"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

My hype for this movie could not be higher.

I can't disagree with Dan here...

Polly Plummer disco number! Polly Plummer disco number! The people demand a Polly Plummer disco number!

One thing I’ve picked up from the timeline today is that another Indyref would be particularly vicious (although possibly not very close)

The implications of the hot Scouse Lib Dem guy doing soft findom on insta to fundraise………this could change British politics forever………

Yes! This! I want Labour politicians to be honest obsessed with carpet bombing reform. I want true, deep, passionate hatred for that party and all it stands for. I want “if Reform declares war on hell, I will have good things to say in the commons for the devil.”

Please do not read this as an endorsement of Scottish Labour in any way, but I do think it would be useful if UK Labour felt about Reform the way Scottish Labour felt about the SNP. It’s PERSONAL for them. There is a nastiness there. They want them finished! And the ground salted!

Gardening.

I’ve always found “omnicause” accusations against the left baffling, both because things do be linked sometimes, and because the other side is equally guilty of lumping all their issues together.

NATURE IS HEALING

‘The pair have received good reviews from other swingers’ - we need candidates with a track record of success outside of politics! www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

It is 2025. We don’t have to do the well actually the SNP are just as dangerous as Reform because they both want to impose borders dance. We can evolve. Let’s use our brains!

I put the first episode of Strictly on while cooking and remain perplexed about the popularity of this programme.

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

One of the big questions hovering over Zille's mayoral candidacy is whether she actually cares about Johannesburg (she was the Mayor of Cape Town and Premier of the Western Cape). This is a pretty good piece of political comms addressing that question: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6n...

Meeting any demand from Palestinian civil society, by this logic, could be interpreted as a "reward" for October 7. It is not fair or strategic to see Hamas's crimes that day as an act that rendered all Palestinian political aspirations terroristic. Where would we go from there?

"Half-baked"? I don't want this full-baked! I want it out the oven!

The responses from Starmer supporters to each step are also so predictable. "We should ignore this, and avoid a stupid fight on this issue." "We should respond, but not immediately. Caution is important." "See - we are fighting back on this!" rinse and repeat

I think Helen Zille is going to win the Johannesburg mayor race.

The TikTok algorithm is the closest thing we have to one of those ridiculous supervillain inventions in a movie that the hero learns about a third of the way in, exclaims “but that…..that could control the world!” and then spends the rest of the film having to destroy.

There are definitely things Bluesky could do to attract a broader user base, but blaming this platform for people still using Twitter has always seemed rather unfair to me - not least because the subtext is often that Bluesky should just become Twitter. That would be bad!

Has a fiddle ever been used this effectively before or since? youtu.be/MdkIJm65ytM?...

do I get citizenship or should I fuck off preemptively

When I was a very depressed gay 14 year-old at boarding school there was a month where I read all the Left Behind books (there are SO many) cover to cover, and I often wonder what would have happened to me had I stayed in that headspace and not moved onto an obsession with PD James murder mysteries.

The New Yorker putting the back catalogue of The Writer's Voice podcast behind a paywall is devastating. How will I fall asleep if not to literary fiction read in dulcet tones?

oh boy here we go

About to watch a bunch of 14 year-olds debate this lmao

Why is she in the Anatomy of a Fall murder attic

Need to see a Lucy Powell and Bridget Phillipson Letterboxd 4 faves

She just wanted to queen out 😩

Great essay. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Torn between thinking this is very bad and the homosexual urge to stan this woman.

Good morning and happy Friday, divas.

It's so funny that the very first line in "An American in Paris" is "This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here".

also, if I’m not mistaken, the FCC chair just affirmed his plan to end free speech in America in a reply to the guy who played the wheelchair kid on Glee

Starmer should be asked about this repeatedly till he confirms or denies the claim

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

I agree with the sentiment expressed here but I also read the editorial and it is filled with the most ludicrous hedging imaginable. She’s so embarrassed she has to take this position.

Quarter zips are actually illegal now. New rule that just came in. Sorry, guys!

The Corbyn faction at Your Party HQ watching the donations from Sultana’s email roll in

She was so silly sometimes.

The timeline at the moment

I disagree with Zarah Sultana on many things but I do kinda feel sorry for her wandering into battle with a bunch of people who've been doing Bennite factionalism for the last 50 years.

Your Party (Zarah’s Version)

YourParty is a parody of Corbynism by Blarites and Starmer is a parody of a Blairite by Corbynists.

Do I go Scottish Green or Lib Dem…..

Just do green entryism it looks sooooo easy