Tilly (Matilda)

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

You can group UK political parties by 'culture war' politics;

Culture war parties;
- Reform
- Tory
- Labour
- Your*

Non-culture war parties;
- Lib Dems

Anti-culture war parties;
- Green Party

.

*ATM Your has a transphobe in a senior position so it cannot be ruled out of culture war section.

I "pushed through" to an out of hospital cardiac arrest at 52.

Not recommended

(I've spent the time since doing all the work I should have done when younger - my life is _way_ better now for having paid attention to all the stuff I was "pushing through")

It has come to my attention that people On Here are attempting to argue that it is racism to make fun of AI and let me tell you something: ICE is tear-gassing people in my city and disappearing people all over the country and I am absolutely begging you to live in reality for one fucking day

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Australian history to scale a very long line that says aboriginal australia and a very small line that says 1788-2014

Some people sincerely feel that:

— Migrants are destroying communities. It’s still racist.

— LGBT folk are corrupting children. It’s still homo/transphobic.

— Disabled people are burdens in workplaces. It’s still ableist.

Emotional sincerity without critical reflection makes dangerous politics.

Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

So protesting genocide gets you arrested, but supporting genocide is totally fine?

thank you!! :-)

ooh - I should have a look for that!

:-) yeah workflow important too. I used to make my own tofu - which is fun but SO much hassle I ate less of it !

I would give it a go sometime though - I definitely notice the difference

Boiling tofu instead of pressing - Messy Vegan Cook Boiling tofu to obtain a more reliably solid texture and to impart flavour is superior treatment to pressing tofu. Here's why.

my recent discovery has been BOILING tofu in salt water instead of pressing it :-) (seems counter intuitive - apparently the salt water does an osmosis kind of thing? dunno)

messyvegancook.com/boiling-tofu...

I've had really good results!

Im just waiting for Zara to go 'enough' and join the greens...

See also: the Home Office and the DWP

She also didn’t need to get a job while she wrote her trite first book coz she just wrote it eating for free all day in her brother-and-law’s swanky cafe.

@caelan.bsky.social has an amazing video about this, she’s MONSTROUS. Worse than you think.

A reminder: no one should have to “earn” the right to live and move freely. Human rights do not depend on how much (or little!) someone contributes to the country.

Safety Advice:

I keep seeing young trans people on social media talking about therapists disrespecting their pronouns and parents telling them that the therapist has a right to their beliefs.

I want to be clear: you have a right to the therapy room being a safe supportive space for YOUR growth.

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.

But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.

Denial makes things worse

Still too many “centrist” Labour apologists on here & media.

Time to get used to the facts;

1. There are 3 fascist parties; Labour, Tory & Reform, differing only in extent of their fascism.

2. There are 3 anti-fascist parties; Greens, LDs & YP, differing in extent of their anti-fascism.

1/n

A news headline that reads ‘Denmark says ‘professional actor’ behind drone incursions over its airports’.

Patricia Routledge attacking Scandinavia again, I see.

sign SIN SEX AND DEGRADATION IN COLOR PLUS SOUND DANISH PASTRY

like for example that Dawkins is a massive right wing bigot ;-) far more interested in supporting the British establishment than doing critical thinking.....

Not gay as in happy but queer as in "Oh god, have you seen what's happening out there? Fucking hell."

if Streeting really thinks that men are SO dangerous - why isn't he doing something about CIS men ? because there a WAY more of them and they are clearly the bigger issue

Always Queer. Always Antifa

Trump is a cunt.

Fuck his executive order.

there is a VERY long history of The Foretold Day not happening in various cults - it does result in some leavers but nowhere near as many as you might imagine (or hope)

I can’t even think of a pop culture analogue. Is there a character in Game of Thrones who accidentally blows up their own castle and then just wanders around smack-talking furniture?

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

OH i get it, liberals think trans rights are a question of freedom of expression and not one of bodily autonomy