Grindstone Cowboy

Somewhat off topic but playing mixed sex roller derby (an intensely physical contact sport roughly like playing rugby on skates) has really underlined for me how much our social perception of men as being a different category of strength to women is an ideological construct reinforced by separation.

Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

leftists are consistently labeled as out of touch extremists, but there isn’t a single prominent left position this unpopular

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

This is also historically why conservatives were opposed to any legislation that might allow gay people to be out in public. Marginalised people are easier to groom & exploit

Sleaford Moderates

Love the Bruenigs

this is what Posting feels like

imagining a mournful slowed-down version of Dog Police in a movie trailer

What's worse is they don't seem to grasp that a world outside of the US even exists, much less the outsize impact the US has. The people the US kills and helps kill can be safely ignored so long as these permanent children can tune it out.

A lot of Americans have a very difficult time grasping the idea that their lives don't matter more or less than anyone else's

If you study the successful rebellions and resistance and civil rights movements of the past, you will note that “people who spend their time publicly bumming out everyone around them by emphasizing how totally fucked everything is” do not play a central role, or indeed, any role at all

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

Nauseating how liberals will crawl out of the woodwork to lecture people putting themselves in harm's way on "optics". Like sorry pal but the fact a lot of comfortable people don't want to log off and get involved is not their problem, because you'll always find some other excuse

These people have to account for the deep hatred and revulsion they feel when watching others act out of sincerity, courage and compassion. It threatens and bewilders them, so they must explain it away as something they recognise and understand: moral vapidity and self-absorption

I’m taking over as the menswear guy. Men should rotate through the same four band t-shirts for 35 years. Replace the shirts with identical shirts if the holes in them get big or you get too fat for them

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

trans people are real and bathrooms and sports are made up. if you act like that's the other way around i do not have to hear your argument because it is based on a false premise

"Some say these anti-trans measures are only going to make all women less safe. But that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make in the name of women's safety"

Worth pointing out that here in the UK this kind of thing isn't confined to our right wing, but is now considered a common-sense article of faith among our self-appointed "moderate" neoliberals

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

NASA staff putting one of the Tesla ‘I bought this before I knew he was a Nazi’ stickers on a Saturn V

Would be helpful if most of the nation's most prominent media types hadn't abandoned the concept of there being any objective reality eh? Grievance politics and representation are bad, unless it caters go some sociopathic dunce trying to commit arson at a hotel he thinks migrants are inside

Very clearly brass and politicians knew about much of this stuff as it was happening, and it probably isn’t a coincidence that a war crimes impunity bill was stampeded through, the very instant the opposition was again led by people who would quietly collaborate.

used to be on British TV Sinn Féin were inevitably referred to as ‘the political wing of the IRA.’ remembered that while looking at the new migration stuff and I’m now thinking of the current Labour Party as the political wing of Reform

in the eighties every band had an album called "Tokyo nights" where they all put on geisha stuff for the cover and the titular track would have a chorus where a robot voice said "Nintendo Sony, samurai, I see the beauty in your eyes". If you refused to do this you were shot

As he's famously stated THX 1138, American Graffiti and Star Wars are all about how "we're in cages with the door open and it's up to us" to stay in those cages and memorize all the details about the insides of the cage to see who knows the most about those details.

@support.bsky.team it's much harder to cyberbully people on here than on Twitter. Please consider making it easier

lol blusky rocks we got the gak on tap

BLUE SKY STATLER: Is this supposed to be a joke? What do you mean by that? BLUESKY WALDORF: If it's meant to be a joke, it's in pretty bad taste! (the two of them sit in total silence)

I have written about my own experiences of having my gender (cis but non-conforming) policed in bathrooms. The only goal here is humiliation of someone who is different. www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/o...

Advancements in nutrition have artificially inflated average heights to levels that are unsustainable if we want to continue to live on a healthy planet. Every inch a person grows above 5’6” has an outsized impact on climate change and we should work to “right height” the population in the future