Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cunts. You are too stupid to know you are finished. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

To be a free man, it is not enough that I enjoy individual liberty. Only when all of mankind is liberated am I truly free. To be a happy man, it is not enough that Arsenal win. Only when Spurs lose also am I truly happy.

h/t @mrpmharrison.bsky.social. "Crowds"! This is almost literally two men and a dog.

"The blood is on the hands of western news organisations that systematically dehumanised Palestinians from the beginning... serving as conveyer belts for the lies of an Israeli regime intent on wiping the Palestinians off the map" @jeremyscahill.com from @dropsitenews.com

The utter, shameless, undistilled greed of all concerned - not the remotest toss given for player welfare or fans. And a big fuck-off increase in the game's carbon footprint, all bankrolled by the world's leading planet-burning autocratic state

Help! I can't access my Facebook account. When I try to open it, I get this image - suspiciously, it says the account was locked in 2022. And when I try to go through the verification process to change my PW and press "continue" nothing happens . . . help!

The inarticulate, who express themselves clumsily, are very often wrong. The articulate, those who have a facility for language, are very often right. However, it's possible for the inarticulate to be right and the articulate dead wrong. Don't anyone kid themselves otherwise. Particularly right now.

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

RIP Jim Lovell ‘When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo & just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live & work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.’

the 90s was an awful, regressive decade. it’s a much kinder society today — you can observe that directly if you have kids in school. the issue at the moment is there’s a large, well-resourced and organised pushback campaign

Been thinking about Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) a bit recently for some reason. Here is my favourite crack of his. "Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so."

the amount we heard (and still do) about the intolerant, purity-testing left, and its antagonists can’t even accommodate this absolutely milquetoast lad who didn’t want rivers in his constituency to be destroyed

press reporting that Starmer is to appoint ex Sun editor David Dinsmore as his new permanent comms secretary. He has a conviction for doxxing the teenage victim of sexual abuse by a famous footballer. For most people this would be a new low but here it depends on exactly what Mandelson's role was

One of these days a senior politician will actually say something positive about the 10 million people living and working in the UK who happen to have been born abroad, but that day is not today

Take a moment to take this in: This incredible image from the JWST reveals a huge number of galaxies, each home to billions of stars... Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Gozaliasl, A. Koekemoer, M. Franco, the COSMOS-Web team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Colbert comes out swinging. Gonna be a fun 10 months...

I truly hate being this person, but HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?

Oleksandr Usyk is just superb. He's small, he's old, he's modest, he always speaks well, especially considering his personal position re the Ukraine, he's slightly camp with that fringe, he has beaten all of the best, he never loses. He is one of the very, very greatest heavyweight champions.

Currently listening to Clube du Esquina, the 1972 double album by Brazilian musicians Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges. It's a beautiful piece of work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b7x...

Ian Kevin Curtis, born OTD in 1956, Stretford, Borough of Trafford, Lancashire www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTdF...

Did you know? In the Victorian era, when a woman was admitted to a mental institution, her hair was often removed, and repurposed to make wigs for wealthy women. Women in asylums had no legal right to refuse, making them a readily available and exploitable source of hair. #Victorian #history

Think about this image every now again. The salt mountains in the Zagros mountain range of Southern Iran. The things on this earth.

This Guardian pic of Rayner captures something truthful - the veneer of “I’m a blunt talking Northern lass so I must be salt of the socialist earth” peeled away. Seen, and knowing she is seen.

Norman Tebbit died. You chose, in practical and effective terms to be a total cunt. It is unjust that you lived as long as you did when people who made a joyously positive contribution to this world lived far shorter lives. You permanently immiserated lives. Better that you had never been born.

An absolute eternal banger with a thoroughly dubious lyric. Your friends are right, mate - he is a user. Get rid. (Oh, and lose about seven minutes of that guitar solo at the end).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2MaOeDibps&list=RDP2MaOeDibps&start_radio=1

Post yourself from a different era. Me, 1988.

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

What a stupid piece of shite this is. Equating Lucy Connolly, who advocated the burning of asylum seekers with Bob Vylan, who advocated the extinction of the organisation who have burned alive tens of thousands of Palestinians. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

Silly cunt. Not much of a case of separating the art and the artist here because I always hated both. A shrivelled scrotum of a human being, who made the worst single of all time - "Baby Jane". I hope the Glastonbury crowd says it with bottles of piss. Glass bottles. www.inkl.com/news/rod-ste...

Last thought tonight. People talk in binary terms about being "winners" or "losers". I think I am a drawer. That's pretty much on a personal level as I haven't really advanced in any other way. I've failed, I've succeeded, it's about 5-5. And that's a very rough guess. Are a lot of us drawers?

The government's proposed Personal Independence Payment reforms are based on three popular fallacies: 1. Disabled people will work harder if money that supports them is withdrawn 2. There are loads of jobs just waiting to be filled with Disabled people 3. Disabled people aren't currently working

Two things lie in ruins - Gaza and centrist illusions. I know which one I weep more about.

Well done Sally Rooney, for using your platform to lay bare the utter hypocrisy of our government, when others keep their heads down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s so much gold on the BBC Archive YT page, currently watching this doc on the West Highland Line, not just quality steam age footage but such inventive sound design: weird manipulated field recordings, folk song, v Scottish accents, the gorgeous rhythm of the trains. youtu.be/pa8-Frhk5-E?...

How many years after you first went online did you stop ringing people to check they’d received the email you’d sent them? Just three, in my case.

When a new series drops on one of the streaming channels, and 19 out of 20 people rave about it, I'll listen to the one person in 20 who says it's rubbish so that I don't have to watch it. Good enough for me.

I'd planned a trip to America this year but sorry, very sorry, no way. Not in the foreseeable future. And if I lived there, I'd want to get out.

Went to a photography exhibition yesterday. I’d booked a Senior Discount ticket. Was hoping to be asked for proof of age, but no, the nice woman at the desk waved me through. Sure she pressed a button marked “ Visibly Over 60” on the computer. “You’re best off getting the lift”, she added.

Man alive I love The Young Gods. In a parallel universe they're as big as U2. thequietus.com/interviews/s...

Just caught up with the football last night. I think we have to make allowances for these footballers. It's been a long, tiring season. Week in, week out, month after month, delivering mail, teaching in schools, plumbing, you can excuse the Andorrans for losing 1-0 against England.

Fuck off.

"New man" - there's a phrase you don't hear much any more. I suppose they're all old men now.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

NEW | On the tragedy in Liverpool and the Daily Mail front-page… WHEN TO LOOK AWAY Autoplaying video and the Daily Mail front page mean you have to witness the tragedy in Liverpool whether you want to or not. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/36-when-to...

Whenever I see the words "both sides" I know I am dealing with an apologist/centrist attempting to make a 99-1 situation look like a 50-50 situation. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...