The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Has Mark Millar come out for Reform yet or nah?

Absolute bush league stuff, Willie Rennie would have a body pillow made entirely from union flags and do every press conference with it, ending with a wee wink, saying "And I think my friend JACK would agree!"

I started reading and watching Bleach as a teenager. Now I'm watching the final seasons of the anime with my teenage son. This is both odd and extremely gratifying. It's blowing his mind.

If I had a penny for every time an anime I like used Ode to Joy, I'd have two pennies. Not a lot of money but still weird.

Go fash, lose cash

Annoyed I couldn't make the counter protest today, but hope everyone is safe. Proud of the turnout.

✅ bald ✅ White ✅ Inexplicably ragin

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

Batman Day! I might be a Superman guy first but Batman is the closest second. Wildly versatile, there's a Batman for most tastes. From swashbuckling adventurer to horror to psychological drama to big budget superhero fare and everything in between.

Gentle reminder that in the late '50s, the U.S. government did not censor comics. Comics companies censored themselves. Not sure why that crossed my mind today but there it is...

But not Dem leadership or corporate media apparently

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

This is also why the UK's porn ID thing is dangerous territory, authoritarians will call anything they don't like either terrorism or indecent/pornographic.

The follow-up post is the best part.

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

President Cyclops (after he's the VP for a pro-mutant president who is then assassinated, in a story called XX Amendment).

At this rate the UK is going to come second to Israel in a two-country contest.

This is the best explanation I've seen of Tyler Robinson's motives for assassinating Charlie Kirk. www.tiktok.com/@aidanetcete...

Almost Famous The Perks of Being A Wallflower Good Will Hunting

Mr Smith Goes To Washington It's A Wonderful Life Superman (2025)

The "Prosecco Stormfront" label isn't just a joke. It's exactly the same radicalisation as when neo-nazis and incels target lonely teenage boys. Find isolated, unhappy people - and new and middle-aged mums often have very good reasons to be sad and angry – and give them someone to safely blame.

Here’s why I’m in favour of a wealth tax, or at the very least an unrealised gains tax; Say I buy £20k of stock in a company and the stock price skyrocketed and that stock is now worth £100,000 my net worth is up £80k without paying tax or NI on that. If I earned £80k that’s £23,042.60 in tax & NI

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

Two-tier policing is when one set of people can assault the police and not get arrested while another set of people get done for assault if they go floppy while being arrested for their t-shirt

I think the issue with expectations around Starmer is that we shouldn't have any at all and anyone who does is deluding themselves. He won't do the right thing, and if he does do something good he'll do it too late to suit himself, which means it isn't the right thing by any measure. He's a fraud.

I can't tell you just how feeble, artificial and embarrassing the foundations of modern British far rightism are. It is literally just copy paste internet Americana with fish and chips and football shirts.

Very weird, given I always thought myself to be quite an optimistic and trusting person, to approaching a "trust nothing your government on the US government tells you" phase. See also: 70% of mainstream media outlets. Everything is partisan, everything pushes an agenda. The internet hallucinates.

DC Comics Cancels “Fourth World” Line After Creator Jack Kirby Admits To Killing Nazis In WWII

A member of the Face-Eating Leopard Party speaks

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Hell just got another demon <3 Sink low Charlie, GASTBF (gone and soon to be forgotten).

Super disappointing when someone in work who you generally got on well with, and who'd always been an otherwise lovely person, makes an offhanded transphobic comment.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I...think the UK government wildly overestimating how much people want to visit the UK.

I suppose Rayner can now sell her posh flats in Glasgow, her Chelsea mews house and £19m London townhouse, plus her yacht, while she works out how to get the National Crime Agency to unfreeze £75m of her assets. My bad, that's Michelle Mone.

I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of professional Japan explainers talking about "the differences between comics and manga" until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.

As ever with political news, the main takeaway from the Angela Rayner story is that there is scant little courage or principles left in the mainstream press. She was targeted not for her actions, but for what she represents, while many more powerful do far worse and the press won't touch them.

I'm not a fan of Labour but the pressure put on a working class woman to resign when she broke no laws has been astounding compared with the fact that Sunak and Johnson both broke their own laws and continued to be PMs and cabinet minsters.

There was something very pleasing about my 2 year old mouthing Paramore lyrics in the back of the car this morning.

A note to every celebrity and everyone in front of a camera - it's literally this easy.

Hahaha this is how I win

He's just wildly good at this. No one else comes close.

Made two typos in work today, which was out of character enough for my team leader to call and make sure everything was OK.

Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.

Did a clanker write this

If I wanted to win the next election, rather than campaigning 4 years in advance on a Nazi policy platform, I'd simply use my majority to make things better for as many people as I could and use my power and influence on the world stage to stand up for decency and equality and make people proud.

It's not just the racism of this which is astounding (and it is), it's the small-heartedness. Asylum hotels. Asylum. People who need our help because their homes became hell. This is how we treat them? How the Prime Minister treats them? Every single member of the Labour Party should be ashamed.

I always try and channel my inner superman or something, don't celebrate death, don't wish it upon anyone....but there's no denying the world would be better without him in it, and he has never, ever shown any indication of wishing to be or being capable of being better than what he is.

Keir Starmer will hump a flag on live TV before the year is out and the press will tear him apart for taking too long to cum.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)