Marty

I remember in 1983 the vivid horror of that lesson where Mrs Whitaker used Dulce at Decorum Est & an English lesson to turn a group of kids into radical pacifists. Laid on the floor eyes closed as she talked us through Owen’s nightmare of trench warfare. One of the most important hours of my life.

Screen shot of famous poison scene from Princess Bride featuring Wallace Michael Shawn

Careful - don’t drink anything he give you. He’s been preparing for this for years 😂

Maybe he just has a huge head - or he’s full of shit. You decide

Such a confession ‘I refuse to believe that people have principles- I believe people are only motivated by grifting for their own personal benefit’ - nobody would put themselves out a tiny bit because it’s the right thing to do. you know. I believe Everyone is just like me

Miriam Margolyes is just a warrior woman. That's the post.

She said it all.

Never underestimate the theatre kids

Mandatory community volunteering sounds a lot like a period of indentured servitude

Screen shot reads: Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. - Frank Wilhoit

Very clear from his language that from the outset he has no intention for that ‘constant recording and reporting’ to apply to him and those of his class. This is surveillance of the poor to protect the rich and unfettered behaviour for the very wealthy i. e. tyrannical oligarchy

Re- Corrected headline:

In 2024, 7,100 pedestrians were killed by car drivers who didn’t properly control their cars on the road, & recently, more than 1,000 cyclists have been killed annually by car drivers.

Safety experts: nobody cares-cars matter more. Pedestrians & cyclist protect yourselves

137,000 people will
Have a diverse set of reasons, some good some bad. Referring to groups of people with dehumanising language is seldom a good idea and never fair to everyone in that group

Screenshot that reads: "you study reality, we create it" is from Karl Rove in a 2004 interview with The New York Times Magazine. He stated: "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do".

They’re ignorant but consider the knowledge of science irrelevant to what they’re attempting to create. They aren’t seeking to understand the world but to make a new one in which they are the masters.

Exactly this

Advice please: what are the new local journalism outlets sticking it to power? I'm thinking of publications like the Bristol Cable, Inside Croydon and West Country Voices. Which others should be on the list? Thanks.

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

Love that @danielharper.bsky.social brought up your ‘politics has content as well as form’ line. I’ve quoted that so many times. In discussion w/ good faith people who’re just less well informed on all this it’s a really useful lens to reveal the hypocrisy of the civility debate & r/wing grifters

I came to say this 👆

Big sigh. Watch this.

Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting?

No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

Moose hunting season begins soon in Manitoba, but non-Indigenous hunters will be turned away at check stops managed by Bloodvein River First Nation in an effort to protect the moose population.

Here’s what Nisichawayasihk Chief Angela Levasseur had to say.

So arrogant & ignorant. That’s a conception of speciation by someone whose science education ended in primary school. Bears being different colours isn’t why they’re different species. Its the weakest justification for their racism imaginable & from anyone claiming to be educated- just embarrassing

I honestly don’t know how you keep putting yourself out there but I’m profoundly glad you do.

The betrayal of the Labour movement is viscerally enraging. At this point ‘Labour’ in the ‘Labour Party’ fulfils the same role as ‘Socialist’ in ‘National Socialist’

This is a really important piece of writing and a vital element of the narrative of this moment that needs to be pushed at every opportunity. Thanks

‘The people’, ‘legitimate concerns’ and the far-right ‘protests’ Our understanding of the world, beyond the most direct elements in our personal life, is always mediated. In today’s information landscape…

'There is an element of self-fulfilling prophecy as many people start accepting that immigration is indeed a major concern for ‘the people’, if not for them. As such, they stop protesting or asking for better as they are made to feel their views are marginal'

aurelmondon.medium.com/the-people-l...

I live in an English coastal town. This week as the flags went up on lampposts the local reform FB group progressed effortlessly from moaning about ‘illegals’ to posting videos of non-white holidaymakers on our beach-wanting to send em all back. Their base is racist as all hell & always has been

'Flag graffiti on Lincoln church is an attempt to intimidate' A St George's Cross daubed on a Lincoln church has upset an "inclusive" community, a vicar claims.

Flag graffiti is attempt to intimidate, says vicar

#Lincolnshire #BBCNews

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Plenty of them around these days, especially in governments around the world.
But also on the streets and on social media.
"See no evil, hear no evil, so evil can't be happening" they say with their heads buried in the sand.

Solid strategy. History shows if you abandon your neighbours to their fate in an effort to save yourself - those in power will never turn on you. The paranoid authoritarian purists who require an ever growing out group to punish at all times fuelling purge after purge til nobody is left - good plan

I found the article a useful synthesis of what many historians of specific societal upheavals argue. I preordered the book immediately

You’re not wrong I was using’we’ in the broadest sense. I think it’s partly a class based thing centred on elite fear of working class youth getting ideas above their station coupled with shades of orientalist racism and concern about Chinese communism

A lazily edited Screen shot of a Reddit post from 2 years ago about the fact that in the 90s Teenage mutant ninja turtles were called teenage mutant hero turtles in the UK. Including a picture of a video case edited to that name for UK release. It got 146 upvotes and 49 downvotes - it is intended to illustrate the truthfulness of the assertion in the original text of the accompanying post tho I these days of AI images and photoshop it’s doesn’t prove anything since the metadata will only reveal that it’s a screenshot taken on 3rd of August 2025

We do have a particular fear of ninjas though . Even when they’re turtles. In the 90s we made them rename TMNT.