Chris Evans

YouTube video by Squeeze - Topic Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)

RIP Gilson Lavis.
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Just wait until his term expires, and he has to leave the White House...

Leeds & Eire

No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical | Jason Okundaye In this age of Tory nativism and Faragist populism, the question isn’t ‘is this person a bigot’? Now it is ‘does that matter at all?’ says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

“Racism has become thoroughly detached from “serious” politics”
It has been reduced to language.
So, instead of fearing accusations of racism, politicians now exploit them as petty, name-calling distractions from what really matters.
It’s an ugly, cynical deceit.
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Not from an advert or a jingle, but Derek Griffiths stole McCartney's 'vocal bass' coda from 'I Will' wholesale for a children's song he did on Playschool back about 50 years ago.

If America survives Trump and his administration, it'll be like 340 million people beating cancer.

The fear is real.
Look what he instigated on Jan 7th 21.
Being president is the only thing keeping him out of jail...

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’

Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.

The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

There is so, so much Noticing going on.

There's no point trying to Notice something when there's not an official Event Of Noticing going on lad, that's just noticing

‘Yeah, but you’ve got to hold your nose and vote Labour to keep the Tories out. Any other vote is a wasted vote.’

That was my last ever vote for them. Ever.

Worth reading this article by Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social about the media's disingenuous silence regarding the role of the Far Right in Operation Raise The Colours.

Do we need to commandeer the word 'flagwashing' to describe this coy mendacity?

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Call The Midwife! 😀

So do you recognise my 'strength of feeling' Starmer??
And the 'strength of feeling' of everyone - and I'm confident in saying there are fucking millions of us - who don't want to live in a country where racists shout the odds and the rest of us have to accommodate their small-minded ignorance?

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We can blame the BBC for his ubiquitousness - currently 4 MP's, yet they broadcast his 'manifesto' live on all platforms this morning.
Then there's all his Question Time invites over the past 15 years at the expense the Greens and Lib Dems etc etc...

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❤️🕊️ Jarell Quansah for Diogo Jota, after he scored on his Bundesliga debut.

I think the basic problem with the news at the moment, everywhere, is that someone's pub opinion becomes the headline, becomes the story, and a lot of the time, that's not a headline, it's not a story, and it's debatable whether most of that stuff's in the public interest anyway.

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Most of these media thugs pushing this riots narrative will be at their second homes all weekend. Fuck the lot of them.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.

Isn't it crazy how a racist comment at a football match now means widespread condemnation, police action and probably a lifetime ban for the perp whereas racist bile now pours, unchecked and unchallenged, out of news broadcasts and the mouths of mainstream politicians on all sides?

'cultural Christian' here meaning 'I like accruing money for its own sake'.

a man in a tuxedo sits in a chair holding a piece of paper ALT: a man in a tuxedo sits in a chair holding a piece of paper

Remembering Oliver Norvell Hardy (January the 18th, 1892 – August the 7th, 1957). Master of the exasperated look & comedy genius.

There’s ’outdated terminology’ and then there are ‘words you always knew not to use’.

YouTube video by Black Sabbath BLACK SABBATH - "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" (Official Video)

Black Sabbath transcended genre. It's trivial, if 100% accurate, to call them foundational for Metal and Goth. But any human with a gut can feel it wrenched by those riffs, and any human with a heart can feel the desolate, woebegone emotion of Ozzy Osbourne's voice. R.I.P.

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YouTube video by The Fall - Topic Life Just Bounces

London is full of people leaving their homes
They got lack of length in their beds
And in their rooms

#FallFriday

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A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.