Annie Kelly

A headline from GB News stating: Motorists switch to using public transport to avoid paying £5 daily congestion charge

In shock news, motorists have switched to public transport to avoid paying the Oxford Congestion Charge.
A spokesperson* said: "This is exactly what was meant to happen, and it did."

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

I'll be honest, while I think all of this stuff going mainstream is very bad, "mogged" is probably one of my favourite bits of manosphere slang. Unlike a lot of their bullshit it feels actually useful as a term. Sometimes you really do just get mogged

American Unreality — Part 2: The Social Gravity of the Lie Springfield and the Social Production of Reality

New post (thanks to @annieknk.bsky.social for her edits+feedback) looking at the structural forces that make misinformation and disinformation so hard to combat, why current responses like fact-checking keep falling short, and what that means for American democracy.
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I think that might have got a reference in the credits!

Ok what's funny about this is it's very old PUA lingo! It comes from the forum days - probably whoever originally invented it is at least 45 now

It's got a pretty limited release understandably, but I thought the Testament of Ann Lee was a really extraordinary film. One of the most inventive and interesting films about religion I've seen

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Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal.

What did you think would happen?

Christiaan Triebert @trortc X.com At least two young children were killed in the strike (likely on the state broadcaster across the street that heavily damaged the Gandhi Hospital, per the spokesperson for Iran's health ministry. Warning: these are graphic images. w/@anushkapatil Yesterday in southern Iran, around 180 young children lost their lives in a single missile strike. Tonight in Tehran, Gandhi Hospital was targeted by the same kind of missile. My colleagues are now in the process of evacuating the hospital.

Two babies.

The Israeli strike on the Gandhi Hospital in Tehran killed two babies.

(I’m not going to share the images, but I saw them.)

TASNIM WEWS Majid @Majid5963 Follow § Translated from Persian Show original Tasnim: Nurses at Gandhi Hospital are transferring newborns.

Christiaan Triebert @trortc X.com The video showing the incubator is also filmed on that same street. See buildings in the background. x.com/ Majid5963/stat... TASNIM @ Majid @Majid5963•2h Translated from Persian Tasnim: Nurses at Gandhi Hospital are transferring newborns.

There is verified video of nurses frantically trying to transport newborns in incubators away from the targeted hospital:

I wonder if she's obliquely trying to do a "Britain isn't BRITISH anymore" kind of thing, those are very popular rn, but wouldn't want to make that claim until I've had a look at the account

Given the location and the spices she singles out this feels like it's less about the British and more of a hate crime against Yotam Ottolenghi specifically

Screenshot of Telegraph article from 2024 Labour Together failed to declare £700k in donations amid antiSemitism fears Morgan McSweeney did not reveal source of funds over concerns about the safety of a Jewish donor

excerpt from Simons' resignation letter I should explain why I was so concerned. I feared the narratives that this confidential material would be used to push ahead of an election campaign. After the EHRC investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party, you said "those who seek to blame others or downplay what happened in our party are, themselves, part of the problem." I was particularly concerned about the upcoming publication of a book by Paul Holden, who had obtained this confidential material. I believe those concerns were justified. The book diminishes the antisemitism that infected Labour under its previous leadership. It refers constantly to the 'antisemitism crisis' in quotation marks, implying it was confected. Its front cover featured an endorsement from Andrew Feinstein, a man who appeared at an event called "How Jeremy Corbyn was destroyed by a smear campaign led by Istael." The Labour

2024: Labour Together briefs that donations were not reported to protect the "safety" of Trevor Chinn due to antisemitism.

2026: Josh Simons justifies investigating journalists who reported on the donations because one also wrote a book that "diminishes" Labour antisemitism.

Grotesquely cynical.

Toddler embracing a book about dinosaurs

My son has developed a very sweet little routine where he flicks through this book about dinosaurs until he finds the page with the Allosaurus, then clumsily tries to give it a cuddle

The number is now 40. Imagine the response to a mass shooting that killed 40 kids at school.

But this is an act of self-defence.

The Life of Fredrick Brennan feat. Jay Brandstetter (E361) Podcast Episode · QAA Podcast · February 27 · 1h 9m

I guested on QAA (formerly Qanon Anonymous) answering their questions about Fred and telling some stories, there are a few repeats from my podcast's episodes on him but there's plenty new and I had so much fun interacting with a show I've been aware of for so long! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

We're getting into some real "it is hypocritical for voters not to conform to the version of them I made up in my head" territory here.

If you live in the Gorton and Denton constituency and spoke to a Reform party member on your doorstep or in the streets then I'd like to speak to you for an article. My DMs are open.

OUR sensible foreign policy concerns
THEIR divisive sectarianism

So the Telegraph is taking this well

Alarming scenes at number 10 this morning, sources report Starmer took a delivery of 16 alpacas and a nail gun, no statement from his office yet

We can enjoy both

Matt Goodwin, a man so personally repellant he reversed the creeping wave of fascism sweeping the globe.

Eat the book

Spare a thought today for all those commentators who make a living hyping Reform

The Home Office has become an institution intent on cruelty. Escaping war is exactly the circumstance where asylum should be granted. The "just wear noise cancelling headphones" to an actual child living through war is performative cruelty. For shame.

*Homophobically* We need the 4 Day Work Week

Restore Britain's language is not just racist it's now indistinguishable from Neo-Nazi groups.

Great thread. Jilly Kay is very much on the cutting edge of this stuff and TTD owes a lot to her scholarship!