In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

instead of social media, have you tried: a paper bag you hold up to your mouth and scream "no one is taking my feelings seriously!!!!" into

Support Scottish artists. Not AI slop.

me when i’m playing worms

I have a had a fucking DAY, y'all. All the passengers on my bus trip were like "we know where we're going more than you do" and I was like "uh I'm the official bus driver" and they just didn't stop!

This is happening while the Billy Connolly mural by actual human artist John Byrne down by Osborne Street is being gradually covered up by some new building being erected.

At any given moment there apparently must be one Scottish MP so utterly horrid, so deeply unpleasant, so totally, irredeemably nasty that the loss of their seat would be occasion for a celebratory three day bender amongst the queer community (and I say that as a teetotaller) and, well...

I'm going to need all the graffiti artists in the city to start making plans real quick.

📜 From the Archives Alert 📜 The "Chagos Deal" is, in fact, just neocolonialism with a hat on; the important bit - the military base at Diego Garcia that allows the US (and UK) to extend its military hegemony far into the Indian Ocean is still there. www.podbean.com/ew/pb-r3yy6-...

i love the replies being like ‘leaving Nato is absurd we just need to kick the US out’ a thing which is literally impossible

Polanski really triggering with this one the folk who would prefer to participate in a nuclear holocaust rather than simply die in one.

IDK why we're so hell bent on banning kids from using the internet when it's clear those most at risk are 40+ year olds

Ummm ☝️🤓 its actually really important that a country actively threatening us has a military presence here

"a lot of people are posting about the bus kidnapping story, surely it can't be that bonkers" my friends this is an actual odyssey

Have we considered that it's not "the mobile phones" that pose the greatest danger to kids, but the billionaires who produce CSAM machines that our government refuses to do anything about.

Smashing the billionaire class needs to move from a slogan to concrete policy.

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

The optimum movie length is 90 minutes. Don't fight me about it, you will not win.

One of the saddest sights in Glasgow. I don’t know why City Property refused the former workers’ bid to take it over but surely any plan to bring it back is better than letting it decay like this.

The way shows like Adolescence and attacks on girls and trans kids are being used to isolate marginalized people and justify expanding state & corporate control of the internet needs more scrutiny. The answer isn’t bans but dismantling the systems that profit from stoking fear, anger & division.

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

Unlike the rest of us, Donald Trump does not hate Keir Starmer, because if Keir Starmer did not exist, Donald Trump would not have a court jester to clown on.

Seriously now. Are the Starmer Ultras not fucking embarrassed? He's called a press conference - deliberately timed so Trump would be asleep - glazed him, confirmed he'll do nothing to retaliate and used the whole thing to attack Davey and Polanski and its not even landed

Just strategically, I think if you want to maintain that the left really was a terrifying threat in the period 2015-19, and that they should never be allowed power because of that, you need to show you, yourself, are capable of understanding that the fascists offering the Jews asylum is horseshit.

Seeing 'Well done, Kemi Badenoch for not being a social media obsessed rage-merchant' in my speech would make me sack my spindoctor on the spot.

He called a press conference to say he wasn't going to do anything, that's real leadership right there!

RT if you're tired

More than that, the SNP stalled self-ID for years, until the Scottish Greens joined the government. They delayed reforming the legislation, ignored public consultations in support of it, and failed to defend it properly while trans people were targeted. And still, that's too much for transphobes.

imo a part of Zohran Mamdani's appeal is he interacts with regular people spontaneously and enthusiastically in an era where most nationally prominent politicians respond to a Normal Person like a vampire seeing a cross

Big George Martin should never finish these books, on purpose. Let these people stew.

A modern Drag Race classic, another criminally unfunny RDR Live episode!

Well that's that settled then I guess, we can all thank our favourite middle manager for avoiding a major diplomatic crisis

It's basically no big deal to go on an adventure

this has 18k views over on TikTok and people are really making their voices heard in the comments

A pretty interesting conversation on this week's podcast, and I think a pretty clear throughline that racism, "skivers vs strivers" and for the queer community, transphobia are all weapons wielded by the ruling class to smash the working class.

A petit bourgeoisie you say, that sees its lifestyle and social position under threat you say? Finding exterior enemies and explanations from a rapidly growing facist movement, you say? Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.

Scottish Tories seem to take turns at championing the demonisation of LGBT orgs.

Unless I hear that Starmer told Trump to "go fuck yourself", I will not care.

As screenwriter of the Labubu movie I want to clear up some misconceptions. Yes, technically they do eat human flesh, but only necrotic tissue around wounds. Doctors use them to clean up injuries and promote positive health outcomes. Labubus are humanity’s allies, except for evil Labubus of course

The Scottish Government have sat on their hands while cruel and abusive conversion practices continue in Scotland. We've repeatedly pushed the SNP to ban conversion practices, but they have failed LGBTQ+ people time after time.

Not kidding it's because they saw too many nazi memes on twitter about america dying because we eat tofu and there are gay people here or whatever

Oh worth pointing out this is because the SNP led Glasgow city council wants to take ownership of the buses and they hope Labour will stop it

Have you heard of Palestine, Ursula? Been in the news a bit over the last few years. 👍

You shouldn't be allowed to run a country if you've hosted a podcast. That's just common sense policy.

in a little while i'll be driving into rural georgia to buy classic wargames from a guy off facebook marketplace so if i dont come back just know i died doing what i love: going to rural georgia and buying classic wargames from a guy off facebook marketplace

That's only a UN Commission, UN Special Rapporteurs, OHCHR, B'Tselem, the international association of genocide scholars, Oxfam, Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, MSF, Physicians for Human Rights Israel and dozens of countries vs Gavin Newsom and his pod pal