I find it fascinating the way we’re apparently all supposed to be kind or just stay silent when horrible, horrible people die. Some deaths are worth celebrating. If you don’t want people to cheer at your demise, don’t live your life in a way that makes your death a source of joy.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Dear Short Illness, my name is Graham Linehan and I am a big fan of yours, please visit me soon.

Abhorrent but unsurprising to see the ‘defend women and girls’ crowd eulogising a man who - in between proudly espousing his racism, ableism & myriad other bigotries in print - punched his pregnant girlfriend & wrote that he couldn’t be a teacher because he would try to have sex with the pupils

Glastonbury will return in 2027. Rod Liddle, won't

This is fucking great news www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66

Tributes paid to ‘brilliant, provocative and immensely talented’ journalist, who died after short illness

theguardian.com

Spent the weekend touching grass only it was all dead so this was not a pleasant experience

love to log on, see an argument about misogyny, and take the side of *checks notes* playboy magazine

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

This is a real book that people can buy with actual money.

Good new phrase for ‘the English’

tiny cats@tinycats.bsky.social · 6d ago

I see your bf’s made the news

A quarter of a million people evacuated across southern France and Spain, and over 10,000 dead.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nighty night.

they're calling it the worst string of words ever written

I don’t know who designed this but I need like, hundreds of them in sticker form immediately

I will reiterate: Christians in the West evangelize in public for the same reason men catcall. Neither is trying to persuade you; both are reminding you that the public sphere belongs to them and you exist in it at their sufferance.

Bridget Phillipson – who is currently bringing guidance into force which will exclude trans people from toilets, and trans women from all women's services – has been appointed by Andy Burnham as Chair of the Labour Party.

Bridget Phillipson MP@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · last wk.

Honoured to become Chair of the Labour Party. I joined our party as a teenager and saw first hand the difference a Labour government makes. I'll work with members to build the election-winning machine that sees off Reform for good and secures a second Labour term.

when I was on the dole in the JSA, pre-UC days, they sent me on a mandatory work placement in Matalan unpacking totes and hanging clothes on rails, which is the exact same job I used to do in TK Maxx except I didn't get paid for it and Matalan got free labour from the state

TerryLeopard@terryleopard.bsky.social · last wk.

My short experience of unemployment benefit many years ago was them doing nothing to help me find a job and offering to send me on a basic IT skills course when I had a 1st in software engineering.

Proscribe Lord Walney imho. Man’s a dickhead.

The thing to take away from the speed with which ‘Number 10 North’ was sorted is not weird conspiracy thinking, it’s that the state can move *really fast* when it wants to. It just never wants to when it comes to stuff that might actually benefit us.

James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 2w ago

New mad conspiracy theory just dropped. (Answers: It's a GCHQ building, and I presume black paint and doors are available at B&Q.)

Photo of trans pride in London today, by Guy Smallman. It was hot, huge, angry, beautiful & joyous. And not an SWP placard in sight.

Burnham’s going to approve more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea. Supported by Sharon Graham of Unite the Union and Gary Smith of the GMB

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2w ago

BREAKING: Police Scotland have declared a major incident as the Cairngorms wildfire is becoming more 'unpredictable' All residents of Nethy Bridge are being evacuated as the fire spreads towards the village

Was too slow to take a photo of it going past on the bus but some very, very peculiar pro-Starmer graffiti has appeared in Kentish Town. My neighbourhood is letting me down tbh

‘Skilled political operators’ lol fuck off

PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 2w ago

Labour MPs unhappy with the treatment of Starmer loyalists have warned they could make life hard for Burnham at the Budget “Andy’s Starmerite purge has created an incredibly powerful phalanx of skilled political operators who intimately know the government’s fiscal position" Harriet Symonds writes

Hope the cannibalism eats him

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 2w ago

then how are you tweeting sir

Ok, talking about class in vox pops is now banned until it starts making any sense.

jesus fucking christ

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

I’m increasingly convinced that the motivation behind the transphobes is that they hate women who have exercised their right to change our bodies and/our our identity however they choose. It’s why they also hate women who dress in ways they don’t approve of, whether that’s ‘revealing’ clothing

Elaine Crory@elainecrory.bsky.social · 2w ago

So Andy Burnham's wife is getting endless nasty comments for having a body. I bet the "women's rights movement" that is heavily made up of trans-exclusive columnists who claim to be defending women are right on that. Yeah?

Where I live it’s not rained for over three weeks - the ground is bone dry, grass mostly all dead etc etc. So why has my neighbour got a fire going on his back lawn

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2w ago

Read the full story here: www.thenational.scot/news/2629868...

I’ve come to the pub and it’s full of young people, horrendous

Imagine actually pressing the ‘I want to connect’ button on LinkedIn. Perverts.

Mad that people thought Burnham would find anything other than worms in the Labour Party

majsaleh@majsaleh.bsky.social · 2w ago

The scientific term for this is a myiasis