Generation gaslit, more like ✅ Surge in tuition fees ✅ Maintenance becoming a loan ✅ Inaccessible housing market ✅ Pension age *will* rise ✅ Since 2010, <65s are £1.4kpa worse off... ✅ ... 65+ are £900pa better off ✅ National Insurance hikes hit the young www.bbc.com/news/article...

A country has lots of wealth but also lots of poverty, and we're still confused as to how or why? Wealth inequality is a disgusting stain on any country. It's criminal in a country as wealthy as the UK. No wonder the place is so angry and miserable. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/24/u...

It's actually crazy that this isn't a thing already. It needs to absolutely be a devolved matter though, with hands off from the national government. www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a dog pisses up a lamppost, a xenophobe hangs a flag from one. It's an act of territory marking, intended to intimidate and divide against an invented threat. If you find national pride in that, then maybe you're part of what's wrong with the nation.

The UK should never have left the Single Market or Customs Union, but neither Tories nor Labour fought the case for either out of fear of the right. Now the right is far right, the country is poorer, and so the people angrier, and the flag-waving Brexit nationalism has spiralled out of control.

Bending over backwards to avoid commitment to the obvious. They can't even acknowledge how the last result was utterly and transparently compromised.

I saw the Wicked film for the first time tonight, which was also my first ever double-feature at the cinema... boxd.it/bMy7dz

The most severe category of homelessness (sleeping rough, hostel accom) has surged by 21% in the UK since 2022 - impacting 300,000 families and individuals. This country is one big disgusting joke. How anyone could feel anything but shame about Britain astonishes me. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How am I meant to not binge Kingdom on iPlayer, BBC you diabolical

The two previous series of Prehistoric Planet were brilliant, and this new one looks absolutely stunning. The effects work is insane, Hiddleston is a very worthy successor to Attenborough, and as a nerd some Cenozoic love is well overdue. youtu.be/f7kvwp9aIyM?...

Remember, remember, the fifth of November 🎆 boxd.it/bC2QL3

Well I can say I've seen every Pixar film again now. There's that at least 🙃 boxd.it/brUnBR

had a great few days joining the end of the Self Esteem tour in Brighton and Sheffield A long few days, but the show and the people here have been fantastic 😊

Cute Pixar movie was cute. Pleasantly surprised by this 😊👽 My ★★★½ review of Elio on Letterboxd boxd.it/blbbqj

Me getting dragged out of Nandos for having two Coca-Cola's

kerkyra and chill 🇬🇷

My ranking of the mainline Assassin's Creed entries 🎮

Meta failing the 'make Instagram not shite' challenge yet again.

Jane Goodall and Patricia Routledge in the same week. My god this is depressing.

Athens 🇬🇷

Glad to see other leftists waking up to the fact that Corbyn is useless and easily compromised. Better seven years late than never. Your Party being effectively usurped by his limited company and his socially conservative mates is disappointing, but not surprising.

Nobody who thinks politics can exist in a neat convenient vacuum is serious about politics. Fewer still get the scope of why this actually matters either. Eurovision is the biggest live broadcast non-sports event in the world. Israel wants it on their land. bbc.com/news/article...

I honestly don't know how I'd never seen this before. It spoke to me and has stuck with me every moment since. The sort of rare film that a day ago I only knew by name, and now I seriously think it's in consideration for my all time top ten. The cast, the story, the themes... just wow.

I love how in so many European languages the verb is "I made a photo", rather than the idiomatic English verb "I took a photo". 'Made' is such a nicer word in the context, about the creative act rather than the function. This photography and language nerd is all for normalising it 😅😇

I checked out the Lilo and Stitch live action film so other people wouldn't have to 😅 no but really, it was bad for all the reasons I knew before, and then a bunch more reasons I didn't as well My ★½ review of Lilo & Stitch on Letterboxd boxd.it/b0ysx9

Why the hell is it sleeting in south London?!

working on the road (again)

You know when you look in the dictionary and a word has numerous definitions provided, that vary ever so slightly based on context? Could you look up 'awful' and have numerous pictures of British Prime Ministers? Each one just seems to find a new and unique way of being the most 'awful'.

I wondered how a company as big as Google could have such flimsy security measures, but then I remembered I also have Meta refusing to shut down an account impersonating me, redistributing my photos, and using my name bar one omitted letter. Online identity security is a thing of the past.

I somehow love film, and also did an English degree, and still hadn't seen this film. Course-corrected, and it was decent, but based on what others had said I guess I was also a bit underwhelmed. My ★★★ review of Dead Poets Society on Letterboxd boxd.it/aZAqa3

I forgot about that, and it shit the living daylights out of me.

Arijit Singh at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium The first Indian artist to headline a UK stadium

Angela Rayner has done a lot of good, and the hounding she's had is as unuseful as her resignation. But for whatever reason, she sold out a lot of fundamental principles as Deputy PM, eroded trust with her most core supporters, and now those who'd have rushed to her defence a year ago just won't.

Nothing says 2025 quite like my Google cloud storage getting blocked and terminated, practically without appeal and at the loss of 15 years of photography, all because the account was compromised by the phone I had stolen in 2024.

It'll never not be scary to me that if I were even a bit less stubborn, or a bit less lucky with who I met, or if my bisexuality had led me to a more heteronormative life, then odds are as a white English guy from a working class background with *my* family, I'd have been a Reform voter 😬

It's always funny (ridiculous) that the people who complain about 'lawless Britain' are the same people who insist Britain's been brought under Sharia Law, often in the same discussion... like pick a victim complex.

one missed flight, and a power cut upon arrival later, and I've finally found time to enjoy some of Northern Ireland the view from my bedroom window is stunning, and the local beach is as well ⛰️🌊

airbourne ✈️

Well I can now tick off 'miss a scheduled flight' from my bucket list. No meltdown like those people on Airline though. Still, when an estimated 70 min journey to Heathrow ends up taking nearly 150 mins, and five out of the four trains you've planned to board are ALL delayed or cancelled, wcyd

The scariest bit of ageing for me is being old enough to remember when your parent was the age you are now. Like, I was just about to start secondary school when my mum was the age I am, and there's just something not right about that.

canals of utrecht 🇳🇱

We live in the stupidest timeline, with the stupidest government. Wikipedia is going to wind up geolocking the UK out of its services, so we're just celebrating being stupid at this point. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

hiding a damaged and bloodshot eye until further notice 😜🙈

The average working UK citizen today would have to earn £72,800pa to have the same purchasing power as the average UK citizen did in 2003, and that's without factoring in the £50-100k student debt that a third of Brits now also have. Occasionally I remember it's okay that we're all a bit messed up.

Zaandam 🇳🇱

pride from a boat 🇳🇱

Doesn't matter how much of a 'luvvies' guy Robbie Williams is, I checked out his biopic last night and it was superb. Rather than the usual 'rags to riches' story, it actually delves full and ugly into what coming from rags can make of a person, and what riches can do to them. boxd.it/atDaoB

And just like that, I'm shut out of my Bluesky DM's. The credit card option has said too many attempts and to try again tomorrow... I've had to use it on other sites already. The dysmorphia-inducing face option thought I was too young, and now also says too many attempts.

The mainstreaming of online age-verification for online use was yet another Tory pet project that they gave up on, only for Labour to pick it up and barely blink whilst passing it through. And once again, like welfare reform, it's a right-wing overreach that does more harm than good.

hazel eyes have this thing where they look like they could destroy someone the minute they touch sunlight 😶 also, new haircut