Yep. The value of corporations rolling out the rainbow carpet isn't what's in their heart of hearts, it's the society-wide signaling of "acceptance is good, bigotry is bad." Even if entirely insincere, it tells society "we think the majority of our customers expect this," and that's good!

Neither you nor the other person will feel worse for thanking the other for making the world a better place, telling them that you appreciate their work. This is the other half of the equation of making sure to speak ill of shitbirds while they're alive and after they finally die. Be consistent.

oh shit not giles

Shout out to Charlie Kirk. His first pride month without saying anything homophobic. Proud of him.

My kid is at school, and they have to lock their phones in pouches. I have texted her about the Phoebe Bridgers tour so I'm just waiting for the excited response.

My feelings towards people like Ian are that I do not care at all whether they acknowledge that the leftist shitposters were infinitely more correct than they were, as long as we get to the point where no-one pays attention to anything they say, as they are entirely full of shit

Makes sense to me. Hannah Spencer's busy. She has a job. He's got a lot more time on his hands ;)

The vagueness in the EHRC guidance is the point. If you are asked to police access to services in any way: Ask for more clarity. Ask for rules. Refuse to "use your own judgement" - insist that you are not an expert. Express concern about potential legal action. Ask if this is in your contract.

British newspaper headline, huge: IS THIS INSANE FAR RIGHT CONSPIRACY THEORY ACTUALLY TRUE? British newspaper subhead, in the smallest font possible: no, but we thought we’d discuss it at length anyway

This isn’t to humanise people clearly set on doing race riots but at the same time we’ve all noticed life get worse and worse and the future get bleaker and bleaker, and there’s no one to communicate any form of hope or improvement in any tangible way. So there’s just anger and violence

After a while you just have to stop pretending these guys are anything but angry men who want to kick the shit out of stuff because they’re pissed off about how their lives and prospects have noticeably got worse over the last 20 years. And no one has offered them a reason why that is except race

A lot of people are making the obvious jokes about butter knives. This is very low-hanging fruit, and you should absolutely continue to make these jokes because he's a fucking dickhead who does not deserve more effort.

Weird how no one in the media ever seemed to ask why the popular Labour candidate for Clacton was dumped with no real explanation when it looked like he was going to walk it

86% is low. Support was much higher before they waged a decades-long attack on trans people. But, still, after a decade and 10s of thousands of hit pieces, it is *still* 86%.

Saw a clip of that guy from Staind saying that Bruce Springsteen duped us with Born in the USA because it’s actually not patriotic but I don’t think it’s really duping people to ask them to listen to more than four words of a song

Just to make sure we're not getting bogged down in classism, let's be clear Robert Kenyon is Reform's second thickest and second most problematic Greater Manchester by-election candidate of the year.

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

are you just going to do this for every generation

So much of this sort of thing is just the established political class stamping their feet and WHY WON'T THE YOUNG PEOPLE LISTEN TO US WHEN WE'RE EXTREMELY CLEVER AND RIGHT. We have at least fifteen years of this and I hope Gen Z ignore them entirely. Unless it's to mercilessly mock them.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Remember when the Sun published an anti-Corbyn article that used neo-nazi groups as a source, and nobody was ever punished for it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life” Hard news to see this early in the morning. 😔

Congratulations to everyone who said it would get this bad. Your prize is watching everyone who disagreed now claim no one could have predicted it would get this bad.

Keep saying this but maybe if these dickheads hadn't spent years responding to every mild critique of capitalism with OH YEAH WELL WOULD YOU PREFER COMMUNISM you probably wouldn't now have so many young people thinking shit, maybe.

THERE'S NO DEBATE, STOP TRYING TO MAKE DEBATE HAPPEN

Does anyone have ready access to that post from around Christmas that included a phrase like "the niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, for the soul of the uncle is CHAOS". I cannot find it.

This video is for my geography teacher who said that I will never go anywhere in life. Haha, look at now. Eiffel Tower, Italy.

Is it too much to hope that the far-right dickheads might finally push it too far and learn that if you fuck with the police too much, they do tend to fuck around back.

I cannot tell you how refreshing it is to know, almost without checking, that my MP will be on here. But I did check and sure enough she was.

I maintain that Muppet Casablanca is a solid winner. Kermit and Piggy as Rick and Ilse, obviously. Gonzo as Lazslo, Fozzie as Louis, Rolf as Sam. The cafe scenes are basically Muppet scenes already - tell me you can't imagine the "Vot Votch" couple as Muppets.

They were handing out free cat food samples at Piccadilly. I took a couple and said thanks, and that as I'd run out they'd saved my bacon for the day. The woman responded by giving me about 20 more samples as "you'll hear about it from them if you run out again"

My kid did not want to vote for the basking shark. She did however vote for the pine marten because "they help protect red squirrels and they look like they want to fight everything, but in a cute way"

This is pretty much where I'm at with it all.

I'm aware the Greens are quite decentralised but there's about a dozen reasons why they need to stamp down on shit like this.

Farage on the murder of Henry Nowak: “(we) should respond with pure, cold rage” Farage on the murder of Sarah Everard: “We must not allow the tragic murder of a young woman to turn into attacks on men and attacks on the police” What changed?

If you suggest police officers shouldn’t kick people in the head, you’ll get the chief of the Met condemning you on national television. If you say the police are institutionally racist against whites and suggest people should riot, you’ll get invited onto a BBC couch to expand upon your theories.

It's quite rare to see a politician who seems to genuinely enjoy the company of children. Like, he very obviously finds them hilarious.

'channel public anger' is an absurd way to write 'incite racist violence'.

Registered dad's death today. Had to use a fountain pen to sign, so got my brother to do it as he has better handwriting. He managed somehow to get ink on his nose. It was all terribly dignified.

this is my kind of company motto right here

i really hope i live through this period of history and see these ppl get what they deserve.

Seeing “you may not use facilities of your affirmed gender” in black and white really has me feeling an abject dread in my heart

What’s funny is if somebody in the files had used the actual 14 Words, nobody in the press would have blinked.

Another evening train journey, hopefully after the return leg tomorrow it'll be the last train for a while. Soundtrack is the new Boards of Canada, which is good melancholy evening train music.

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

When you're just not picking up on the signals

It's always funny when you get an article from Gwendolyne Terfbangs entitled 'Pity the transes but never suffer them to have a piss' and then the big subscription pop-up says 'THIS IS WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST'. Yes, indeed it is.