New term for my non-binary friends just dropped

Summertime, I bunked off work an hour early, and Thatcher's still dead

I do not think there’s any version of Britain where Old Jezza wins and becomes PM, without that instantly triggering a wave of suicide attacks from his own party and the opposition, with no concern whatsoever for the public’s wellbeing.

They tried to make this man an MP while he's being paid €10k a month by Hungary.

A cool update on the war we aren’t fighting and aren’t involved in

Worth remembering that in this specific situation these guys are talking about an MP who entered the commons taking the place of a Labour MP who was texting people in private group chats about how he wanted his elderly constituents to die rather than to bother him.

If you're right wing saying it you're a wise truth-teller, if you're left wing saying the same thing you're a dangerous extremist.

I’ve just read this article for the second time and I find this response as bizarre and jarring as jennings’. there’s no ‘economics’ in the article at all. it’s just a series of statements about how people in the country are feeling. there’s nothing ‘populist’. what is this man talking about

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Four records for today

“It is beneath my dignity to let myself be run over by any trolley, and particularly this trolley, burdened as it is by a cape and a stupid hat.” I wrote for Defector about boycotting Harry Potter, the ‘safe’, kindly face of anti-trans politics: defector.com/its-time-to-...

Mad that Robyn references You Don't Mess With the Zohan, the Adam Sandler movie about an IDF soldier who fakes his death to become a hairdresser in New York and fall in love with a Palestinian salon owner, on her new record.

Sunshine

March listening

A lot of the press piling on Matthew Goodwin now (good) as if they weren't parroting the racist 'family voting' line like it was gospel when he lost G&D.

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

The morning after Hannah won I was asked time and time again about this. There was no evidence for it. Instead the establishment media fuelled the fire. It was Islamaphobic. And it's because those in power are scared of us ending rip off Britain.

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I have no interest in this man’s problems

I read this when I was like 8 cos we were on a family holiday and I'd finished all the books I'd brought with me

my sister is so excited about getting her cosmetology license i don't have the heart to tell her the USSR doesn't have a space program anymore

Good sky.

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Got that Afroman song about fucking a cop's wife stuck in my head.

Truss was too laughable to be able to nab special advisor roles in finance or big tech after her political career bombed, so there was only one readily available form of money left—the US-influenced rightist grift train. A woman without ability, charisma or shame, but somehow invincible self-belief

RIP Len Deighton I went through a load of his a few years ago and enjoyed every one.

Maybes aye and maybes naw, but I see no coherent explanations that ring true for how exactly these abysmal clowns could have rescued their party from “an existential threat” and then swiftly tanked it to fourth in the polls, while nobody important was wrong about anything at all.

Here she comes!

Guys, just say “Keir Starmer wasn’t really PM in any meaningful sense; Morgan McSweeney removed the US ambassador and gave her job to Peter Mandelson, as a payoff for services rendered that we’ll refuse to talk about until everyone is dead or retired”. You will feel better after you say it.

Becoming a sauna guy.

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She asked me if you forward an email do you lose it. In 2026.

Can this be a solution?

oh cool we’re doing the Wire Mother experiment again, but on all of society

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Sure you’ll see a bunch of fun cool bands but also you just might luck out and experience the highest high an alt head can experience: seeing a bad band that then gets famous later and you can forever talk shit about how bad they were when they played in front of 15 people

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

Truly a perfect news alert

he means "i'm bored and i want to play a different game now"

Wes Streeting isn’t doing this for the Reform vote he’s doing it because he’s a deeply revolting right-wing piece of shit and questions should be asked about the role of his religion in it if we want to be real

Labour thinking they can capture the Reform vote. Lol

RIP Gabba. Victimised an all-time classic. Chaos UK is the worst smelling gig I've ever been to.

watching THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC and am sad to report I have a new perspective on Jerry Lawler's mid 90s haircut

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I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

Finally owning a comp of Moroccan punk and hardcore for 10 years is gonna pay off.

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

for this #BandcampFriday I want to highlight some stuff that might have flown under the radar ... first up, my mini-album of last year, Missals, a sort of concept album based around a 1962 tape echo unit. riyl durutti column, the cure, michael rother robertdallasgray.bandcamp.com/track/last-m...