Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up

Oh, so he totally stole the money

The last person to be guillotined in France could have watched Star Wars: A New Hope, although he wouldn't have been able to follow the plot very well because the French dub didn't come out until a month afterwards.

One nice detail that can easily be lost in this graph - even right wingers trust the BBC more than the right wing tabloids

at one point in his life, Andreesen invented the graphical browser. Ever since then, he has done his level best to make sure that rather than this, his obituary will read "That Shitco Guy".

I mean - that's just pretty much all racism when you get down to it. It's just convincing yourself that the rattle of the pipes really *is* a ghost, but with a longer historical pedigree.

Blind spots around never having been poor absolutely exist, even/especially in well-meaning liberals, but this isn't that: it's psychotic nonsense that nobody who had thought about the topic for more than 20 seconds could believe, no matter how out of touch their personal experience of wealth was

As it's that particular anniversary just reposting a link to my article re pre-Dismissal polling and other pseph themes kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2021/12/psep...

It's true that Whitlam was unlucky to be in office for the oil shock and the public backlash to incumbents that it created. So were Ted Heath and Gerald Ford.

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

A few years ago there was a terrible Gen Z tweet everyone dunked on about how people should get their car insurance payments back if they don’t use it. Anyway it’s fun to discover this is now the stated position of the GOP

I'm glad the other two cars survived

It is interesting to see what even the current court views as obviously-well-beyond-settled

"support your local newspaper", etc

Really is ridiculous we don't have cheap venison easily available in Scotland. They're delicious and it's an environmental duty to eat them!

*two fucking water heaters wired in series*

Another one - and important to remember when people talk about mental health in the past vs today. The reality is back then, people just died.

Robbie Gibb criticising the BBC for journalistic standards is a glass house so big you could hold the Great Exhibition of 1851 in it and still have room for an excellent tomato crop

The swarms of people On Here calling him a Democrat are mildly amusing, in a grim post-fact kind of way (he's a Bernie Specifically Not A Democrat Because Even That Level Of Party Discipline Is Too Much For Him guy)

I hadn't realised that loony paranoid Yanks were doing this to themselves and UK readers for no reason, but it doesn't surprise me given they did the same thing at the point there was an equally daft Yank moral panic about how UK libel laws might impact random bloggers with no money

Honestly much more significant and dumb than the Trump edits

The “boiling vegetables to death” thing in English cooking was a result of the spread of germ theory

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

In many ways, this is not about the BBC. The BBC is symbolic - and symptomatic - in a much deeper and broader political battle. We must defend the BBC now in order not to lose that battle. How you choose to reform the BBC to make it better in the long term is a separate question entirely.

If you have a doubt the MAGA attack on the BBC is not co-ordinated, read what GB News owner told the US “We need you to come and save us. To rescue us … You are making America great again… We need to make Britain great again” subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/79/a...

The two child cap is a test of the government’s seriousness: if you are serious about child poverty, you lift it, and if you are serious about not wasting money, you don’t fritter away cash on dumb things like vouchers to try and manage the PLP.

Trump is far more evil than Theresa May, but the "cartoonishly high expectations placed on the group that ~doesn't control or have a majority for anything~" to reverse the fundamental problem of "a vote which the bastards won" does somewhat remind me of the 2019 UK parliament shenanigans

perhaps the most famous person to share my birthday (November 10) was Winston Churchill. "But wait," I see you saying, "wasn't he born November 30?" GUESS AGAIN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston...

This is a fascinating glimpse

Re discussions about clothes, inflation and Vimes's Boots theory: not an exhaustive study, but in general the clothing basics I've bought over the last ~10yrs at shops like Kmart (AU), Target (AU & US), Sainsburys and Tesco (UK) where working poor people buy clothes have held up well (1/2)

Why any politician still has an account on X astounds me.

As with the NHS, I think part of the problem is how the institution has been so thoroughly sentimentalised in both the public imagination and its own imagination, to the extent that even a minor infraction is greeted like the Werthers’ grandad going on a five-day ket rampage.

The BBC will fuck things up from time to time. Lots of major news organisations do; just look at The Times having to memoryhole several fake news stories in a matter of weeks. No one is calling for the abolition of The Times, however. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:

I see this cunt, who some of you lot used to mysteriously respect, has gone full fash writing for the skull measuring paper

I saw a couple of takes framing the US shutdown as a trolley problem, which I don't think works in its own right (the choices and outcomes are both far too vague), but I think does help showcase some of the popular and valid critiques of the trolley problem (1/6)

It's important to keep pointing this out about the many people who have gone the same way. Too often we suggest or imply that the trans moral panic merely allowed these people to be who they always were. Not true. We're seeing a process of *radicalisation*. We can't fix things unless we name them.

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

Let me shock you - the "patriotic" wing of British politics is not patriotic. It hates this country.

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

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Conservation work has started on one of the most unusual mausoleums in the Roman Catholic world -- the Bedouin tent shaped tomb of Sir Richard Burton and his wife, Lady Isabel. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/res...

Gary Lineker absolutely called it. bsky.app/profile/poli...

BYD has a market cap of US$120bn. It makes twice as many EVs per year as Tesla (4.2m in 2024 vs 1.8m) and is growing at 25%/year vs Tesla's 4% decline in 2024. Even in the best case where Tesla turns around and remains a major EV player, its current $1.3trn valuation is *still* out by a factor of 10

Anthropologists have discovered a lost tribe that uses the "one, two, many" system of counting.