Matty Palmer serial promotion winner I think (Swindon apart) this shows how instrumental he is to the teams he's in

Don't attack the police because the state will make an example of you, rather than don't attack the police because it's not what decent and responsible members of society do?

Great post by Tamir Anshtein on IG www.instagram.com/tamirtamirs/

A reminder that crypto is an almost entirely parasitic industry, enabling crime, wasting the money of retail investors, energy and resources. We definitely do not need a national crypto reserve, the effect of which will be to tranfser taxpayers' £ to those already heavily invested in crypto.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Farage promising to deregulate crypto and create a national crypto reserve. Those are just the policies the people of Makerfield want.

What's next? 'Is Sharia law taking over our cities?' 'Is there a global plot to replace the white race?'

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

Remember: Concerned Susan Collins voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, who was credibly accused of sexual assault. She can sit all the way down.

Nigel Farage is a threat to national security inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...

Alarming that the combined right wing vote is 50% We’re truly fucked up.

Abraham Lincoln understood, perhaps better than anyone, how personal liberty and self-reliance are at the heart of the American experience. But he also knew there are certain things we can only do together. Read more in my essay for @inpursuitusa.bsky.social:

“Backrooms isn’t a perfect movie. But it’s never boring, and I was more than happy to leave the theater with more questions from its ending than answers. I’ve had movies overexplain themselves to me for decades now.” www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Listen to the people who loved their boy and not the people who want to use it to stir hate.

There's a lot going on in this interview, but one thing I'm struck by is that Badenoch says she 1) heard what Henry Nowak's father said 2) watched the bodycam footage. At no point does she read the judge's remarks, which is of course how we get this mad theory as to what went wrong:

Farage attempting to outflank Lowe on the right. It's a race to the bottom.

X owner Elon Musk gets 12m impressions for: "RAGE". The victim's father had appealed for his son's murder to not be used to create further division, hatred or tension.

Farage’s demand for “pure cold rage” isn’t a dog whistle, it’s a klaxon.

Clever old Farage. Pivoting to corrupt grifterism to distract from his appalling racism, then pivoting to appalling racism to distract from his corrupt grifterism.

Today I attended the rape gang debate in Parliament. In other news, here I am with someone charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm, who I described as "an important voice for young men".

Quite right. Calling a snap election less than halfway through a parliament would be an act of self-indulgent madness. And allowing the rumours of one to engulf him would do permanent damage.

“Don’t feed the magpie “ is just, like, their opinion, man.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Whenever I call Reform a racist party for racists, people often say something like "Well insulting them won't win them over" but they never say that it's not true

One thing that is endlessly wearying about covering policing is that every individual failing gets pathologised: the Met have been declared to be "institutionally" racist, homophobic, sexist, captured and corrupt, to be 'captured by gender ideology', to be 'two-tier'. Maybe they're just...bad.

Ah yes, all those "legitimate concerns" that we "aren't allowed to talk about" but which in fact have been permitted to dominate and distort public discourse, encouraged by supposedly "mainstream" politicians and commentators.

Can't help but be reminded of how author Jonathan Miller schooled Enoch Powell on same.

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

Candy? Apples? Great! (Needs work)

I suppose it’s just a coincidence that there’s a crucial by-election coming up in a fortnight, and that Reform’s campaign there is floundering.

If it’s over £150, I’m not staying there. It really is that simple.

Some great images of the San Siro in Milan from @ftweekend.com, b/w shot from 1965. The insanity of demolishing this building. Milan should be ashamed of itself.

Kids who grow up in libraries become adults who build an extension on their house for more book cases.

Oh, you can't write a 5-page book report without AI? I fucking wrote 5-page book reports without having read the goddamn book. Get your finger out of your ass.

Parliamentary debate on Code of Practice - @sarahowen.org.uk describes code as ‘fundamentally trans exclusionary’ and cites worry of drop in European LGBT rankings

How obscene must your opinion of Black women be for this to seem true to you?

That's one to frame and put in the downstairs loo, isn't it

Greetings, hello. The annual Chicago rock festival Riot Fest has announced this year's bill via a digital poster. Various people have called attention to this listing of two bands in particular. I sure hope they sing "What a Wonderful World" together.

The paradox of Rejoin is that a UK accession process will be much quicker if the UK does not ask for special treatment

Tbf, Farage on a desert island would be the best reason I've ever heard to Stop The Boats.

3 things I've done recently. Someone please get @zackpolanski.bsky.social to read/watch 1: 🎁How politicians should talk to bond markets - as.ft.com/r/9f3619f4-8...

Ok so don't borrow from them then, that's fine. Do it all with taxes, knock yerself out

When you think you might lose Makerfield and everything depends on that crucial last throw of the dice.

Are we genuinely going to see empty World Cup games because of FIFA? It will be a bloody disgrace if so, the greatest tournament in the world completely diminished by stupid greedy old men. What a disgrace

Reform UK Councillors Gone: Updated James Sidlow has resigned as a councillor. That’s 30 in 3 weeks.

When the waiter tells you "Are you sure, it is very spicy":

How thick is Farage to think he could get away with saying “foreign state actors” hacked his phone but not think he’d be told to report it properly or hand in his phone for investigation? He wants to be PM ffs. A grade A moron AND national security threat. No thanks. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Mother with Children https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/28548

And even if it were a mosque, wouldn't that be a far worse look for the indigenous minority that has abandoned it's faith making their places of worship redundant? Is Kenyon a regular church goer?