I disagree with the Pope about many things, but I'm willing to concede that he knows more about Catholicism than I do.

I'm sorry, but there's something so sleazy and small about for-profit space exploration. Our huddled Paleolithic ancestors did not gaze up at the night sky in awe and terror thinking "new markets."

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If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

There are two basic types of military thinkers: the ones who believe in the glorious charge, and the ones who keep track of pussy things like “supply lines” and “logistics” and “what the weather’s doing”

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Give me articles or give me death

If knowingly supporting racist policies doesn't make someone racist, what does? Is this one of those terribly British moments where politely calling for horrible things is fine, just as long as you use the right words in the right accent?

If I was an allegedly centrist Prime Minister of the UK who is facing being wiped out by fascists in a few years, I probably wouldn’t be building them infrastructure with which they can track & surveil citizens. But that’s probably just me.

This is the crux of it for me. Every out-group strives to be a "model minority," but on the rare occasion it pays dividends, the out-group is collectively punished for succeeding. Their success is treated as theft.

This shouldn’t even be something that has to be urged. An independent Electoral Commission is essential.

Drag is as much a part of British culture as fish and chips, so the right can fuck off if they start on this. I’m not on the other place anymore, and for that I’m very glad. #Strictly #SCD

Courage is always an option.

Always a great sign when your captors are writing numbers on your arms.

The Lionesses and Red Roses have really spoilt my children. Supporting England is meant to be an endless series of disappointments! They don’t know they’ve been born

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

It's only been announced a matter of hours ago & the petition against it has nearly 940,000 signatories. I'm starting to think maybe it's a less popular policy than they thought it'd be... petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

The difference between an ID card and a passport/driving licence is that those things are not mandatory for everyone if they don’t want to learn to drive or travel overseas - they are physical documents, held by the owner, not digital state spyware devices squatting in our phones

The UK doesn't have any money, so the plan is to spend many billions of pounds issuing everyone with another form of photo ID. Don't report this as a civil liberties thing, just calculate how many GPs you could get for the same money.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Immigrants-are-eating-the-swans season seems to come round earlier every year. Either that or I am getting old. Maybe both. #fuckreform

Dear 2025, No more fuckin' funerals, eh? I've been to four in the last year, one of them a double funeral, and missed two others we would have liked to attend. They've all been celebrations of excellent people, often with laughter alongside the tears, but enough is enough.

Just call if a Fash Card and be done with it.

A short thread on digital ID (cards) just to bear in mind. There are a few myths that I keep hearing about this idea that need clarifying/debunking. 1/10

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

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 spoke this week at an event held by @bigbrotherwatch.bsky.social on their latest report on digital ID. Keir Starmer's government is reportedly aiming to introduce such a system - Big Brother Watch's report sets out the serious problems with digital ID for the UK, something liberals must resist.

A billion dollars in the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same intensity and ruthlessness to prevent the former as we do the latter.

Imagine if every time Farage said something stupid like "I don't know whether paracetamol causes autism" or "Romanians are eating swans" the interviewers just laughed at him. Right in his stupid racist face But they won't. Not because it's unprofessional, but because he's social media clickbait

Trump has a problem with Mayor Sadiq Khan, I can’t white figure why

I hate the rhetoric about asylum seekers being mostly "fighting age" men. 1. associates refugees with violence 2. assumes all refugees come from conflict zones 3. assumes they didn't already fight & on losing side 4. ignores that over 40% are women and children

Every time certain people talk about how many vaccines kids get, they increase the number. At a congressional hearing, a senator claimed kids get 76 vaccines. Now, Trump claims it's 80. Kids are vaccinated against 14 life-threatening diseases, often getting combination shots. He's not even close.

What do you call a computer that can confuse true and false? Broken.

They’re putting in place a patronage network. Instead of open, accountable structures, public goods will be allocated to courtiers.

send me cash money and i'll send you a pdf of girlmode?

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This is hilarious. Even the Dutch are way ahead of us in seeing how bad things are in the United States with Donald Trump running amok and corporations capitulating to fascism. But, then again, the Netherlands has experience with being taken over by fascists.

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

A pirate goes to the ship’s surgeon to have spots on his arm checked. The surgeon says, "They're benign". The pirate replies, "No, no doc. There be 11. I counted them before I came here." Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Interesting regarding AI and Kpop Demon Hunters 1/2

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy #uspoli #fascism

Antifa terrorist

This is real. At first I assumed it was a The Onion style fake headline, but nope. It's an actual NY Times story from 1939.

Morning everyone.

you know it's fascism when they make it illegal to oppose fascism

Led By Donkeys: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no one’s been arrested before” - for your “Actually worse than Tories” folder

It’s national news in Australia. The Australian PM is fair and I believe he will NOT cower to Trump. Cc @atrupar.com bsky.app/profile/melo...

Appears that Wes Streeting has finally noticed the leopards are salivating when they look at his face.