Rick Dove

Yet another day wondering why no-one is really discussing that an anagram of his name is

The Reptile

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In memory of Alice Wong, the 10 Principles of Disability Justice. May she rest in power

sinsinvalid.org/10-principle...

Overly dramatic photo of the Palace of Westminster with a shard of sunlight from glowering skies, hitting the Big Ben clock tower.

As a Londoner (with familial roots back to the 19th century), I’m finding it *extremely* difficult not to take the co-ordinated right-wing defamation of my home VERY personally, so the other social media apps are now intolerable.

London is not perfect, but it is a beacon of multicultural hope.

"Rallying the radical left"

Move over Labour, you had your chance

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

They missed a trick not calling them Ouroboreos.

Love this from @zackpolanski.bsky.social

Zack: No, no, the Emperor’s naked.

Perfection 👌🏾

In his futile attempt to justify Musk's $1 trillion pay package, this Musk fluffer overlooks:

-Musk's tax rate on his $450BN is only 2.5% so far.
-Tesla & SpaceX received $3.7BN of US subsidies & loans.
-SpaceX has $22BN in US govt contracts.
-Tesla has received $22BN in US ZEV/GHG/IRA credits.

Local areas can lead the way on protecting nature, making lives better and securing a safe future for all of us - but they need government to stop starving them of funds.

@carladenyer.bsky.social led the way with her Climate Emergency declaration. Now time for the Government to step up.

SATAN: So what makes you want to work here? Isn’t it a bit of a sideways move for you?
ME: Well, sideways and down, haha
SATAN: Haha
ME: But I’ve been working in the sector for a while, and I feel this is where the action is
SATAN: Your most recent role was…
ME: Cinema website designer
SATAN: Sweet

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself

The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...

www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa...

Of course, the right of London politics is coming for Poems on the Underground (a whopping £72k in TfL’s budget), these people lack the requisite souls in order to see the value in enriching those around them.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Crap said by Farage

Everyday a little more Alan Moore dystopia than the last

Was Panorama inaccurate? Yes.

Was it misleading? Fck no.

More Brits need to stick up for the BBC on this.

Yes, cutting the speech that way makes it inaccurate, but let’s be clear. If you say, “And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore," to a crowd of folks who have been riled up by rhetoric for an hour, and they end up fighting *anyone*, you have culpability.

IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.

www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

How the government captured the BBC A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed

Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Joyce Carol Oates (from twitter): "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world.""

I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.

Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the west New research shows how incentives in the modern media ecosystem help explain rising division and negativity

A single shared source of truth is essential for a functioning democracy.

Without it you’re left with fragmentation, polarisation and a perpetual culture war where the discourse focuses on what divides us rather than what we have in common.

My column from last week: www.ft.com/content/5060...

"[name of someone famous and vaguely progressive with a snappy turn of phrase] should run for Director General of the BBC!" like that's how it works and like they won't shove in some absolute nazi who loves rich people and hates trans women and Palestinians just like before but even more this time.

See what’s happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Musk’s calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down

So: genial lives oppose villain egos.

#palindrome

putting her phone in a pouch would have made her killers less transphobic and violent?

I'm not for policing words but I do think that if you don't do the writing, you're an AI promter not a writer as:

1) the writing isn't yours

& more importantly
2) you're a scab

Modest proposal:

in the same way that you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a feminist if you're racist / gc / right wing, you should no longer be permitted to deem yourself a writer if you use commercial genAI for anything.

Would love for women to ruin billionaires next.

People love to tell disabled folks to “take responsibility”.

Take responsibility for what exactly?

For being sick?

For not getting better?

For needing social supports?

What they really mean is “we don’t want OUR taxes helping YOU survive”

Tech bros reading a poem: "Fuck yeah, Ozymandias rules."