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LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've just logged on to X for the first time in a year to check Glinner's profile, and it really is unhinged. Every single post is either screaming at people with pronouns in their bio, or just general waffle about "protecting women from men in dresses". It's just sad.

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈@sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3d ago

jon ronson has written a book about men who go crazy online and he's dedicated an entire chapter to graham linehan. graham is not going to like the observer review.

Ronson’s account of Graham Linehan is another harrowing tale of a man’s life ruined by the internet. Linehan was a beloved comedy writer, co-creator of Father Ted, and a prolific presence on Twitter, where he was well liked and respected. Then, in 2013, something began to shift, when an episode of his sitcom The IT Crowd, first broadcast in 2008, was repeated. In it, a man discovers his girlfriend is transgender and a brawl breaks out between the two. Viewers did not like the display of violence nor the supposed implication that the trans woman was “really” a man, underlying maleness bursting forth uncontrollably once she is angry. Linehan responded to criticism with polite bafflement, then defensiveness, and finally overt anger. He began to research transgender issues and developed a singular obsession with the topic, which has since gone on to comprehensively destroy his career and personal life. Linehan, who believes trans activism and indeed ordinary trans existence pose an existential threat to women, talks of little else (except, these days, a fervent pro-Israel stance). He tweets near-constantly, cloaking his obsession with supposed concern for the wellbeing of cisgender women, but he does not balk at aggressively insulting those women who disagree with him.
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · last mo.

Harold Wilson, with a majority of four, had the courage to say that the winner of the Smethwick by-election would be greeted “like a leper” in Parliament. Ted Heath, trailing in the polls, fired Enoch Powell. The comparison with the Labour government and Conservative opposition now..oy.

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last mo.

I know it's only a PCC election with low turnout but 11% for a party that happily accepts neo-Nazis as members is really bad.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People DO get that the Gregg's Mexican food notice thing is just a cheeky joke, right? It's not like "Freedom Fries" which (I believe) was genuinly out of a sense of miaguided patriotism. No-one is boycotting Mexican (well, as close as we get to Mexican) food. It's just a bit of fun.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Toryiyama one on the third image is especially hilarious, because he's actually left in the original eye outline (Goku style open eyes) and then drawn another set of eyes further in.

🌈DaisyFM ✒︎@daisyfm.net · 2mo ago

These aren't satirical of the characters nor of what they're illustrating. He's not making any sort of statement here that significantly transforms the art in any way. He's just using recognizable characters he doesn't have the rights to and he's doing it by tracing.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I need someone I trust to tell me if the "Europeans hate air conditioning thing because of racism" is making a good point or not. I've not got the brain energy to try and figure it out for myself.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I dunno. I'm pretty sure "refusing to put the central heating on until it's cold enough that you can see your breath" is a universal British dad trait.

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LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Arguing with a friend who likes the social media ban because "at least they are doing something" and trying not to scream at a WhatsApp chat.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Can't believe we got both "the riots in Northern Ireland would have gone better if more people had guns" AND "agriculture is bad because it caused slavery" in the same week.

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Even aside from, y'know, the whole history of NI, does this person not realise what has happened in the US in just the last year? Do they think that things would have worked out better for everyone if those non-white people had pointed their legally owned firearms at ICE officers?

Laura Jedeed@laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The second amendment can be hard to defend because when things are going even moderately all right, you do not need to own a gun When shit like this starts happening, though, it's a damn good right to have

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Love how we've decided that groups of young men dressed in black with their faces hidden walking around setting fire to vehicles and houses are now "protests" and not "violent hooliganism".

LiamK@liamk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I love Babylon 5 but I got to a point where I thought stuff like this was a bit too clunkly and lacking the subtlety of how it would happen in reality. I was wrong.

ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈@ryanthomasriddle.com · 3mo ago

Long before ANDOR, BABYLON 5 warned us of how fascism raises quitely and slowly until it feels “normalized.” Heck, even predicted the use of blonde-haired woman used as the “pleasant” face of the movement. And the use of “aliens” as the scapegoat.

Matthew Hodson@matthewhodson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Section 28 was passed on this day in 1988. It didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from a society where 75% of people thought homosexuality was wrong. It came from a society that believed ignorance was better for children than any knowledge of lesbian or gay lives. 🧵 1/16