When I’ve had too much pig meat

Starmer was elected on promises of improving a country in shambles, and what he has proceeded to do is ignore the most pressing concerns to instead fixate on a petty, cruel, and fundamentally inhuman agenda of scapegoating immigrants, policing bathrooms, and tearing away support from the vulnerable.

This quote gets more and more ominous with every new revelation

once again I find myself wishing there were fewer news stories where both the ECHR and EHRC were relevant

It does strike me that a lot of equality lawyers are going to find it hard to avoid words to the effect of "look I am not saying you should do this but all these problems go away if you stop providing women only services"

are we going to cater for the discomfort of racists too?

It's just part of the experience, isn't it?

Oh, this is a fun pricing exercise

The century during which the City University of New York was a basically-free higher education program for first-generation immigrant youth is a hugely underrated reason for New York and America's preeminence in the 20th century

we are missing so many Ramanujans and every one is a tragedy

This is just trying to exclude trans men from society altogether. The fuck are they supposed to do? They've basically just decided to ignore the provisions in the equality act that protect trans people

I think this is more or less my list. May triggering article 50 might put her lower, and, well, Johnson was absolutely awful during Covid but that's probably the right position on this list. And Starmer? Well, he had a chance to fix things. To try to fix things, anyway. He did nothing.

Oh for fuck's sake.

How many presidents have we had that would have a recognizable (to us today) east coast urban accent? Trump, JFK, maybe FDR if you count his posh mid-Atlantic accent. Who else? Asking based on my realization that Netanyahu is probably the world’s first head of state with a Philly accent.

Frustrated by how many ways this is misleading.

does keir agree he is a dead man walking? no one seems to know

Seeing someone posting about how bad youth unemployment in the US is now, since it's higher than the economy-wide rate. It always is. The actual data:

Realizing that Arsenal must’ve won the league entirely due to the honking outside that won’t stop

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Google Search is bad now (laudatory)

guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

The people are finally ready for a Mediterranean Bond

Owwwww

Classic Sigourney

The Beach Boys released "Pet Sounds" on May 16, 1966. Soft harmonies and rich pop arrangements, turning simple songs into something warm and thoughtful. Includes “God Only Knows".

Politics knowers: does Kier understand he’s a lame duck now? (That is, has acted consistent with that understanding) if so, when did he realize/accept that?

Wait? There are *108* suitors of Penelope? That's a Suikoden's worth!

Earth, metal, wood, fire, water, and…uh….heart

Almost just wrote “call an audible” to some Londoners from India and stopped myself as I realized that’s an idiom that doesn’t travel

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

I’m intrigued by the responses that imply he’s bigoted against minority groups generally

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

“We found that this issue could be fixed by training them on the entirety of The Flintstones. ‘It’s a living!’”

Exactly. Also true of the Conservatives. And, under FPP, Reform can get a majority on 28%, or could win under 100 seats on 26% - fragmentation plus volatility = chaos under first past the post

Capital Ring Walk achievement: further west than where I started. So, more or less halfway there.

An amazing chart and an amazing story. This is of course seats rather than votes and is the result of the now hugely dysfunctional FPTP system. PR (alongside an increase in tax take) would do wonders for British democracy.

I continue to be confused as to whether the word for Romani people that starts with g is a slur here. Seems to be simultaneously completely acceptable, maybe even preferred while also almost the worst thing you can say. (Thinking about this because there’s a train station with it in the name.)

A train goes from London Bridge to Victoria station through Crystal Palace. Don’t think there are many of these in-and-out lines?

Harder today. www.maptap.gg May 14 100🎯 95🏆 100🎯 95🏆 98🔥 Final score: 974

First try at this. Think I could’ve better but not too shabby. www.maptap.gg May 13 95🏅 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 Final score: 990

Me talking to my wife a few days ago: "So I found this nice tech training, now it's going to sound weird because it's using a silly frame to motivate, but I'm pretty sure it's not a cult..." Me yesterday: "Ah, well, it's a cult. Nevertheless."

"I will never believe that mine could do wrong" leads directly to "yours" doing wrong knowing you have their backs, and eventually you will get used to it, going from covering for evil to making excuses for evil to defending evil to encouraging evil.

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.

Slightly increase a band The Stag Beatles

today's the day Keir Starmer really became Prime Minister

the Trump-Hormuz cycle: 1. Open it right now 2. It’s open because I said it’s open in a social media post 3. I mean it, open it or I will commit war crimes 4. It’s not important and we never needed it anyway (we are here) rinse, repeat

Here's a super hot take of mine. If you've been in graphics long enough, you know I'm right though.

He looks…well, not happy, exactly…

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook