I can no longer subsist on just breakfast cereal, I need to go to the Big Shop. Don't pray for me I'm already too far gone.

By far the most destructive economic myth is that rich people are where money comes from. This is the opposite of true. Rich people are the stagnant pools in which money uselessly collects and goes sour.

And that’s just Northern Ireland, that’s not e.g. the horrifying war crimes in Afghanistan that we’re currently refusing to admit.

What if someone who was not a trusted, utterly reliable one of the lads was ever in charge? Unthinkable.

Best way to imagine this is: what if a PM was elected who was not blessed by all the lads and on his first day in Number Ten, he asked - Can I see the Northern Ireland files, please. And they have to hand them over, because he’s the PM.

Spending Xmas at my mum's and watching actual telly, this has really stood out. Like 80%* of ads are for some form of gambling. That's all that's left to sell people in this dreary, diseased country. *not actual data but it's a fuckin lot

Anyway, I invite you to notice how much of politics now is just terrible people who behave horrendously, adrift on an ocean of crankery about a million miles from the public and getting increasingly panicked because the internet has made young people dislike them.

Watching X-Files, took me 20 minutes to realise this cryptozoologist is in fact a simple tailor.

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Why would people feel worse off living in a society where bridges are collapsing Vs living in one where bridges are being built? A total mystery.

You can't count a park in income figures, or a pub. But they matter. Universal services, social security, all this stuff was being fought for and won, and now we're at the end of a process of taking it away.

The neoliberal state has spent 50 years systematically dismantling state capacity, selling off the public sphere, taking away all the things that substitute for wages in society, like public space, healthcare, social care, even free time. And then it complains people don't feel well off.

90s-pilled and nostalgia-maxing

Also, The Guardian seems to find itself daydreaming about a fantasy planet that ignores the laws of physics entirely. Our planet doesn’t wait for 30 year spreadsheets. The tundra melts when it reaches melting temperature - which large swathes of the arctic have now already done - oozing out methane

Only YOU can prevent the Abominable Intelligence. Is your hatred pure?

Lol fucking hell what a bozo

Patriotism is for losers and dweebs. Imagine loving your country.

You buy a TV every, what, 4-5 years (maybe?) maybe but hey at least now that bag of 400gr minced beef is in anti-theft box at the big Tesco's - society is so much better if you just make it so abstract you might as well be gazing at the UK from Alpha Centauri!

I know it's far from the worst thing but whoever decided to call this infernal machine Nanobanana deserves the wall.

It is 5am and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us youtu.be/cWNqrENQAcU?...

"Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender" look just put in your bio that you're a cunt it's easier

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Have you considered that we have the highest house values in human history. Bags of chips are now valued at well over one pound sterling. The numbers get bigger every year. What an achievement. Celebrate this or you aren’t a real progressive.

if you see this, we IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

The comorbidity of neo-Nazism and transphobia isn't just a kind of "one bad belief leads to all bad beliefs". At its core, it's the same belief: belief in a rigid societal order where your station at birth determines your future, your role, and how you must labor. A belief in biodestiny, in short.

Remember when you censored Judith Butler for calling the gender-critical movement fascist? Or when you ran an editorial both sides-ing gender identity reform? Or when you quoted a transphobic hate group as a neutral source? Or when you basically republished one of their press releases verbatim?

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

It's Saturday and I slept too long and rather than decide on any of the things I need or want to do my brain will just endlessly loop and admonish me for my indecision this is such a cool way to live

tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty you're listening to the boy from the big bad city

so many of our current problems stem from americans not being able to comprehend that a guy they know from tv might actually be stupid

Me at the tattooist: give me the Jodie Foster murder tattoo from the X-Files

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

Fox Mulder is such a dipshit

I was gunna put it off, but I'm just gunna share cos people are feeling hopeless: I have secured 10s of 1000s of pounds (so far) to buy property that will form the start of a social housing system for trans people, that will charge you the local housing authority rate for your rent. 1/?

And that's just for starters. Labour are liars. They can't be progressive as they can't be trusted on what they promise, and they rarely ever deliver what they claim. All the scrutiny should be on Labour, who have betrayed a country crying out for something better.

- Raised income tax by freezing tax thresholds - Raised national insurance on employers knowing it would impact job seekers - Broke a manifesto commitment on gender recognition - Are now attempting to attack people with ADHD and autism with another stitch-up review to justify cutting benefits

- Removed the right to be judged by a jury of our peers - Wasted billions on unproven carbon capture tech and nuclear bombers controlled by the US - Raised bus fares by 50% across the board for everyone - Still haven't banned conversion therapy - Rolled back day one protections from unfair dismissal

- Have begun trying to remove refugees and migrants from our communities - Have refused to tax wealth in any meaningful way - Took excessive amounts of freebies from donors upon getting elected - Tried to obliterate our creative industries by selling them out to AI scam artists

- Banned trans adults from public life - Are trying to bankrupt small family farms - Refused to stop sentencing inequalities for black and brown people and women - Tried to make it illegal for trans people to have sex without disclosing their full medical history

Whereas Labour: - Participated in genocide - Are trying to remove protection from torture - Are trying to lock up 2000 people protesting against genocide - Cut off healthcare for trans children - Have broken human rights law for disabled people - Keep trying to remove support for disabled people

The UK media's choice to go into major disinformation mode over Sandie Peggie eating shit in court shows that the entire sector needs to be destroyed and rebuilt

If a petty authoritarian bigot leading the most right with government of my lifetime thinks a party is dangerous then that's a pretty good recommendation tbh. Also I've done a frankly stupid number of drugs and they've never fucked up my life like landlords have.

And also, life is not supposed to be *permanently* stressful. We're adapted to short periods of stress. If you maintain that kind of thing for weeks, let alone months or years, with no respite or hope, that's putting people into PTSD territory.

Zack Polanski, "Labour are a government of cowards because you won't tell people the truth about migration" "Migration is a positive thing for our country" "We need migration" "We need fair and managed migration" "And that's what will change this conversation" *huge clap* #BBCQT

It’s wild how she actually has less charm and talent than Anita - especially since Anita Bryant is a buried box of liquid lady rn 😩

the government doesn't care what the science actually says they have already decided that there are too many of us they have already decided to punish us