It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Kemi Badenoch has never seen a rake she didn’t want to step on, has she? Zach Polanski’s decidedly muted response at the end no doubt reflects his uncomfortable awareness of how many wrong ’uns he has lurking in his rapidly-expanded, under-vetted party… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex-MP urges Tories to block council candidate jailed for antisemitic abuse against her

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.

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Started reading Hyperpolitics by Anton Jäger. (The striking image on the cover is Love (Hands in Hair) by Wolfgang Tillmans, 1989.) www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

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No one was given the final scene ahead of time. When Radar read the news to all the nurses and doctors, HE was learning it for the first time! So his reaction was real. I assume the rest of the cast was doing lines they had learned but they did the scene with the overlay of genuine pain and shock.

Oh gosh yes, I remember the denouement of this episode from the original BBC screening

Will Harris@willharrisinva.bsky.social · 3d ago

Been doing a M*A*S*H rewatch lately, and I just started “Abyssinia, Henry.” Always gets me.

I see this meme is relevant again today

I appreciate cis “allies” don’t much care for “trans women are women” any more, but it was never a manifesto. It’s an explanation.

Started #reading Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works, tr. Colm Luibheid, with introductions by Jaroslav Pelikan, Jean Leclerq and Karlfried Friedlich. In case you were wondering why this had suddenly become a Pseudo-Dionysius fan account www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

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Currently #reading Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel: www.tumblr.com/considermyca...

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Now *that's* a title

I forgot to post my follow-up to provide some context. In his On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520), Luther attacks Dionysius, saying "he Platonizes more than he Christianizes". Y'see? *Now* you understand why this is such a banger. Let's get those likes and reskeets going, people!

Jae H@considermycat.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ok, *this* is the most niche meme I’ve ever created

For people with access to BBC iPlayer, it's worth checking out La Chimera. Two hours of Josh O'Connor looking soulful and rumpled, *in Italian* (and a most becoming linen suit): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

La Chimera

Arthur, an archaeologist turned professional grave robber, returns to a small Italian town to see the mother of his lost girlfriend. He quickly falls in with his old gang, raiding Etruscan tombs.

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Am at a wedding reception. I am being watched over by an enormous effigy of a cat.

Ok, *this* is the most niche meme I’ve ever created

I'd joke about how "they finally did it. They made it all the way to 'racist against Germans'" but sadly it isn't even anything new for these freaks.

Not having heard of Adam Johnston before – never such innocence again – I thought the quoted post was a "this is why immigrants are Good and nativism is Bad" post, until I read the final sentence

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5d ago

Another datapoint for the fascist radicalisation of institutional pillars of much of the American Right

wanted this to be a spoof so so bad, hate that it's real, hideously depressing

Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago

For Yorkshire Day, a celebration of a truly extraordinary piece of sportsball commentary. “I can’t spake!”

Once again, I am *begging* journalists to avoid language that ascribes conscious agency to LLMs. This is *really important*.

Finished #reading Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield

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Finished reading The Matters of Life, Death, and More: Writing on Football by Aleksander Hemon

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Has anyone claimed yet that ADHD meds cause "irreversible harm"? That's always a good scary phrase to lob around. (The "irreversible harm" of *denying* people the care they need typically being overlooked.)

Jae H@considermycat.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh right, we’re still trying to make “the Trans Panic, except it’s ADHD” happen, are we? I thought that had fizzled out earlier this year (around the time Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary, curiously). Channel 4 is a sorry sight these days

Oh right, we’re still trying to make “the Trans Panic, except it’s ADHD” happen, are we? I thought that had fizzled out earlier this year (around the time Wes Streeting resigned as health secretary, curiously). Channel 4 is a sorry sight these days

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

The black grapes Tesco are delivering this week are the ones that taste like Ribena (complimentary), pass it on

I'm a bit surprised that objections to extreme anti-trans policies didn't get in the way of this meeting, but I guess Ron DeSantis decided to press ahead anyway. /jk www.gov.uk/government/n...

Ties strengthened as Secretary of State meets Governor DeSantis

The Floridian Governor joined a trade delegation to explore the links between the Sunshine State and Scotland.

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Matthew 25:41-42 voter /hj

*sucks teeth* sorry, mate, think you’ll find that’s a structural Jesus

Yes, destroy all gender, but it still takes intense concentration for me to remember to call the person hitting the ball in a cricket match a “batter”

Well I’ll go to the foot of my stairs. I complained to the BBC about this, expecting the usual batting-away-of-criticism, and they’ve actually corrected the report

Jae H@considermycat.bsky.social · 2w ago

So why does “age appropriateness” get scare-quotes while “trans ideology” is just treated as a straightforward, neutral term, BBC News? (Rhetorical question, I know the answer: BBC News has baked transphobia into its editorial policies.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

cowardly, anti-British