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The first thing we did as a nation to honour those people’s awful sacrifice was boo Winston Churchill like a panto villain and lurch Britain further left than has ever been thought possible since. Reframing previous generations as nostalgic conservatives is fucking ridiculous.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

It's kind of wild how almost all politics in the UK is a demand for perfect systems that work 100% of the time and angry denunciations of systems that have redundancy or error checking as wasteful bureaucracy.

According to my cat:
1. Yell at the human for the audacity of leaving her for a couple of days
2. Try and convince the human that the other human hasn't fed her
3. Cuddles, but angy
4. After 5-10 minutes forget the whole thing happened and forgive.

Labour guy trying to learn a lesson from Mamdani: huh, he took a big gamble! Maybe I should take some more money from gambling companies!

You dont want a nonce to be a royal well then abolish the whole thing you dont get to suddenly choose this one doesnt count is it your blood thats magic or not

Yep. There's this also this unshakeable belief that wealthy tradesmen can't be middle class because they wear overalls to work, but some poor sod stuck in a customer service centre is because they wear a lanyard and participate in dress down Fridays.

i will strangle a horse by BRAINMAGE A comedy twine-based choose-your-own-adventure game where it's your first day on The Farm, and you have One Job

I made a game a couple of weeks ago! For the very first time! Nearly 5000 people have played it! It's on the international games database! That's mad! PLUS it's about attempting to strangle a horse and dying in many, many ways! What's not to like!?

AND it's free!

brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

I was at the Brussels Beer Project bar in Ixelles a week or two ago looking at the board with 20 different IPAs and had similar feelings: that's not what I go to Belgium for. But I guess someone must like it.

When I was working at Reading festival years ago we were given a bunch of radio codes. I remember that the one for a small fire was Mr Ash, which didn't seem to really get the point of using a code word.

I was not expecting this to be why you get cancelled.

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

I haven't been in the stream for a while, has @frankynstein.bsky.social been got or does their curse continue to be fake?

Dinnerladies should be on this list

It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'

Did you think about the relative locations of all their bumholes?

UK Guardian showing more sympathy for the speak and spell than it ever has for transgender people

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

Anyone who belongs to any minority group needs to be aware that what is being done to trans people can and will be done to them. In a decade we have been stripped of our rights to exist in public spaces by a press campaign and a well funded lobby.

A screenshot of a tumblr thread. Tumblr user the-frog-in-the-bog said "I want to decompose in a bog" well you clearly don't know the first thing about bogs. Clout chaser. Tumblr user thebigbiwolf adds a screenshot of the tags #in the bog is like the opposite of decomposition #get pickled idiot and says Huge fan of the phrase "get pickled, idiot"

Boss. I'm tired boss. We been doing these experiments and studies since the 60s and 70s and the outcome has been the same in them all.

The pushback against these measures aren't because they don't work. It's because they DO work and they'll include peoples they wish to exclude from society.

Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.

Not a proper trophy if you can't drink a beer out of it

Incontrovertible evidence, now, of *police* investigating families supporting their kids with gender affirming healthcare in the UK. For trying to do the best for your child, following best practice in most of the world, here you get a visit from the police.

Thank you, Wes Streeting.

This feels @brainmage.bsky.social coded

Eggmont Fleetway sounds like a motorway service station, perhaps on the M3 somewhere near Basingstoke

"So how will seeing a clown cure me?"

"I'm afraid you misunderstand. There is no cure; this is purely pagliative."

Grandmaster Flash is swimming in his bear costume again.

He's like a Bungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how he keeps from going under.