Fliss

I wonder about Hollinghurst. Obviously old and respected in literary circles at this point, but has he ever addressed trans people in any major way?

author” in your Instagram bio takes the priority over taking proper action against what the prize has done. It is just so tainted that I can’t see why you’d want to associate with it, at least for this year. It also feels like people are happy to be shortlisted/win by default as others leave.

I’ve got to say as an author who pulled out… it is something that has become a collective solidarity action and either being shortlisted or winning at this point is meaningless. Authors can do what they want, it’s not our fault, sure. But I don’t understand why the chance of putting “award winning

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

"A Look Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan Lair In his seven-story townhouse, the sex offender hosted the elite, displayed photos with presidents and showcased a first edition of “Lolita,” according to previously unreported photos and letters."

Once again, "Lolita" remains maybe the most misunderstood novel of the twentieth century. Nabokov was warning about people like Epstein and the way they rationalize their own actions, not romanticizing them. Epstein apparently totally missed the point.

remember when Owen Jones tweeted that it was bad that people were still expecting their cleaners to come over during the Covid lockdown and Sarah Ditum was like ‘Owen has no idea what it’s like living with my gamer husband and our teenage son who don’t even flush the toilet after themselves’

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

"Ms Peggie then notes she has a lot of Chinese neighbours and Chinese restaurants on her streets. She says she has “never heard my Chinese neighbours complain” about being called Ch*nkys.”"

Peggie not making a great case she's unlikely to use slurs in front of the people they're directed at.

Lehrer's performance is sampled in the track "Dope Peddler" by U.S. rapper 2 Chainz on his 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. Story, (2) In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "As sole copyright owner of 'The Old Dope Peddler', I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?" [21

Just realized I haven’t seen anyone post the Tom Lehrer-2 Chainz letter yet today.

Rachel Reeves considers overruling supreme court in £44bn car finance scandal Exclusive: Chancellor could step in if justices uphold entirety of ruling over commission paid to brokers

Hey remember 5 minutes ago when supreme court rulings were supposedly unquestionable "clarity" that must be deferred to and that local CLPs weren't allowed to oppose?

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

There's a direct line from "no kink at Pride" and "no sex in movies and books unless it Serves The Plot" to payment processors feeling completely empowered to censor art globally

allowing “no Jews” and prohibiting “no Zionists” really sums up the state of discourse around antisemitism in 2025

like I am not promoting porn for minors but I also think we have a tendency to overstate its harms. like I think they'll be fine. the real problem is when porn is used as a tool for grooming

I think forcing people to give up their personal information is worse than a minor happening to stumble across some porn. like I don't think it's that big of a deal if a minor stumbles across porn

What kind of Labour government criminalises peaceful protest against genocide whilst sympathising with violent neo-nazis? A contemptible, amoral husk of a party.

Why are people supposed to be afraid of Reform if they're apparently right about everything?

A fucking tiny group of christofascists has fucking destroyed half of the fucking adult industry within the span of a couple fucking weeks and there has been no fucking pushback whatsofuckingever.

These changes weren't introduced to protect children. They were first introduced by the previous conservative government in the hopes of, amongst other stuff, isolating queer youth from adults.

People often assume that being pro Palestine is some sort of ‘radical’ ‘extreme left’ (which are all fine) position, but you are forever seeing very posh types going: hang on a minute, even at marches you will see all demographics of people, the normie position is a rejection of Israel’s war crimes

spare us from the cis allies who are always like "nobody saying that you can change your sex" and "we're talking about gender not sex, they're very different." stop it.

If your hot take is that the department of education guidance "doesn't ban" teaching kids they can be trans like section 28 banned teaching kids about gay and lesbian people, you need to be reminded that S28 only banned "promotion" of homosexuality, but the effect was that no-one could say to ...

If the Tories were treating trans people the way Labour is currently doing (and to be clear, Labour are treating trans people worse than the Tories ever did) the people STILL standing up for Labour would be up in arms.

I find it fascinating how all of these LGBT organisations formed after the AIDs crisis have been so comfortable for so long that they are severely unequipped to confront a real full scale crisis.

There's a reason it's rare now for LGBT+ orgs to be invited to No. 10. It's because Labour are pursuing a policy of trans genocide.

While you chuckled and chatted over drinks and canapes, Labour were planning this, their next attack on our community.

Your refusal to condemn makes you complicit.

Better than Talk to Me, tbh. I wasn't as hot on that as others, if you recall.

I didn't find that brutal. I was more just confused as to why that was there (though by elaborating I may be delving into spoilers for any onlookers).

The scene with the kitchen knife?

Worth the risk, tbh.