alexander🦇

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"progressive candidates do well in historically progressive areas" shouldnt be as exciting as it is, and yet...

could using an auto-injector pen help?

The UK is not run by the fucking "adults in the room" it's operated by a regime of abusers and sadists and cranks who prioritise ideology and cruelty and a harshly punitive, conformist worldview over the literal functioning of their rotten, inbred, class-obsessed nonce-worshipping society.

wat een vervolg op een tijdloze hit!

i was name-searching califia, so apologies for coming back to this old post, but this is the one quote about califia and his mormonness, i think calling him anywhere near an active or practicing mormon is a massive overstatement (the rest of the post i cant speak much to)

any personal favourites in the book collection behind you?

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

'Thanks for calling. Did you know, on our website...' YES I HAVE TRIED YOUR WEBSITE BECAUSE IT IS THE 21ST CENTURY, BUT YOU SEE, YOUR WEBSITE IS A LOAD OF OLD SHIT, SO I AM CALLING IN THE - I ADMIT, FAINT - HOPE OF INTERACTING WITH A FUCKING HUMAN BEING

from the straight trans men i've spoken to, they're largely not in (online or irl) trans communities, most live a more stealth/non-queer life

i mean it's effectively porn. good time, though

archeops #art #pokemon

loved your review! time to get on the patreon train (patrain?)

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

when I was a teen I had an unwise, youthful dalliance with centre-leftism

so many issues with gamefreak's choices and this is not one of them (i do really wish they'd stop animating talking in the particular way they do in cutscenes that last a long time but have no voice acting. it looks awkward)

de nieuwe balkenende

*trans girl*: "so not only is a concept of gender as complex and diverse important, at a young age this can help develop theory of mind earlier and with increased empathy. The world would be a kinder place if we simply accepted that people are who they say they are."

*cis person*: "as a Hufflepuff

A row of Archive stacks with turning handles

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing.

Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

This Brit nails it.

#Immigration

@pchal.bsky.social inspired by the moneyboy girl tyranitar

YouTube video by Rick Astley Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (Official Music Video)

Wow: after 15 years, YouTube has taken down the original 'Rick Roll' video due to a "licensing issue," likely due to the acquisition of Astley's record lable.

The metadata remains, but if you click through it goes to 'video not found':

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4...

The thermo nationalist book chapter of Sophie Lewis's enemy feminisms book which has the epigraph of Eric Andre. do you think Margaret Thatcher had girl power spice girl Mel b. yes of course Eric. Andre, do you think she effectively utilized girl power by funneling money to illegal paramilitary death squads in Northern Ireland spice girl Mel BII don't know about that. this is a quote from the Eric Andre show in 2013

unparalleled epigraph game 😹

karl marx: here's how capitalism will inevitably bring abouts its own agonising death: ...

every capitalist: not gonna read that lmao, fuckin commie nerd. check this shit out *brings about the agonising death of capitalism*

Rubio looking bored as fuck on a couch in a suit that looks too big

When this is NOT your beautiful house, and this is NOT your beautiful wife

Did you really release your inhibitions and feel the rain on your skin? Be so for real

the five writing tools drawn on the cover page

ft. the pens

a mini-zine made on sticky notes. 5 sketches of pens, markers, and pencils followed by the title: pens: consumption & the analogue

made a little sticky note #zine