Helen

Just in case she makes it onto the ballot, it’s good to remind yourself who Maria Steen and the Iona Institute are - fundamentalist zealots who represent almost no one cos even most Catholics think they’re awful

They gotta stop naming roses after people, because "Come check out Dick Clark!" and "Go sniff Henry Fonda!" are both things my mom has said to me.

Watching Gaza City high rises be levelled this week while thinking of this line that I overheard an Israeli tour guide say in late July:

My latest, from the Israel-Gaza border, where I listened in as tour groups came to view the ruins of Gaza: www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Giving updates on the awful things happening in America is the new Irish mammy telling you who died.

Maynard in Cork

"Israeli soldiers were targetting particular parts of the body on particular days. One day, it was head and neck. One day, chest. One day, legs. One day, testicles. Target practice.
I would not have believed it if I had not seen it with my own eyes."

- Dr Nick Maynard speaking in Cork.
#speirgorm

Mic drop.

Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March

This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes

🧵

This is high art

“The video of me being beaten went viral because I’m white but the violence I experienced is just a drop in the ocean compared to what my Palestinian, Arab & other racialised comrades have endured at the hands of the German state police over the past 2 years.”

This is what solidarity looks like

BDS movement call for boycott of Radiohead's 2025 tour The pro-Palestine BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement has called for a boycott of Radiohead’s newly announced 2025 tour.

It's not like Radiohead haven't been asked nicely over and over and over again to stop being bastards about this, for years, and their response is always condescending bullshit www.nme.com/news/music/b...

Rule Britannia is just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for people who love Top Gear.

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

Listening to this week's @dbethelcomics.bsky.social and @profounddark.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy podcast. I just *knew* that when Kylie was mentioned that Andrew would only know her acting from Doctor Who.

Her and Jason Donovan on Neighbours is so baked into my childhood 😂

Whatever happened to just buying stuff and then owning that stuff.

This one Dril tweet in December 2023 was a more accurate depiction of actual events than anything you’d have got off newsstands, from broadcast media or out of the mouths of politicians. It hasn’t got much better since.

It’s been ten years since the publication of The Shepherd’s Crown, the last book Terry Pratchett completed before he died. Once the spine on this one was cracked, there were no more new Pratchetts to look forward to, and I know a lot of Discworld readers who were, understandably, with that sad reality in mind, reluctant to finish - or even start - this one because it felt like the final closing of a door. But I also know that Terry wanted his books to be read and enjoyed far more than he wanted them kept on a shelf. And as time passes it becomes ever more apparent how much the Discworld books reward re-visiting, perpetually revealing something new, literary gems Terry had hidden away for a second or third, or even more, re-read. Every Pratchett is to some degree an unread Pratchett, including the ones you’ve already enjoyed and including The Shepherd’s Crown. So the greatest way to honour Terry’s legacy is to pull that book you’ve been saving off the shelf, make a nice cup of tea and settle down to read the story he wrote for you. Enjoy. Rob Wilkins Wiltshire, August 2025

On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published.

To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:

In an article about authors opting out of a literary prize, you have included a statement from only one of those authors. On the other hand, you have chosen to include the words of two other major gender critical voices, neither of whom were in any way affiliated with the prize. 2/

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

death to tyrants! from disney’s animated robin hood

“keep politics out of kids movies”

disney in 1973:

From crusader kings 3

Norman Tebitt described all day by the BBC as as colourful, controversial and a character. All the c words but never the right ones. Architect of section 28, breaker of unions and hater of multi cultural Britain. Cruelty is his legacy

Genuinely nearly just spat out my coffee as the book I'm reading has one of my favourite words in - "biopsychosocial"

(More people need to understand mental health and illness as being biopsychosocial)

Mine was complaints about the lack of dress code at Knock shrine.

Caller: I saw some fella wearing ass-less chaps
Joe: in what way were they ass-less?
Caller: in a sexual way, Joe

So at this point the “center” means that people get hurt, that we're allowed to kidnap immigrants from their home, that we're allowed to throw trans people under the bus and deny them life-saving care. And that's not the center. That is fascist. That's capitulating. Compromise isn't getting your hand cut off and being grateful that they left you your pinky. Compromise means that each person gets something and maybe each person loses something, but you're actually making a difference.

www.everythingishorrible.net/p/people-don...

Kneecap is not the story.
Genocide in Gaza is.

Miss Piggy as Ellen DeGeneres on the cover of Time magazine.

quit your doomscrolling and check out this [thread] of muppetized magazine covers.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—