If true, great news for our country!

The unpredictability of these sketches is giving me cause for optimism about the rest of #SNLUK season

part of my contempt for these types is that they are huge cowards who shirk away from their own views when pressed on them

They‘ve really nailed the Weekend Updates segment #SNLUK

I wish i had a group of people to watch #SNLUK with, so that someone could have heard my audible gasp at the Jools Holland mention

I’m afraid, British-themed pub is going to be stuck in my head for the next week #SNLUK

OK, #SNLUK has the sauce - this British-theme pub in Spain sketch is so on the nose!

I’m coming around to #SNLUK but some of these sketches (like this opening skit) feel like they’re for a USA audience, not a UK audience

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

And the Electoral Commission have issued a statement ... with a polite (but firm 😁) "slap-down". Their words - "We will discuss with Democracy Volunteers the definitions they use and the training they give their observers." www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...

I don't think trans people should be imprisoned for 5 years because they have to pee

Too late as always. The propaganda effect is complete. Thousands of voters will believe that Muslim men’s coercion swung the vote and corrupted “our” democracy because false allegations were reported. This is how right-leaning media have rolled the pitch for Reform. news.sky.com/story/politi...

Life as a trans person, one year on from the Supreme Court ruling - Cosmopolitan https://apple.news/AIgyU6jInSuS_KkCNXYCCIQ

I won’t forget Rowling’s disgusting conflation of Khelif’s win with domestic violence against women. Truly setting women back every day. As someone who loved Harry Potter more than anything as a kid, I will never consume another piece of media from that rotten franchise.

I’m so sick thinking about how Trump, Elon Musk, and especially JK Rowling’s vile harassment campaign of lies and slander against Imane Khelif resulted in even more restrictions on women athletes. Meanwhile, Khelif is an actual inspiration to women and girls wanting to pursue boxing!

Also, just like… Why the fuck do we need this? We have a series of movies. We have video games. We have a theme park. We have radio plays. We have audiobooks. We have a fucking West End play. It’s diminishing returns at this point. And it was never fucking Tolstoy.

it's more direct than most of these debates. roald dahl was quite racist, but if you buy his books the money doesn't go towards promoting racism. a proportion of any money spent on Harry Potter stuff goes towards funding legal action to remove trans people from the UK.

It’s shocking how the motivation behind almost every single bad tech bill is about hating LGBTQ people and specifically trans people

Lisa Nandy does her day job challenge (impossible)

I do think it says a lot that M&S, the most Middle England, Terry and June, aspiring Upper Middle Class supermarket ever, is doing this sort of stuff. So much of the transphobia "debate" exists entirely online for an unrepresentative section of the body politic.

Also, I'm sorry, but I'm tired of gender criticals getting to play on easy mode. Anyone remotely sympathetic to trans rights spent years being asked "what is a woman?" every time they so much as walked past a journalist. The least we can expect is for GCs to be asked to justify this ban!

"Wokeness as an ideology became about showing people how much you are aware of things happening around you, rather than a cogent plan about what to do with your newfound awareness." @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

Oh no, don’t threaten us with a good time. Worse politician to come out of Birmingham since Nick Timothy

as a brown person, i’m tired of being told that i need to accept slurs and casual bigotry to win folk over - if you can’t win as a left-liberal without using slurs or accepting bigotry, you’re a shite candidate and your “movement” is one of the bowel, not politics

increasingly feel very old fashioned for my "all slurs are bad" beliefs

This is one of the stupidest school library censorship stories I've ever read. And it's not happening in Florida, but Greater Manchester. That said, I do wonder why the school library even had a copy of OJ Simpson's "If I Did It". (Not supporting a ban on it but weird title to stock).

Of course they are. Just simple racism now.

It would be a great time for those with a bully pulpit to denounce this and anybody who agrees with the sentiment.

Ngl, I didn’t think she’d ever act again, so I guess I have 4 seasons to catch up on

The rolling back of a draconian Conservative policy is welcome from this Labour government. I was in secondary school when the two-child limit and the effect this (and the bedroom tax) had on classmates was appalling.

I despise when tech execs describe resistance to a new tech product or paradigm as "being scared" i.e. "I understand why musicians are scared but.." it's so condescending. being politically against something or exercising your right to opt out can come from many places other than "being scared"

I really don’t want to prejudge SNL UK, but if the teaser is anything to go off, they’re so cooked. Earnest humour doesn’t work in the UK, it’s not in the national psyche. We’re a jaded people, which is why snarky panel shows worked, as it was an opportunity to be bitchy and coarse.

You are absolutely allowed to dislike a movie simply because it stars a well-known abuser. You are absolutely allowed to oppose giving well-known abusers awards, prestigious roles, and praise. That is not an unreasonable standard to have—it is a very reasonable one

Honestly give Billy Crystal an award for not crying this whole time.

Completely agree with Fred - cut the skits down, add extra room for award winners speeches #Oscars #AcademyAwards

Thank fuck Sinners has finally won something! #Oscars #AcademyAwards

as much as i like the skits, i’d gladly cut them in favour of letting the award winners speak #Oscars #AcademyAwards

Jesse Plemons not receiving a nomination for Bugonia is a travesty #Oscars #AcademyAwards

First surprise of the evening (for me), best casting goes to One Battle After Another #Oscars Not disappointed, but I was rooting for Sinners or Marty Supreme (stunt casting Kevin O’Leary, introducing Odessa A’zion)

I love the slow round of applause as folk got the tiny something arena joke from Conan #Oscars #AcademyAwards

Pretty strong monologue from Conan. They’ve picked a pretty good host #Oscars #AcademyAwards

Omg Conan that pedo joke

this is up there with the uk naming its 2020 hospitality industry stimulus package “eat out to help out”

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

"It’s particularly horrendous to me when you have someone from within our own community who demonises a minority group. I don’t know what’s going on in Wes Streeting’s head, but what I do know is it’s terrifying for trans people,” he said. www.attitude.co.uk/news/zack-po...

And this is how the most electorally successful political party in the western world dies, acting at the whims of social media users