You know what? Let’s not fact check the idiots who think Ayatollah Khameini, the Iranian supreme leader killed today, was the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini, who led the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Let them believe he was 124 years old. In fact, persuade them he was kept alive as a head in a jar.

rough day for anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life

Saturday 7th March, join us for our International Women's Day Rally! Belfast Film Festival will have the big screen up in Writers Square to entertain us from 11am. Samba band Chidambaram will be leading the rally as we march off at noon to City Hall for speeches. www.reclaimtheagenda.com/iwd26

I don't have any hot takes on what's going on other than that I think war is bad. And if you think that "war" isn't the right word for this I won't argue the point, but you know exactly what I'm talking about and I don't want to play "guess the noun" with you.

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The way that a lot of other parties and parts of the media talk about the Greens - like they're tiny babies who only talk about trees who we can safely ignore but HOW DARE THEY not talk only about trees - makes them look silly. You look and sound like silly people who don't know what politics is.

I'd try the same thing for "that's sectarianism baby" but quite honestly I feel like the British media's heads would collectively explode if they had to deal with what we mean by sectarianism.

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

So the candidate who left school at 16 with no A-Levels and who's spent her whole adult life vocational, manual jobs beat the ivory tower academic turned cushy media pundit, but you can be sure we'll still get plenty more casual description of the latter as "white working class".

Please note they'd have a very different tone if Reform had won

Make it socially acceptable to email sellers on vinted to ask what washing powder they used on the dress you bought from them.

While I agree, this is such a commonly held view too rarely evidenced so clearly.

The roads are so bad the glider feels like a rollercoaster. Bring back pictures of MLAs pointing at potholes in the road. Stop making tiktoks and start pointing.

The irony here is that Mumsnet has clearly radicalised some folk.

Every time I see an ad for butter where someone slices through the packet to take a chunk of butter, I cannot pay attention to the rest of the ad. Why. Why would anyone do this. The rest of the butter is now in need of some new, separate packaging. There was no need for this at all. Stop it pls.

I knew about this for weeks but I am still SO EXCITED

Belfast....come to this. We've 10 years to build a system that will help absorb the oncoming shocks of food shortages caused by climate change. Listen to the grassroots groups who know how to do this.

I think about her a lot because of this

How does he sleep at night?

Get in loser, we're doing the cancel culture panic again www.public.news/p/end-the-wi...

Masterful Troll, TCM.

What is a regulated sexual economy? Not playing ignorant. Just want to make them spell it out

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

We need more awareness of orgs that sound like they're a Serious Scientific Outfit while secretly being a collection of Christian fundies cranking out junk science and 'studies' with ass methodology to legitimise their ideological agenda. That's about as pure epistemic vandalism as it gets.

a year is a long time in politics

"The only way to defeat the extreme right is to enact exactly what they want."

How Labour MPs think a working class person's front room should look:

You know when someone told you an outright lie when you were younger and you didn't question it because it had no impact on your life and then years later you asserted it as a fact and were utterly humiliated by the lads? Well, turns out massages weren't invented by a guy called Pierre Massage.

I've never watched Loce Is Blind and am not 100% sure what the format of the show is but I've seen *that* clip and I have some thoughts. Bear with me or scroll as you choose. 1. It's not that unusual at all. Back in the days of youre, I had this happen to me and I know others who have to.

It’s the epistemic double bind of rape trauma: the rape victim who appears to suffer is unreliable, crazy, untrustworthy either to relay the facts of her rape or to judge its gravity and consequence. The rape victim who does not appear to suffer, by contrast, was not really hurt.

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

One thing ppl often get mad at me for saying is: the wealth disparity AND the giving disparity between the average (and the poor) and the wealthiest is like 300 times larger than it ever was in feudal England

what do you mean they didn't realize this before

I had this same reaction when faced with people who's entire calculus was "what does this mean for Starmer?" The brushing past the essence of it all, simply to do politica chat, it blows my mind. On the other hand there's a podcast called In Bed With The Right that has an episode everyone should

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

Quote from further down the thread: If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

1) Ban medication being prescribed because you say there is insufficient evidence to support it, even though it's prescribed internationally 2) Say you're going to set up a trial to get evidence that it's safe and effective 3) Pause that trial getting evidence because of "unquantified risk"

No straight teeth a dead planet

Autocorrect: nobody has heard of this word Brian, clearly she means to call her brother brain Also Autocorrect: oops a typo! Never mind, I know she means "a significant dragon on NHS resources" not "a significant drain"

We need the mugshot

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Jon Burrows is terrible at this.

Trade Union Congress: "Young people: We can't afford our rent. Multi-millionaire Reform MP Richard Tice: We're going to cut your pay."

I don't know why this just popped into my head, but last year there were photos online from Reclaim the Night and they all had vile comments below them, but one was of me and another woman and my placard said "Virginia Giuffre: hero" and the comments insisted she was a liar and called her all sorts.

Seeing a lot of people (American specifically) responding to Musk's obviously racist "English-Scotts-Irish culture" post by doing a racism of their own. "Nobody wants that culture, we left those countries to get away from it" says someone with a name that sounds like they could be my neighbour.

In the uk giving your child a haircut they want not approved by the government is considered child abuse. Also calling them what they want to be called, you need a license for that

It is mad, that in my lifetime the right has pivoted from being outraged and concerned about teenage pregnancies and teenage mothers (Sarah Louise in Coronation Street written to humanise, Vicki Pollard to sneer) to now being angry at the birth rate dropping. Just rage and misogyny all the way down