Tom Black
@tomblack.uk
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are screaming directly into the gutter he/him
the big (okay, one of many big) issues with “actually music out loud on trains is fine and you’re an ableist killjoy” as an argument is that… this isn’t true? for the simple reason that *only one person can play music out loud before nobody is meaningfully listening to music anymore*
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"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.
Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3w agoToday at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.
it never really stops - @mconcagh.bsky.social explaining to me during the last year that Guadalcanal impacted North Africa in a far more than just “holistic” way (IJN redeployments freed up Indian Ocean RN resources to directly impact the supply situation for Montgomery) blew my BA-in-History mind
Mike Black@mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4w agothe thing that WWII dads mostly don't appreciate is the scale of shit that was going on outside of the commonly known theaters if you're a knowledgeable WWII dad you probably very high level appreciate the eastern front, but how bout tying up 20% of IJA manpower for the entire war
@coneshotline.bsky.social @jacktindale.bsky.social getting a lot of 'why's no-one doing the crunch' vibes from this
Years ago my friend @tomblack.uk wrote a short story basically sending the Ten Plagues of Egypt to Nazi Germany, and there's a line that goes something like "maybe God had sent a messenger, and he had been shot dead in the streets of Warsaw or Amsterdam." I think about that line a lot now days.
Jason G. Edwards@jasongedwards.bsky.social · last mo.Just finished watching The Odyssey. Great movie. Now my mind is spinning over “Zeus’s law” and the way Nolan brings together Homeric hospitality with ideas about the stranger, the neighbor, and the divine showing up where we might not expect. (1/3) #theodyssey
the entire nation of England, its fingers behind its ears: AWWWW, DID YOU GET A RED CARD?
Jack Tindale has not complained that the Spanish team didn’t sing their national anthem, someone check with @coneshotline.bsky.social
Harry Styles’ delivery of “you’re DONE, KIRK!” is perfect tbf
tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · last mo.what are peoples' favorite big laughs in nolan movies
Thing about British Steel being nationalised is there is no argument around nationalising it that doesn't also apply to the universities except "steel is boy coded :) and teaching is girl coded :("
I have a few: 1) The night sky. Light pollution has fundamentally changed our experience of the stars. 2) Actual quiet - no distant traffic or electrical lines. 3) Music and the spoken word. We’ve been raised in literate and now audiovisual cultures; that’s a recent innovation. 4) Memory.
Scott “Kostenki 11” Cave@hellabarnes.bsky.social · last mo.what is the reverse historical dorito? the thing from the past that would blow our minds in a positive way
my “I’m not corrupt” by-election is raising a lot of questions already answered by my by-election
Between Chuck throwing his brother in the dungeon, Bob from Chicago excommunicating schismatics, and drunk Pete’s Christian fundamentalist military getting bogged down in an ill-advised adventure in the Middle East, medieval fans are eating good.
hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 2mo agoPeople : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY
smoking-level fines and enforcement thereof for headphoneless audio or video on public transport
Lorraine Wilson@rainewilson.bsky.social · 2mo agoThey've finally run out of toffs to stand as PM, your name has been pulled from the hat, what's your one (1) manifesto pledge? Let's assume UBI, PR & tax/eat the rich are standard. I want your petty policies, your extremely personal grudges, your old man yells at cloud laws
In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.
making no wider comment but if I had a quarter of the confidence Cathy Newman appears to have in Andy Burnham implementing *a wealth tax* I would be dancing in the street?
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked if Andy Burnham becoming PM is bad news for the Green party. Zack explains why it isn't. And two and half years into Israels genocide Cathy Newman still interrupts as soon as Zack says the word.
if Keir Starmer doesn’t like the changes Keir Starmer has made, the door is open and he can leave
well, the worst people in the Labour Party got their guy in, it went the way we all knew it would (tbh it went even worse than I expected), and now they’re going to pretend he was never their guy my advice? don’t let them. you’ve got a memory and these bullies are reliant on you not using it
“Don’t piss off every section of the coalition that elected you” is advice that most political scientists would give you for free
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