I see the fash trying to march in Brighton is going about as well as it always does
naoarte@naoarte.bsky.social · 2mo agoTrafalgar Street: “🎶Nazis Stuck in a Tunnel.🎶” #Brighton
AC doesn't actually make things colder, it just moves the heat outside. The more people that use it, the hotter it gets outside, the more people want it, and the quicker we accelerate towards local systems collapse.
Every time Blair's face reappears in the news alongside his shitty opinions, to my surprise I find my hatred is entirely undimmed, even after all these years. I hate him like the Iraq invasion was yesterday. I hate him like he was still Prime Minister.
Mark Thomas@markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 2mo agoWho the fuck summoned this twat?!? Did some kids wander into a deserted shack in the woods find a leather bound book and draw a pentangle?!?
Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think
Also London has about the same population as Scotland and Wales combined so it'd be weird if there weren't more rich people there
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 3mo agoBreaking: There are more rich people in London than Scotland and Wales.
Olga of Kiev en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of... Olga makes John Wick look like a weeny little piss boy
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 3mo agoName a person who should have a biopic
What happens if the ratchet can only ever move right and lock in place, to prevent movement back in the other direction? Sooner or later, it’ll be Mecha-Hitler. If we forever rule out change for the better, then what kind of change will we get instead? Look around you, turn on your TV.
Billy Corgan isn't saying this becuase he's old, and he isn't representative of gen X. Billy Corgan is saying this because Billy Corgan was a nobhead in the 90's and he's still a nobhead now.
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 5mo ago"Rock has been purposefully dialed down in the culture," says Billy Corgan. "Some people assert that the CIA was involved..." stereogum.com/2490878/bill...
Because look at where the UK and France are on a fucking map. Because read a fucking history book. Fetishising a language as being cool seems a bit racist, especially when it's explicitly at the expense of all the French speaking peoples of the world
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 6mo agoSpanish is clearly now the world’s coolest language. So why do we push British children to learn French? | Gary Nunn
tbf when they do develop personalities it's almost always a fucking disaster
Evan Hadfield @evanhadfield.bsky.social · 6mo agoHow come the current vibe in tech is never "develop a personality"
Absolutely (hissing with fury, finger jabbing your chest) Fuck. You. Prick. And, I hope I can count on your vote in May!
It seems obvious now that literally the only thing the Labour leadership cares about is fucking over the membership. No focus or consistency on anything else. Not governing, not geopolitics, not fighting fascism, and not winning elections. The Labour Party's going to die and perhaps it is time.
Our real allies are the people defending their neighbours from government thugs in Minneapolis, not the bastards that sent the thugs. Creasy is retreading shitty Thatcherite arguments from the 80's for paying billions to be strategically dependent on them. While they threaten us.
Stella Creasy MP@stellacreasy.bsky.social · 7mo agoAn emotional response to Trump’s bullying over Greenland will not protect Ukraine, the UK or the rest of Europe. unilaterally abandon trident risks making a bad situation worse- we need to focus on how to strengthen, not weaken our alliances and our allies, and that means prioritising the EU.
i once read "the rights you think criminals should have are the rights you think everyone should have because the state can criminalize anyone" and it changed how i think about everything
I particularly liked it, the time that Tory anonymouse was fretting that Boris Johnson was behaving like Caligula, because it gave me the chance to point out that they hadn’t put Caligula in charge at all - they had all lined up behind the horse that he made a senator
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7mo agoNot just because of Caligula himself, but because the shenanigans raised awkward questions about all those lads who told everyone that having an emperor would be great.
This post got me to look up what 'nonce' means in cryptography, which led me to find out a 'nonce word' is a term in linguistics. One of the examples given in the wikipedia article of a 'nonce word' was coined by Robert Heinlein: 'grok' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonce_w...
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Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 7mo agoOh god horrible memories of the conference I went to early in the days of crypto, when the guy on the panel with me was an American who just kept on saying "it's a nonce-generating machine", "every transaction has a nonce at both ends" etc and I had to keep a straight face.
“Who gets the money and resources” was the key question of British politics in the 2010s and the answer, driven forcefully home, was: “The people who already have it, and if you make any trouble about it, then we will all take turns jumping on your fucking head”.
I really think we should. I know the media & political elites will do everything they can to stop that happening, but there's only a few thousand of them and there's about 70 million of us. I feel like there has to be a way.
flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8mo agoWould it help if we tried “not fraud” just once, before we give up on the idea of democracy
Trying to fight fascism by posting on twitter in 2025 is like trying to fight fascism by writing to Der Sturmer in 1930s Germany.
PS Wes Streeting is a snidey little cunt who wants to privatise the NHS and takes beefy donations from private medical companies. Everyone should be able to get the flu jab for free and he is in charge of the decision for it not to be.
That fucking peace prize looks like a bunch of dirty old man hands touching the earth inappropriately.
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
Anon Opins are often silly and make me think 'What are you on about mate?' but I am fucking furious about this one.
Anon Opin@anonopin.bsky.social · 9mo agoThere are to many cheeses. It should be reduced to four: Cheddar, Stilton, Mozzarella, and Parmesan.