My old secondary school is Grade II listed and I wonder who on earth would want that place preserved.

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 22m ago

Just get rid of Grade II entirely - if you want to put a heat-pump and double-glazing in a nice but otherwise entirely generic 18th Century cottage then you do that. You own it. You should basically be allowed to do what you want with it.

Update: British far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported back to the UK, according to DHS.

Cleverley looking back at the last two mayoral campaigns and taking notes: Shaun Bailey - Campaign INSIDE (underlined) London Susan Hall - Campaign inside reality.

My other James Cleverly thought is that the Conservative route to winning the London mayoralty would have been much better served if instead of the (deeply stupid) switch to first past the post, the Conservatives had switched to AV.

The Telegraph See Matt's latest cartoon via The Telegraph

Khan will beat him I think. But then what if the Labour candidate is Dawn Butler or Rosena Allin-Khan? What then? And what if the Greens gets their act together. One wonders...

Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 3h ago

Cleverly running for London Mayor... could genuinely win imo, depending on the Labour candidate

Cleverly is in the group of Tory politicians I was deeply unimpressed with a decade ago, who now look like giants by virtue of being by all accounts generally pleasant and not making any huge screw ups. Someone I disagree with, not someone who makes me thinking "What are we doing fucking HELL"

Probably to get a head start on campaigning? Given the national situation and London context, their candidate needs all the time campaigning they can get

I think the Times were saying Badenoch was planning a shadow cabinet reshuffle anyway (I think somebody going or returning from maternity leave as well) so it might be better to go now if there won't be another reshuffle pre-election.

The mayoral election is 21 months away. Why is he resigning?

Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3h ago

Yes, London mayor is a big job, but with the return of supplementary vote, winning as a Tory is even harder, so this doesn’t exactly scream confidence in Kemi Badenoch’s chances of winning the next election.

BREAKING NEWS James Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor via Daily Mail

The funny thing is that I 150% agree with this very rude person that you should be giving your money to Palestinians, I just think it's kinda weird to give it to a botnet

i actually think it's really unempathetic when somebody gives their money to scammers who exploit a genocide, and then you get all snotty with randoms on the internet about it. I think that's the really unempathetic thing, here. You could have given that money to a real org

I never got the hate. He wanted to go after the villains god damn it!

Omniversial Comics Ace@asliceofcomics.bsky.social · 4h ago

Scrappy-Doo. As others have said, the hate for the character was unwarranted and overexaggerated. And making him the villain in the first live action Scooby-Doo movie was just bad/lazy writing. Personally, I'd love to see him brought back for modern Scooby-Doo. With a few tweaks, he could work.

death die dead murder pedophile rape suicide You aren't on TikTok, motherfuckers. Stop with this euphemistic algo-speak. Say what you fucking mean.

I was getting pumped for a long thread about Dolly Parton defeating Elvis's bullying manager, and ended up with an exploration of how an undocumented immigrant hid his Dutch accent by posing as a West Viriginia hillbilly. five stars, would read again:

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h ago

You've been hearing the story about how Dolly Parton turned down Elvis when his people demanded a chunk of her royalty rights in exchange for recording "I Will Always Love You". That reminded me of something I've wondered about for a long time. The guy who actually put the ask on Dolly was a ...

Bluesky’s top minds have discovered who’s responsible for Milo’s deportation, and you’ll never guess who’s behi—- oh wait you’ve already guessed

The Guardian Open Letter is an acknowledgement from some prominent names that the regime is evil, so of course campists (including one account popular on BritSky) can't help themselves, because they are incapable of doing so. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’

On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that republic claims to stand against

theguardian.com

By far the funniest moment in Homer’s Odyssey is when Circe says, “Shall we have sex?” and Odysseus says, “You just turned all my men into pigs. You have the GALL to think I would sleep with you? Of course I will. Absolutely. But don’t do any weird spells”

Today in badly-worded headlines: www.scmp.com/news/people-...

Takes a big shark to admit this.

Jaws (1975)@jaws-1975.bsky.social · 20h ago

I was wrong.

this is absolutely perfectly said

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · yesterday

Online mutual aid dares to ask “what if charity was distributed according to the recipients’ ability to accumulate clout and perform abjection on English language social media?”

Think he made an error not going through with it to be honest

BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterday

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

And there it is...

Good morning.

pixelframe.design@pixelframe.bsky.social · 2d ago

This is a big one and took a while! The Avengers: Doomsday Font & Logo Generator is live now - definitely don't tag Marvel with what you make.

Tolkien gave up on writing a sequel to the Lord of the Rings because he imagined the youth of Gondor forming 'orc-cults' who would imitate Mordor and found it too depressing; a remarkable feat of imagination when it came to predicting people who still worship the Soviet or Nazi empires today.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d ago

Exciting news everybody: so long as you change the name on the tin of your empire, it is suddenly not imperialism for you to violently reconquer the people you used to control, it's just sparkling anti-secessionism. Tankies, man, wow.

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Ali-John Mirsepassi@ajmirsepassi.bsky.social · 2d ago

It's been over 24 hours and the Star Wars Instagram account has not posted a Tim Curry tribute. I mean Filoni et al. got this guy on to be *Palpatine* so you'd think the official account would say *something*

It was extremely malignant how you got called a monster for doubting that the obvious botnet was actually going to help Palestinian families, and I assume that Molly Shah left this site for the same reason that Lyle Lanley left Springfield

Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · yesterday

"Please don't click away, my family is dying 🙏"

Thinking about our demands for private accounts and remembering that Jack Dorsey's plan for BlueSky was to essentially put Twitter on it. Wonder how you could have squared that circle considering the apparent issues with the AT Protocol (which I know little about)