Sarah Woolley

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

not to merge discourses but a reason ppl get mad re: the bari weiss of it all is bc most actual journalists toil in anonymity & will quit on principle rather than to set up a lucrative rightward heel turn, but there's never money for them. this person may well never work in journalism again.

one of these journalists is 25 and had worked in public-radio newsrooms in alaska since she was 18. just a really brave thing to do at that point in her career, especially in that media landscape and broader economy

Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’ Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel

Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

give greta thunberg a gundam

Boycott “Standing Together” for Whitewashing Israel’s Genocide and Apartheid “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid leader

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Also love the idea that you can "stop traffic" in Soho, which assumes that the [motor] traffic was ever moving in the first place.

Screenshot of TPUK post

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

GNU Jilly Cooper. Jilly and dad were friends and the only person I’ve known to call him ‘Tel’. Hope they’re both having a big drink somewhere.

greta ily what an outfit

Glasgow Gender Clinic now has a waiting time of 224 years. The average across the UK is now 25 years.

This segregated system isn’t working and is wasting millions. The NHS has been told time and again - informed consent now.

Statement from Jewish Bloc for Palestine

Every single march I’ve been on has had a big Jewish presence - and Jewish speakers. I even saw an ex Israeli bloc consisting of ex Israelis who have left the colony once. And then of course there are the Holocaust survivors and their descendants, and the Orthodox protestors. Fogarty has no shame.

And again: the reason politics and media are this reckless, hateful and deliberately inflammatory is all down to decisions that were made in 2018-19 about what is acceptable conduct in public life, and we are all going to live with the consequences of that for a very long time.

I think we can look back to the contents of the Forde Report, because he was quite blunt about what this type of behaviour is.

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

Pete Davidson just became the only victim of 9/11 to get reparations from the Saudi regime.

Like Lyra Mckee, firebrand US activist Charlie Kirk died totally unaware of how many ‘best friends’ he had in the world... Belfast Telegraph 2 Oct 2025 JOHN LAVERTY

Shame on you for publishing this @belfasttelegraph.co.uk

Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social The Times finds it "unacceptable" that people who came here legally in 2021 and have been living and working here since should allowed to stay. The sad decline of a once great newspaper into ignorant xenophobia and casual racism archive.ph/TFZY9 There is a more pressing issue. Ministers must ensure that the vast numbers of immigrants who arrived in the so-called Boriswave of 2020-21 are not automatically absorbed into the permanent population. They are about to cross the the five-year threshold into ILR, yet Labour continues to dither. Ms Mahmood must freeze the status of this huge cohort while a new residency regime is finalised. A million or more extra permanent residents in these islands, let in on the nod, is simply unacceptable. Finally, the home secretary must acquaint herself, and the public, with an accurate estimate of the actual number of foreign nationals living here, what taxes they pay and what services they consume. Without hard data, all the political parties are fumbling around in ALT the dark.

Reminder: this paper said their initial reporting of abuse rings in northern England were a declaration of war upon multiculturalism and liberalism. I’m not even paraphrasing, that was the language used. That was in 2011, and it didn’t get better after that.

A man dressed as a vampire with the caption coming up goblin time

October

And SEND provision is already abysmal but they’re trying to tell us how lucky disabled kids are for being treated like shit by the system…

They were using the same language for SEND provision which they will no doubt be coming for next

The greatest film fancam edit since the Barry Lyndon x 21 Savage one imo

YouTube video by •flanthippe Barry Lyndon × 21 Savage - "a lot"【4K Remaster】

Flanthippe, the creator of the best known Barry Lyndon edit, has put a 4K version out based on the new remaster: youtu.be/PDSeCm78A6s

BARRY LYNDON (1975) dir. S. Kubrick

What I haven’t seen thus far are any obituaries in any “real” magazines or news sites. I don’t know could be they’re still working on them. Being edited as we speak. But it occurred to me that that’s another grim irony in all of this. One last kick in the balls for us under- or unemployed writers. That there are a scant few places in business anymore to even pitch a story about a writer that isn’t already famous. Almost nowhere left that will let us write, simply, here: look at this beautiful thing I’ve found. This thing I want you to know about too.

I was very moved to see so many people remembering Kaleb Horton so fondly over the past few days. What I haven’t seen thus far are any obituaries in any “real” magazines or news sites. www.welcometohellworld.com/i-would-like...

Ah…the free time I have after 7:30pm stretches out like the horizon.

Time to map the rise and fall of people saying “hello, mum” on camera.

From The Archives: Merle Haggard, Son of Bakersfield Note: I wrote a bunch of stuff before posting the actual article. You know, like recipe sites, except I heard some of those guys make money. So just scroll down a thousand words for the actual thing y...

Here’s Kaleb Horton’s masterpiece on Merle Haggard, with a new introduction written in February 2025.

kalebhorton.ghost.io/from-the-arc...