When Reform come out with especially abhorrent immigration policies that most people would consider too far, the government can’t take a principled stance that this is racist because it goes against their logic that immigration is a problem, and so they can only say their plans are unworkable.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

STOP MAKING NEW SUBSTACKS. Jesus, that’s the easy bit.

cool that you can just make me spit water on the treadmill like that

And this is before Palantir has set up the new database with all of our personal information stored by the government.

Using my fandom so the numbers might look different for others but… Hey kids, check out this REALLY COOL AO3 hack!!!

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

This seems like the bare minimum response, so it's appalling that apparently the Labour govt can't even do this much.

This. Vaccines and paracetamol do not cause autism, but also autism is not something that should be eliminated, any more than queerness or lefthandedness or any other harmless minority characteristic.

Keir Starmer: “we hate immigrants they’ve caused incalculable damage” Also Keir Starmer: “why don’t immigrants want to come and work here? 😌”

Time to talk about one of my favourite Oxford buildings, 26-27-28 Cornmarket!! Popularly known as The Old Pret

Ready to preorder the small press short story collection with this cover RIGHT NOW.

It is a truth too often unacknowledged, that a populist in possession of the public's rage must be in perpetual want of an enemy.

Forcing a physical storefront to end the sale of adult material is simply fucking ridiculous. Payment processors have an insane amount of power that needs to be curtailed

He is on the record as saying he wants private insurance over the NHS (albeit he has been less vocal about it in recent months). He doesn’t give a damn.

OK, now let’s get Disney adults super mad about ICE.

BBC push alert tomorrow: ‘The Rapture is here. Why this could be good news for Reform UK’

If Labour had an ounce of sense, tomorrow they would announce that people with ILR will now be able to vote in UK elections. There you go. That's 175,000 people who aren't gonna vote Reform added to the franchise.

Honestly all of my most fervently held political beliefs are extremely moderate. "Insurrection is bad." "Bribes should be illegal." "The government shouldn't persecute people who criticize the President."

everyone be quiet, this rapist has reproductive health advice for us

Again, if you havent done this and deleted your account its really important that you do. This isnt any usual ToS nonsense. This is a heightened and dangerous escalation of thievery to both yourself and your work

Understanding the graph of left handedness over time should be a prerequisite for anybody running for office.

the only news that matters about autism is how good it made me at fuckin

im always amazed by the euphemisms they come up with because people are hip to the "you are fat and need to lose weight" ruse. now we all have to Fix Our Cortisol, Heal Our Guts, Balance Our Hormones etc and coincidentally all the symptoms of these "problems" are being fat and/or ugly

ABC should pull all their shows from Sinclair and tell people in those places to sign up for Disney+ and Hulu where most of them are probably watching ABC programs anyways. Good luck to your local advertisers.

Is it a good thing for an industry when people are constantly inventing new words to describe the terrible side effects of your product?

We need the full strength of both Autism and Antifa if we want to continue seeing good posts on our timelines.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

hahahahaha called it

On second thought, I'm really hoping this Rapture thing works out

This is *stunningly* disingenuous, and the fact that Singal continues to enjoy a career writing at the highest levels about a topic that he either unwilling or incapable of discussing honestly is such an indictment of the Anglo-American prestige media.

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Just so we are clear. There is nothing wrong with being trans or autistic. Don't give an inch on that

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

Hey, lots of good people are addicts. RFK is a bad person. It has nothing to do with his heroin use. My mom was a heroin addict and an amazing person. I'm a recovering alcoholic. Stop shitting on addicts. It is not a moral failing, it's a disease. You're part of the problem if you're doing this.

Turns out this shitty article was written by *drumroll* ...Jesse Singal.

He Lives on the Second Floor Our cat, Luca, has kidney failure. We received the diagnosis two weeks ago, when we brought him to the vet for what we thought was just his arthritis acting up. Right now, he doesn’t seem to be in any pain. He still plays with Nadia’s hair tie like an apex predator. He…

Very important: if you are being Raptured please STAY BEING RAPTURED, your place cannot be held by others and you may not be allowed back if you leave for any reason.

Now that's a campaign video. 👇🏽

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

We found it. You thought it was a myth, but we found it. The Ideas Landlords.

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

I’m guessing the collapse of the NHS is just a bonus to him. Brits have no idea how bad things might get if this happens. People over here complain about parking costs at hospitals. What will happen when they have to pay for their heart surgery or appendectomy?

Left-wing parties need to tell us what they’re actually going to do -for example, commit boldly and loudly to reverse NHS privatisation and invest to save lives. I’d happily explain to them what needs to happen. We need the actual policies-policies that win over public opinion.

It's instructive that a sizeable proportion of the ruling class in the UK appear to be looking at America and saying, "Ohh I'll have some of that."

Can’t explain it but of course they want to take away one of the only painkillers that’s safe for pregnancy, a condition that causes weird and unusual pains. these people WANT pregnancy to be a punishment and handicap. they want to control.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

"I wouldn't be able to make Father Ted today. Because of the things I said about Neil Hannon and Arthur Matthews which made them not want to work with me."

I'm not dignifying it with a click, but whenever I see him, or Cleese, or any of the others bang this drum from time to time, I just want the interviewer to ask what jokes exactly were in Ted, or Fawlty Towers, they want to still make now but aren't allowed?