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finally, a british remake of Girls

I think next time you get spitting mad about the obvious radicalisation and hitlerian tendencies of the left, you should reflect on precisely why neither you nor any of your friends and coworkers had a single thing to say about Tory party advisers meeting up with the UVF to discuss contract killings

Completely off the Guardian and BBC news front pages. And, yeah, other news has happened, sure. But, again, I invite the reader to consider what sort of news would be bumped off the top spot if this had been, say, Seamus Milne working with the IRA.

Hit the final straw with my boyfriend. Made him sit down and add it all up and he's been spending £400 a month on magic cards, every single month but can't afford" to paint his bedroom

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

A distinctly British approach to A.I. NB - still my favourite panel I’ve ever written.

Okay, let’s do this Stephen: there’s no smoke without fire, the fish rots from the head. Let’s have an utterly ruthless inquiry into the BBC’s hate. Drag in executives, journos, presenters and really give them The Treatment at full late 2023 intensity. That would be clarifying.

When I saw those reviewer comments and said "wow, this guy is clueless; I wish he never even read my paper," this isn't what I meant.

Today is Intersex Awareness Day. I am intersex – and did not find out until I was 26! Intersex people are also impacted by the decision in FWS, but this is much less talked about. Intersex people continue to be subjected to non-consensual medical interventions. Intersex rights are human rights.

But Danny plainly believes political positions carry moral associations. That’s why his first column about a new Labour left leader was him reeling off a list of names embodied by Old Jezza: Kruschev; the Black Panthers; Stalin; Mao; Castro; Ho Chi Minh; Pol Pot; Hezbollah; Hamas…

It is my considered opinion that, all consideration of bigotry aside (both the texts and the authors), Harry Potter is jejune and clichéd, remixing and recycling tropes that were already tired by the 1950s.

Need as many orders etc as I can please, workshop rent due tomorrow, £900. (A return to a lack of orders means an end to wishful thinking about the future i suppose) heresyminiatures.com/shop heresyminiatures.etsy.com

Neal Lawson: "I couldn't live on the meagre benefits people are getting. To suggest that we have to cut those.. actually that's where the engine of growth is, that's the people who spend.. how do you get people out spending.. not by cutting benefits of people at the bottom"

My mind is just collapsing at the "we have far-right entryist groups offering themselves as middle-men to hook you up with professional hitmen, but our big priority is covering up pride pins" of the present BBC.

It always comes back to this for me; if AI was so good, such a disclosure would be a selling point. If AI was everything these slop jockeys said it was, they should be proud to let people know their game was AI made. But the proof is in the pudding, and they can't stand that people don't want it.

Now obviously this is an extremely intense form of McCarthyism, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that these people are primarily just horrible, very right wing psychos.

Preach!

Autumn is fucking trash. The worst season by far and I won't listen to any more propaganda from the dogshit weather enjoyers.

So much to say about this but consider how, if you are interviewed by media and have a pro-Palestinian position, you are expected to be fully across absolutely everything and to answer for anything anyone pro-Palestinian has ever said or done. And contrast with...this.

BBC editing out pride flags and protect the dolls while insisting on poppies really really laying bare its a state propaganda mouthpiece innit

Once again, nobody seems to be asking if the Greens should demand that local Labour parties distance themselves from racist immigration policies or support for genocide

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Not that anyone needed Gove to clarify what he really thinks but it is useful to have someone stupid who matters put the word for word person-who-counts position on record: opposition to genocide makes you the racist, objection to mass salughter of innocents makes you the fanatic

Hey, isn’t it weird that no mainstream media outlet has really engaged meaningfully with the revelation that centre right groups with close political links were not that far away from conducting a mass public execution and they’re neither remorseful or even slightly regretful of it. Anyway

This is welcome and at least ten years too late. The time to fight is when there’s a battle, and not after the enemy has won total crushing victory and laid waste to the land.

As someone who runs a small business and for some reason pays my taxes…. Today’s “red tape” cut to company paperwork makes no real difference to me or my ability/desire to expand. As someone who investigates small business high street tax evasion… great news for candy stores and scam dropshippers!

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Britain wants to go full force on the American attempt to enforce its hegemony over the Middle East with remote bombing campaigns and expanding Israeli territory, then there is nothing I can do to stop that. But stop pretending it is a noble enterprise. It is a dirty, evil, horrifying project.

@daliagebrial.bsky.social : "What [the govt] didn't anticipate was that the people who would break the law because they found that law to be unjust wouldn't just be the people the govt felt they could easily demonise, it wasn't just Muslims.. black & brown people, it was old white ladies.."

OMFG.

Tickets are available on Eventbrite. To minimise no-shows, Reform state “Please use your Oxford student email when signing up for this ticket. Non-student emails will be cancelled” – a surprising endorsement of cancel culture. Student emails take the form firstname.lastname@[college].ox.ac.uk.

Gleeful displays of cruelty and dominance are dictionary-definition evil. What you're looking at here is precisely what that word is for. Call this movement what it is, and treat it as such.

In the ongoing climate-change-denial adjacent coverage of the Guardian, here is the equivalent of the "this is fine" meme Truly incredible how off the editorial line has become in recent years...

Anglian Water fined puny £1.6M for polluting 14km of River Brain. Ignored alarms telling them that sewage was being dumped. Highest levels of toxic ammonia. AW has numerous criminal convictions. No exec prosecuted, licence to operate not cancelled. Fleecing normalized.

Here is @orieloxford.bsky.social, hosting a white supremacist race "scientist" as an educational treat. Oriel's Provost, Neil Mendoza, can be contacted via his secretary rebecca.bricklebank@oriel.ox.ac.uk, or his parliamentary address mendozan@parliament.uk

Just to be clear, it seems that not only is "An Evening With Nathan Cofnas: I'm A Massive Racist" a free event, you don't even need to use a real name or email address to get tickets for it. Do with that information what you will.