It’s wild that in a third of the upcoming council elections, Labour have handed Reform the line that the government tried to cancel them and Reform saved them. I’ve got plenty of issues with Labour, but making the fash look sensible by comparison is near the top.

A staggering number of Starmerites are determined to play into Farage’s line that: “The government tried to cancel democracy. They have been defeated.”

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

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My mantra when I get really sad is: “there's a million ways to get by” As in, if you don’t like what you’re doing do something else. I can’t think of a better example of this than (briefly) making your job riding bikes to buy video game consoles. Heartening stuff.

Hilarious that Starmer is still trying to use partygate as a dividing line. Just last month he appointed an attendee of those parties as his Special Envoy to the United States. You had the moral high ground, you willingly ceded it.

"The government might be better off if it listened more to the IDF" Mandelson ran unofficial pro-IDF diplomacy for the last Tory government - and Streeting STILL went to him for advice on Israel. It's a big club, and you ain't in it.

Some of you are about to discover that #DWG runs a lot faster. No thanks to @joelotter.com 😡

Leaked emails last week showed that Paul Mason repeatedly lied to readers and threatened baseless legal action against those who exposed him. This week The New World Magazine gave him their cover story.

driving children into poverty so you can afford another round has gotta be one of the most divorced policies ever concocted

no better example of the chilling effect that the UK’s libel laws have than this exchange:

How it started: How it’s going:

It’s a real shame that Holocaust education has been captured by right-wingers who frame it as singular, precisely to avoid learning from it.

at the pitch meeting: yes i LOVE benches [under my breath] as a design element

the only infrastructure we seem to invest in nowadays is our terf to fash pipeline 😢🇬🇧

This is fucking gross

big if true

Dave’s Word Game 1.0.9 is out now! We’ve added a toggle to the settings so you can show the status bar if you like. No more missed buses due to being too immersed in DWG and losing track of time. This may or may not be a real event that happened.

Labour loves “I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals” - a handy dodge for a government short on ideology and foresight. That line amusingly malfunctioned this morning, when Darren Jones said that businesses shouldn’t bother planning for risk.

crazy seven-way tie in #DWG today

Popbitch reports that Nadhim Zahawi attended Diddy parties.

How it started: How it’s going: The U.S. is not and has never been a reliable partner for dissidents.

obscene

A Twitter account with 452.9K followers posted a link to my blog today. This resulted in 2 likes and a mere 27 new views. Either my blog is shit or Twitter is dead. You decide: possibilityspace.substack.com/p/what-accou...

Imagine having your vacation photos stolen and used in an advertising campaign by a right-wing rag on a child pornography website. Cruel, bullying behaviour. Author @valeriestivers.bsky.social should be ashamed.

absolute banger open.spotify.com/track/6rY4CO...

The ADL famously thanked this white nationalist freak for his "leadership in fighting hate."

This “I’m not going to comment on hypotheticals” line is perfect for Starmer’s Labour, because what are values if not hypotheticals.

AM: BBC reports Trump says “kidnap” is “not a bad term” for what he did to Maduro. PM: BBC tells its reporters not to say “kidnap.”

It’s an acquired taste #DWG21 #DWG

A useful illustration of what relying on Yankee unipolarity reduces you to. Cheering on every instance of imperialism apart from the one that’s happening to you.

I’m starting to question the judgement of the FIFA Peace Prize jury.

Gah, so close: playdwg.com

Big thanks to @lotusloveslotus.bsky.social for the Dave’s Word Game shout-out in VGBees’ GOTY coverage. It appeared briefly, incidentally, in the letters section at the end… which marketing has assured me is legally indistinguishable from “Game of the Year.” bsky.app/profile/vgbe...

Putting aside Israel’s intent to forcibly displace Palestinians there: Somaliland is part of a UN state. Recognising it would violate Article 2(4), which prohibits threats to the territorial integrity of other states. Absolutely shameful that Labour politicians are backing this illegal outcome.

How it started: How it’s going:

As UNRWA is replaced by U.S mercenaries who gun down starving Palestinians, it’s important to remember that Labour supported defunding the organisation.

Netanyahu flew to the US over Greece, Italy and France, three ICC members who failed to act upon his arrest warrant. Europe just showed how disposable international law is when allies are involved. Shameful.

As senior Labour MPs call on Starmer to strip Alaa Abd el-Fattah of his British citizenship, it’s hard to stomach that the same figures host pro-Israel lobbyists who deny that Palestine even exists.

Blue skies this Christmas. If you want snow head to www.playdwg.com

Short of the genre's inventors nobody did more for first person shooting than Vince Zampella. RIP an absolute titan.

Fun #DWG board today. I struggled to use my one-long-diagonal-word strategy so had to use a smattering of smaller diagonals to stop the board refilling too early. #DWG8

The instrumentalisation of the Bondi Beach shooting possibilityspace.substack.com/p/bondi-beach

Leeds trams have been delayed until at least the late 2030s. The government did this “after an independent review, commissioned by the combined authority (WYCA)” Their press release doesn’t even say who the reviewer was. Classic accountability sink. possibilityspace.substack.com/p/what-accou...

The level of Islamophobia in this country is terrifying. Labour just criminalised an Arabic word and launched a dogwhistle probe into “links between ethnicity and child rape,” while His Majesty’s Opposition claims recognising Islamophobia would “make tackling tough issues harder.”

Check out my result in today's DWG! #DWG3 www.playdwg.com

@atul1.bsky.social Hey, you seem to play a whole lot of word games. If it’s not too presumptuous, I’d love for you to try my new one (out yesterday). www.playdwg.com

there is no limit to my contempt for this lickspittle cunt