It's okay everyone. We just need to persecute two or three more minorities and then you will finally be able to get a doctor's appointment.

At some point you'd think all the highly paid government analysts would go "huh, turns out trying to appeal to vibes rather than arguing facts doesn't work", but nope.

Oh, that's rubbish news. 😟

Tag, Betty, Norrie, Happy, Roly, Duggee

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

This response is understandable, and feels compassionate. I said very similar things about the area that I grew up, which voted heavily for Brexit. But the thing is: these people have been indulged in their ideas — which are racist, and also simply incoherent — for over a decade.

Slightly increase a band: Stairs

Voted. Let's hope it's not a complete disaster!

As people get ready to vote in the Scottish Parliament election please be careful of the spoiler operation which is 'Independent Green Voice'. They are listed second on the regional ballot paper in South of Scotland with the Green Party further down. IGV is a right-wing spoiler operation.

It's much harder because instead of being a newspaper journalist you have to host a television news show.

This is literally a Simpsons joke.

The problem is that this is exactly what Twitter did, and the billionaires responded by going mad and/or fascist.

This has to be engagement bait, right?

You might have seen a post about Nimbys in Chelsea objecting to the expansion of *an NHS cancer hospital*. It's even worse than it sounds. 1. It's not a hoax 2. @jonnelledge.bsky.social got in touch with them. I've got their response. 3. I dug out some objections. One of them…well, just read it:

I have a similar issue with Star Trek thanks to an old YouTube (I think) clip, where everytime someone says "fire at will" I imagine Worf shooting Riker in the back and then sheepishly going "sorry".

Alien

Wearing a white t-shirt whilst oozing blood is a brave choice.

Crisis on Infinite Earths but I said "crisis" in a terrible Aussie accent and then felt bad about the whole thing.

Every day on the train to Glasgow I wonder what happened in Cardonald that made the train announcer so upset. She sounds like she's about to burst into tears when she says the name.

Reform Scotland's manifesto launch is taking place today at the Ingliston Country Club in Bishopton.

I'm really looking forward to my boy being old enough to read the Beano so I can read it as well.

Why are there SO many fires destroying historical buildings in Glasgow? Tonight’s tragedy is just the latest. @glasgowbell.bsky.social mapped them. ‘With every conflagration there are whispers that there’s slightly more to things than meets the eye’. www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-fi...

Once again remember that when the press use "working-class" in this way what they really mean is "racists".

Such a great example of the "both-sides"-ism that has infected the BBC at apparently every level. "This man was horrendously abused just for being a Muslim. On the other hand, maybe they're all asking for it?"

I dunno lads. On the one hand a sitting MP was murdered in her constituency. On the other hand a plumber won an election for the Greens and I think they're a bit smug. Who can say which was a more disturbing moment for British politics?

I dunno, Daily Telegraph. I kinda think this says more about the Press and their absolute raging hard-on for platforming Reform than it does about the popularity of the Greens.

It's important to remember that, along with everything else, the far right are actually massive babies and extremely bad losers.

At this point I feel like we should spin off Cbeebies and Gladiators and just set fire to everything else.

Looks like The Discourse has moved on from blaming people for having a disability/blaming people for being black, and is now uniting behind blaming the BBC and the BAFTAs for creating a horrendous situation for everyone involved. Well done, everyone!

Some ppl need to read this and get educated before spouting off gross, ableist nonsense. Cos I can guarantee you, there are many POC with the same condition who are reading your “Should be muzzled” comments and now know your “allyship” is conditional on how “normal” you deem their behaviour is.

A man with Coprolaliac Tourette’s Syndrome (award-nominated for a film about his disorder) yelling the N-word at Black actors on stage, is an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. A trolley problem for a new era. It’s a Woke 2.0 cosmic test of some kind. Too on the nose to engage with.

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

airing the BAFTA award ceremony on a tape delay, leaving in a slur, but editing out "free Palestine"?? that too is a choice, and an egregious one at that! archive.ph/YMhlK

You know, the fact that some people think it was all deliberate is a damming indication of how badly we have failed as a society in addressing racism AND disability.

Honestly, the wildest take I've seen on the Discourse is "Only 2% of the population of Scotland is black therefore it's impossible for him to know that word without being a secret racist."

I'm probably going to be taking a social media break over the next few days. The incident at the BAFTAs, and the resulting ableism online has honestly triggered me with feelings I haven't felt in years. I'm autistic, and one of the things I have is intrusive thoughts.

I have seen the discourse (Unfortunate? Yes. Intentional? No), so here’s a clip from the film about the actual man’s life with the disability to show y’all. (And also you can see why Rob won the thing. And Peter Mullan is fantastic in this scene)

"Which views?" "Oh, you know the ones"

Mad that it’s one billionaire scumbag who’s behind these massive-scale evictions in London AND the mass closure of London pubs AND beloved institution the Prince Charles Cinema being in dire straits AND the high street being clogged with cruddy candy shops. A one-man enshittification engine.

I've tried to figure out why I prefer the prequels to the sequels... the world is more interesting. Like, Disney are refitting the theme park from ST to OT and how little work that will be shows how much the ST universe is just reheated leftovers.

The problem isn't "technology", but the implementation and "morality" around it. I would love it if humans got to Mars. I loathe Musk et al using "go to Mars" as a shiny object to deny any attempt to fix environemental or social issues on Earth and implement fascist policies that help no-one.

"compromised .txt file" should not be a thing

I think he's worried that the "anyone but United" hatred has died down a bit in the past few years and he's trying to bring it back.

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

I think the issue with Kermit is that all the other replacements they've done (Fozzie, Piggy, and Kermit the first time) sound extremely close to the original, so the fact that Vogel isn't quite as good at doing an impression of Henson/Whitmire makes it stand out more. Still, really enjoyed it.

he's the forest gump of hitlers