someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”

In other news, Chris just asked me if I could help him develop some kind of mnemonic to remember which one is Connor Storrie and which one is Hudson Williams my suggestion of “just watch Heated Rivalry?” was not well-received

Midway through the final episode of The Handmaid's Tale, truly the "this meeting could have been an email" of television shows

Pinching myself reading a BBC news article actually reporting anti-trans campaigners as clashing with women's rights campaigners rather than calling them women's rights campaigners

going to suggest something radical and disruptive to the UK TV advertising industry: how about some ads that don't have Peter Crouch in them

I know I’ve said variations on this before but it’s wild to me that it has been scraping my personal data for years and should know so much about me and yet the best it can apparently do is “would u like to watch Melania :)”

unexpected earworm of the day: the theme song from Huxley Pig

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous

cat’s shedding a bit

A reminder that Nigel Farage, Kemi Badenoch and the entire Conservative-supporting press have spent the past week lambasting Keir Starmer for not joining the Iran war. Here's what has happened since then to public opinion

I wonder if this will ever not be true

It’s almost like the UK’s right-wing press doesn’t actually reflect public opinion but instead the fevered imaginations of a very small group of sociopaths.

Oh no, are they going to be saying 'frozen liquid gas' on the news all the time again? WELL WHICH IS IT?

Like at this point it’s no secret to the people writing these headlines that this kind of thing has been roundly criticized for years and years. It’s an intentional, conscientious decision on their part. They know they’re propagandists (and, for better or worse, we all are!).

You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name

I have had @jamesasser.bsky.social tell me that Streeting is not “a transphobe”. The words of James Baldwin come to mind about the Labour Party RN. “I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.”

A sign of cultural shift: whenever I see a sport themed novel now, I assume it's a LGBTQ+ romance until I find out it's not.

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

just turned a Labour canvasser away at the door lads

Guess who this will be targeted at.

oh so does that mean they'll be looking at the finances and activities of the LGB Alliance and Sex Matters

Yes, why don't all Irish, English, Russian, Ukranian, Finnish and Lithuanian people all live together in one big country?

rewrite the Hippocratic Oath to specifically exclude Wes Streeting

No report in the Guardian about a woman MP being attacked on International Women’s Day by transphobic fascists after just a week in the job. They have these “news” items though

“The newest intake will be promoted based on their ability to cut through to young audiences online” “Ms Badenoch has ranked MPs based on how well they are performing on X, Facebook and LinkedIn” ah yes, where all the kids hang out

A treatment successfully used for longer than the NHS has been in existence, casually and arbitrarily stripped away by the transphobes in charge even though hormone therapy works the same way for under 18s than it does for over 18s. Dereliction from the NHS; may these fuckers rot.

Twerkers at the barbeque get priority parking 🫡

Nothing says "we support women's rights" like a bunch of beardy cunts forming a mob in order to harass a woman *about women's rights*.

dying at Renate Reinsve being photographed cuddling a cat for the Sunday Times, go queen get those anti-Jessie Buckley votes

such a shame that after doing genuinely good work on the Post Office scandal Nick Wallis picked the absolute worst new personal hobbyhorse he could find

is this weird item "a cat"

It’s nice, isn’t it? The quiet.

London Borough of Queers

the way she thought she ate with that retort and not one person clapped 💀

King of feminism spends the wee hours of IWD lamenting that his ex-wife has no agency, a man must have told her what to think

BOOOOOOO

will nobody think of the Only Connect question writers

Watching Tootsie for the first time and wondering what it would be like if they’d done it with the same concept and general plot as The Substance

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Yep Hadley Freeman reprinted this lie in her Guardian column, and refused to apologise for it. The Graun printed the most graceless retraction possible, never retweeted it or apologised z

I don't understand, I just ate this entire pack of thin bagels, why am I not any thinner

Iunno, it's just so weird for me, as somebody who was an out queer in the first couple of decades of this century to see this rewriting of history where the "debate" about gay rights then was this genteel, public spirited conversation. They blamed the gays for hurricanes and earthquakes.

My MP at the time (who refused to support it on the grounds it would discriminate against hotel owners who didn’t want gays to marry on their premises!) went straight to the papers afterwards saying that she was the real victim because everyone had been so mean to her

Like this narrative that the campaigns for equal marriage were a friendly public conversation where everybody respected each other is wild as fuck. It was only about ten years ago and you guys kept implying we wanted to fuck dogs.

Lionel Hutz holding up a business card that says “anti-Muslim? Hostility tsar!”

does the song that plays at the end of Drag Race actually have lyrics because it sounds like Ru went straight to the studio from a root canal

Hey I am not a comms expert but hm maybe....maybe rethink this name

watching this week’s Drag Race: Chris: “Iman is 70 years old.” Me: “FUCK OFF”

Was sweating for a second.