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Also I don’t want to be like ‘the economic benefit of the performing arts’ because they should and will always exist outwith that, but come on. So shortsighted. They want us to be overrun with little PPE graduates

Doesn’t escape my notice that these degrees, E.g. sociology, make people more likely to question political and economic orthodoxies but maybe that’s just a coincidence!

Incredible that the health minister, the Blairite saviour Wes Streeting is hiring the professor who ideologically fucked up diagnoses of ME/CFS at the exact point of this discovery.

Won a pub quiz tonight but only because one of the questions was ‘name all seven members of BTS’ for a point each 😅

(I wrote stage names and full names just in case)

The Long Game Imagine you are a tenant, in the worst financial crash in living memory, and you discover that over three thousand of your very precious and irreplaceable euros have been sent by your idiot bank to your previous landlord. And then he won't give them back. Not then, but also, not later either. He just keeps the money, because that is how Irish private landlords behave. You pay a deposit to a landlord and then they try anything on to refuse to give it back. Now imagine you spend the next 16 years seething every time that landlord appears on the TV, being fêted for his sporting triumphs, receiving state appointments and still never giving you your money. And now, and I invite you to imagine this in full 8k Hi-Def Surround Sound, imagine seeing that guy announce he was running to be President and realising you were going to tell your story and End It.

I learned about Sports Thumb Jim Gavin dropping out of the Irish Presidential election from @tupped.bsky.social's The Gist this morning and I owe it to you to share this relevant passage, which got my week off to a great start:

Irish language group calls for all parties to condemn UDA and UVF threats to burn Belfast council facilities over language proposals A leading Irish language organisation has called for all parties to condemn threats from the UVF and UDA saying they would carry out an arson campaign against Belfast City Council property displaying ...

When the PSNI were over arresting peaceful protesters in London, loyalist terror groups with 12,500+ members threatened terror attacks for using this island's native tongue. No COBRA meetings, no British reporting, nothing.

I thought this was Stephen Morris from New Order at a glance

I understand a court of appeal ruling is due this month on the question of whether a judicial review of the ban can go ahead in November. The government is opposing it, but I think they might be wiser to get this cleared up as soon as possible. The current situation looks awful & is not sustainable.

And a reminder that in addition to Palestine Action, the proscription order included neo-Nazi group Maniacs Murder Cult and the Russian Imperial Movement, a white supremacist group.
The vote on the three groups was taken together, meaning all three had to be banned or none of them.
Sneaky, I’d say.

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Imagine selling your soul for a seat at the cabinet table lol.

LOL
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YouTube video by Fatcat Records Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnel

Múm - Green Green Grass of Tunnel

I forgot how much I liked this band 🥹

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250,000 joined the Gaza march in Rome.

In Barcelona today, 300,000 people marched in one of the largest pro-Palestinian protests in the city’s history.

Friend sent me this ,Kelechi jumping for every header and flying into every tackle from the bench, this is what we want to see from our players the passion and desire to win !!

No one should be being arrested by ICE, and also, that's a fucking alarming statistic.

100% agree. I found this with all of the above and also with sport. Now I know a bunch of chill, inclusive football people I’ve been playing football. If you’d told me that at school I’d have laughed at you! (Because I wasn’t the ‘right’ gender, and because of how sport was taught)

YouTube video by Danny L Harle Danny L Harle - Azimuth (feat. Caroline Polachek)

Danny L Harle - Azimuth (feat. Caroline Polachek)

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Don’t really want to go to work but it’s nice seeing all the squirrels and some moorhen enjoying the windfall from the storm while walking through the park

It was in Glasgow though. Yes there are English people living in Glasgow but still…

Can donate to the mosque here, feel its important to show the community solidarity at this time.

www.peacehavenmosque.co.uk/support-us

Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime' Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.

Two people in balaclavas torched a mosque in Peacehaven, East Sussex. This is not far from where I live.

Fascists are in an open war with Muslims and people of colour in the UK.

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Absolutely. It’s so grim

I know we’ve been here before but if you told me this ten years ago… man

Fucking hell, 48% of the general public… I feel sick

Pahahaha what a funny image

Omg are you serious 😂 fucking hell

This is important.

The Government is introducing a new "Section 28 2.0" for trans kids and is listening to anti-trans groups, including representative of a group whose members actively support and encourage torturing children (through conversion therapy) to try and make them cis.

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today