I gather this guy is a respected journalist in the UK. He just posted this on a trans woman's linkedin post. I don't think he knows her personally. What is happening to people?

Internet-based neo-nationalists somehow not picking up the incredibly on-the-nose echo of loyalists burning out terraced houses in Belfast. "Stand up and join the people who burned out your granny in their burning out of other people, possibly from the same house": not a compelling pitch.

Jennifer Carroll-McNeill, one of the last remaining socialists in the Dãil. www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Did you know that Scooby Doo is a highly sought role among canine actors? Yes, every pup dreams of playing the Great Dane.

One day I hope to meet a man who loves me as much as Keiko Fujimori loves losing elections by the skin of her teeth

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I’m reminded of Sandie Peggie, whose persistent well-documented racism is glossed over by most on the anti-trans side, who‘d otherwise have to make the case that someone with a storied history of being abusive and bigoted intermittently became sensible and enlightened.

Seeing takes about the "self-radicalisation" of elites and the right "losing the plot". All of which ignore two interrelated dynamics: 1. The main party of the right and, arguably, the right bloc are in long-term decline. 2. And this is because of the experiences of younger class cohorts.

Since our political leaders and media have decided that the only reason Henry Nowak died was because the police are too woke, here are my two cents, based on what I've read of the public information 🧵

It just feels absolutely mad to me that we're being asked to believe the police would have treated that poor boy any better if he were black

Just a selection of comments posted under real names on a local Green Party Facebook photo of newly elected councillors outside the town hall. X is bad but every time I scroll Facebook it gets worse.

NEW: Dima was 14, Entisar 13, Najah 11, Alaa 8, Ahmed 6 and Layan 2. Syria has now confirmed that all six al-Abbasi children are dead, accused by Assad's state of being "financiers of terrorism," reports Morgan Laffer for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

But you said AI was never sick :(

Lots of private enterprises springing up in front gardens along the Arsenal parade route: bathroom access, soft drinks for sale, some houses taking cash AND card! Truly Thatcher's children.

It's beside the point I know but Nosferatu with a spray tan here is really decaying in front of our eyes.

I was on Nigel Farage’s Brexit Fisheries boat and he was serving smoked salmon and I asked him if the smoked salmon was British and he told me to piss off

Totally niche again, but given I follow quite a lot of Italians I thought it was worth a try. I'm looking for anyone who really loved Pinocchio as a child - someone for whom it has a special significance for any reason, or who has a story connected with it. I'd be grateful for RTs. Thank you.

A million views on X for this video where someone harasses an innocent and polite M&S employee about changing rooms. It’s a horrible, nasty society the gender criticals are trying to create.

gay guys are always saying things like Did u hear the new song from Beth. I'm like no who's Beth. And they're like shut up bitch listen to this. And then they play the worst song I've ever heard. I love u gay guy.

How your email finds me today.

This is completely deranged: Iran is required to play games in the US but ISN’T ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY OVERNIGHT. They will instead have to fly back to Mexico. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Spotted at the Smithsonian this week: Personalist Regime: Exit through the Gift Shop Edition

We're just loving the third day of 30+ degree heat.

The three ever present debates of Bluesky: A. You should be on x/no you shouldn't B. Americans and English posters argue about food C. Jokes: not even once

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16

Chowing down on whatever unfortunate insect was hanging out in my pot of salad leaves.

The UK Labour party leadership competition:

Can’t take this seriously from a political journalist, the most no show job in Britain.

So a trans woman I know, almost 70, now has to use male toilets? Why? She had gender reassignment surgery in the 1980s and has been using women's toilets for 40 years. She has never been a threat to anyone. Will she be safe in men's toilets? Where's the law to protect her?

Mad to think that the Kray twins grew up to be in Spandau Ballet isn’t it x

Irish flotilla activist says detainees were subjected to violence and psychological torture

Amusing that the anti-trans obsessives are *still* pissed at Phillipson. But more notably - any second thoughts that Sodha might've had as a result of the increasing reactionary shift towards junking anti-discrimination law altogether were clearly quickly discarded, if they ever existed at all.

One thing cis people can do is completely shun transphobes from every area of their physical and online life

Or to look at it from an efficiency perspective - how many library/heritage sector hours are lost explaining to people their donation is of no value to the collection?

Tiocfaidh ár caw #speirgorm

The woman in this video is Caitriona Graham, an Irish citizen. This is how our citizens are being treated by Israel, having been abducted in international waters, trafficked to a third state and now experiencing humiliation, stress positions, aggression and violence.

James Marriott, overheard on the Times podcast: "the discourse on Twitter is obviously much worse and much more evil and much more racist and so on, and yet I still find the liberal, smug hypocrisy of Bluesky viscerally more irritating"

Substack is so old media when it comes to the most important thing, trying to unsubscribe. No, you can't do that in the app silly. An unsubscribe option in the subscription box? Forget about it. An unsubscribe link buried with some other text at the bottom of the page? That's the good stuff.

Somebody is *very* alarmed by the bathroom repair noises across the hall and is taking refuge in the dirty laundry bag 🥺

"We have decided not to piss an awful lot of money up the wall on an appeal which we would almost certainly lose."

It's always very funny to read how a PM has reflected they'd quite like to keep the job actually during a weekend at the lovely grace-and-favour estate in the country. Must be something in the air at Chequers! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

The HISTRIONICS about the Green Party standing aside in Makerfield when we all know the local party will a) stand a candidate and b) probably not campaign much if at all. (Looking at the past couple of general election results if a high profile Labour candidate can't make it here it's over anyway)

There are many reasons to criticise Starmer's party, and it was certainly an incoherent project. But to describe the economic policy of a government that has increased borrowing by £100bn and passed the Employment + Renters Rights Acts in this way is risible. www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

especially pissed off to learn they’ve been making delicious salty butter out of our most famous horse

Tom McDonnell Kildare County Councillor addressed the “Unite The Kingdoms” rally. McDonnell’s incoherent, conspiracy addled historically illiterate claims and accusations include blatant anti Semitism, racism, and enthonationalism

Just petting the cat, what could possibly go wrong @greenbenali.bsky.social