““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

feel like this would be pretty big news in a less debased timeline www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

a normal regime defending itself

might start recording the worst patter I've ever seen in order to occasionally deploy it myself at a later date, for a laugh. Just seen a guy reply to someone with "you are the weakest link, goodbye"

the good news is the people behind this suck, everyone hates them, and everyone can see that completely. The bad news is they or people like them will be allowed and encouraged to further degrade the industries we work in regardless

this is genuinely genuinely nightmarish

I love you, Bluesky.

brb just cutting the half-time orange

Public views of Reform,July 2024 Need to do more to keep out candidates with racist views: 64% to 9% (+55) Risk bringing prejudice to immigration debate 51% to 20% (+31) Say things they shouldn't say 45% to 24% (+21) Mainly dangerous + divisive 43% to 28% (+15) Racist 41% to 30% 29% on fence

Imagine it, wake up every morning, open the papers and read direct quotes from all your enemies saying everything you say is correct and actually you’re a top bloke - I would love it, I would be kicking and screaming and hooting and hollering every day

Farage must quite honestly be one of the happiest men on the planet right now. Coming home every day watching everyone fawn over him sayong he isn’t racist, knowing full well he’s been very publicly racist since about the age of 9. He probably laughs like a maniac in bed every night.

staring at this reply and blinking

Absolutely absurd levels of incompetence for Your Party to launch again without making completely clear what this means for the 20k who signed up last week, and without any kind of joint statement of unity. Relaunching was the chance, if there was one, to clean things up. Unbelievable really.

Me: think I've thought long enough about it all now to have costed in most eventualities, so at the very least I'm no longer subject to whole new anxieties about the grim world my kids will grow up in Ed Davey: the next government will usher in a society newly vulnerable to school shootings Me: Ah

reading the Hobbit as a bedtime story easily a top 5 parenting activity

new joromly cromblin just dropped

kids stripey hibs tops arrived and am jealous

all these histrionics against the recognition of a Palestinian state (a symbolic gesture at this point) should make it clear to anyone still needing persuaded how nothing short of genocide and ethnic cleansing will ever be accepted as reasonable by Israel's most ardent defenders

Nobody's working. (doing other stuff instead)

Seeing a lot of posts about the Kirk memorial like "wearing white? pyro? looks like WWE, not a much of a sombre memorial is it?" No! It isn't! It's not a memorial, it's a fascist rally, and they won't be chastened by people accurately describing what they know they're doing!

thought about this for a moment and realised … he’s made it impossible for himself to work, hasn’t he. not just because nobody wants to work with him, he’s actually destroyed the part of his psyche that made it possible for him to be funny

Inarguable that Linehan would not be able to make Father Ted today, because writing a show like that requires a sense of wit, clear-eyed humour, and spirit of fun and daring that have all quite obviously abandoned him entirely over the last decade. It's actually very sad.

the thing about optimo is it emerged out of, reflected, was part of the wider cultural scene in millenial glasgow. it and the visual arts scene, especially, orbited each other. that’s part of what made it like cbs or the hac. the other part was people *wanting* it to be.

Kelvingrove Park c2006, bleary-eyed in the daylight, a mate tells me "people say 'I wish I'd lived in Hacienda-era Manchester' or, 'imagine being around in CBGB-era New York'... fuck that! We live in Optimo-era Glasgow!" He was right. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

why are the Liberal Democrats cosplaying an Orange Walk lmao

Actually currently can't be arsed hearing another word from Sultana or Corbyn ever again if I'm honest, sorry if this offends

kinda keep seeing folk saying he was a great dj and important to club music etc but the thing is he cared about that only to the extent that it was a way to bring people together to listen and dance. he loved music, all of it, and regarded it as a platform to meet anyone and everyone

#OneMoreTune -- ILX and Friends Celebrate JD Twitch, the ILX tribute album I coordinated, which resulted in a wonderful three hour celebration of his spirit. All funds raised there will be sent to the Crowdfunder; as was always intended, it remains free to stream for all.

Again, the reverse of this would be the BBC giving special live coverage to the funeral of Aaron Bastani.

Nice piece on the soundtrack here: www.vice.com/en/article/j...

I didn’t know Twitch well. Wasn’t along regularly to clubs at that point in my life. But I have a lot of love for Beats, and his soundtrack for it is impeccable. Just the best. If by some miracle you haven’t seen it, make a point of doing so this weekend. youtube.com/watch?v=rvk8...

ah jesus

Pick like 10 names out of the sign-up list at random. They all get an email: you are the Your Party steering committee now, congrats. 48 hrs to accept, then everyone else takes a back seat until membership is formalised and there's a leadership election.

Hey man, you guys got a coherent plan to work together towards the launch of a new left party for the 800k people that have signed up to support it already, nah?

To see all of that squandered so quickly with ridiculous machinations by egos at the top is infuriating. The political moment we’re in is too serious & too dangerous for this nonsense, and the 800K who put their faith in this deserve - & badly needed - better than this clowntown squabbling

I think most people understood that 800K sign ups to a website is not the same thing as 800K *in membership*, but still. 800,000 people isn’t nothing - it’s a sign of the hope many felt this might offer & the faith they had that those leading this would be capable of delivering something

completely re-orienting towards UDI-style Scottish nationalism as a rebound against the day's events

just cos Starmer and that are embarrassing when they go on about it doesn't mean competence doesn't actually matter eh

I'd have been all-in behind a ZS-led YP btw, and I've no difficulty believing she was being frozen out in appalling ways, and her instincts to get a move on are right. But you can't just unilaterally take control of the database and start taking payments from people under false pretences man come on

Rewind 18 months. Announce a new party with a name, some founding principles, a provisional structure, and a timeline towards conference, with Corbyn and Sultana as acting co-leaders pending an election that they can contest separately if they want to. Then everyone shut up.

The reality is there are both the conditions and the pressing need now for the left to actually dent things electorally, and the Greens are unable to do that on their own. The opportunity for a new left party being fumbled this badly actually matters, beyond just getting to pluck for the other guys.

what is going on here

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

The state making it its business to go around hiding pictures of politicians in the company of notorious child abusing sex offenders, let's see how this plays out for them

Basically everyone being like "yup, a truly talented guy. Properly decent bloke, just a nice man. And so stylish. Unbelievably handsome really, classic good looks, look at him here. And here. Here too. Just an exceptional, nice, good, very hot man." Pretty good going man, fair play.

QOTSA – Feel Good Hit of the Summer

[watching the ad break in the middle of Mad Men] Peggy Olson would've done a better job on this

Just seen someone defend Russell Martin against criticism by saying "this guy can't win" and, well

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys