Craig

I see someone has already said everything I was going to say, spot on all around!

ted. In this context I feel obliged to state once more that - like the hundreds of protesters arrested last weekend - I too support Palestine Action. If this makes me a "supporter of terror" un- der UK law, so be it. My books, at least for now, are still published in Britain, and are widely available in bookshops and even supermarkets. In recent years the UK's state broadcaster has also televised two fine adaptations of my novels, and therefore regularly pays me residual fees. I want to be clear that I intend to use these pro-ceeds of my work, as well as my public platform generally, to go on support-ing Palestine Action and direct action against genocide in whatever way I can. If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith and the BBC.

Wow Sally Rooney. Fair play.

‘I feel obliged to state once more that… I too support Palestine Action. … If the British state considers this "terrorism", then perhaps it should investigate the shady organisations that continue to promote my work and fund my activities, such as WH Smith
and the BBC.’

They send a tiny digital police detective into the computer and he catches the incoming funds with a big fishing net

They've been doing this for a while unfortunately. Even when the major mass exodus took place last year, they were already actively silencing e.g. Palestinian voices.

I have a lore channel on my discord for my tabletop setting, which I fill with nonsense like the cooking habits of orcs, the life cycles of a species of pig that does a Death Stranding voidout if upset, and the squabbles and cosmic horrors that ruined earlier versions of the game. I enjoy it deeply

A teenage 4channer was beat up by two 15 year olds in DC, which was spotted and quickly stopped by nearby police. He told his friends, the richest man in the world and the Vice President of the United States, that he was pummeled by a dozen adult Romanians. A week later, Trump federalized DC police.

To successfully dedicate yourself to destroying human rights, you first need to be an experienced human rights lawyer.

Nobody ever claimed he was a *pro* human rights lawyer...

RELEASED

We can now confirm that every arrestee from the Lift The Ban sign-holding action has been released. None have been charged.

Hundreds of the arrestees were taken to police cells. Hundreds were processed in pop-up gazebos after queuing for hours.

www.wedonotcomply.org

Oh well, as long as you come out slightly better than the literal Nazi pedophiles, no need for any self-reflection I guess

If you ever find yourself drifting towards the idea that public defenders, legal aid lawyers, and pro bono/sliding scale/movement lawyers are bad people for representing rapists or murderers or con artists or whatever, just keep in mind that is true only if you conclude the government never lies.

I understand the importance of insect life but I absolutely draw the line at wasps. I will not protect the wasps. They are horrible and they will go out of their way to sting you on purpose just for the love of the game. They can absolutely fuck off

that was literally the opposite of the problem

Well said on all counts here! Very tempting and far too easy to point across the water and say "look, they're leading the way, we're not as bad as them". When the reality is (a) we have plenty of homegrown bigotry and (b) we're not as bad as them is hardly reason to get complacent anyway.

If nothing else, Alex's comparison here surely suggests that she believes we should arrest anyone who's ever sung along to the Wolfe Tones, which would be a bold move and in fairness would probably make Keir Starmer very happy

Text reads: NO AI USED IN ANY ASPECT OF THE CREATION OR PRODUCTION OF THESE BOOKS, OR ASSOCIATED MATERIALS Then the No AI logo, which is the letters "AI" in a red circle with a line through to cross out the AI. Text reads: I'M PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF WRITING THIS DEMENTED SHIT ON MY OWN. THE PLANET-BURNING PLAGIARISM MACHINE IS FOR FUCKING LOSERS. I HIRE REAL HUMAN EDITORS, ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS.

Designed a new sign for my convention table. Might be too subtle, idk, what do you reckon?!

No Oxford comma we die like men!

No!!!!!! It's a computer!!!!! You gotta stop thinking like this!!!!!

So if I were to ask Corbyn if he was going to guarantee my medical treatment, should I expect you to respond to me by asking how many type 1 diabetics there are in the UK? If not, why not? What's the difference here?

Looking at some of the easily accessible figures on this, it looks like it's only slightly lower than the number of type 1 diabetics. Personally I'd like to continue accessing my life saving insulin hormone treatment and if that was under threat I'd want to see politicians sticking up for me.

Being awake due to a persistent sneeze/sniffle, the entire night leading into a work week, is known as "The Cool Prologue" and it means you're in for a really good week

It's something I never understood at all. Always felt very American or... something. Just very clearly not for me, which is one thing, but I couldn't even work out what the appeal was supposed to be

I did not believe Popstar could possibly be good, and how terribly wrong I was

YOU KNOW WHAT HAS TO BE DONE: THIS IS THE MESSAGE YOU WERE WAITING FOR - "WHEN THINGS GET BAD ENOGUH," YOU SAID, AND NOW THEY ARE - WILL YOU GO BACK TO USING BIT TORRENT OR WILL YOU SEND YOUR STREAMING PAYMENTS UP HILL TO DA OPRESSORS LIKE A DEFEATED BABY???? A SKALATON SCREAM'S AND THERE HOLLERS ECHO OFF OF ALL BUILDING'S ,U HEAR THERE ANGUISHED CRYS AND PULL THE BLINDS DOWN TO SEE WHATS GOING ON, AND ITS TIME, YOU KNOW ITS TIME, IF YOU EVER SAID IT WOULD BE TIME, ITS NOW, IF YOU EVER SAID "ONE DAY" TODAY IS THE ONE DAY, YOU MUST DO WHAT YOU PROMISED ,YOU MUST LIVE UP TO THE HOLOGRAM OF YOURSELF AS THE HERO OF YOUR OWN LIFE, YOU ARE A DIVINE BEING MOTHER FUCKER!!!! YOU HOLD INFINITE POSSIBILITYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU CAN NOT DO WHAT YOU SEE YOUR SELF DOING IN YOUR MINDS EYE! BEGIN WITH A SINGLE STEP MOTHER FUCKER!!!! SEE YOU ON THE NEWS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

YOU KNOW - dashare.zone ADMIN

The "cool" thing about Baudrillard providing far & away the most compelling explanations for & predictions of the basic material reality of life in 2025 is that Baudrillard is maybe the bleakest and most hopeless philosophy ever produced

The BBC News website has pages & pages of coverage related to farmers protesting inheritance tax, including events where only a few hundred turn out.

In London yesterday 100,000 people marched for trans rights, and nothing.

Imagine if it was 100,000 anti immigrant activists, they'd cover that.

Understandable really, can't argue with it.

OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.

Another day in the degeneration of British politics. Policies which are more extreme than the 2010 BNP manifesto being bandied around as if they were worthy of consideration and respect.

reddit is censoring lgbt+ content in the uk bcos of the 'online safety act'

exactly what we said would happen

@lgbtfdn.bsky.social, @stonewalluk.bsky.social, they censoring you lgb folks too

do you care now or do you still think having a nice sandwich and a cocktail with starmer is a good idea?

Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima The UK's new act blocks access to adult content without identification. Turns out, you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone to get around it.

Oh my god

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet