Steve O'Gorman

This will be my final post on social media. What could have been the most fantastic opportunity to bring our species together, and to look to the future as one people, has been poisoned by a handful of similar cunts. They know who they are. So do you ...

Incidentally, under UK Law, one cannot slander or libel the dead. So I am perfectly comfortable to call Kirk a cunt, knowing that the law is on my side. And I will apply the same label to anyone who echoes his loathsome attitudes, whether on- or offline.

The official language of Jamaica is....wait for it.... English.

These performances truly are targeted only at the stupidest people alive

I think the comparisons with Horst Wessel may be exaggerated, but give it a week, and there'll be a song about Kirk riding high in the UK charts.

Suddenly, the second group of individuals are calling the shots in the media discourse. How the fuck did that happen overnight? This cunt has become a folk martyr for the far right in the UK, most of whom had no idea who he was until the UK media made his death the focus of their news cycle.

Two months ago, I had no fucking idea who Kirk was. Then I read his soundbite about Taylor Swift and thought, 'He seems like a cunt.'

I found myself on the fault line between media-savvy kids (who'd heard of him) and the old people who take their information from the right-wing media - and hadn't!

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I’m stopping. I’m not participating in anymore conversations about it. I’m just watching, listening, thinking, shaking my head, and loosely planning.

I’m holding on to my humanity, clarity, courage and voice.

Re the "march" in London. For contrast...in2022 aprx 10,000 people marched peacefully & inclusively for "yes cymru" in Cardiff so ABT 0.33% of Welsh 3m population....0.33% of England's 58m pop is abt 200k people. So circa 100k, a lot less turned out in London relative to pop.

A little mari ghost holding a pumpkin filled with toast

Here is Little Mari the Toast Ghost 👻 offering you Trick or Toast

I've been thinking much the same thing. See you whenever ...

Row of shelves containing confectionery

Plymouth train station: the Tony Blair Institute wants to get private sector providers to hand out floods of anti-obesity medicines. Or we could tackle the multinational companies creating this obesogenic environment?

#Solutionism #UPF #UltraProcessedFood #PublicHealth

All set up for our Art Fair!
Come check out some of the fantastic artists setting up stalls in store!

Overheard a bunch of Faragists discussing Kirk in the pub; according to one of them, 'he wasn't a racist'. I suppose if you spend all your time breathing that particular atmosphere, you take it for granted that everyone else breathes it just the way you do.

In a nutshell, why media fails to support Palestinian journalists, oppose genocide, oppose Farage, oppose the far right, and all the other things…

Because the establishment-funded media does not employ anyone who questions the establishment and the status quo.

Chomsky nails it.

The Cardiff Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1896 If you have an interest in history, volunteering at Glamorgan Archives can take you in many varied and unexpected directions. How many of us have heard of the Cardiff Fine Art and Industrial Exhibi…

The Cardiff Fine Art and Industrial Exhibition of 1896

Our blog post today looks at a recently completed volunteer project. The project examined the records of the Cardiff Exhibition of 1896, throwing light on an amazing but often overlooked event in Cardiff’s history.

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UNBELIEVABLE AUTUMN ARCTIC TROPICAL NIGHTS

WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN
Never happened anything like this: Records broken by 3C/5C in Norway.
Today's NIGHT MINIMUMS above the Arctic Circle
20.4 Reipa
19.0 Stokka
18.7 Evenes
18.9 Leknes
18.2 Setsa and Bodo

Another milestone in world history ...

Britain really has a fine sense of irony. The latest newsletter from the National Archives celebrates 200 years of the railway industry and includes highlights of their collections. Underneath, there's a warning that physical access may be disrupted because of industrial action on the railways.

This book is coming out in November and I'm super proud of it.

Some of the best character work I've ever done, a ripping plot (once it builds up momentum), and a grab bag of my various ideas and obsessions.

Magical bird familiars. Overlapping, conflicting magic systems. Lotsa weird little guys.

🚨 If you upload content to Spotify check out their new T&Cs. To me, the terms go beyond needing permission to use your content - you give up your moral rights and they can make derivative works from your content for free and much more. I’ll be removing my podcasts from its platform.

Well, it'll make a change from non-stop rain.

Imagine if someone spelled "manoeuvring" right first time. Obviously, never going to happen. But just imagine.

TwitterX flooded with Russian bots calling for US Civil War.

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. “Starmer’s instinct was to stand by Peter Mandelson, despite the evidence. His resignation now isn’t a matter of principle; it’s simple political expediency. It’s a symbol of a broken politics where the same insiders always fail up. His resignation, like his original appointment, is a sign of a dirty, broken political system.” Zack Polanski Green Party Leader Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at 78066, London SE16 9GQ

"How long until Mandelson ends up in a high-paid consultancy somewhere? While another washed-up former Westminster insider ends up in Washington?"

@zackpolanski.bsky.social reacts to the resignation of Peter Mandelson, appointed by Keir Starmer as ambassador to the US.

A nation is a shared illusion – so a government has the power to change it Also this week: who was the first king of England? And my favourite giant semi-aquatic rat.

"Almost no one will have knowingly encountered someone who illegally entered the country, let alone seen them actually arrive on the beach at Dover. They just think there’s a crisis because other people keep telling them there is."

Friendly reminder to the government: other think tanks are available 👋

Who’d have thought if you relentlessly told people to be worried, they’d be worried? Job done, Sky, eh?

Picture of plants in a greenhouse growing under clear see through PV panels.

Germany has developed **clear solar panels** designed specifically for greenhouses. These innovative panels generate electricity while still allowing enough sunlight to pass through for crops to thrive underneath, offering a dual solution for food production and renewable power.

Friends - I have a shed load of bookplates to sign for Project Hanuman. Recommendations for best pens for signing. I'm against the wiry trace of the biro, not going to buy a fountain pen - but otherwise let me have your recs.