english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

A night in the pub with people you care about really can cure what ails you

who the fuck asked you cunt

Dissociating! in the Parking Garage

i should be able to end the work day by pulling down on a series of heavy potentiometers that make a BBBBEEEEOOWWwwwwww noise as the computer screen fades to black

“Somethin’s up, Jed. … That’s Ben Potter’s horse, all right, but ain’t that Henry Morgan’s chicken ridin’ him?”

are you just going to do this for every generation

Do you think any of the media is about to point out that Moldemort likes wearing t-shirts made by one of the lead speakers at a far right riot? Or will that quietly be forgotten about like all of the rest of the far right links with gender critterdom?

Not to flog my own person dead horse but this is the consequence of the fact this country doesn't actually know how to talk about it's own very specific relationship with race and would therefore prefer to talk about MLK and George Floyd than Dr Moody, Notting Hill, Brixton and Stephen Lawrence

I’m reminded of Sandie Peggie, whose persistent well-documented racism is glossed over by most on the anti-trans side, who‘d otherwise have to make the case that someone with a storied history of being abusive and bigoted intermittently became sensible and enlightened.

“Hey, wait a minute! This is grass! We’ve been eating grass!”

do political badges include the poppy

Including an anonymous quote from “one veteran political journalist” saying “I think we do OK” is a lovely touch there

Apparently it's keep Anas Sarwar in place for the whole term because the Scottish public are going to be given one more chance to apologise for voting incorrectly and finally give him the keys to Bute House, as he deserves and as they have unjustly denied him this year

gonna hear a lot of labour MPs today saying they condemn riots but the rioters are right and we should give them everything they want

It’s also absolutely wild to see a far right movement with a long history of stigmatising Polish immigrants in 2000s and 2010s in the run up to Brexit now claiming to champion Poles in the UK.

Violent far-right protests have become a regular feature in towns and cities across the UK in recent years along with episodic riots such as those of 2024 and those we saw last night in Southampton. This is a shocking change which would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

happy pride month citizen now show me your genital passport

Telling my kids this is Graham Platner

Walked in on my bard performing for other travelers

Wait, are you sure that’s two squirrels and not…

The result of Jormungandr and Ratatoskr's tryst

Worf Hardbass Mixtape.mp3

everyone in this country is trying to figure out what a man is. we've been assessing the situation for 250 years and are finally starting to draw some conclusions. first off: men are DEFINITELY not women. we're absolutely sure. second: still working on it, come back in 50 more years

ok, they still exist some places, but according to this 2021 graun article there was a *fifty percent* decline in the number of public toilets between 2011 and 2021. that was 5 years ago, and I don't get the impression that things have improved. another big austerity W.

literally the only "public toilets issue" that should exist in political discourse is that there fucking aren't any any more.

i don't know what's actually happening here but for a second I thought he'd strapped a bomb to his chest and felt joy for the first time in six months

What if women got to participate in public and civic life on dignified and equal terms even if they really were in fact ugly, unmarried, childless, gay, or otherwise broadly sexually unappealing to men? ha ha ha ha ha what if.

I know this is exactly "my line" and not anything anyone wants to hear but it does seem important to not respond to a statement like "this woman is ugly and I judge her to have failed at heterosexuality and therefore she is not deserving of dignity and respect" with "she's hot actually."

Any labour mps about daring to proudly share the abolition of section 28 today?

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

cool why not do this for everything "it is stereotyping to assume that people who hold phrenologist beliefs necessarily have negative attitudes towards those they believe to be part of a racial or genetic underclass, it may be that some who manifest such beliefs hold such animus but not all do"

Do you remember when WPUK started up and they all claimed they didn't want to ban trans people from public and they just "had concerns" about GRA Reform lol

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Embarrassing the Labour Party has managed to implement something even more hateful and draconian than even the most conservative US Republicans in the most conservative states.

'and i'm not a nasty evil freak. put it in the law that i'm not a nasty evil freak'

Sooo if they admit theyre a tranny you can kick em out but also there’s no actual way to prove it in which case if their Tranny Vibes are big enough you can still probably kick em out but be careful about it

PISS WHERE THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE LAW

Bigotry as a legitimate reason for discrimination as presented by the equality and human rights commission

It is juts fucking crazy they straight up let people’s “discomfort” with someone overrule their human rights

It really is just on its face ridiculous to suggest requiring someone to have to use a third segregated space wether they want to or not is somehow not discrimination or in any way respectful or dignified

Partner and I spent all weekend at my allotment plot getting it ready for planting. Strimming, hoeing and rotovating like mad. The ground hadn't been cultivated in two years and it was solid with grass. It was all worth it for the results though!

Lanark, Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein

my eternal Last Jedi problem “no, I don’t like that movie. wait, shit! not like that, those dipshits are wrong, I have other reasons”

It really is very cynical to see an explicitly antisemitic party invited to address an anti-antisemitism rally and no excuse can make this normal

I've got an even more controversial take about my former MP than all the valid criticism raised in comments on this. Here it goes: an easier way to avoid having terrible decisions you made in the late '70s come up time and again in your career is to retire. It's been nearly 50 years. Go away!

ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate