Theo

My most woke opinion is that "woke" at root is a beautiful concept: active socio-political consciousness in the context of the Black American liberation struggle. And the way it's been turned into a sneering pejorative is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen in Western political discourse.

working at the nyt

Especially awkward, because they correctly understand this is people much like them being stitched up by their media colleagues, and nobody can say it is without being called a wackadoodle conspiracy theorist, a thing they themselves have done to many other people in similar circumstances.

Before I put them all in big folders it was the same rules as bookshops and music stores: the is ignored (as is a), and surname is used before first name for those who aren't mononyms.

That said, still look under D for David Bowie first in my records 😭

As a Safety manager in the NHS, Labour is most likely making me redundant, and I could lose my house. Making NHS patients less safe in the process.

How are Labour policies changing your life?

The podcast Article of Interest did a fascinating podcast episode on the zipper. It's a complicated piece of technology whose existence is new and not a given - we had plenty of other fasteners - snaps and buttons. And while YKK is now the world's largest zipper maker the zipper was invented in NJ

Good to have it confirmed that a desktop like that is the sign of a psychopath 😉

Would presume that AZERTY keyboards and bucks are both common in Frebch-speaking Quebec

*bag!

That bad was as cool as I thought!

@lordarse.com saw this bag ahead of me yesterday. Couldn't get a better shot of the text.

There's something creepy about it, yeah. It's like all his fingernails are little finger fingernails. But I guess he might just have creepy hands

Actually maybe it's real?
*Big Lebowski squinting*
It might just be the glass refracting and it's more that no one has ever lifted a tankard of beer that way. Like it's not a warming hot chocolate?!

Ack! No no no 😞

Typical that they’d call The Police

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.ne... • 33m Probably worth saying that gambling firms prop up The Sun through millions £ in advertising and referral deals. For some reason they don't point that conflict of interest out on their front page story against gambling taxes today (save for a promo note that it "includes Sun Bingo and Sun Vegas") THE Sün

The Sun hasn’t turned a profit for years, which raises questions about what its purpose is and always was, if it isn’t “making money”.

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

I assume it is to authors having problems completing a project what "under the weather" is to illness.

Ultravox vocalist's cryptocurrency is having issues, I see.

The key part of his shift, as the article notes, is the focus on words and thoughts rather than structures. But there’s more to be said about how the former then makes the whole problem go away:

1. X says something racist.
2. “But he isn’t a racist”.
3. So the thing he said can’t really be racist.

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Just doing the pool or are you gonna visit some pyramids/temples? Some incredible sights but often requiring some uncomfortable journeys 😕

We got some insect repellent stuff in Bruges a couple of years back after failing to anticipate the mossie levels. It works but it's so pungent we have to apply it outdoors.

If you know anyone going to Aus ask them to get you some bush-level "Off!" and some "Stop!" Bite cream.

Close second

The Onion: Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' Share Published: January 17, 2001 WASHINGTON, DC-Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."

Onion headlines that were more correct than actual news

Did some dickhead on a protest hold up a nasty, racist sign? Probably, some dickhead usually does. But a public order offence 400 miles from my house makes no difference at all to questions like “Should we destroy the postwar liberal order, just to protect a gaggle of fascist murderers who hate it”.

No doubt there are lots of unpleasant people on the “stop the genocide” side of the debate too but the handy thing is, that is *completely irrelevant to the question of whether or not the genocide should end now*, and whether the people responsible around the world should be prosecuted for it.

Starmer has just ended, by dictatorial fiat, a harm-reduction policy that protected minority groups dating back to the murder of Stephen Lawrence, because he hates trans people.

Once upon a time the Milkshake Duck was the outlier.

Now we're all shocked if anyone in the public eye has an ounce of basic humanity.

Support for Reform UK increasing among British Indians, poll shows Exclusive: Survey finds 13% of British Indians back Nigel Farage’s party compared with only 4% at last election

You've gotta read quite a long way through this before you reach the bit where the Greens are polling level with Reform among British Indians www.theguardian.com/politics/202...