~daniel_barker~

In fairness the rude ones are inevitably more visible. Plenty of people just out there quietly not being weird.

Please don't post photos of dead children, or videos of dead children, or yell DONT LOOK AWAY. You are sick. Log off. Touch grass. You have PTSD and are inflicting it on us all. If you are not in media/ a conflict researcher/ etc you do NOT need to consume Horrors. Blocking lots right now.

There's something singularly offensive about Americans who storm into people's replies assuming everyone is American and then blame those other people for not signing off their posts with the exact location.

Reporter on Sky Sports News saying that Spurs need the "w" today, cleverly abbreviating the monosyllabic "win" to three syllables instead, saving valuable time.

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

You: Oh my god the house is on fire!

Me (wise, has read books): And you're surprised? Houses have been on fire before [as the flames consume us both] Furthermore,

Polymarket listing for “US next strikes Iran on…?” and the volume is $54M right now

this is hell

im starting to think the woke mind virus wasnt actually the biggest threat to civilization

Under four months till Iran kick off in Group G of the World Cup, hosted by the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize winner.

I am already seeing "it's a distraction!" takes and please fucking kill me

Seeing a lot of cynicism on the timeline. What if this is one of the good wars?

This is so telling about Labour factionalism and the mindset of (some of) the ‘serious’ people in and around the party establishment

I do love it when a new pod promises me something.

It is convenient when the art and the artist can just go unseparated into the same bin

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

It is amazing quite how bad she is at absolutely everything.

It depends on what the meaning of the word "wrong" is

There's a big viral tweet that says "none of this has to happen" and personally I feel that is true of everything.

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature.

You'll never sing that, etc...

Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.

It's got to hurt

"Our candidate, who got 1.9% of the vote, embodies the new Conservative Party." Yes that's probably fair.

"the monster of harvesting Muslim community bloc votes" is a profoundly unhinged construction

But however you look at it, the rhetoric on immigration, the treatment of trans people and the failure to robustly oppose the far right have been absolutely shocking. Can't expect people to ignore that shit.

In fairness to Labour they have done some progressive things that people tend to gloss over. Banning no fault evictions, improving statutory sick pay, reforming Ofsted and at least trying to recruit more GPs and teachers. And they've been held back by activist lords in a way that isn't usual.

Damnit Andrea why didn't you say something earlier

Hmm

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.