I don’t understand why some commentators seem to think Badenoch is doing well as leader, when everything I see her do fits exactly this description. Sorry, she just comes across as very stupid

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 14h ago

Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

the mainstream press praising rod liddle in death are not unaware he was a bigoted pedophile, they like him for it. the people in their in-group, at the top of their hierarchy, getting away with crimes signals that the world is in order. it is a moral good, to them. the bigger the crimes the better

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Liddle was just one guy ultimately, but emblematic of a media culture that has - and continues to make - this country smaller, poorer and crueller for the rest of us. that's his legacy, a cog in an utterly grotesque machine

as we saw with Charlie Kirk it’s extremely notable that no fans of Rod Liddle include any of their favourite quotes from him in their tributes

It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.

Take a drink every time a commentator calls Rod Liddle some variant of "a brave, controversial truth teller" and studiously fails to refer to anything he actually said, like his reasoning for why he could never be a teacher.

my new obsession is having Warhammer 40K history videos playing in the background all day and every other day my wife asks why I don't just play a game or buy some models if I like it so much and I dunno how to explain that in the grim darkness of the far future there is only lore

The president took on a vanity project, gave no-bid contracts to contractors who screwed it up, made up a story about vandals to cover it up, and then fomented a felony prosecution against an innocent scapegoat. You could impeach for anything he's done but "This asshole is out of control" is a layup

Roy Edroso@edroso.bsky.social · 4d ago

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

Since the end of Disraeli's final term of office, every UK Prime Minister has lived during the lifetime of Harold Macmillan.

Keith Moon's technical abilities rarely served the songs and he'd have been a better drummer if he'd reined it in.

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

We've been in the ripping-the-copper-wiring-out-of-the-walls era of society for awhile now. There's no attempts to make anything better. There's no attempts to make anything people want. It's just syphoning gas out of cars and burying people in gambling debt from rigged betting markets.

Sacrifice! At the Harvest Festival@theharvestmaid.bsky.social · last wk.

Why is everything so transparently evil now?

Two guys in a concentration camp. One turns to the other and says "you know what? In retrospect, those guys were Nazis".

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · last wk.

You’d think the far right doing nazi salutes, rioting and attacking people of colour on the street would be slightly further up the news and political agenda but no it’s treated as business as usual

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real

When I started my masters, I set myself an exercise of finding a random book in the library from the catalogue. It took AGES. I was there for about an hour. It was worth it.* *It was also how I learned what a mezzanine was.

Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

yeah, I mean, there's a reason the Niemoller poem has "first we came for the communists" in there. and a reason that that is the line that is rarely if ever quoted.

max asher miller@maxashermiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

My great-grandfather was among the first Jews sent to Dachau, but it had operated for 8 years prior. He arrived to find a concentration camp already full of communists and other leftist dissidents. The public's acceptance of their incarceration paved the road for his own.

This could have come straight out of classic Simpsons.

badly drawn bee 🐝@soapachu.bsky.social · 2w ago

perfect dead drop 10/10 no notes (the shrouds really make this)

Mention of Bob Hoskins on the timeline has me watching this on repeat several times again

Just think of all the pedagogical innovations and research on best practices for teaching over the decades that have gotten zero support and funding for implementation, but AI has no proven pedagogical value and is literally sucking up all the funding available in higher ed. These are facts.

Not a cinema, but a theatrical adaptation of Death on the Nile that I'd taken Year 11 to on a school trip. It got to the denouement and I heard my colleague next to me say "that's a shit holiday."

Boner Vivant@dougtilley.bsky.social · last yr.

Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema? During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

If you pile your furniture in the middle of your living room then set it on fire, you will have the warmest house in your street, for a few hours.

My favorite way to put this, as someone who studied Classical History in actual college (not just on Twitter): If you told an ancient Roman or Athenian that his culture had "more in common" with a German or Briton than with an Egyptian or Ethiopian, he'd punch you in the throat.

gonna start talking like this to my boss

dozens

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 3w ago

BREAKING: U.K. reveals Bluesky will be included in the under-16 social media ban, affecting dozens of teens.