Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

We're ruining (or improving) Bond posters on @b3ta.com this week

They should stop polling, and just stick with the big one we had in 2016 that revealed that roughly half of us will believe any old shit.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Just found an old variant I'd forgotten about when I was doing my portraits. Think I was going for Haphash and Coloured Coat vibes. Happy Birthday #JohnLennon

The most important political thread of our time.

if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees

Not sure if it was intentional, but the replies to this are lovely. I’ve made loads of good friends, become an amateur music historian and also an activist improving diversity in Trail running globally with the charity Black Trail Runners, all primarily due to social media

It’s your English patriotic duty to not like English 😂

Arne Slot did a phenomenal job last season, coming into a challenging situation & replacing a legend. He made it look easy. But y'know what? He's still a fairly young guy himself. And he'll not have been in any way prepared for what he's had to deal with the last few months. Not least his own grief.

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

The past month hasn’t changed my mind on this!

We used to be a real country

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Are they not entertained?

I suspect Donnie isn’t well versed on how dictators have historically been “retired”…

Amusing little muddle from Lisa Nandy - “we’ve lost the ability to agree disagreeably”. Think Labour are actually remarkably good at that.

Yes, yes: every word of this column:

Also provided this legendary quote in his book.

Still can’t quite believe the Tories elected this Onion columnist to be their leader theonion.com/somebody-sho...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Tap tap tap

Suspect I’m going to be tapping this sign a lot this week

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

A good summary of what I’ve been ruminating on recently - most of the shift right in western politics can be explained by people my age being incapable of handling justified criticism for their idiotic opinions

On the other hand, great news for people who always wondered what it would be like to live in times where progressive ideas needed to be concealed into art as allegories.

Morning everyone.

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Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

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Maybe - but also everyone’s timeline is different and no one really knows what anyone else is seeing, which just fuels all of our biases

Highly recommend you don't go looking for the video of this, he's shot in the neck and it look like it hit his jugular vein.

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

I've written a lot about disordered discourse and counterpublics, but given recent events I want to cover a key part of disordered discourse, which I call the four pillars of disordered doubt.

Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia

The thing is, it’s the same with all (reproductive rather than magical) creation myths. To go from one pair to millions, a LOT of shagging (and most of it incestuous) has to happen. How many people know that King Solomon had over a thousand wives and concubines and thousands of children?

Can't find a single thing wrong with this...

Thanks to Dave Leggett at @shindigmagazine.bsky.social for this great review of The Short Causeway at the Trades a few weeks back ⭐

ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it

Would have been 12 when this came out - clearly remember thinking “oh this is different..?”

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Football bluesky watching this West Ham match 🤝 @stephenkb.bsky.social Dismissing the latest Potter iteration as fundamentally flawed

Front left at channel one before - I like the bass you can feel in your shins

"Each hour a soft lie told in Freon" I'm in love