incredible essay on acid house and the Roland TB-303 gagosian.com/quarterly/20...

Once more we are told that people are "gaming the system", a phrase repeatedly used about benefit claimants and more recently asylum-seekers. What underpins these evidence-free claims is the idea that you do not have inalienable rights. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

I guess one difference between me and Elon Musk is that, if I was gaming an AI to say these things about me, and everyone could see that I had done this, I'd have simply no choice but to set myself on fire.

If you saw Shabana Mahmood’s idiotic and insulting display in the Commons this week and wondered: what kind of slack-jawed ignoramus would fall for this abysmal bullshit about how her ethnicity means you can’t tell her not to do migrant crackdowns? Well, the answer is: Guardian columnists.

We're an undeniable border violation. We exist and we show that the border between male and female is both permeable and not simply a hierarchy. So we have to be dealt with the way border problems are - extreme violence or a complex series of exceptions.

At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

The fact that the Louvre heist didn’t take place at dawn, but at the very reasonable hour of 9:30 a.m. shows that even French jewel thieves have a better work-life balance than us.

Israel continues to block aid and materials into Gaza for shelters, thus purposefully denying conditions necessary for life as winter comes on. They are continuing the genocide in full view of the world.

Don't threaten us with a good time filip

Labour MPs will just have to find another way to make it illegal to tell them what you think

Pope Sixtus: ‘I’m leaving all the walls in my new church blank so nothing can distract me from my prayer. I want a pristine chapel.’ Michaelangelo: ‘Oh shit!’

Priti Patel. Suella Braverman. Shabana Mahmood. Brown women desperate to be good little foot soldiers to white supremacy. Zora Neale Hurston was absolutely right when she said all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.

The "Social Democrat" Prime Minister blamed the defeat of her mayoral candidate for the capital, out loud, on 'crime committed by “people coming from outside”', thus proving that it's asshole all the way down with them now.

Everything that Rafel Behr complains about - Starmer's lack of principle, his inauthenticity - was known from day one, but he, like the rest of the commentariat, insisted this empty suit was uniquely qualified. They will never admit fault. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nothing is a better demonstration of the anti-scientific nature of banning trans women from sports than the fact that the IOC's OWN STUDY found no evidence trans women have any advantage over cis women in sports, but they're planning on going ahead with banning us anyways

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Labour's balanced budget politics is based on a false understanding of how the governments fits into the economic mosaic. Me and Ganga Shreedhar on the LSE blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

"Starmer, Mahmood, and McSweeney are testing to destruction the idea that stealing the far right's clothes will win the far right votes. They are about to be disappointed."

"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:

"There's a kind of deliberate dressing up in the regalia, and the attitudes of fascism as they - in their blithe and cynical way - pave the way for an actual fascist kind of administration." - @leninology.bsky.social on the Starmer government's announcements on asylum policy:

imagine if Nick Griffin had proposed in 2010 that we should be stealing jewellery from refugees who arrive here, we’d have spent 15 years pointing to it as a low point in the political discourse around immigration, but now we’re just suppose to accept it from our “””centre-left””” government

Seems like a good time (again) to share the guide I developed with @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social, which tells you how to talk about refugees and asylum in a way that actually convinces the undecided - based on testing 🧵 www.freedomfromtorture.org/changing-the...

Countering the trend towards fascism can take many shapes and forms but it cannot take the form of a blind faith support in the status quo and mainstream elite as has been argued for too long Some thoughts @reacpolrn.bsky.social on the latest developments in the UK reacpol.net/fascism-no-o...

I'm so sick of seeing commentators and the like questioning the electoral calculus of labour's many far right policies. They are doing it because they are right wing fucks and it is what they WANT to do. These are deeply stupid, deeply nasty people, as they have proved over and over.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

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This is just wild.

I know some Labour people hold on to the hope Angela Rayner would be better than this. But on immigration and asylum, there will be no change. The same self-defeating stupidity. The same barbaric treatment of vulnerable people.

A Labour MP, there. Do you see why we said these clowns were disastrous and had to be sidelined as a matter of urgency?

Congratulations to Labour who have won the coveted Tommy Robinson endorsement. Excited for sensibles to explain to me why I have to vote for the people enacting actual fascist policy.

The only Legitimate Concerns about asylum seekers are concerns for their well being and safety. For a rich country like ours to incessantly whine about these people as if we are their victims is perhaps the single most pathetic spectacle in British politics over the past quarter century.

Labour is a “godsend” for Farage says the far-right.

This contribution to the volume of human misery is yet another policy from Labour based on a false premise, in this case that refugees are overly attracted to Britain. It will increase bureaucratic limbo, thus making worse the problem of "cohesion" it purports to solve. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cuarón said that the political/social landscape of his adaptation of Children of Men, esp. re refugees & migrants, was shaped by looking at the UK (under Labour) at the time (2004-6), and just extrapolating from there. The ongoing cruelty of Mahmood (below) & the rest of Labour brings that to mind.

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How anyone can still support this government is beyond me. This is utterly disgraceful.

Useful article by @adamramsay.bsky.social on the Green's turn to the left (something that's been going on for much longer than a lot of the coverage and media talk of "entyrism" would suggest):

At the

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Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke history is a fucking joke lmao

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Nothing to see here. www.wesforleader.com

This was one of the final incidents that made me give up journalism. I pulled on every contact I had to argue that even if one supported the gender conservative position, journalists laundering their involvement in this way fundamentally undermines the entire institution of journalism.

Labour are absolutely worse for the environment than the Conservatives were. They lied to so many environmental charities before they got into power and are now treating them with absolute contempt to push through things to make their mates in property development more cash.

The Guardian gave Goodwin lots of space in the 2010s to whitewash racism as Legitimate Concerns, imbue those Concerns with faux working class authenticity, and denigrate anti racism as the bleatings of a cosmopolitan elite. Its a bit late to start Noticing now. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism