underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Kier Starmer has played a blinder here

'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

not 67, not 69, but somewhere in the middle. appealing to nobody. that's centrism.

Eisner submissions are now open. My fellow comic creators, no matter at what point in your career you are, if you're making comics in any form, these awards are "For You" and you absolutely can be nominated. Let's get small press/self pub comics on that list! ENTER: www.comic-con.org/uploads/2025...

Watch this and then watch The Man Who Knew Too much, also on Youtube, about Colin Wallace, who was very high up in UK army (psyops) and was framed for manslaughter when he tried to get people to do something about the abuse at Kincora. His conviction has since been quashed.

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

You'd hope Belfast's Lord Mayor would call out a racist account spouting replacement theory nonsense, but no.

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

every single one of those fuckin chatgpt caricatures ive seen has been some bellend with stormont in the background, potholes in the foreground and a press mic somewhere to the side of shot and it's making me want to end this sentence in a way that violates TOS

i know most of my friends on here aren’t concerned about tabletop rpg drama but that means you guys are missing out on the neopets ttrpg being mostly a 5e hack where you kill bandits and it has rules for blowing up neopets with dynamite

NEW: Police in Northern Ireland will curb sharing data on migrant victims of crime with UK immigration enforcement, after admitting that routine sharing “could be perceived as constituting institutional racism”.

I’ll have been in country for ten years in August, & should have been eligible for ILR, then citizenship the day after we get married in November. I have paid in the range of £15k in visa fees since arriving, and have been in work nonstop, paying tax. This fascist dumbass is stealing that.

Yes there may be bigger things going on, but sometimes it's the details that really get under the skin. What a squalid, spiteful, craven little country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Labour’s action over PA should outrage people just as much as Mandelson’s betrayals. It was/is a ridiculous overreach that has seen nearly 3000 people arrested as well as a hunger strike by those accused in the primary case. All this heavy-handed control on people of UK in support a genocide in Gaza

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

The probability of encountering a huge bronze sculpture of George Mitchell's head in that On The Square antiques emporium has just risen significantly.

I'm gonna become the first guy to walk out of family court sentenced to death

There is a brand new episode of SFULTRA, the only book podcast that has ever existed. It is about Samuel R. Delany and his book Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand. It's free to listen to here right now: www.patreon.com/posts/149597... and will appear in the usual podcast places later today.

Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.

"technologists, reactionaries, and seething upstarts are brought together by decadent parties on a wealthy idiot's pedophile island, laying the groundwork for a digital-first fascism" sounds like a cyberpunk plot but you know it's real life because they did it with the style of people in bumper cars

Damn, Catherine O'Hara. If you've never seen SCTV (because it's not streaming anywhere and last had a DVD release in 2004/05)... S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4 + 5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6: archive.org/details/sctv...

Eventually people are going to stop caring what the bulletin of atomic scientists do with their little clock. It’s the Ross/rachel problem all over again

Lawyer here. There’s a lot of misinformation about what this means. It means he’s innocent even though he did it and the judge said that it’s good what he did

A lot of folk still don’t know that Aramark own (super fancy) Avoca, as well as providing food services for Direct Provision Centres. Very easy not to go to Avoca, I reckon. Public opinion got them out of NGI, after all.

BIJOU FUNNIES #8 (1973), with cover art by Harvey Kurtzman.

As you scroll through thousands of images of brutality, make sure you’re also seeing these moments of real community and solidarity unfolding against the backdrop of horror. Even in the most unlikely places, there are more of us than there are of them.

People talking about Nuremberg trials for ICE should be reminded that Lt William Calley, who carried out the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam, served 3 days in prison before Nixon commuted his sentence to house arrest, where he spent 3 years at home. His defence was that he had been poorly trained.

getting very boring to say “imperial boomerang” but. well.

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

Nancy 1/24/26

the mood is not subtle

The Irish government aiding this is fucking unconscionable. Unforgiveable. History will remember this as Nazi collaboration, because that's what it is

Apropos of nothing, Gilles Carron's photographs of locals preparing petrol bombs during the Battle of the Bogside 1969.

This minister deliberately named online the very place where displaced people were seeking sanctuary following a racist pogrom. After this disclosure, mobs went there to burn people alive. 'It is the role of the Assembly to decide whether any sanctions should be imposed on the minister.'

Need une personne qui me fait fait un câlin comme la neige fait un câlin à Lénine

“10s of thousands have died or suffered abject ruination in the service of a few glossy pictures. The shambolic project that killed or ruined them was made possible not only by a seemingly bottomless supply of oil money, but by the borrowed prestige of some of the West’s leading architecture firms”

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

If I was able to separate myself from the churn of history and could watch this with an untouched heart as calm as a desert horizon I do think “addled old pedophile gangster threatens war bc he didn’t receive the peace prize with insane letter aimed at someone unrelated to the prize” would be funny.

named my son Sue in the hopes of imbuing him with a sort of gentle, nurturing femininity and it fucking backfired Big Time

Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.

While the police forces & British courts pursue prosecutions relating to Palestine Action, an actual proscribed terror group is operating freely in N. Ireland and the police are covering up and downplaying white supremacist terror, violence and mass forced displacement of racial & ethnic minorities.

“idealists dedicated to free speech and free inquiry went to work at Bari Weiss anti woke university and were surprised to find out it was a right wing project” can’t wait to read this shit and be shocked by the basics I’ve understood about “free speech” discourse and the right since i was 15yrs old