Pride is a 6/10 first act welded to a 10/10 second act that means you sort of forget none of the songs work and just get dragged along by momentum and emotion. Also, fuck the Labour party's failure on trans rights.
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Very funny to me that the National Theatre Production of Pride's answer to "how do we make our cast look like Welsh men in the 80s?" Is "make then look like British men in the 70s."
Anakin/Padme meme: "To prevent radicalisation, right?"
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 5h ago*stares* I'm sorry, this guy is going to be your advisor on culture and integration? The one who makes these videos?
Oh good, so instead of being a councillor he'll have input into party policies.
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 6h agoIn a post on X he says he’ll instead be advising the Conservative Party on how young men become radicalised
Interrupt your opponent while they’re making a mistake, by making the same mistake if possible. - Sun Tzu
I think the second group pisses me off the most, because they should know better. we're talking Ivy League professors and serious FT columnists prospect.org/2025/08/01/2...
COVID Contrarians Are Wrong About Sweden - The American Prospect
Trying to ‘let it rip’ in early 2020 was a disaster.
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Polanski and Badenoch are actually very alike in that as true online natives they know that what matters most is getting the post out and you can check the details later.
Jordan@jordanpfot.bsky.social · 10h agoWhy are you commenting if you don’t know the specifics of the case!!!!!
To expand on this a little, there are basically three situations: 1) GC complains about trans staff member, company does not know they are trans, no document exists that can prove they're trans, basically Don't Ask, Don't Tell. GC can try to sue, but it's basically unenforceable.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · 9h agoI think the actual answer is that companies are going to keep quiet because they're now stuck between two potentially exposing situations: 1) Lax enforcement - civil lawsuit by GCs. 2) Challenge trans/potentially trans staff - potential criminal prosecution for outing trans status.
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
Equality and Human Rights Commission@equalityhumanright.bsky.social · 13h agoOur code of practice for services, public functions and associations comes into force today. It provides practical guidance on how the Equality Act 2010 applies to services, public functions and associations. Find out more: https://ow.ly/alIf50Zwrkx
In 2011, the UK government response to antitrans provocations was "Don't be so bloody stupid".
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 10h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
I've made the observation before that the Tory party misunderstands a lot of Thatcher's economics, but I think Kemi's defence of a neo nazi turned Twitter troll is the real nail in the coffin of "there's no such thing as society" as they internalise it to mean the opposite of what was intended.
Yeah, he's not deradicalised, he's just shifted in his radicalisation.
John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · yesterdayAlso on this, I do feel "makes AI slop videos about politics" should also be a red flag - especially when, on a quick glance, they seem to be routinely homophobic.
She does, otherwise she'd have no idea what they are. As I didn't until yesterday.
James Heale@jaheale.bsky.social · 14h agoKemi Badenoch on Crewkerne Gazette candidate: "I don't watch his videos. I don't even like those videos. I hate AI deepfakes."
Not to go all Joxley, but the utter collapse of a sense of community pride and social responsibility within the Conservative party is at the heart of their current woes.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 14h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
What’s amazing about the Telegraph crew is how thin their pretence of believing in ‘free speech’ really is.
Solemnly adding the Soup Dragon to the list of those killed by Elon Musk
The Independent@the-independent.com · 15h agoBREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh
Limmy: Don't Back Down, Double Down
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Will Reid-Tong@willthong.com · 14h agoSomehow Kemi on R4 has just backed herself into the utterly farcical line "come on now it's not a *national* platform - he's only gonna be a Tory councillor, not a Tory MP!"
The capitalisation actually invites a proper Amadeus style musical and I'm here for it.
HK@hkesvani.bsky.social · 24h agoExcited to one day watch FAUCI, directed by Christopher Nolan
Not books, but from bands I despise on a personal level, Sex by the 1975 is a spectacular piece of music that happens to precisely capture my dating life from 16 to *coughs*
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Compare and contrast, three years of practice in the amateur end of photography and plating: bangers and mash.
Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's so sad, man. Photographing food is such an artform. I love following food stylists online. They have figured out so much about how to make food look good and beautiful. And here we are throwing that knowledge and expertise away
This is the inevitable conclusion of three decades of increasingly looking at college education as purely a vocational exercise
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d agoPresident Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
The thing you can say for the Enron guys is that they did actually do a lot of accounting fraud to secure their massive overvaluation, they did not just do enough racism and CMA violations that they became a shibboleth for the new right.
Martin Concagh@mconcagh.bsky.social · yesterday1. Of all things, it must Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. I re-read it once a year and I love it to bits. Explains so much about the modern economy and society and the psychosis that comes with being considered visionaries
I mean, there's still that dent he punched in the wall in the Guardian's old office
Twlldun@twlldun.bsky.social · yesterdayI mean I’m sorry but I do not believe Rod Liddle did any damage to “the institutional left”
Yeah, you just can't separate this stuff from "it's good to see free speech is so healthy" after a far right march launched a race riot in your capital city.
Rob Ford@robfordmancs.bsky.social · yesterdayThis is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
If you, to take one random example, say that someone with a long history of neo-Nazi activity is welcome in your party because he did a training course, you are contributing to the problem of norm erosion.
Debating the respective advantages of different Arabic desserts in my local grocers with one of the staff, as you do, and he mentions he's from Morocco, and I laugh and explain I was in Casablanca last year, and get a proper, mouth agape look as he says "for business, surely?"
