Just remembered the first time I played Party Fears Two for my American husband who had never heard The Associates, and he switched it off halfway through, saying that it sounded as if Billy McKenzie was trying to sing while having a wank 🤣🤣🤣
I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...
We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector
In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...
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Unelected nobody Zia (Muhammad Ziauddin) Yusuf of Reform says Britain is being invaded by foreigners and wants to use huge Navy Warships to round up teeny weeny inflatable boats which is like using a tank to catch a rabbit 🙄 Fun fact - Yusuf’s parents migrated to the UK from Sri Lank in 1980’s..
Domingo Geronimo Mattle / @realurbanartistry paints subjects as if they’re turned around in famous paintings: #AGoodPlace
11 years ago today, Ken Paxton surrendered at the Collin County Jail on felony securities fraud charges. This is his mugshot.
Another example of the lunacy of thinking discrimination against a marginalized group won't affect you if you're not part of that group bsky.app/profile/gbbr...
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 3d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Tired of using the very kind term “centrists” so I’ll be using “right wing liberals” from here on out.
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...
A Ruling Party That Faces No Consequences for Open Corruption Has No Reason to Accept Elections
We won't survive if we try to play by their rules.
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These handles at his age are not normal 🤯 (via aj_lovetoball/IG) #NBA
It’s been a long, stressful week. Why not decompress, switch off your digital devices, and relax the old fashioned way, by eloping with a minor aristocrat, developing a laudanum habit, and publishing a scandalous erotic novel under a pseudonym.
Texas peeps, call John Cornyn and tell him the president's personal attorney should not be Attorney General.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · last wk.Outgoing Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis are reportedly undecided about Todd Blanche's nomination for AG. A single GOP "No" vote in committee this Thursday could tank Blanche's nomination entirely. Call and tell them to reject Blanche: (202) 224-3121
sure let's keep our systems around raising and educating children on the same calendar cycle it was on when they needed to be home to harvest crops on the farm now that we're training them for a post-industrial adulthood makes sense i'm sure there's no other way we could set things up
📚 “Concrete Horizons” — By Edoardo Ettorre in Gurjaani, Georgia 🇬🇪 New Street Art That Turns Walls Into Worlds (20 Photos, Vol. 15): worldartutopia.com/new-street-a...
It’s really unfortunate that non-US news media seems to propagate the fallacy that the majority of Americans are pro-Trump. They are not, nor have they ever been
It's astonishing that at this time in American history it is conceivable that the U.S. Supreme Court might help a convicted felon steal an election.
While we are in this Greek Mythology moment, may I remind you that Emma Thompson is adapting Pat Barker’s take on The Iliad, and she’s struggled to get it made bc the focus on what acts of war against women and survival thereafter actually look like (the core of Barker’s narrative) is too intense.
Emma Thompson adapting feminist retelling of Iliad for big screen
The actress told the Hay Festival she is writing a film version of Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls to draw attention to sexual abuse in war zones
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Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
It's not a disagreement about politics. Itr's a morality/decency thing.
© Cyril Cox. 'Late Afternoon Light.' Acrylic on canvas, 2022. 48 × 36 inches.
