What more fitting way to remember Rod Liddle’s life and work than by making nasty jokes about someone who can’t answer back
Rick Dove
@rickdove.bsky.social
Poet | UK Poetry Slam Champion 2021 | Creative Writing Workshop Facilitator | Activist 🏳️🌈♿️ ☮️ | 🔗 https://linktr.ee/rickdove |
Tonight London stood with Berlin. I joined thousands of Londoners in Soho Square to send a message of togetherness with LGBTQIA+ people in the capital and around the world.
When the community note proves that the reason the initial post made him sound like a piece of shit is because he's a bigger piece of shit than the initial post made him out to be.🤷♂️
Look, there’s a lot to dispute here, but I am quite concerned that JK Rowling appears to think “pantomime” and “crow’s” are adjectives.
happy Nolan’s The Odyssey release day for all who celebrate. here’s my favorite Odyssey-related contemporary poem, “Telemachus’ Detachment” by Louise Glück.
Cover reveal for the reissue of ‘Erased’ by James McDermott which was our first poetry pamphlet in 2021. Out at the end of August, preorder now: polari.press/erased
Never underestimate the self-pity of the ruling classes.
Like I say: it really is not hard to spot when the Bullshit Machine’s control switch has been flipped from Suck to Blow.
Any unsolicited advice is criticism. And yes, I am aware of the irony contained in this post.
The next PM needs to be committed to fixing the problems that we have. Not the made up gripes of the loud and misinformed minority
“relatively little attention has been paid to how Reform has consciously waged war on women, who are now punishing the party at the ballot box“ @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
Reform’s toxic masculinity
Farage’s latest candidate catastrophe...
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'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'
In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.
How dare you say we are just bog-standard far right crackpots! We have no ill will towards any ethnic minority or LGBT people. We simply oppose *the ideology* of ethnic minorities and LGBT people; the idea that they should have any specific rights, and the inconvenience of being called bigots.
I oftentimes wonder if we would spot the world ending cult that fundamentally changes our species before it was too late… especially walking in South London recently… We are the Reformer Collective. We will add your positional exercises to our own. Resistance is strengthening…
Phone call with my mum: *what's Palantir? Wait it's run by a MOSLEY??? *a Palestinian flag doesn't scare me as a Jew, they're deflecting from the care crisis *that awful swimmer woman is the worst, no-one wants to talk to HER in a toilet *I once stood behind Omar Sharif It's not generational.
The guy in the suit at the front is part of the National Rebirth Society. An actual far right movement whose followers have a habit of dressing up like retro fascists.
Candice Holmes@candiceholmes.bsky.social · 2mo agoNigel_Farage you asked for "pure cold rage." Here you go. Henry's father begged for unity. You demanded division. That's not leadership. That's incitement. And history won't be kind to those who lit the match and called it passion. 🔥
How well is this going? Got yelled at for "scaring" someone (ie being) in a clearly flagged all-genders bank of stalls at a lovely, small arts venue on Friday. When my partner calmly pointed out there was a single stall set off separately as well (also all-gender), got told it was "disgusting."
Pseudo Bambi@pseudo-bambi.bsky.social · 2mo agoSeema Malhotra: "Most people have the common sense to step in when necessary, for example when a person of the opposite biological sex enters a single sex facility in error - and when to alert a member of staff."
Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.