragging that he has secured support at the US President’s residence for bombing food and aid deports. This comes after their army was caught executing 15 aid workers at point blank range, in cold blood.

Let me just say that Mridul Wadhwa is a bona fide heroine and an inspiration and the attacks on her were some of the most upsetting and enraging I've seen. If this country had one shred of decency it would honour her, not attempt to drive her out of public life. Fuck Britain.

What a stint. The party changed for the better in so many ways thanks to his work.

It’s understandable that lots of people fell for the Woke free speech gender whatever drivel. It was everywhere people looked, often all they ever heard. Nonetheless, if you fell for any bit of it, you now need to reflect on how you were taken in and the uses that your credulity are being put to.

Of course the BBC piece on JSO makes as little reference as possible to accelerating climate breakdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I know that everyone keeps posting this, but this is seriously the best explainer of what's been going on culturally in the recent years.

1. A group of mainly men just chose to roll back decades of progress in women’s sports 2. This policy’s harm will fall hard on cis women and girls now caught up in Seb Coe's crusade against Trans+ people 3. Intersex and Trans women and girls are ALREADY - unfairly - banned from female athletics

has anyone got a non-conspiratorial theory about why so much of the media was happy to write about Greta T when she was campaigning on climate issues, but then suddenly it all dried up when she also campaigned against genocide in Gaza?