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Reform: we're going to reinstate the two child benefit cap, but if you have a third child you'll get a thank you letter from the King

"Wuthering Heights" review: If you go in with the attitude that this is basically a 2 hour long Charlie XCX music video based on Wuthering Heights fanfic written by a horny teenage girl you'll probably find yourself reasonably entertained

Somewhere, somehow, at a right-wing tabloid, the most deranged Meghan story of all time is being birthed

Charles staring darkly at a picture of the queen while muttering "he was always your favourite, mother"

the people who mediate our access to information tell lies to make people think the far right's analyses and actions are valid, because they like the far right and want them to win.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

The nine genders, according to Decathlon

one of the most frustrating things about there being “no jobs” is that we all walk around and see the work that needs to be done. our cities are crumbling, our people need help, our world is dying. there’s so much work to be done, if only it were good for the balance sheet

Reminds me of "the pencil test", used in apartheid South Africa en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil_...

Struggling to put into words how it feels to know that Starmer was prepared to throw an entire election over Corbyn, but fully embrace multiple nonces and their BFFs

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I'm sure someone smarter than me is connecting the dots of Epstein & the post 2014 UK anti-trans movement; is it too optimistic to hope that it will shift hearts & minds when they realise that their movement about "protecting children" was spearheaded by one of the worst child predators of our time?

Mar-a-Lago Face is becoming indistinguishable from Black Hole Sun Video Face

Trying to watch D&D with a greyhound

If anyone can tell me where @aabria.bsky.social 's shirt from the most recent ep of critical role came from i will...idk, do some sort of luck ritual for you

This is Neil

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

The latest @novaramedia.com podcast really lays bare the relationship between money, power and sex and the deep corruption in the system that enables billionaires to do... whatever the fuck they want

If the Epstein files are this vile and incriminating already, just imagine all the stuff they’re still hiding.

I guess "white wealthy British and American grooming gangs" doesn't have the same ring to it

An irregular announcement to inform you that if you love your SciFi character driven, quirky, original, rich in lore and timey wimey & multiversey, you've got to try Midnight Burger. Imagine if Douglas Adams smooshed together both Hitchhikers Guide and Dirk Gently and then wrote Sliders.

Please please please can this be the model for politics for the future instead of...the other options

overheard house clearance men working on the flat next door in our building which opened as a pub in the 1890s "what I don't get, these buildings are all what, 70s, 80s, what was here before? just...hills?"

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Do Minnesotans and other US protests groups know GYAG by Bob Vylan? Feels like a pretty perfect vibe. "Cold town, blocks burning up Stressed out coz man don't earn enough Police turned thieves & burglarals Tryna steal our lives and murder us" youtu.be/0KlKGEp0_x4?...

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Really good piece, and made me think about how such a resistance would work here in the UK, should it become necessary.

You can mock me all you like for using my "dry robe" as a coat but you know what i am when i have to take the dog out at 6am in a named storm? DRY.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Us Jews were subjected to a genocide because we were considered different & therefore demonised. It wasn’t something innate about Judaism or Jewish culture, it was something innate about the wider culture & about fascism. About “the other” & looking for a scapegoats in times of economic crisis.

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

This is … this is so awful and sad. Lots of trigger warnings and stuff, but if you can read it, please do.

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

picked up Acceptable Losses last week and it is horribly on point for these times?

Transphobes (including “gender-critical feminists”) are fascists. Not ‘fascist enabling’ Not ‘fascist adjacent’ Not ‘collaborating with fascists’ They are fascism’s core, fascism front and centre.

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"Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women." Delete your x/twitter account.

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"We must rapidly begin the shift from a ‘thing-oriented’ society to a ‘person-oriented’ society. When machines & computers, profit motives & property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, & militarism are incapable of being conquered" MLK, 1967

*whispers* *hey, most of the world, you know we should boycott the Olympics and the World Cup, right*

excellent piece. reminds me of the time i tried to explain to colleages the connection between a beloved writer of books about a boy wizard and an anti semetic conspiracy theory related to the great replacement.

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

I read the Darlington judgment today and NOT A LAWYER but it feels like the judge is applying the FWS ruling to the 1992 workplace regulations when FWS is clear in the ruling that it only applies to the Equality Act?

Keir Starmer has NOT condemned the murder of Renee Good by ICE. Think about that.

I heard on a podcast the other day that Trump has had multiple devastating career ending moments and shrugged them off. Trump told us in 2016 his approach to life & power. "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. ... Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything"

Things you can do and get bail: kill a man while driving without a license. Things you can do and be denied bail: spray paint on a fighter jet to raise awareness of an ongoing genocide.

Brennan Lee Mulligan is like the Lin-Manuel Miranda of this era

Trans Discourse vs Shamima Begum discourse Trans children: cannot possibly know their own minds as they haven't fully matured yet, they must be protected from making life changing mistakes Begum: this child that was targeted and groomed online knew what she was doing and must be punished forever