Chaminda Jayanetti

sure. what I was getting at was that the actual WASPI movement is a very small proportion of the generation that was "affected", because the vast majority either were aware and prepared, or hypothetically were just disengaged throughout

it's always been a noisy minority campaign - Labour threw billons at it out of nowhere in their 2019 manifesto thinking it might secure them the "grey vote". It didn't secure them shit

(not drunken)

key stage three school pupil

One of so many reasons I could not cut it in politics: I would not be able to bring myself to go “sorry, you needed…how many years notice to know when you needed to retire?”

She is absolutely batshit.

Absolutely insane that Louise Perry is running in the NYT

Lmao

What I learnt at the bomb-destroyed McDonald's These are some thoughts and sketches from a July 2023 visit to Kharkiv

I wrote about a conversation I had in July 2023 in Kharkiv

open.substack.com/pub/sianushk...

Text of tweet sent on 26th January 2026 by former Barnet Tory Brian Coleman, who was a pretty nasty piece of work: Reform are not Conservatives. I have nothing in common with the rag bag of failed Politicians that make up Reform and have no friends in Reform. The (self appointed) leadership of Reform is Facist

FFS already

thank god Jean Marie Le Pen died before he could mount some defence of Greenland

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US

George Woke Bush was bad enough, I absolutely refuse to deal with Enlightened Blatter www.theguardian.com/football/202...

wanna show this girl I'm comfortable with male vulnerability but can still get hard so gonna see Shame on our first date

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

Disabled people could face benefit cuts – even if they cannot work Long-term claimants of employment and support allowance could be moved over to a new, time-limited disability benefit – equating to cuts.

NEW: Planned welfare reform could see big benefit cuts for disabled people who can't work, Citizens Advice has warned

The government wants to replace long-term ESA disability benefits with a new, much more time-limited benefit called Unemployment Insurance (UI) www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

crazy etymology

>Mearsheimer says the IRGC defeated a CIA colour revolution in Iran

Its wild to see someone radicalizing himself live. He's not paid, its pure audience capture. Only tankies/Tuckerites give him attention so he morphs ever more to fit these circles. Which lead to mainstream academic/public isolation

PinguAnon

hey maybe they've decided to solve global warming #progress

"why is she walking around with a penguin?" asks literally everyone who hasn't had their brain destroyed by online fascists

"International Steven always in Singapore for work so wife is [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] day"

World Petrol Station Flowers Day

Valentine's Day is a terrible occasion, it deserves a terrible name

National campaign to officially rename Valentine's Day as "Bae Day"

though not Reese himself, ironically

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible.

It leads on "sharply contested narratives"

It has a dramatic skew to the US government

It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

“ICE > MN”

Our fascist leaders explicitly declaring that their untrained paramilitary of goons, a two-decade agency whose massive budget funds thugs in hoodies and body armor with rifles, is more important than an entire American state of 6 million people.

Woman in bed with smoking pipe, husband standing at foot of the bed. Woman: “Darling, it’s not what it looks like!”

Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers

I've been saying this since "Operation Midway Blitz" but the thing that has struck me most in the past six months is the willingness of ordinary liberal Americans - the sort of people who would previously have stuff envelopes or canvassed for elections - embracing civil disobedience and protest