Malcolm Wilson
@malcolmwilson01.bsky.social
If you’d like to get in touch, my email address is my Bluesky handle at Hotmail dot com.
'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer
As the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...
Oxford public toilets: Where to go when you need to go
We are all the Clarion – and, sometimes, we all need the loo. And especially if you're pregnant, have an unreliable postnatal pelvic floor, are looking after children, or just need to spend a penny wi...
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My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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A 21 year-old man is suspected of killing a 65 year-old cyclist. Let’s get this sort of headline right. And it goes through my head every time I get on my bike. What will my headline be, and when?
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 9h agoA 65-year old cyclist has died after a road traffic collision on Iffley Road at 11pm yesterday. A 21-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of death causing dangerous driving. Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage of a grey Volkswagen Golf.
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The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back
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We need a mass manliness surveillance campaign. Challenge anyone who doesn’t stand with his legs wide apart, fully unbutton and unzip his trousers, pull his massive member out with an audible flop, ease out a fart, piss like a horse, waggle his member to the last drop and casually put it all back.
Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 13h agoWhen they said “there will be no toilet police” they were always just saying so we need You 🫵 to be a toilet vigilante and sniff out the gender deviants
EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.
Keeping seeing the take: "@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social is smart and all, but she doesn't know *film* and so she doesn't really *get it.*" My bros in Christ, opinions about films are ALWAYS informed by life experiences. There is no such thing as pure film criticism! Knowing "film" biases you, too!
'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
cf Jane Austen’s portrayal of Emma Woodhouse at the picnic on Box Hill.
Polis Loizou 🦊@polisloizou.bsky.social · yesterdayMocking people who are well-meaning but gauche just makes you a dickhead, imo
The look everyone’s talking about can now be yours: show your support for trans youth now ➡️ hrc.im/transkidsbelong 🩵🩷🤍
Tyhe BBC article reporting this has an amazing picture of him with Cannon and Ball, The Krankies, Frank Carson and Paul Daniels. Comedian Jimmy Cricket dies aged 80 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Comedian Jimmy Cricket dies aged 80
In a statement, his family says Cricket spent his last few days surrounded by his family, love, laughter and songs.
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madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 2d agoA lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
A lot of people today talking about an awful person who died but i want to make everyone aware of a good person who died: Northern Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket, who you should all look up if you don’t know. 10/10 all around wife guy, dad, granddad, and just a generally solid person
this country has produced some amazing writers, rod liddle wasn't one of them, don't be fucking daft
The boy, the ball and the water: Will down at the Chess this morning.
“The narratives we create around trans & non-binary people matter. At a time when negative rhetoric towards our community is increasing & trans & non-binary lives are frequently reduced to political debate, it’s important for trans lives to be understood as real, complex & joyful experiences.” 💕🏳️⚧️
Heartstopper's legacy is showing me what trans joy felt like for the first time
It was transformative to see a trans person who could live their life, be supported through their struggles, and have a positive storyline
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… and communist is evil, and evil is easy, and easy is like Sunday Morning. Therefore Democratic Socialism is easy like Sunday morning.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 3d agoand GOD IS EMPTY JUST LIKE ME
Today is Porajmos Memorial Day. Today we remember the half a million Romani people murdered by Nazi genocide. Dikh He Na Bister
omg I don't want to get too excited but my kids have built a blanket camp in the bedroom and are insisting that absolutely on no account can parents bother them. I've actually just cracked open a book and might even nap??? *muffled crying*
whatever you think of harris's chances of regaining the nomination man this is a deeply welcome early stake to see claimed in the 2028 primary positioning
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago"“We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts,” Harris said at the National Urban League’s annual conference...also calling for a review of the Electoral College and statehood for Puerto Rico and Washington, DC." www.cnn.com/2026/07/31/p...
See also: Ulster, where ubiquitous union flags were *never* a bad thing.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 3d agoIt was always unlawful, under the Highways Act 1980. But I don't suppose Suella would know that, being a lawyer, MP and former Attorney General.
