hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

Got the stomach for a quick 🧵on Trump bullshit? Trump: “i hate having lunch with somebody who’s really, really successful, because he or she keeps bragging about how great they are and it stops me from talking about the fact that I became president.”

Counterpoint: No I will not

I'd like Britain a lot more if we weren't home to some of the most spiteful busybodies ever to twitch a curtain

We did it, lads. We banned trans people from toilets. Now to sit back and watch house prices come down and vegetables stop rotting on supermarket shelves and we'll all come together and feast on Cadbury's Creme Eggs as big as your head, m'boy, And we'll watch Morecambe and Wise, who did NOT die

Re-upping the chaff project today because it's a genuinely good idea and suddenly super relevant If you are a cis ally, please seriously consider wearing a trans flag badge. Not an ally badge; a badge that makes people go "are they trans?" Cause good trouble for us, please.

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Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Want to work at a real cool gaming company that actually looks after its people? Mongoose Publishing is hiring! We are currently looking for a Content Creator - full details here: forum.mongoosepublishing.com/threads/mong... #ttrpg

STOP PRESS yesterday @sinblache.bsky.social described Tarkovsky’s STALKER as “The Detectorists, but Russian” and I may never recover

In the original version of the play that later became the book Peter Pan, there's no Captain Hook. He was invented later. A lot of us who watched the Disney movie or saw a theatre production forget how the book ends. Most adaptations hide its grim conclusion: Hook isn't the villain. Peter is.

Sunday is the perfect day to go to the museum. I love the dioramas, especially the one where Jesus meets Grace Slick and reassures her that the Starship stuff is not that bad. Duane Lordswork

faith in humanity restored

Remember –

I'd probably have to say... the Best of Literature

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Drop a film with a single word title 🖤

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Can’t believe no one has uploaded this to BlueSky (that I could find, anyway), but thanks to Popbitch for the heads-up. If you ever wondered what ex-Children’s BBC presenter Simon Parkin is up to these days … (sound on, swearing, etc):

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

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Anyone not calling it a wesignation is a coward

Artist unknown, bought from a charity shop in St Helens last year. I'm guessing the best way to describe the style would be 'naive'. It's obviously been painted with love but blimey, the eyes do follow you around the room! #EricandErnie #onehundred #bringmesunshine #EricMorcambe #MorcambeandWise

Tinkered with this for far too long last night adding tickers and stuff. I think it’s finished now. Will only update as more Reform councillors leave. refukked.lovable.app

My phone just reminded me of this screengrab from 9 years ago, how timely

I am 💯 cheesed off that folk didn't listen to warnings about data sharing until its now happening. Do it now if you didnt do it 2 yrs ago when GPs sent forms. Stop Palantir knowing even more. Stop facsists, Oswald Mosleys grandson and Thiel, handle your intimate data. www.nhs.uk/your-nhs-dat...

My coping strategy: mentally replace 'AI' with 'the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'Let's speed this up using the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'As always with the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy, make sure you check twice.' 'Start again. The boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy, fucked it up.'

Heroine

I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions

Well, apparently someone pointed out that by losing a single letter you could have a whole new game, and hence creator Dave Morris has just released this - Dagon Warriors! A Lovecraftian rpg built on the Dragon warriors engine! www.drivethrurpg.com...

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝖄𝖊𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝕬𝖌𝖔… The Eye delved into Christopher Harborne's background - his dual identity, his cryptocurrency connections, his enormous political donations - long before his undeclared £5 million personal gift to Nigel Farage. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1511, December 2019.

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

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I didn't know you could get elected to (and later quit) two councils at once www.itv.com/news/anglia/... saves on candidates I guess

VE day doesn't mark the end of the Second World War.

Obviously not to steal your thunder, but my own punk diaries which are definitely authentic and everything reveal so much about the times. What times they were.

Frustrated with the election pundits talking as if votes only 'swing' from one party to another. I did some analysis of the results, and my modelling (based on votes only, not polls) suggests that the largest movement since 2024 local elections (by a long way) is from 'Did Not Vote' -> Reform

Just imagine reading Starmer's speech and being any of the minorities Labour has disowned and oppressed, any of the people locked up for peaceful protest, disabled or elderly? Everyone who sees greedy, evil, wrecker corporations suckled on public funds? The scale of this lie is vast.

Reform have suspended a newly elected Sunderland councillor for racist comments, but that's a different Sunderland councillor to the one that was kicked out the party the other day and also not the one who beat his partner and allegedly abused a child that was elected on Thursday.

Indicative of what a great man Sir David is & also coincidentally his internet banking password.

The tale of every single last Reform-led council so far is them discovering that there is no secret Net Zero Department for Pronouns that accounts for 45% of council budgets, panicking, ordering an entire budget surplus worth of flags, and then falling apart in acrimony.

Amazing. So for eight months somebody counted how often each political party was mentioned across all UK broadcast media. Lib Dems are near the bottom of the table with a mere 645 mentions per MP. Top of the table with (wait for it) 70,732 mentions per MP? You'll never guess ...

In Sunderland, Reform stood David Barker. Who beat his girlfriend “black and blue”. He also neglected and burnt his child with cigarettes. He was handed a suspended sentence. It comes up when you Google him. He won in the council election. A vicious domestic abuser is now a Reform Councillor.

You've watched us do this. You have a free preview of the grim and terrible ending. Knowing didn't save us. It might save you. Get organised. You're further along the curve than we were in 2014. Good luck. You're going to need it. — @therickwilson.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/05/08/r... 12/12

Modest proposal: People who use "staycation" to mean "going on holiday" to be placed under indefinite house arrest.

"Five pounds!? It says it was 75p when it was new on the back!" "I will happily let you have it for 75p if I can buy your house for its 1971 price as well."

Not to victim blame but this balloon does feel like it's asking for trouble

A little perspective. Which you won’t get from the media. Note that only England had local elections: Scotland & Wales had full parliamentary elections. #UK #England #Localelections