Anand

does feel timely

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perhaps all the 'never forget' theatre last month should have focused on this, instead of jingoistic nationalism and comfort bunting

substantive values, to defend our hard-won diverse social fabric, now under attack, rather than shallow nostalgia

not taking that seriously now is choosing a side

is celebritoxicracy a word?

a black and white cat is typing on a laptop ALT: a black and white cat is typing on a laptop

you can tell it was generated by an AI though 😕 I'll try and tweak the prompts again

in my head this connects to the distorted tourist version of Britain served on a plate to outsiders, all Spitfires cockney chimney-sweeps and bunting

(I worked at a community centre in Soho before everything meaningful was sanded away to a reflective meaningless gloss)

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I'm definitely here for working class microhistories.

the Bullingdon Club without a thin veneer of charm, class, and establishment protection are just bully boys

I suspect it's at many levels

that unease, threat, fear, weaponised by social algorithms — and now validated by national media 😣

and also a rational, simple (wrong) explanation of why everything is shit, not getting better — an clear scapegoat

and, maybe only sometimes, actual personal experience

"It meant nothing. I don't even like cats. I was just drunk and experimenting. Please come back"

I have eaten
the plums
that were on
the patio

and which
you were probably
saving
for pigment

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so #583759

was having this conversation last night about smart people, you put it so clearly

and shit, what an awful situation ❤️‍🩹

I forget where I read about this, but saw a fleeting reference that working class people were far more welcoming to migrants than the Labour Party, under Kier Hardie's leadership, was

strange echoes now (esp. given the names) but this idea of 'growth' is fundamentally excluding: winners over losers

a party which represents social inclusion, and hope for the future, inverts itself into this unpopular travesty

but this tension is a very old one

the trade union history is complex, and hints at something deeply wrong with economics and this industrial growth model

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Love bombing - Wikipedia

I need to update Wikipedia again 🙄

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father never loved me medal

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

FIFA Violent Hooligan Prize 🏆

Seen on CMU campus ❤️

even without this 'coincidence' the most extraordinarily tasteless amateurish talentless kitsch

decaying zombie hands reaching for an enormous offal meatball

Letters: Blatter's own goal Letters: The Japanese and US teams were brilliant and have helped raise the profile of women's football, it was just a shame he showed up to spoil it

I have very little interest in FIFA except to say I was proud to witness and be part of this spontaneous heartfelt booing, and we need to bring it back

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Cat Moving Kittens by Austin Smith

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show Up to 150,000 residents of El Fasher are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

“Sarah Champion, chair of the Commons international development select committee, said: “Members received a private briefing on Sudan, at which one of the academics stated: ‘Our low estimate is 60,000 people have been killed there in the last three weeks.’”

hmmm

this is odd but I often think about something like the Fermi Paradox for time (why aren't we surrounded by time-travelling tourists from the future)

but instead: in an ideal stable more equitable and sustainable future what might tourism even look like - and specifically around Big Ben 🤔

I think it's great, important — and I've seen the differences in varied parenting and school systems on different continents

hope you find it useful too!

Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape by Jay Griffiths – review Sentimentality clouds an otherwise sharp diagnosis of child unhappiness, writes Mary Beard

completely agree

btw this is a really interesting read on quite how much freedom children used to have, yet we're in a much safer time on so many other metrics

I think solving heavy dangerous cars, and the 'landscape' they create, is critical in many ways

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TIL Maine didn't let Native Americans vote until 1954. This Silver Star recipient was told he couldn't vote after he showed up in uniform.

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

tear apart one of your closest allies

I genuinely misread 'briefed' as 'bribed'

Biscuit. Stacking. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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