Sometimes @ichotiner.bsky.social really does have to do barely anything to get his interview subjects to glaringly expose their bullshit. This is one of those times.
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Even as she emphasises how much she and her party hate trans women and Muslims
bloody plumbers
coming over here
taking our seats in parliament
Psychopomp & Circumstance has finally made it to UK bookshops so I've finally read it and damn, @edenroyce.bsky.social, that's an extremely good novella. A beautiful little quiet and powerful thing.
I think it’s very telling about the state of the BBC right now that they deemed it acceptable to keep a racial slur in the broadcast of the BAFTAs, but decided they needed to cut the phrase “Free Palestine” from a winners speech.
Phillipson's argument seems to be that a lot of this shouldn't require specialist plans – it should be built into general education. I agree. But whilst you build up that accessibility (which takes time) it's unconscionable to leave disabled kids who need it without individualised support.
If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.
Nick Land tries to play vague and esoteric a lot of the time but he's a fucking fascist.
Smart well off nerds like him because the ambiguity feels like nuance and the esotericism makes them feel smart huffing his farts.
This is both brutal and extremely accurate in so many ways
The one capital punishment I would approve of
I need more adherence to precedent than just this, come on now
I just had a falling out with @umactually.bsky.social on @dropout.tv because THE TURKISH DELIGHT ISN'T A BRIBE TO EDMUND! It's part of *grooming* him to betray his family, he doesn't actually get any for DOING IT!
Spoiler: it's really fucking good.
Over the course of the last month or so I've reread @amalelmohtar.com's Seasons of Glass and Iron, one story or poem after each book. And I've put my thoughts on it down in electrons, this time.
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"Add AI to remove bias!" Are... are you sure about that, ISU? Because all evidence ever is... not that
I think emphasising that he fled South Africa in the late 80s when the writing was on the wall for this preferred system of government is more telling!
The very existence (let alone the wording) of this consultation is an outrage, but please fill it in anyway, it doesn't take long.
Uhhh. Fire In Every Direction by Tareq Baconi, a gay (displaced) Palestinian memoir. So far beautifully written and brutally poignant.
I'm going to win.
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
Lucy Darling or Gianmarco Soresi doing crowdwork with Statler and Waldorf!
And if you can't imagine Papa and the Muppets, go watch the Vincent Price and Alice Cooper episodes.
Brennan Lee Mulligan. Tobias Forge (as Papa). Ncuti Gatwa. All very different options and very different shows but that's sort of the point.
Feel like the impact of the Guardian’s “EXCLUSIVE: Substack Profits From Nazis” headline is spoiled a little by the entire row of Related Stories at the bottom being ”Substack ❤️s Nazis” stories from the last several years
A police procedural in an alternative history Britain split between Celts, Saxons and the Norse? I'm looking forward to this event in Glasgow, come along if you fancy finding out more.
There's so many who have, for years! To report this as if it's new is. Hmm.
What do you call someone whose instinct, confronted by evidence that their policies are contributing to a massive increase in deaths, is to cover it up? And should that person be a Labour Minister? Or in prison?
how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023
This isn't news to anyone who has followed people like @annaleen.bsky.social or @sarahgailey.bsky.social or many others for a while, but I'm glad it's getting wider coverage
