It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom

I'm obliged for the nod. The "Penrose Effect" seems to be a real thing - hypothesised in the 1930s and re-tested in the last decade or so: Where you reduce your inpatient psychiatric provision, you'll see a correlated rise within 10yrs in prisons of seriously mentally ill prisoners.

What’s that, the malignant swine you helped for decades have now turned upon you, and are battering you with vexatious complaints about drivel? Best of luck with that lads, you’re going to get all of the sympathy and support you have earned over the years.

I am hearing there’s a political campaign against the BBC by cynical liars and frauds who don’t care what’s real and only want to destroy it, and I can say: LOL too bad lads, you could not possibly more deserve to get wrecked by the wingnuts and cranks you were once so happy to promote.

Nick Robinson in particular can absolutely get fucked, if he’s looking for sympathy now. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander and I, for one, do not care to defend these awful people from attacks by vexatious wingnuts.

We need to update the Frog and the Scorpion story so it's the Frog, the Scorpion and the Other Frog. The other frog has a sprained ankle so needs a little help crossing the river, but the first frog actively decides to help the scorpion because the Other Frog is trans or Frog Jeremy Corbyn.

Basically, Intolerance of any sort is now a protected characteristic under the equality act. Just straight up putting the paradox of tolerance in the law Incredible

Petra.

Already loving this trip...

Instead of giving Elon Musk a trillion dollars, the company could give every single one of its 1250000 employees about eight million dollars each...

One of the funniest things about getting older is watching people my age succumb to nostalgia about these terrible films.

10/10 take. No notes.

can someone tell me if this is good

How mad do we think Glinnner is that he's not made the cut for the shirt?

Listen to @bloodwork.show

If I have learnt a single thing from 8 years of arguments about The Last Jedi, it’s that George Lucas was absolutely right to just explicitly and clunkily spell out themes like “I knew there was more to you than money!” when the franchise started rather than trusting it was clear to the audience

Brb, starting “Frankenstein, attorney at law” for nanowrimo

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...

im not going to just look past the mass shitting on trans people, disabled people or palestinians in gaza just because it's going to be a little bit harder for my landlord to evict me now. that's not how solidarity works. fuck off

This is the flaw in the "communication issue" cope, it's not that they're communicating poorly, it's that they're accurately communicating what they're about and it turns out everyone fucking hates it.

We live in a social media landscape where we are not reliant on you for messaging. You cannot message your way out of people being able to see for themselves the harms your government perpetrates. A handful of heavily watered down almost left wing policies cannot change that.

Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing. In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

However, most people buying that H&M overcoat are not looking at those sorts of details. They're typically attracted to the style because they want a designer look for less. Big overcoats like these from Armani and Fear of God are super trendy right now.

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

An Early Modern Way of Having Too Many Browser Tabs Open

It's pretty obvious that incitement to violence (ostensibly a police matter) is OK with this government as long as the targets are trans. Unless the message is that you can say whatever you like online with no consequences

To set aside all of the obvious problems with pitching any Labour policy as life changing, if you wanted any kind of positive cut through you'd find some way to make this country less shit and expensive. It's really that simple.

half the 'gender critical' platform over the last 10 years has been 'someone said something mean to me on twitter dot com and that is why trans ppl should have no rights'.

I have to say, what an incredible cunt this man is, when he gave Patrick and Gabriel a massive spiel in about 2020 explaining how he personally concocted the Labour Whistleblowers out of nothing into a massive national scandal with John Ware at the BBC. And now denies it all. What a cunt this man is

It is IMO a beautiful illustration of the way that the British press does not usually lie, and seldom needs to. They repeat drivel they were told by the worst people who have ever lived.

I do also like how the SNP were a smooth sphere of sealed omerta and media hostility, right up until their former leader got arrested for grabbing women’s arses, at which point their older politicians all went completely insane and started writhing and squealing at journos about women with penises.

This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

At a time when Labour are failing to deliver on one of its key promises the Guardian publishing this drivel as an “exclusive” tells you more about the Guardian’s client journalism and how desperate the Labour right has become than anything else.

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

lmao

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

It's really quite something to have had my silly little tattoo book reviewed in the LRB. I finally grabbed a hard copy today and it's just humbling to see the book taken seriously...

From the outside US evangelicalism is a very puzzling religious group because ostensibly they are very concerned with the moral teachings of a publicly accessible text but also they seem to have inferred completely the opposite lessons from that text than what everyone else thinks is the plain read.

One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists. The government shutdown was invented in 1980 The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

I love how, in a 20 year timeframe, we've "transitioned to a knowledge economy" - but somehow also unilaterally decided that knowing stuff is so fundamentally worthless, it can be outsourced to a Magic 8 Ball stuffed with pages from a thesaurus by a handful of sociopaths six thousand miles away

Ban it.

Remember when a toy would be unintentionally designed dangerously, it take out a kid’s eye or suffocate them, there was a media/public uproar and then they would take the toy off the market?