A cat looking through a frosted window. It looks very blurred but it’s still clearly a cat.

Hello. Been a while. Just popped in to say I finally watched Aftersun and blubbed like I rarely do at a film. It was brilliant. Last time I cried because of a film was All Of Us Strangers. Also brilliant.

I posted this 7 months ago and it's only grown more relevant every day since. Which is, you know, annoying.

Smart move leaving out twitter where not a single nazi goes to hangout

More Cats for you all.

A grey cat about 9 months old lies on a bed wearing a deep green collar with a bell. They look content.

Once again I got fooled by the for you Twitter thing. Forgot this place existed for a while. Have a nice cat picture.

Speak for your fucking selves. I've never been reluctant to recognize it. I know hundreds of people online who've never been reluctant to recognize it. Fuck this 'we' shit. There's no 'we'. This is a stepping stone on the road to the post-Iraq style amnesia, to nobody ever having been for it.

Basic Channel Read Joe Muggs on Basic Channel

I've done a quick beginners guide to Basic Channel. Get into it!

Letter Template Concerning Proposed EHRC Chair Appointment Letter Template Concerning Proposed EHRC Chair Appointment Please copy and paste the text below the line. Make sure to change any bits bolded in red. Emails to send to (make sure to send to both):...

I have drafted a template letter which you can send to the Women and Equalities Select Committee and the Joint Committee on Human Rights, concerning the proposed appointment of Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson as the new head of the EHRC.

Please share widely.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"Transgender people must accept a reduction in their rights after the supreme court decision on gender because they “have been lied to over many years” about what their rights actually were, one of the commissioners drawing up the official post-ruling guidance has said."

A tweet from the official FBI Twitter account dated June 2, 2025, reads: "Help the FBI protect children. As the Attorney General has made clear, we will protect our children and hold accountable those who mutilate them under the guise of gender-affirming care. Report tips of any hospitals, clinics, or practitioners performing these surgical procedures on children at 1-800-CALL-FBI or tips.fbi.gov." The tweet has 106K views.

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

Police Scotland are a fucking joke. A gazzilion orange walks? Fine! A rap group playing a pop music festival? UNGOVERNABLE

Nobody asked for a Euler diagram showing Cure songs that contain within their lyrics the words Moon, Angel, Rain, Thousand and Garden, but if someone did this is what they would get

Joy Division 'Unkonwn Pleasures' loafers.

With padded soles for when you want to just walk away in silence.

"Totally and utterly inadequate" says Starmer about Israel's plans to let in a 'basic' amount of food. "We cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve" adds the man whose government sold more weapons to Israel in the 3 months of Oct - Dec '24 than the Tories in 4 years.

98% of concert Close to Me's & 99% of Why Can't I Be You's have been played in the encores

Just 0.7% of FTEOTDGS & 0.4% of Night Like This have been in the encores
Kyoto Song has never played in the encores

On #ScatterplotThursday see the top 50 most played Cure songs with % of plays in encores

Starmer emerges from a phone box in full Farage contrived-country-gent-get-up (yellow jumbo cords, wax jacket, etc)

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317 A watercolour painting of a badger. A desperate plea to sign this petition if you live in the UK.

There's a petition about the badger cull that's currently at around 93k but needs 100k to make it to Parliament.

If you are in the UK, if you care about the lives of the badgers and the cows, would you consider signing it? It would really help.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Thank you.

So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?

I’m getting the impression Graham Linehan might be slightly less keen on the idea of court rulings than he was at the start of the week.

As we wait for a verdict that only impacts trans people, and in which no trans people were allowed to speak, I remind you of the last year in the Mail, Times, Telegraph and Guardian when it comes to trans people.

None of these were written by trans people

call me a crazy leftie but I'm not that jazzed about a trade deal with a fascist, authoritarian, hyper-corporate and completely untrustworthy nation

The Cure: Designer Andy Vella on creating art for the goth rockers Andy Vella has been designing record covers for more than 40 years, most predominately for The Cure.

Designer Andy Vella has been creating album covers for more than 40 years, with his work to be found in millions of homes around the world.

"Whenever I design a new album or logo for The Cure someone sends me a tattoo that they've just had done of it"

From BBC6Music:

From Manchester's Piccadilly Records to discovering shops all over the world on tour,Johnny Marr speaks on the importance of Record shops.

To celebrate Record Store Day 2025 Johnny joined Chris for a chat all about his new special release of Look Out Live!
Listen now on @bbcsounds

Victim complex

Trump: "I'm going to do the thing."

The media, markets, and politicians: "He's not really going to do the thing, it's just bluster."

**Trump does the thing**

Everyone: OH MY GOD, HE ACTUALLY DID THE THING!? WE DIDN'T THINK HE WAS SERIOUS!

Elon Musk would now be in charge of the databases determining voter eligibility.

Reduce the base to ash, then sterilise the ash. Trust me.

I mean.